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3 Guys Before The Game - 3 Guys Interview 3 Guys (Episode 467) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  Oh yeah, oh my, oh my, oh my. Welcome in everybody.
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  Yeah, hye, that bell ring that bell? Boy, it's time
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  for three guys before the game. Four hundred and sixty seventh episode. Now
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  you probably are gonna say, wait, a second summer series, right,
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  who's the guest? Who are you interviewing? Oh? What happened? Guys?
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  Did you lose your guests? Your guests give you the cold shoulder?
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  Did your guest ghost you bag out on you? No? Not really didn't
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  have a guest as far as an outside guest for the first time in our
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  four hundred and sixty seven episodes. This is three guys into viewing three guys.
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  What's that mean? Well? How many times? Questions? How many
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  times? How many times have we received the request where hey, we'd like
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  someone to interview you guys, or we want to know more about this or
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  that of like how'd you get here? What's the hold? Well, give
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  me a little background, So I says, I says to myself. I
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  says, I went into talk to hop. I said, you know,
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  we're getting this request. What do you think He said, yeah, we
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  can do that. So he gave it the he gave it the approval and
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  off, we go three guys interviewing three guys. We're gonna go a bunch
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  of different directions, and for the first time in a month, we're gonna
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  do textual healing. We haven't done textual What happened well because guests, you
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  don't do it with guests. It brings us to that really super uncomfortable thing
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  of how you have the guests leave in show. I think that's a problem.
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  And they may be happy to leave, yeah, but I think it
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  packages the show better when it's just the person's show. I'm with him on
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  this, Okay. I'd rather not do the walk off if we can avoid
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  it. I mean, like if I took like sometimes sometimes it we need
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  to, but I prefer not to. J. J. Weatherhole walked off.
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  Yeah, if it was like a television show, you would just take
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  a break like Johnny Carson, Hey, thanks so much for being well us
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  when we come back, Milton Burrow be with us. No, but the
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  person would walk if they had to leave, they would walk off. They
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  wouldn't they wouldn't be there. Then take a commercial break, then they were
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  gone. It was weird. I don't know how to handle that. Got
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  we gotta figure that out dating ourselves here. But Johnny Milton borrow reference one
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  The best you could probably do on that deal, all right, So nice
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  to have everyone back in session. Got a lot of positive of feedback from
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  our conversation last week with Renn Baker covered a lot of ground, went to
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  a lot We went from A to Z on that and we went everywhere from
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  football, basketball to a professional wrestling and he brought he did a little Dusty
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  Rhodes imitation broke into that. It's a pretty good one too. Yeah,
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  And what also stood out Brad was his willingness to go after Tony. I
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  mean, he is not at all coward by Tony's aggressiveness because Tony likes to
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  get on people, and he just wanted to like start something with Tony fit
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  ready to go. Yeah, he's attacked me really ever since I got to
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  know him. I mean for really from the beginning. Yeah, because people
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  he knows people that I know, So when by the time he got here,
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  he had already so he just knew he better come firing quick otherwise.
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  That's well, that's good. It keeps you on the defensive, don't Yeah,
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  we had a good visit. That was a good episode. If you
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  haven't listened, to courage you to go back and listen. A lot of
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  covered a lot of ground there, as you mentioned, but some good stuff.
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  Give me some good nuggets in there. Yeah, a lot of good
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  nuggets. Okay, So basically what today's episode is is we're going to talk
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  about topics and bounce around a little bit. But some of the stuff that's
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  off the beaten path. Some of it will be sports related. In fact,
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  I think I'll start there and then we're going to jump into some other
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  things, and then we're gonna do textual healing and get into some of that.
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  So el Kerchival brought these topics up. He gave He gave us favorite
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  players, favorite games, favorite memories. So the first question will go to
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  the gentleman who's wearing the Adida's quarters zip black. Three guys pull over that
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  may one day b for sale, effort or efforting on that, not to
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  be confused with the white You go on, Peter Millar, there, what
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  do you wear in today? No, this is one that may appear,
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  may appear elsewhere. Yeah, okay, you're not gonna start with my favorite
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  player? Are you in history? No? What do you want to softball?
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  I mean, you're the guy that always pins people and like you fired
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  darts? What all of a sudden you can't take a hard questions? What
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  happened there? Johnny didn't take long. Yeah he did on week I mean
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  rend, I mean Ren hadn't even sat down the other doctor here, Rocket.
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  All I did was ask questions that others also have on their mind.
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  It's all I did. I understand that. But I mean you're getting defensive
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  here because I'm asking, like favorite Flake, I'm asking, Hey, hop
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  can you give me the secret to the Pentagon papers? I mean, so
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  you Hoppy. I'm gonna put this into some form of a context. But
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  you have covered the Mountaineers since your days of student hood, and so we're
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  a pro chain probably high forty five towards fifty years yeah, yeah, so
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  and then growing up listening to the game. Sure, don't overthink this,
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  Okay, don't overthink this. But if I were to say to you a
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  favorite one of your favorite memories of Mountaineer doom, what first pops into your
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  head the Boston College game when they sexual Yeah? Wow, so a regular
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  season two seconds to think about that, A regular season October game? That
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  was. But that was as exciting and I haven't been you know, we
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  do studio work down. I haven't been to games in a long time,
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  but that atmosphere was as exciting and as as emotional as as I recall ever
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  seeing it. That would be followed by the Georgian Oklahoma wins in the Bulgames.
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  Those those those things stand out to me. No, those are good,
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  No, they're no wrong answers. Else, Senatore, I've got to
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  go three because I can't separate the three personally. Personally, my favorite moment
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  of all the time I worked there was the four minutes maybe five minutes,
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  final minute of Kentucky West Virginia lead eight, and the following four or five
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  minutes after when it was clear we were winning, and then it was a
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  spot in the final four. That coveted spot in the final four to me
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  was the holy grail. That's always what I wanted to experience getting into college
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  athletics, and I thought the loss in Albuquerque had ended that. I did
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  not think I would finish my career being able to get there with West Virginia.
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  So for me personally, that moment of getting to the Final four and
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  being out on the floor and watching the nets come down, that was my
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  personal highlight. But it's a close second of the immediate aftermath of the Sugar
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  Bowl. Like during the Sugar Bowl, just lay in wood to them was
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  a lot of fun as loud as those damn Georgia fans were all week to
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  just go up and down the field on them and Steve just running them up.
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  That that was a lot of fun. And then afterwards, I've said
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  this before, afterwards back at the hotel in the hospitality room with Rich and
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  those guys, that's as relaxed and care free as I ever saw Rich in
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  that particular moment. There were other moments I had a lot of fun with
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  Rich over the years, that particular moment, those few hours late after that
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  game into the early morning before we left, as care free and fun as
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  I saw Rich, and then that locker room in the immediate aftermath of the
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  Fiesta Bowl was Stu and what that win meant, how turbulent the weeks were
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  leading into that and getting that win, those three are are right at the
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  top of the list for me. Yeah, so I'm with you. I
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  don't want to copy you, but like I think, you have to go
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  with the final four, the regional championship victory in Syracuse because it propels you
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  into the final four. West Virginia hadn't been there since Jerry West. And
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  the way that you did it, yeah, was bizarre and the team at
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  which you did it against that she had no business beating. Yeah, exactly,
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  no business not no. But let me rephrase that because West Virginia was
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  toe to toe as good a basketball team, but the hype that Kentucky team
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  had gotten all year was outrageous. Yeah, So the perception was, hey,
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  guys, had a nice run, you won the Big East last week.
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  Hey good for you. Come on over here and get a little bit
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  of this. That's basically it was, and it never happened. So I
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  would say that in just that moment, and for me it was even more
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  special because it was inside the Dome and West Virginia only beat Syracuse once in
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  the Dome all of the years that I was involved, and it was in
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  ninety eight. We went there all the word that year by the way,
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  hammered him that year. Oh yeah, because they just got back from y
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  We ran off the damiano and still running up and down the floor zone and
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  we're gonna shoot you out of it. I think the uh, the Georgia
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  win, when you put it into context, it just wasn't the Sugar Bowl.
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  It was the Sugar Bowl in Atlanta, Georgia, on the field where
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  Georgia had won the SEC Championship several weeks earlier, and there was no shot
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  you were supposed to win. And then the way that you want it on
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  the fake punt was huge. And then I've said real quick, when you
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  win the league, you know you can go pass. Just what it meant
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  as a program and a team with the league needed to win the league needed
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  a stamp of apple, like, hey, you are one of the big
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  boys in West Virginia, lightning right up with them. Yeah. And then
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  and then the Fiesta Bowl again, because it's the classic West Virginia story.
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  You're not supposed to win, right, same deal. You weren't supposed to
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  beat Kentucky, you weren't supposed to beat Georgia, you weren't supposed to beat
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  Oklahoma. Those are the great ones to meet when you win and you're supposed
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  to Those are great, but they're not that same magic of being the underdog,
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  which which is for West Virginia for whatever reason, it feels like you
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  always want to be in that position where you're not expected to win, because
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  when you're expected to win, like oh no, don't do that, Yeah,
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  you get disappointed. But when you're in that underdog spot as a perfect
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  for West Virginia, which probably is why that basketball win meant so much,
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  because that team was a legitimate number one seed. If you remember when we
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  were sitting in that room when the bids came out after one of that big
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  East there was people are pissed off they weren't a number one seed, and
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  rightfully so that was a number one seed team that did everything you needed to
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  do to get a one seed and you got hosed on that. So I
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  think that worked in West Virginia's favor to going to that tournament, saying was
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  that right? Was that right? Where too? Watch this and again I'd
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  have to look this thing up. But didn't make a two point shot in
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  the first half, if I'm not mistaken, all three and fall shots,
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  which is bizarre. Okay, next question football, you get to you're the
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  general manager of the Mountaineers, okay, and your job is to choose a
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  former WUVU quarterback to be your quarterback, Hoppy Kouragival. Who do you pick?
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  And why? Pat White? Pat White? Because and it had been
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  the great quarterbacks. I know you could go with Maje. I know you
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  go with with several other guys. We love Rashid, Pat White, because
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  he would will he would put the team on his back, and did Steve
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  Slayton. He had someone helped there, but he would put that team on
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  his back game after game after game. And how many games did we see
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  with him where you just you got comfortable thinking, Oh, he'll break one,
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  he'll break No, don't worry, he'll break one. He'll get it,
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  he'll get it done. And he did time and time and time again,
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  and won four bowl games, won four games, four ball games.
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  Pat White, Senator, Well, I mean, how do you argue that
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  I'll be different just to give us another look? But that's all that.
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  I have no argument for that. That was as fun of a time to
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  watch. I was talking about that, how you and I would get on
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  the bus. We'd get on the bus and wouldn't even talk football for the
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  first hour. We were just worried where we're gonna eat, what we got
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  going just destroying people? Yeah, right, weren't even worried about the outcome
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  of most of those games. He was great. Oh boy, Greer was
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  a lot of fun. Yeah, career was really Boulger. I mean,
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  you put Boulger in today's day and age, of throwing the football. There's
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  no bad answers, Major Rashid, I'd take any of those guys. So
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  the ultimate goal is to win. That's why Pat White would be my guy.
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  Major was the most magical, but at the end of the day,
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  Pat White would be my pick because ultimately he won at the highest level on
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  a consistent basis. So I'd go with Pat White. Basketball. Let's say,
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  in the last forty years, who's your pick, because it's easy to
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  say, Jerry West. I'll hell, okay, stunner, Jerry West,
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  Okay, fine, who are you taking? What's the one player you want?
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  I'll go same reason they used for Pat White, who just won,
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  who just said give me the ball. All they wanted is give me the
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  ball. Guys, just give me the ball. I'll tell I'll fix,
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  I'll take care of this day. Sean Butler. Yeah, just and he
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  did it in a way that he was interesting as heck. He did it.
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  He was extremely confident, but he wasn't overtly cocky. Does that make
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  sense. He just was having fun out there playing and just like a lot
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  of times, it was almost like this nonchalant style of yeah, I'll do
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  this, I'll do this. I just he was a dude delivered. He
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  just delivered, Senator. I think that's that's where I would go as well.
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  Um that senior year was incredible, but similar similar to Pat. I
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  mean those all time greats are elevated up by those around him as well.
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  So Pat. Part of why Pat pat was because Steve was back there,
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  right, There's no way you're stopping both of those guys shot, Yeah,
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  then go on beyond there. Day was the same way. I mean,
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  that was a heck of a team. When Kevin Jones isn't your headliner,
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  you got a heck of a team Banks, right, and then and then
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  go down the list Ebanks and all the other guys in Missoula and Flowers footing
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  in there. So I think Days that the answer there, unless you were
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  giving me March Joe Alexander for the one month. Yeah, has been nobody
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  in this program that was as consistently good for a one month period as Joe
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  Alexander was. He was a dude for that month. Now Dayshan and if
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  you want to take day Shan final month, that's right up there too.
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  But Joe Alexander for that month, starting on March first against Connecticut at their
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  place was a star for a month, But I'd go a day if must
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  pick a one agreed agreed um favorite coach of all time doesn't have to be
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  based upon success, but favorite coach? Wow, am I going first?
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  It's a lot of it's a lot of tur tory two head coach, just
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  coach whatever you want to do. Gosh, why don't you guys let me
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  think about that a minute. I got a lot of grounds or you let
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  people you let you let people on your public affairs show that they were Hey,
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  hop, let me get back to you. Could you take a break
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  now and I'll get back with you. I mean, is that what this
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  is? Different coaches for different reasons. Um? Who just like who?
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  Who makes you smile when you think about him? That you used to work
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  with? Don Neillen? I mean, I mean Neil Because again, some
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  of that is that I had personal relationships with them, and more so with
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  some than others with a few, and back when I was doing a lot
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  more of you know, interviewing them and things like that, and I just
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  don Neillen was was I mean, he was just an old school football coach
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  and sometimes when you are around him, he would be in a terrible mood,
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  just a terrible mood, and you knew it. And other times he'd
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  be, hey, how you doing, you know, put his hand around
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  you, and just from personal experience, and the other guys chose him to
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  think Stu And I got along with rich Rod. Fine, it didn't end
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  well, but I got along with him with you know, with him.
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  But I'm gonna go with don Nelin. Well, you think he got bummed
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  out when he came into his office when he was leaving. You think that
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  would probably sett He got real bummed out. Yeah, you got really upset.
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  I could have been it the story you know that, Well you wanna
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  tell that story? Well, just that that there was a rumor that Rich
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  had interviewed in Michigan and I heard about it. So I back then you
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  just had access. You walked in the building. So I just walked in
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  the facilities. But I'm standing there and here comes Rich. He just comes
• 20:44
  in, Hey Rich, and just goes storming into his office. I followed
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  him in his office. He wasn't real happy about that. But um,
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  that came back. That one came back to me. You don't happy courage
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  one right in his office? I said, no, he wouldn't do that.
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  Come on now, and I said, Don said, what are you
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  doing? Are you? Did you interview them? I think he said something
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  like, I'm I'm looking out for the best interest of my family. It
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  was something like that. But anyway, I digress. Go ahead. By
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  the way, our production staff text me, they said, you did not
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  give your favorite basketball player day Sean. Okay, But there's a caveat to
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  that too, because again, old guy you know who was really really fun
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  was leicster Row. Yeah, Leicester Row. Now, because he was he
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  was electrifying. He was He had those massive dunks out about a forty inch
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  vertical, had those massive dunks, and there were Tom's Brad where there'd be
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  a breakaway and like, oh my gosh, don't dribble, don't dribble,
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  just get the ball to him and he would have these crushing dunks and the
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  place would just explode. I mean, he was. He had an excitement
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  factor. Now we're getting the ways away. Now, you gotta be careful
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  to not we gotta keep in the conversation. Damian Owens, Yeah, Kevin
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  Jones too, Kevin Pitts Nagle, well, Kevin pi how about John Beelin.
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  We had John On. Recently, John said the best six ten or
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  above shooter ever. Yeah, Ever, that's a long time. Ever is
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  a long time it is. That's kind of like that warranty Albert Deckcamping.
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  The warranty lasts forever. Pittsnogli says the best better than better than joker for
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  Denver. As a shooter, yes, oh yes, okay. As a
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  pure shooter, I'd agree with He shot like a guard. Yeah, he
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  shot like a guard forty plus he's a mid forty percent three point shooter all
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  times. There's a crazy number. It's crazy numbers. He was. That
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  was back when not a lot of people at ink. You're exactly right.
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  One. He was sort of stood out because he stood out with it as
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  an ink guy. He may have been the only inked up mountaineer on that
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  team. Maybe j D got something late, but Kevin that was prominent.
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  Tyrone might add some sally, Yeah, I think I think he ascended to
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  that. I think Kevin. I think Kevin. Kevin was first in the
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  boat on that one. By the way, if you're looking for a pontoon
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  You didn't new favorite coaches. Did you did you do? Coaches brand uh
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  Man? Impossible? It is, that's hard. So coach Neelan's way up
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  the list. But I was closer to him after I left athletics. I
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  got here right at the end of his career, so I wasn't close to
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  him when I worked here. To your point, Rich, I know people
• 23:23
  lose their mind on Rich. Rich was the first coach like I was.
• 23:26
  I was close to Rich early. He and I spent a lot of time
• 23:30
  driving around the state early on. That was the first coach I knew well.
• 23:33
  So Rich Rich is always up there. And I mean, Stue is
• 23:37
  probably my all time He's one of my all time favorite people I've ever interacted
• 23:41
  with us being in this state, he was He was the absolute, absolute
• 23:45
  best. Would have turned seventy one this weekend was his birthday. He was
• 23:48
  one of my first period basketball wise. I love being Line for the same
• 23:53
  reason. So I got here at the end of Kat's career, was close
• 23:59
  with Line, traveled all around the state with him. Will always be grateful
• 24:03
  to Hugs for getting that team to the final four. Of my all time
• 24:04
  great memories. So I don't know that I can pick any of those guys,
• 24:07
  but personal experiences to your point with all of them. Yeah, they've
• 24:11
  all been good. Tony is tough for you, yeah it is, But
• 24:15
  I mean they've all been good. I mean the people might say, well,
• 24:18
  Dana, Dana was great. I mean I never had an issue one
• 24:21
  with Dana Assue. Never never had an issue front of this program. By
• 24:26
  the way, he used to listen. He used to listen when he walked.
• 24:27
  Yeah, he used to used to listen. Um Nilan was interesting because
• 24:30
  you're right, because everyone now knows Don as the grandfather Lee Don. But
• 24:37
  like Jeff Jenkins, who we know from Metro News, right, was a
• 24:41
  student manager at that time. And when you would walk in the facilities building
• 24:45
  and Neelon would be coming down the hallway, you would turn and intentionally go
• 24:48
  away so he doesn't come up to you because, like Jeff say, like,
• 24:52
  he'd walk by you and there would be like a smidgen of like lent
• 24:57
  on the floor and he'd go like, what's that. Pick that up.
• 25:03
  That's not how we're operating this place. It didn't matter if it was your
• 25:04
  lantern in the gentle area, you get it. It was just it was
• 25:08
  just there and he and he is Don was one of the last of that
• 25:14
  generation of the Frank Beamers, of the Dick McPherson's, of that of that
• 25:19
  ilk of coach. Those guys don't exist anymore. They were they were trained
• 25:23
  at a different style. You know. One of my lasting memories of this
• 25:29
  part of my professional career doing this stuff will be when we were in the
• 25:32
  old building and sports Line would end and it was before his show would begin,
• 25:37
  and we'd get that like five or six minute. He was just going
• 25:41
  for five. It was a short amount of time, hop but he'd give
• 25:44
  you some gold and great stories, and that I will I will go to
• 25:48
  my grave remembering those five or six minutes every every Monday night with him.
• 25:52
  Yeah, what brought you to Morgantown? I was um went to Shepherd for
• 26:00
  a year now Shepherd University, Shepherd College Transfer Portal. I was a transfer
• 26:04
  portal guy, and I wanted to and I was working at the local radio
• 26:11
  station in Charlestown, and I wanted to be a disc jockey. But then
• 26:14
  I got interested in news and I wanted to study journalism, and Shepherd didn't
• 26:17
  have a journalism program. So I had some friends who went to WVU,
• 26:19
  a lot of about a half dozen or more people every year from my hometown
• 26:23
  went to WVU. And when they would go, they leave, and they
• 26:27
  were high school kids and they're, you know, all kind of buttoned up,
• 26:30
  and they'd come back for Thanksgiving break and her hair would be long,
• 26:33
  and they'd have a whole different, a whole different vibe about him. And
• 26:37
  and I thought, what is this place, Morgantown? Is it like where
• 26:41
  Pinocchio went, like the island of Misfit Toys? You know? Yeah?
• 26:45
  And I went up to I'm digressing on the story, but so I went
• 26:48
  up to visit, and I went to the journalism school, and I talked
• 26:52
  to Chuck, Professor Chuck Kramer, and then everybody, I'll tell you this
• 26:56
  before I've told you this right Tony, And everybody was gathered in from the
• 26:59
  mountain layer, like what's going on out there. I went out and looked,
• 27:02
  and a guy was streaking. This was back touring, streaking the middle
• 27:04
  of the day. Went had a capell and nothing else was streaking right in
• 27:07
  front of the mountain layer. That was back in the era, back in
• 27:11
  the era, and like thousands of people out and I thought, this is
• 27:14
  an interesting place. You know, man, I need. I got a
• 27:18
  journalism school here, I got whole new life experiences over here. I gotta
• 27:22
  go. So I transferred up here, and that's the rest is history.
• 27:27
  But it was it was. It was the desire to study journalism and the
• 27:30
  desire to get away from home, and the fact that I was ready to
• 27:33
  spread my wings into a place that had sort of a bohemian atmosphere. I
• 27:41
  was into that too. Did you you? Um let me say, if
• 27:48
  I can say this in a proper contact, you enjoyed the social life while
• 27:51
  you were here? I did. Did you have that? Was it because
• 27:55
  you were here or did you have that pre Did you enjoy the social life
• 27:59
  when you were back home? I had, I had some of that,
• 28:02
  but I took her to a new level. But I tell you, this
• 28:07
  was the thing. And I don't want to I don't want to be flipping
• 28:10
  about this. But at w VU, I mean we I ended up with
• 28:14
  pretty good grades and learned a lot and valued my education, went to class.
• 28:17
  But there was a party atmosphere too with me and all my friends.
• 28:19
  So we all made it through. Many of graduated with honors, correct,
• 28:25
  I did. Many of my friends did very well. Professionally, you know,
• 28:29
  So it was it was both. I had the best of both worlds
• 28:32
  here, absolutely, Senator. Yeah. I mean I came to Morgantown because
• 28:40
  of Hoppy. Saturday morning, seven weeks after I graduated from college, I
• 28:44
  was sleeping on a mattress on a floor in a friend's apartment and I was
• 28:48
  doing overnight news from eleven in the night till seven in the morning at a
• 28:52
  radio station, and I wanted nothing to do with news. And I get
• 28:56
  this phone call one Saturday morning or this guy called Hoppy Kirchible and he says,
• 29:00
  hey, I got your name from Rick Mattoni, the news director at
• 29:04
  the student radio station in Syracuse. I know him, we used to work
• 29:07
  together out in the Eastern Panhandle. He tells me you're a news guy,
• 29:11
  and I go like, no, I'm not. I'm not a news guy.
• 29:15
  Because I thought I had a job in York, Pennsylvania doing sports.
• 29:18
  And I said, nah, no, I'm really I'm good I got this
• 29:22
  job, but I appreciate it. Thank you. Like within three days,
• 29:25
  I don't get the job in New York, Pennsylvania. And I went so
• 29:30
  I called him back out and I said, hey, I may have misspoke
• 29:33
  on Saturday. Miss characterized in the context they have miss spoke may have misremembered.
• 29:40
  I actually am a news guy and he kind of gave me the like,
• 29:45
  well, okay, fine, just come on down here, let me
• 29:49
  let me, let me meet you. And I've told the story a hundred
• 29:53
  times. I come here July of eighty four on a Sunday, got off
• 29:57
  the wrong exit, got off the say Verton Eggs that came through Saberton.
• 30:00
  Back then it was Kroger Hardy's. There was a gas station and like one
• 30:07
  of the lows and like, I drive down, I thought that was downtown
• 30:10
  Morgantown, like right, classic classic, like whoa, So I go,
• 30:14
  I'm what is this? So then I come back hogback turn and I come
• 30:19
  into High Street and I see High Street and I'm at the top of High
• 30:22
  Street. I started coming down. I go like, okay, this is
• 30:25
  the main drag here and Massulo's cleaners on the right, they're like four or
• 30:30
  five dudes and they Massulo was closed. Morgantown was like dead quiet because students
• 30:36
  weren't around back then, Summer school wasn't as big of a thing, and
• 30:38
  they all had the hoods up on their cars like. So I called my
• 30:42
  mom and I said, hey, listen, I'm gonna do this interview tomorrow.
• 30:45
  But I'm I'm not doing this thing as they So this is like the
• 30:48
  scene from Happy Days and like the cars in front of Arnold's right, I
• 30:52
  didn't see the fids. So I go to interview the next day. When
• 30:57
  I go to the Grier Building to interview, the equipment blew me away.
• 31:03
  It was all state of the art, and I went like, whoa,
• 31:07
  what doesn't fit in this picture? Because I had just been to New York
• 31:10
  and saw the same gear at w NBC in New York, and I'm going
• 31:14
  like, wait a second, like Studor Revox and b Wards and all this
• 31:17
  stuff. I'm going like, I don't get this as good stuff. So
• 31:22
  interviewed and called him the next day after I laughed and I said I'll take
• 31:26
  the job. And he said that's interesting. He said, it didn't offer
• 31:30
  it to you. Didn't offer it to you, and I went He goes,
• 31:37
  I'll get back classic classic ding dong move. I'll get back to you.
• 31:42
  So that's when we had the infamous coin flip. He went to Daniel
• 31:47
  Miller, our president, said what are we gonna do. He said,
• 31:48
  what do you want? Which one you want? You want the guy or
• 31:51
  the girl? What doesn't matter. What do you want? And he said,
• 31:53
  well, flip coin coin, flip in the hallway heads or whatever worked,
• 32:00
  And uh yeah, but I was like, I came to stay for
• 32:04
  six months? Was my planet? Six six months. I was gonna go
• 32:07
  rocking roll years thirty forty forty forty, starting fortieth year on August. Yeah,
• 32:15
  I still and I still remember meeting you in a parking lot. You
• 32:19
  had that bad blue blue robin blue robin blue. Why don't I remember that?
• 32:28
  That was a bad car? Hey got you here? Yeah? It
• 32:30
  did? It did, all right? So you came because so I'll try
• 32:35
  and be I'll try and be quick wild connection. Here there was my roommate
• 32:38
  from college back in Iowa, went to grad school here, got a sport
• 32:43
  management degree. One of his buddies that he played basketball with came here for
• 32:46
  sport management the year before. Okay, so fast forward through grad school.
• 32:52
  My buddies working for the Detroit Pistons. He's selling season tickets for them and
• 32:55
  and doesn't like it, can't stand it. So it's like selling vacum cleaners.
• 32:59
  I got nothing to do. Calls me one night. I'm at Maryland,
• 33:01
  had just been at Maryland. He says, Hey, I'm interviewing for
• 33:04
  the job at West Virginia director and marketing job. I think I might get
• 33:07
  this. I said it'd be great, only three hours away. That'd be
• 33:09
  awesome. Great. So it calls me after each interview. You'd been through
• 33:12
  like three rounds of interviews. Calls me one night and he says, Okay,
• 33:15
  I got dilemma. He said, our other buddy that had gone here
• 33:19
  to West Virginia had gotten into basketball coaching and had asked my college roommate to
• 33:22
  come join him on the coaching staff. But my roommate was already down the
• 33:25
  road here interviewing for this director of marketing job. He says, I think
• 33:29
  I'm gonna take that coaching job. Well you think, I said, Well,
• 33:31
  I mean it's hard to get into administration, but I mean if he's
• 33:35
  gonna give you a coaching job, that's your only way into coaching. You
• 33:37
  got no shot of getting into coaching unless he's gonna help you. So if
• 33:38
  you want to coach, you probably should take coaching. He said, all
• 33:40
  right, I'll allay back. Calls it back like two days later and says,
• 33:44
  I'm gonna take that coaching job. I said, oh, okay,
• 33:45
  good for you. That's a bummer you won't be here, but good for
• 33:46
  you. He said, hey, would you be interested in that West Virginia
• 33:51
  job? I said, no, I just got here. I've been at
• 33:53
  Maryland like eleven months. No, I'm not interested in and I'm not ready
• 33:57
  for it. I said, I don't know how you were ready for it,
• 33:59
  because you don't know what you're doing. He said, well, listen,
• 34:01
  can I just put your name in there? I think I'm kind of
• 34:02
  screwing him. Can I just give them your name? I gotta give him
• 34:05
  something. And I said, all right, fine, put my name in
• 34:07
  there. I don't care. So who do you give the names? Parsons
• 34:09
  Parsons. So Mike Parsons calls a couple weeks there and says, hey,
• 34:13
  when can you come over an interview. That's a little more that's a little
• 34:15
  more lively than Mike would say that, Hey, this is Mike Virginia.
• 34:19
  So I said, I'll go interview, and in my head I'm thinking,
• 34:22
  let's would be good practice. I'm not ready for this job. I'm not
• 34:23
  moving out there I'm good. I like it here. I'm not moving.
• 34:25
  So playing in a golf tournament in Cumberland. Tournament gets over, do our
• 34:30
  thing afterwards, award ceremony, and I zip over and a drive over.
• 34:32
  Much like you, the staffer still works over there will remain nameless. Gave
• 34:38
  me the worst directions ever pre cell phone days. Right, So this was
• 34:43
  a get off the interstate. You're gonna follow the signs. Make a left,
• 34:46
  all right. So I get off and I come down and I head
• 34:49
  up by the woods. What is the pines? And I circle or it's
• 34:52
  it's eleven o'clock at night, and I circle around. I head out that
• 34:55
  road password University high as Now, oh my god, it's later. Welcome
• 35:00
  to Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, Welcome to How what am I doing? So I
• 35:07
  find my way back. Now I find Stewartstown Road and I'm buy the WV
• 35:12
  farm and I'm thinking, where is the town? What is you know?
• 35:16
  Summer? Like you said, no one around late at night, there's no
• 35:20
  sheets, wasn't around, nothing's open. So I'm driving around and the same
• 35:23
  thing. I end up on High Street. I'm like, okay, this
• 35:27
  is it. And I was staying at the Eurosuits. So I'm downtown now
• 35:30
  and I'm thinking, okay, here we go. Do you mean Hotel Morgan?
• 35:32
  No, No, I'm downtown. Okay, So I'm driving downtown.
• 35:37
  There's euro suits. So I end up circling back around. Now I'm back
• 35:40
  out on this side of town. I'm driving and I go by. I'm
• 35:44
  sitting there thinking there, where is the euro Suits? Now? It's like
• 35:46
  one in the morning, and hand to God, in my head, I
• 35:49
  went, all right, if I have to sleep in the car, where
• 35:52
  can I at least wet my hair down for the interview because I'm wearing this.
• 35:55
  You know I'm gonna be in golf clothes. This is ridiculous. Where
• 35:58
  is Eurosuits? And I mean I circled for another hour down back. I
• 36:02
  can't find Eurosuits Until I remember this. I could happened yesterday. I'm at
• 36:07
  the stoplight right there at Van Voris, and I just happened. I was
• 36:10
  so worn out and like, I just I am not coming here. I
• 36:15
  don't care what they I am not coming to this place. And I look
• 36:19
  over and there's you know, the signs are right, yeah, yeah,
• 36:22
  it's about and I happen to just be Thank God, I was right next
• 36:25
  to the Eurosuite sign, and I can remember sitting in my car, I
• 36:28
  started laughing, like frank I pulled on again and I said, get offered
• 36:32
  the job. But quite frankly, I think a lot of it was timing.
• 36:36
  I don't know that I was ready for needed a position. Offered the
• 36:38
  job, I took it, and same thing as you, Tony. In
• 36:42
  my head, I thought, this is a good step for my career.
• 36:45
  I'll be here three to five years and then I'll head off to the next
• 36:49
  school six. So I arrived in early August of ninety six. My first
• 36:55
  game was at pitt Zero Way's Run on the Carry. I'm like, that
• 36:59
  was pretty good here. I like this place stayed for thirty years. So
• 37:02
  there's a story we're recording inside the Dale Miller building and the question is favorite
• 37:07
  Dale Miller's story? Oh my gosh, I mean, how do you do
• 37:13
  it? I mean, for those that don't know, Dale Miller was the
• 37:17
  brainchild of West Virginia Radio Corporation. So when both Hoppy and I started,
• 37:23
  there were two radio stations, waj R and w VQ Morgantown it over.
• 37:29
  That's the company. Those are you two? And because rules changed nationally deregulation
• 37:37
  of radio, you could start buying radio stations, and Dale immediately pounced upon
• 37:44
  that. But even before that, in nineteen eighty six, he decided with
• 37:47
  John Racy to create a statewide news and sports network. So that's right when
• 37:52
  I got here eighty four. They start talking about it in an eighty five
• 37:54
  metro News goes on in eighty six, and it was. But Dale was
• 38:00
  is just an undefinable bolt of energy that every day it was there was a
• 38:09
  shiny squirrel and he was chasing it. And we would do anything and everything
• 38:16
  to promote and to create events. I mean, just crazy fun stuff NonStop.
• 38:23
  And he's got this voice, which is like he's got this big,
• 38:28
  raspy voice. To set the table. Do a Dale imitation, Like when
• 38:31
  I got to a Hoppy, I said, Hoppy, what are you doing
• 38:35
  there? You get over here, and like Dale, every conversation you always
• 38:42
  had with Dale, unintentionally he leaves you like hard laughing, not like one
• 38:47
  great yeah, like just nowhere that doubles over. Yeah, just like what
• 38:53
  he'd say, one thing, you get one, you'd get one. There
• 38:58
  it is. But okay, so let's define culture. Though he'd defined the
• 39:06
  culture because he was a perfectionist. Perfectionist and if something didn't go right,
• 39:12
  I mean you the halls inside the Greer building. If there was a piece
• 39:17
  of radio because we had the speakers on, it could throughout the hallway,
• 39:21
  like when some went wrong. If there was dead air for a few seconds,
• 39:24
  my man, here we come. It was a fire drill, and
• 39:29
  he'd come down that hallway and everyone just kind of dipped their heads like,
• 39:31
  oh boy. Or at night after five o'clock people people always call radio stations.
• 39:37
  They don't probably don't do it as much now because the internet and you
• 39:40
  can together. Phone would always ring, phone would always ring, but the
• 39:45
  administration people would leave at five, so it was up to the people that
• 39:49
  were on the air and the building to answer the phone. If that phone
• 39:52
  didn't get answered, so he got pissed and so he put an alarm on
• 39:58
  it that could probably will please start like a nuclear reactor. So after five
• 40:02
  pm that bell would go like yeah, he brought the hallway and some people
• 40:07
  as well. But sometimes when that didn't get picked up, then it was
• 40:13
  absolute nuclear. He'd get onto that general Nard comic. I was see.
• 40:23
  I was good with his aggressive loud because that was my dad. I mean,
• 40:29
  like if probably flipped people like kids today, they could not handle it.
• 40:34
  You know, they would hu huh my work life battle inser like I
• 40:38
  need a day, I need some time like that was like like my dad,
• 40:43
  Like he was press coverage. He was like up in your face,
• 40:45
  like he was always like and I was like, that's always raised. So
• 40:49
  I was like, I'm good with that. You're all right, Dale,
• 40:51
  We're good. Other people. Oh, he was a perfectionist New Great Radio.
• 40:57
  I mean, think about this. He produced bost those games by himself,
• 41:04
  by himself, one man show, wrote the Mountaineer Sports Network, produced
• 41:07
  the Mountaineer Sports Network, ran the board during the games, pulled the highlights
• 41:12
  during the games. Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? Did
• 41:15
  three people to work with three people, and this is his perfection. And
• 41:19
  so as the year went on, Um, he got colder in football,
• 41:23
  So you'd wear a jacket, right if I turned my head and the boom
• 41:29
  of the microphone would like barely rub my like his head would come up like
• 41:35
  like like and he'd get on in it. But that's good. I mean,
• 41:42
  people, my that's that's why it was what it was. It was
• 41:45
  considered the best. It was considered the best radio network in the country because
• 41:50
  the precision to detail. So I love that. I wanted that's what I
• 41:53
  wanted. I wanted to be like, I don't want to know schlocky thing.
• 41:55
  I wanted to be good. And you and how you and him had
• 42:00
  like a great, great work relationship. We had a long run together and
• 42:05
  he's one of my one of my dearest friends. And two quick things.
• 42:07
  One was that when he when he hired me, which was kind of weird
• 42:13
  because he didn't really hire me. It was a summer of seventy seven maybe
• 42:17
  something like that and or seventy somewhere, and the the general manager at the
• 42:25
  time, had just hired me as the news director of the radio station.
• 42:29
  I was just starting out. And then he got fired and so Dale comes
• 42:32
  in. You know, he's a brand new guy. And I said,
• 42:36
  the other guy hired me as a news director, and Dale, so were
• 42:37
  you not my news director? And that's how it started. So it got
• 42:40
  all a little bit of a real start, but we became But you know
• 42:44
  what, but Dale, you know, I very quickly bought into what he
• 42:46
  was doing because you know, Tony being from West Virginia sometimes we have a
• 42:51
  tendency to say, and this is a generalization of that's good enough, or
• 42:54
  we can't be as good as someplace else. And Dale was always why not?
• 42:59
  Why can't we be as good or better than anywhere? And that was
• 43:02
  the attitude that he brought to what we did every day, and he expected
• 43:07
  people to strive for that, and that was inspiring to me, and that
• 43:10
  that was a constant theme throughout our forty plus years together. And you know,
• 43:16
  a lot whatever we have today, a lot of us here we owe
• 43:20
  to what to the standard the Dale Miller, the Dale Miller set. We'll
• 43:23
  think about this the Marconi Awards. So in radio, the Marconi's award.
• 43:27
  Marconi Awards are the equivalent of the Heisman Trophy, Right, that's the equivalent.
• 43:31
  And this company has won Marconi's at a pro rated level that other radio
• 43:40
  companies across the country go like what huh? Right, the late Lacey NF
• 43:45
  like he bagged Marconi's VQ bagged Marconi's, Like, you don't do that,
• 43:52
  Like we had Lacey had as many as like Paul Harvey. Yeah, right,
• 43:58
  it's amazing. And Dale would always this would freak me out because you
• 44:01
  know, I don't. I don't handle change well. And Dale was all
• 44:05
  all about change. So something would come up and I'd go in Dale's office
• 44:08
  and I'd say, you know, the election, this was years and years
• 44:10
  ago. I'd say for the election, I think I might do this,
• 44:14
  and they'll go, wait a minute, man, why don't we wait a
• 44:15
  minute, Why don't we do this. Let's do this, Let's do this,
• 44:17
  let's do life continuous coverage. We'll have people at these locations. We'll
• 44:20
  do there, and then we'll do that like oh no, my head exploded,
• 44:23
  you know, or mountaineer coverage. How about this. No, we'll
• 44:28
  do this. We'll do this, and I'll tell you what, and we'll
• 44:29
  take buses. We'll bust people up to the game. We'll take four buses
• 44:31
  up to West Virginia do Kane game. We'll do that. I mean,
• 44:34
  he was always about how can we do something big? And it just it
• 44:38
  would flip me out, but he would but Dale then would lead the way
• 44:44
  and we'd, you know, we'd follow along. We'll think about this.
• 44:46
  He he had this great dislike of the Associated Press, great dislike and because
• 44:55
  it costs so much money and he didn't think they were doing a good job,
• 45:00
  and so back and then back in those days, there was no internet.
• 45:02
  The only way you were getting news during the day was that teletype machine
• 45:07
  in the newsroom going keep spitting out the news. And he progressively would have
• 45:14
  these battles with the Associated Press, and you go like, you guys are
• 45:16
  doing a terrible job. Let me tell you something. You're terrible. Just
• 45:21
  that's that's how he would be. You guys are horrible. I'm paying all
• 45:22
  this money. You guys are terrible. So that was our lifeblood. Though
• 45:27
  we needed it. He needed it for news, we needed it for sporting
• 45:30
  his time. So one day we go in there, I'll never forget this.
• 45:31
  We're sitting this up. He goes, I'll tell you what I'm gonna
• 45:35
  do. I go. We go like what he goes. He goes,
• 45:37
  I'm gonna make my own associated press, he goes, Metro News. He
• 45:42
  said, we're gonna become the state news organization. He goes, I'm cancl
• 45:45
  look like cancels. It was like a revolutionary thought back then. Revolutionary were
• 45:53
  like, how are we gonna get it? He goes, We're gonna do
• 45:55
  it, and and we did it, and we did it. And I
• 46:00
  remember in eighty six, we started the high school Football Scoreboard and they said,
• 46:07
  there's no way you can collect all the high school football scores on a
• 46:12
  Friday night in West Virginia and have them ready by eleven thirty at night.
• 46:16
  Can't do it. You have to have the associated press. So we go,
• 46:21
  oh, how are we gonna do this? So Shelly Poe, Shelley
• 46:24
  Poe knew all the media people across the state, the new the sports editors,
• 46:30
  so she goes, Okay, this is what you do. You call
• 46:32
  here here to today, and that's how we did it. Eleven thirty at
• 46:37
  night, we'd have all the scores and we go from eleven thirty to eleven
• 46:39
  forty five. That's what we did high School Scoreboard. That's when it first
• 46:44
  started. And we were like and there you go, all the scores and
• 46:45
  we're like, got them, did it without cheating. That's how it started.
• 46:51
  And now it's now thirty at midnight. Now it's an institution Friday night.
• 46:54
  So that's how that whole. So yeah, that was man, when
• 46:58
  did you meet Daling? I'll get I'll just give you two ques because you
• 47:00
  guys outlined it it perfectly. So my two vivid dales are one on team
• 47:07
  planes after games. So my football away games were relatively low stress as opposed
• 47:16
  to home games. Like I love football, Waames, I had maybe a
• 47:20
  couple things to do, but got to travel the whole thing, so I'd
• 47:22
  get back on the planes. I've told this before. All I want to
• 47:24
  do is get back on the plane. It shows me I should have been
• 47:29
  doing this earlier, because all I wanted to do after the game is to
• 47:30
  get back and talk about the game. And I want to talk to him
• 47:32
  about the game, but he was always asleep, like forty five seconds after
• 47:37
  we hit the plane, like I wasn't even to my seat, and he's
• 47:38
  all folded in either stuff in his face or asleep. And Dale would want
• 47:44
  to talk. So I'd always like work my way and then Dale and I
• 47:47
  would talk about the game for a little bit. So that was one I
• 47:50
  always remember Dale for talking to me after what did my boss right? It
• 47:53
  didn't work for him, but I could talk to games. And then number
• 47:57
  two, it involves Tony as well, to my grave with this one playing
• 48:00
  at UCF, and I think it but it both illustrates Baiale and it illustrates
• 48:06
  what Tony's personality perfectly and we're in that booth and it's like three across the
• 48:12
  front, and there's a second row where you and Dale were In that second
• 48:15
  row, he's producing, you're back. They're doing scores, and so I'm
• 48:16
  in. So on away games, i'd always come into the radio, but
• 48:19
  sometimes i'd spot for him. Sometimes I just wanted to hear the broadcast and
• 48:22
  watch the game. And so I'm in the back and pregame's coming, and
• 48:25
  you're coming down to the start and in that stadium, the back row of
• 48:29
  the seats you could stand up and be almost eye to eye with the booth.
• 48:34
  So he was building his house or it just built his first house.
• 48:37
  And he's standing there and we're in the pre game and there's a he's talking
• 48:42
  to a guy and it's typical Tony in a couple of ways. Like the
• 48:45
  game's getting ready to start, like in fifteen minutes, and he's totally unbothered,
• 48:50
  right right, not even I mean, you're down there, you won't
• 48:52
  even talk to me. You got like score, You're you're all tight,
• 48:54
  you won't look at anybody. Dale's all tight, nobody's and he's up and
• 48:58
  he's talking to this guy. I'm like, what is he doing down there,
• 49:00
  so I kind of wandered down talk to him, Michael for Yale,
• 49:02
  who was sitting in the front row, and like, what's he doing.
• 49:05
  He's talking about deck furniture, and he's trying and also typical him, he's
• 49:10
  trying to get a better deal on deck for of course, a chase lounge.
• 49:14
  I need a table. It's like the hairs on ten minutes, and
• 49:15
  now we're on in five minutes, and now we're on in four minutes.
• 49:19
  And Dale kind of shot out, like Dale screams out the back right and
• 49:22
  he's still standing up talking and all of a sudden we're on. The music's
• 49:25
  playing and he's still going about the chase lounge. The game is starting,
• 49:30
  and Dale absolutely comes on gluten. I mean, up out of this.
• 49:37
  I mean to the point I was like I'm getting out of here, like
• 49:42
  scream and so also typical like he doesn't flip out or panic. He just
• 49:47
  sits down, puts the headsets on, and boom, we're off and running
• 49:52
  like he'd been preparing for three hours. I thought it perfectly illustrated Dale and
• 49:57
  his ability to rattle the cage and your boy over here to act like he's
• 50:01
  not prepared, not be stressed, and then come on the air and absolutely
• 50:06
  nail it. I will always remember that sell. I mean I can picture
• 50:07
  it like it's happening yesterday on time as airtime as pretty accurate representation. Right,
• 50:15
  Yeah, sure I still have that furniture. Yeah, I got a
• 50:21
  new house going right now. I need to I need to get that guy
• 50:22
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• 51:20
  don't think you remember this. I brought it up that Dana Holgersson in his
• 51:23
  first year here skydived. You didn't know you didn't. I didn't know that.
• 51:28
  Yeah, okay, So here we go. Ready to draw your attention
• 51:30
  to the monitor if you would. Here is the video of him Landy.
• 51:36
  He's coming it hot. Listen, watch us watch this is He's with somebody,
• 51:45
  right, I mean, yeah, he was with somebody. They hit
• 51:47
  it pretty hard. Oh my gosh. Yeah that was down there. And
• 51:52
  here we go. Oh, that's gonna be fun. It'll be having a
• 51:58
  game on the schedule. It'll be a show man. That's awesome. I
• 52:00
  did see they put out something recently. Most season tickets sold in their history.
• 52:04
  It's like twenty three thousand. Yeah, you expect that first year in
• 52:07
  Power five. So they're all that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, they've
• 52:08
  got some tickets sold. Last last episode, we also debuted a new coffee
• 52:19
  and it was It was from Nadine. It's a wonderful roaster, wonderful tree
• 52:24
  at Greenboro County Mountain Table down there in Greenboro County, and she put together
• 52:30
  a blend that they soaked the beans in Kircheville Hoppies beer for twenty four hours
• 52:37
  and they roasted it and then Hoppy proceeded to roast the coffee. So now
• 52:45
  they've come back. Taylor, do you have that one picture I sent you
• 52:47
  of the bag? This is this is the three guys before a bean,
• 52:52
  three guys before the bean blend I think I sent Yeah, right there,
• 52:55
  Kirchivill cop now that Yeah, that's a Kirchival coffee. But this is different.
• 53:00
  So this is a this is a different flavor. This is a separate
• 53:01
  batch. Yes, this is a mix of Hondurian and Colombian coffee. So
• 53:07
  this is three guys before the bean, and it's got a ri It's a
• 53:13
  medium again like last week, because good third degree burns. Last week.
• 53:16
  It's very good. I mean it's it's it's not a cold coffee. It's
• 53:20
  a hot coffee. And I like that. I think you're gonna like this.
• 53:22
  Okay, that's right up your alley. Yeahs Senator, Even though you
• 53:27
  had four coffees before you got here, you haven't gonna be just for sipping
• 53:30
  purposes. Just like BETWENNI had a wine tasting. I'm going here, Nadine
• 53:35
  Mountain table. It's good, isn't that good? That's good? That is
• 53:43
  nice like that because it's it is strong and flavorful but not bitter. Yes,
• 53:51
  right, yes, So the first batch of this that I made this
• 53:53
  morning, I didn't know how much ye, I didn't know how much coffee
• 53:57
  to put in, how much water I should say, And I put too
• 54:00
  much coffee in and it was like, whoa, that's too strong. And
• 54:02
  then I cut it and that's cut it. That's nice, that's really good.
• 54:07
  Yeah, I'm in hell me in now listen now they're in Greenboro County.
• 54:12
  Is this like a real product? You can't. Yeah, it's gonna
• 54:15
  be yes, short answers. Yes, it'll be available limited run. It's
• 54:17
  a test case, right, so this is a test batch here, but
• 54:20
  this is going to be a product that's available for purchase. Correct. Correct.
• 54:24
  Sometimes you jump on me. Sometimes you jump on me for maybe you
• 54:30
  accuse me I'm announcing of announcing things too early. Are you gonna do it
• 54:36
  again? Well, well, hold on here, what are you doing?
• 54:40
  What's this about? So I'm just letting our folks know he's gonna he's gonna
• 54:45
  overpromise something there. I'm just letting our folks know. I don't know.
• 54:49
  I don't know what this is. I don't know that. Just put a
• 54:52
  pencil next to July twenty eight and twenty nine weekend July twenty eight and twenty
• 55:00
  nine weekend, Greenbrier County. Okay, well, let's just say that three
• 55:07
  guys will be in the area. Maybe in the area, but pen don't
• 55:13
  like if the wife says, hey, honey, what about the twenty eighth
• 55:15
  and twenty nine, just kind of hold her off on that day? What
• 55:17
  about the weekend day for the weekend Friday, Friday, Saturday, Friday Saturday,
• 55:22
  Friday Saturday. It'll be a Friday Saturday. Yeah. You know,
• 55:24
  the people in Greenbrier County have been wonderful to us in the whole that whole
• 55:28
  southern peace right there. I mean you're talking Nicholas County, Raleigh County,
• 55:34
  Mercer County, and Rowe County, Wondering Greenry County, Okahanna's County, all
• 55:42
  points in between. Oldson'll be Kirtzivail down there, Green Bank Observatory and Coffee
• 55:49
  Cass Scenic Railroad, Senecal don't start snowshoe Green Brown River Trail, golf Corner,
• 56:05
  South branch of the PA got the low watermark of the This is good
• 56:14
  coffee for this it is I usually have to have mine doctored up with some
• 56:16
  stuff. This is going down nice. It is its smoothness. I usually
• 56:21
  have to put stuff into something. It's also got the color like a nice
• 56:23
  bourbon. There's an idea. I had baby up a little bit. I've
• 56:30
  had some of the Nadine. She's terrific. Mountain table and Rennick. They're
• 56:35
  in Rennick outskirts of outskirts of Lewisburg Rennick. He misidentified Rennick on an earlier
• 56:39
  program. Did you not Yeah? What did I call it Fenwick or something?
• 56:43
  I got Fenwick and I said Fenwick. I said, I don't know
• 56:45
  Fenwick. Well, there's a Fenwick, I think too. Isn't there where
• 56:47
  I will? Yeah, I think so. I think so about the hotel.
• 57:00
  The first time I get up in the bathroom, I text you,
• 57:05
  Oh, there is a Fenwick, West Virginia. Yeah, bad Nicholas County.
• 57:07
  I've been there, have you? Yeah? Yeah? You go,
• 57:09
  You go to Somersville and then when you take the left thirty three or thirty
• 57:15
  nine at thirty nine, thirty nine is near Nettie. You go straight?
• 57:17
  Yeah, but what the Gomart is on the right? Go straight? Just
• 57:21
  keep going straight straight, don't turn right, don't turn it right ahead to
• 57:22
  the green bar. You just said straight, don't but don't turn right like
• 57:25
  you're going to charmco Nettie. I don't try to do that. Just go
• 57:29
  straight through. They'll take your right into Fenwick. Okay, yeah, I
• 57:32
  usually take that right. Did some work there, I did some work there.
• 57:36
  Could end the sixty Yeah, end up in Sam black Church. That's
• 57:44
  the former Mead west Bako there and you're right, that's right. Yeah,
• 57:45
  yeah, that's Sam black Church is a great exit. Ranks right up there
• 57:52
  with wall back am a big otter? Oh my, what are we?
• 57:57
  What is going on today? From the text line, Hello, three guys,
• 58:02
  I've been missing out on textual healing lately. I just wanted to say
• 58:06
  that the Ren Baker episode was brilliant. I have the highest confidence that he
• 58:10
  will lead WV Athletics to success. Yeah. I got a lot of those,
• 58:15
  so great episode, and he'll be back. We'll get him on again
• 58:20
  before the season begins, I think yeah, I think so. So the
• 58:23
  next four texts are all in the same category, so I'll just read them
• 58:30
  and them we'll address them accordingly. These Yeah, because it was the same
• 58:35
  topic and to be quite honest with you. I didn't know if people are
• 58:39
  being serious or if they're being funny, so I thought I'll just read him
• 58:44
  and then we'll just kind of address it. Okay, this goes way back
• 58:47
  to the weather Holt episode. You all are not allowed to talk to another
• 58:53
  player in season ever again, dear lord exclamation points. By the way,
• 58:59
  the weather Hold interview is great, never again in season, Dino in Morgantown,
• 59:04
  next person, You guys killed JJ with that interview last week. Why
• 59:07
  would you interview him before a series as huge as Texas. I figured Brad
• 59:10
  would know better than being a former college baseball player. You jinx the whole
• 59:15
  team now, Thanks three guys, Texter WV baseball is now O four since
• 59:22
  JJ came on your show, I spent all season wanting you to talk more
• 59:24
  about baseball. Now I wish you had left it alone. Bob and Williamsburg,
• 59:30
  Bob's still not done. Came in again. Thanks for whatever you did
• 59:34
  collectively or as individuals to break the curse to be safe. Don't talk about
• 59:37
  baseball again until the season is over. Signed by Bob in Williamsburg. So,
• 59:44
  as I said, I don't know if people were being serious or if
• 59:50
  they were kidding, And these are just a sample because we received it on
• 59:54
  the sports Line text number as well. So just along that line, if
• 1:00:01
  you're if you're being funny, then yeah, okay, good, we're with
• 1:00:06
  you, Haha, funny. If you're being serious, that's interesting. And
• 1:00:13
  so if you were to follow that rationale, then you are you are ascribing
• 1:00:21
  us with some unbelievable power. And if we were to have to suffer the
• 1:00:25
  responsibility of the struggles that the team went through toward the end of the season,
• 1:00:32
  then you would also have to give us all of the credit that is
• 1:00:37
  deserving of us. That when baseball players were on our program during the course
• 1:00:43
  of the season and they went on to lead the nation batting average and TRACKXEL
• 1:00:49
  pitching complete games and other guys that we had having these fantastic Tevin Tucker after
• 1:00:54
  being on our show, then you'd have to give us that. And that's
• 1:01:00
  kind of a scary street. So if you're into that jink stuff, okay,
• 1:01:07
  cool, um, but um, we're not not buying it. Pretty
• 1:01:15
  wild if you if you do the numbers, this shows you what a fantastic
• 1:01:17
  year JJ had after appearing on our show to the end of the season,
• 1:01:22
  when eleven for thirty two for a three forty four batting average. In most
• 1:01:25
  normal years, that's an unbelievable year. He finished the season on a nine
• 1:01:30
  of fifteen tear wow right sent after appearing on our program, went on to
• 1:01:35
  be named Big twelve Player of the Year. Randy Mazie went on to be
• 1:01:37
  named Coach of the Year. JJ went on to lead the nation in hitting.
• 1:01:39
  So I think he acquitted himself pretty well after the supposed jinks. So,
• 1:01:44
  just what an unbelievable season. And not to mention that we sort of
• 1:01:49
  backdoored. Got a commitment from him to be here for the next two years.
• 1:01:52
  Well, yeah, that was That was also about two years. Subject
• 1:01:57
  of I wasn't no he used to be back next year. I thought it
• 1:02:00
  was he was. He becomes draft eligible after next year. Oh okay,
• 1:02:04
  So the star power, if you again want to give us all the credit.
• 1:02:07
  We had Heywood Highsmith on sports line and two nights later he scored eighteen
• 1:02:13
  points in the NBA Finals and champion Nuggets. We had Brett Phillips on sports
• 1:02:19
  line. Last week William Park High School quarterback North South football game. He
• 1:02:22
  became the MVP of the game after so if you're you're taking this hard well,
• 1:02:27
  I mean, I'm just saying coverage. I'm just saying. I'm saying,
• 1:02:30
  if you want to have you got to play both ends of that stick.
• 1:02:34
  You gotta play both ends of the stick if you want to give it
• 1:02:36
  to us. Thank you. By the way, I'm about done with this.
• 1:02:43
  I was just gonna say, I hope you when does that thing?
• 1:02:46
  I think you keep the bell when the thing you can bring the bell up.
• 1:02:49
  I'm just carried around. Aund he won, Jason and Tulsa coming in.
• 1:02:55
  Welcome back James. Hey, guys. I loved hearing coach Kellogg,
• 1:02:58
  but I felt a little bad for him when he started talking about how he
• 1:03:01
  has to go play golf with some high school coaches. I'm looking to make
• 1:03:05
  a career change, and if coach wants to hire someone to do just that
• 1:03:08
  for him, I'd be happy to lift the burden. Tongue cluck. I
• 1:03:12
  like hearing Hoppy's bell. It makes me think he could be like Hector Salamanca
• 1:03:16
  and breaking bad. One ding for yes, two dings for no. Then
• 1:03:21
  he could order his own subway. Had to laugh, And I'm wondering if
• 1:03:23
  Tony realized what it sounded like when he said, speaking of me, let
• 1:03:27
  me show you this. I was playing the episode at work. I got
• 1:03:30
  a few looks, but I assured them that this is a family program.
• 1:03:32
  I love the show. He want Jason Texter b how I certainly hope you're
• 1:03:37
  still efforting to get a gambling podcast again. Some of us degenerates really miss
• 1:03:42
  you. Signed by Vincent Vegas. Hey, I forgot to mention and that
• 1:03:47
  made me think of it is that I was out with my wife to celebrate
• 1:03:52
  her birthday at a local restaurant. Ran into Tommy Big three Guys listener and
• 1:03:59
  he said that he would be happy to report or maybe text in that I
• 1:04:01
  ordered from myself. Progress. Do you have a nice meal? Did you?
• 1:04:08
  Yeah? Yeah? In fact, Tommy picked up the tab unbeknownst to
• 1:04:12
  me. Oh my gosh, oh dude, really bonus for you. You
• 1:04:15
  pring out for her birthday and somebody else picked the tab up. How about
• 1:04:17
  that? That doesn't really account then, does it. You can take her
• 1:04:20
  out again twice. She needs to go twice. Ye, take me to
• 1:04:24
  go twice. Yeah, but thank you Tommy. He was good seeing you
• 1:04:27
  a visit, and it was very generous of him and was but he could
• 1:04:30
  he could be witnessed to me ordering from myself. That's the way you want
• 1:04:35
  to go with it. Hey, they're three guys. Sorry Tony with a
• 1:04:39
  why for the length of this text, first time text or first time I've
• 1:04:42
  felt that I had something worth saying. Flying WUV story, Flying Pittsburgh Doorlando,
• 1:04:47
  I land. As I stood up, the gentleman behind was wearing a
• 1:04:49
  West Virginia cap. I had my WV alumni cap. On conversation started.
• 1:04:55
  Soon found out the couple and the sun were from Fairmont, and my wife
• 1:04:59
  and I are also from Fairmont. Not done yet, they were Zach Frasier's
• 1:05:02
  parents and his brotherly go mountaineers. The og doc Phil still hoping to get
• 1:05:10
  some kirchivel at Rambling Root and Faremont. I have to give props to DJ
• 1:05:13
  the owner Texter. So finally it happened. I was able to make my
• 1:05:18
  way from Northern Virginia back to Morgantown, able to stop in for one night
• 1:05:23
  as I was there for a work event. Fortunately, my sophomore year of
• 1:05:26
  college in nineteen ninety eight, I lived next to Jeans on Wilson Avenue in
• 1:05:30
  South Park. Being an avid listener, of your pod. In other words,
• 1:05:32
  I'd never missed an episode. I knew the probability was high of drinking
• 1:05:36
  some hoppy Kerchivel by stopping at my old stomping ground. Well, I was
• 1:05:43
  not disappointed. I would say that the beer was yeah, pretty good,
• 1:05:45
  but no, seriously, it was amazing better than I expected. After a
• 1:05:48
  few beers and a few dogs with cheese and slaw, I headed out for
• 1:05:51
  my business event with a new Jeans Beer Garden hat. I might add,
• 1:05:56
  looking forward to attending one of your events one of these days, doing what
• 1:06:00
  you're doing. Rob from reston another satisfied consumer. Hey, three guys,
• 1:06:08
  this is Joe and San Juan County, New Mexico. Here. You must
• 1:06:11
  know by now I'm a native West Virginian, because no one out here mentions
• 1:06:15
  with a county when they're asked where they're from. It was great to hear
• 1:06:17
  Judge Kevin White on the show. When I am asked about my list of
• 1:06:21
  all time great moulineers. Kevin White is always high on that list. He
• 1:06:25
  made my freshman years special as he led his Grade eighty four team tough as
• 1:06:30
  nails. White is not mentioned too often, is Kevin was named the starter
• 1:06:34
  in the eighty four preseason. That would have been Tony Rita. I was
• 1:06:40
  always had fond memories of that season and that team. Kevin White was a
• 1:06:44
  serious student. We had a class together fall eighty five the American Presidency with
• 1:06:48
  Robert de Clarico, one of the all time greats to ever roam the hallowed
• 1:06:53
  halls of Woodburn. True small class with about ten students, and I remember
• 1:06:57
  Kevin being a leader there too. Keep up the good work. I love
• 1:07:00
  the Summer series. If you took de Clarico, you were serious. You
• 1:07:04
  were a real student. Yeah, yeah, a real student. You weren't
• 1:07:06
  playing games. No, Cellen Clarksburg in Gentlemen, In response to the brief
• 1:07:13
  discussion during the last episode about some of the greatest opposing players to have played
• 1:07:16
  at Mountaineer Field, I would nominate Rogers Stallback. In nineteen sixty three,
• 1:07:21
  my late father maintained that Stallback was one of the finest players he ever saw
• 1:07:26
  in Morgantown. Stallback led Navy to a total beatdown of the world champion Mountaineers
• 1:07:30
  to open up the centennial season. Final score is fifty one seven. You
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  know, it's amazing to me. I have heard about that game through the
• 1:07:41
  years so much so today I said, wait a second, what were his
• 1:07:45
  numbers? So I pulled the numbers on stallback. I mean they weren't like
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  to today's standards. It was, but he was seventeen to twenty two,
• 1:07:59
  so he was accurate as hack, no interceptions and a touchdown pass and running
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  the ball, which he did well when he was in the NFL. He
• 1:08:10
  had eleven toats for just fourteen that yards, so it must have been his
• 1:08:15
  accuracy and that must have been it when he went on to win the Heisman
• 1:08:20
  that year. Wow. Yeah, hey guys, how terrible is it that
• 1:08:26
  we were made to stay in dorms at the Kentucky Regional. I understand the
• 1:08:30
  reasoning, but it still should not be allowed. College dormbeds are some of
• 1:08:33
  the most uncomfortable to sleep in in my opinion, which doesn't matter. They
• 1:08:38
  shouldn't be allowed to host if they can't have adequate longing. My rants over.
• 1:08:42
  Keep up the good work, Jake and Beckley. Well interesting side note
• 1:08:45
  to that. So my son Scooter, who does the baseball games, so
• 1:08:51
  he comes back from that Lexington Regional and he says, hey, dude,
• 1:08:58
  you see this pulls up his he got bedbugged. I mean significant, Yeah,
• 1:09:09
  that's not good. I was told by somebody that the food was pretty
• 1:09:14
  good that they provided there, and that the convenience was off the charts good,
• 1:09:18
  but that that shouldn't happen. That. I mean that, just that
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  at the end of the day, that's not what costs. That's not what
• 1:09:24
  cost you. That didn't get you lost, That just shouldn't happen, And
• 1:09:26
  say, committee's got to do better. That was bad. Shouldn't happen.
• 1:09:28
  Yeah, that's jeez. Text her to my favorite to my favorite trio.
• 1:09:34
  I'm currently studying engineering at WUVU. I'm in grad school. During my studies,
• 1:09:40
  I've been working as an intern at the NASA facility in Fairmont. The
• 1:09:43
  other day, during one of our meetings, I heard a phrase I never
• 1:09:45
  expected to hear in a government official. Our director gave his update. I
• 1:09:49
  was asked by someone, how's that project coming along? His response was concise
• 1:09:54
  and it's familiar for anyone who listens to this show. Efforty neither to say
• 1:10:00
  I grand ear to ear. I can't confirm that he's a listener, but
• 1:10:02
  I'd like to imagine that three guys is reaching the higher levels of the federal
• 1:10:05
  government, signed by Josh and Morgantown. It's the highest levels of NASA.
• 1:10:10
  Efforty say, yeah, efficient find he should ask him to ask if that
• 1:10:15
  was a three guys thing. It's just an intern. He probably get a
• 1:10:18
  little bit. He probably intimidated by the director. Fairpoint, Okay, Texter,
• 1:10:23
  referring back to the NIL deals, how does the taxes work? Are
• 1:10:27
  they taxed on the six thousand dollars they get or is it a gift with
• 1:10:30
  it going on as a scholarship to cover players who did not receive a scholarships
• 1:10:33
  that taxed Joanah and Doddridge County. So yeah, they have to pay tax
• 1:10:40
  on it. So it's just it's it's a taxable, it's a benefit.
• 1:10:43
  It's a benefit. You pay tax on it. Like they get ten ninety
• 1:10:45
  nine, get better they do? I know, I'm saying that. Yeah,
• 1:10:50
  some businesses are just ten ninety ninety do Texter Fellas I saw a retaining
• 1:10:59
  wall the UNC Chapel Hill campus this morning reminded me of Hoppies trials and tribulations.
• 1:11:05
  Thank you Michael from Pineville. There it is. Oh yeah, they
• 1:11:10
  got a little staggered retaining wall. They're hop your prey familiar with that construction.
• 1:11:14
  Yeah, that's a particular that's a conveyor. I don't know. I
• 1:11:16
  don't know, Texter. I do understand the lack of Yeah, it's a
• 1:11:23
  staggerable I do understand the lack of history and understanding coming from the Big twelve
• 1:11:29
  office. Don't understand, do not. I do not understand the lack of
• 1:11:31
  history and understanding coming from the Big twelve office. As you always say,
• 1:11:35
  Tony, like minded institutions. What ultimately was the Big East downfall too many
• 1:11:41
  non football schools in the league, plus the Notre Dame nonsense. Adding Gonzaga
• 1:11:46
  and Yukon would be just a dumb a mistake as getting Marquette and DePaul.
• 1:11:54
  Yeah, I'm with you. I mean what does that what does that get
• 1:11:57
  you? And then what does that mean? I mean, what is that?
• 1:12:01
  So the Gonzaga one to me is, you know, Brett, your
• 1:12:06
  mark talked coming out of therese Big Twelve minutes. He did say something that
• 1:12:09
  was interesting there that there's a just discussion happening about maybe someday decoupling the football
• 1:12:15
  and the basketball television rights and taking those to market as two different entities.
• 1:12:20
  So if that were to come to fruition or that's an idea, then maybe
• 1:12:24
  Gonzaga makes some sense as a basketball only member. Right My first instinct is,
• 1:12:29
  I don't know. I don't know, but if you were decoupling and
• 1:12:31
  looking just for something to go to market with this basketball league and a Gonzaga
• 1:12:36
  added in, okay, I can kind of see. Yeah, there's potentially
• 1:12:39
  more dollars available if that's the case. Outside of that, if it's staying
• 1:12:43
  as one, I don't know that how much that moves the needle. Texter.
• 1:12:48
  Yeah, this is Tim from Dayton, Ohia, wondering why we got
• 1:12:54
  this Pittsburgh guy playing the intro to your radio show, like we couldn't find
• 1:12:59
  someone from West Virginia who's better. If this sounds a lot like Nardoozies rant,
• 1:13:03
  you're right, that's what got me thinking about this again. But don't
• 1:13:08
  get me wrong, I grew up in the Northern Panhandle. Dawnie Iris rocks,
• 1:13:12
  or he used to, but for gracious sakes, he's a Pittsburgh guy.
• 1:13:15
  That song, along with any other jingle relating to Pittsburgh and or that
• 1:13:19
  vile university, should be banned from these airwaves. Oh before I forget.
• 1:13:24
  I love the show, go out and ears and yeah, you know what
• 1:13:26
  pitt can do. He know Donnie Iris playing no intro song up in Pittsburgh.
• 1:13:30
  So Tim, the song that we play, that's not Donnie Iris.
• 1:13:42
  Boy, it certainly sounds like him. There's some similarities to it. It's
• 1:13:45
  similar, there's some similarities, but actually a West Virginian hell he adduced that
• 1:13:50
  song. Yeah, so that's not Dawnnie Iris. I think, by the
• 1:13:58
  way, I think every good hearted WVU grad Haston like Donnie Iris, don't
• 1:14:02
  you. Yeah, Donnie Donnie he's out there playing with y'all greshaky. Yeah,
• 1:14:11
  so you know, Tim, that was that's Scott Simons produced that for
• 1:14:15
  us. He's in California. He does he does big boy work. So
• 1:14:19
  yeah, I mean in the beginning we did have the Donnie Iris song like
• 1:14:23
  first probably three four months maybe, yeah, when we first started six years
• 1:14:27
  ago, but due to royalty that we didn't want to get busted, so
• 1:14:30
  we just said make it sound like this. Ed Sharon took care of it
• 1:14:36
  for me. Texter Suvie Rec's and the Scooter. It hit me. Over
• 1:14:43
  the last few episodes of the growing part of the Mountaineer fan base has never
• 1:14:45
  known Mountaineer Field is Mountaineer Field. Even after twenty years, it's hard to
• 1:14:49
  hear Mountaineer Field being called Milan Pushcar Stadium. So what eras should Mountaineer Field
• 1:14:56
  be used? When should Mylon Pushcar be used? You use Mountaineer Field up
• 1:15:00
  to rich Rod or stew and then start using Milon Pushcar with Dana also Tony
• 1:15:06
  with the summer being over on June twenty two, since the days start getting
• 1:15:11
  shorter than will the Three Guys Summer series shift to the Three Guys Fall series
• 1:15:15
  at that point since the summer's basically over. I love the show, Doug
• 1:15:16
  and Winfield, Tony, how do you handle that when you're doing the broadcast?
• 1:15:20
  I used both do Yeah, that's fair. Yeah, I mean the
• 1:15:24
  stadium is Milon Pushcar Stadium, the field is Mountain Field. Yeah, so
• 1:15:28
  I combo those combos. By the way, you know you screwed with me
• 1:15:31
  because you've got this thing about the length of the day and now Brad will
• 1:15:34
  be about eight forty and I'll and then I think about tone and it's not
• 1:15:39
  dark yet. I think it, yep, I think about Tony. Ye
• 1:15:45
  done it for years on sports line. He has. He just brought to
• 1:15:46
  three guys. Yeah, welcome on board. I mean, I basically think
• 1:15:49
  summers over at this point. I'll tell you what. I'll flip at two
• 1:15:54
  weeks left a daylight, it starts getting dark again. I'll tell you what
• 1:15:59
  flips this was really flips me. Leaves start changing in August, they really
• 1:16:04
  do. No, seriously, I'm not being I mean, and when I
• 1:16:08
  walk down, when I walked the rail trail, it always bums me out,
• 1:16:12
  like it's August. It's a stealer of joy, sucking all the joy
• 1:16:17
  out of it. You know, summer's all. I mean, leaves are
• 1:16:20
  already changing the march, theys are getting shorter, joy that sunlight and getting
• 1:16:28
  shorter. Snow will start to February. He's got the leaves changing. I'm
• 1:16:32
  just listen, a fun sucker. I don't do it to upset people.
• 1:16:39
  I do it to encourage people to suck every single second out of each of
• 1:16:43
  these days because enjoy them while you can. But seriously, the leaves do
• 1:16:47
  start, That's what really bums me out. In August, I'll be going
• 1:16:50
  down to rail trail. I'm going like you could just see these little flickers
• 1:16:54
  of cog going like already, come on, man, it's August. But
• 1:16:59
  in death reference to you, I will agree with this, and I think
• 1:17:01
  it's because of what we do. Is that when football sea practice starts,
• 1:17:05
  to me, summer's over. Oh hell yeah, it's over. Oh yeah,
• 1:17:10
  right, question yeah, no question, it is first week of August,
• 1:17:14
  it's like done, see you later, yeah, time to go.
• 1:17:17
  Scopes, Spreads and bellboy tip of the Capped Mountaineer Baseball wonderful season. Yes,
• 1:17:24
  the ending disappointment, but I leave. Next year's team will regroup and
• 1:17:30
  use the setback as motivation. Also thanks to Happy Joe Parsons's reference last episode,
• 1:17:35
  Happy Joe is on the school board when I was going through Ravenswoods Schools.
• 1:17:40
  Hoppy, keep that bell when you get better. It's been a wonderful
• 1:17:42
  addition to this clown show. Jennings p one Jennings no more after next week,
• 1:17:49
  Texter greeting Scope spreads, Hoppy que Greg from sand Stone Falls Territory.
• 1:17:58
  For years, I've heard Taylor referenced as Jonathan Taylor Tyler County Consolidated Kennedy.
• 1:18:02
  Well, recently, I'm with my daughter at the state track meet at lately
• 1:18:06
  Field they're announcing the winners and their perspective schools. I heard Tyler County consolidated
• 1:18:13
  over the PA system. I said to myself self, I'll be a son
• 1:18:16
  of a pep. There really is a Tyler County consolidated. I never really
• 1:18:21
  thought about it. PS. I've attached a picture of a vehicle I saw
• 1:18:27
  the other day. The back glass is how you truly represent West Virginia.
• 1:18:30
  Keep up the awesome work that you do. And if you look at the
• 1:18:34
  back of that vehicle, they've got the coliseums there, mountaineer fields there.
• 1:18:42
  Yeah, new ri of gorge in the middle. So there you go.
• 1:18:44
  Oh look side not done? Oh yeah, yeah, look at that like
• 1:18:49
  wheels and tires probably from Mark. The Rose FOURD wouldn't be I think there
• 1:18:54
  is a sixty two sixty two seconds off of exit sixty two and gas away
• 1:18:58
  Mark La rose Ford. Yeah, Texter or guys. The wren Baker episode
• 1:19:04
  was gold. I was very impressed with his confidence, sense of humor,
• 1:19:08
  and preparedness. Yeah. Preparedness, that's the word. The future of WV
• 1:19:14
  athletics is bright under his leadership. While I have a been a proponent of
• 1:19:17
  playing multiple power fives. I'm coming around to yours and Wren's point of view
• 1:19:23
  about more conservative scheduling. That being said, do you think Wren will focus
• 1:19:27
  on primarily scheduling regional Power five rivals such as pitt Maryland and Virginia Tech Bred.
• 1:19:31
  You had it, and that is as a fan, you love that
• 1:19:34
  West Virginia's playing Penn State. As a coach or somebody who wants success in
• 1:19:39
  the program, you don't want to play Penn State. Yeah, you don't
• 1:19:42
  want to play two Power fives. Listen, I get it. I've said
• 1:19:44
  from the very beginning. I understand where Oliver and Shane were going trying to
• 1:19:46
  get some of these regionals back on It's been great. I mean pick game
• 1:19:49
  last year up there was awesome down here. This year will be tremendous going
• 1:19:54
  up to Penn State. I know you're getting a really good Penn State team,
• 1:19:57
  but the hype around that will be a lot of fun. It's just
• 1:20:00
  if you're a program, especially trying to get yourself back on track, you
• 1:20:03
  have set the head coach up for failure with this particular schedule. It's too
• 1:20:08
  difficult. And I say it from this standpoint. You just saw the SEC
• 1:20:12
  gnashing their teeth back and forth whether they go eight or nine conference games.
• 1:20:15
  Well, if it's the best league in America, then saddle up boys and
• 1:20:18
  play nine. Right what they decide to do hop eight? So they didn't
• 1:20:23
  want to take the challenge of playing nine. This Big Twelve does it not
• 1:20:27
  only plays nine conference games? Then West Virginia is an outlier in playing this.
• 1:20:30
  And I guess that's my overall point to the scheduling is West Virginia is
• 1:20:34
  not a program that needs to be an outlier when it comes to scheduling difficulty.
• 1:20:40
  If college football wants to move itself to where college basketball is where you're
• 1:20:44
  rewarded for testing yourself, then so be it. But the other way away
• 1:20:50
  from that, go look at some non conference schedules. Oh yeah, I
• 1:20:54
  mean go look at some other schools that you're competing against. It. Again,
• 1:20:57
  that doesn't mean if West Virginia had two other easy wins on its schedule,
• 1:21:00
  it's suddenly winning a Big Twelve title, it's competing for a national title.
• 1:21:02
  It's not saying that, but you've got to give your guys and your
• 1:21:05
  coaching staff a chance to get back on its feet and schedule appropriate and when
• 1:21:10
  you have end in football, when you have limited opportunities in basketball, you
• 1:21:13
  can have a loss and said, well, that's not actually a bad loss.
• 1:21:15
  It's early on and that team might do really well. It doesn't hurt
• 1:21:17
  me like he does in football. And also I think Penn State's going to
• 1:21:20
  be pretty good. And remember West Virginia began the season with Ohio State never
• 1:21:26
  recovered, never recover. I was a good team West Virginia never recovered.
• 1:21:30
  M correct, you're correct, sir. Last one three guys, Hello,
• 1:21:38
  just finished the Wren Baker episode one is to convey how impressed I was with
• 1:21:42
  his podcast ability. It was a great listen. I believe he will do
• 1:21:45
  great things at WUVU. Signed by Bob and Clarksburg. Excellent. Hey,
• 1:21:51
  before we get out of here, in the textual himand Park, can I
• 1:21:54
  give a shout out as well? When I was out venturing among the public,
• 1:21:58
  sure, the aforementioned Pittsburgh hoppy. Yes, on the occasion to take
• 1:22:01
  in a Pirates game, Oh, okay, week or so ago, and
• 1:22:05
  we show that picture there and ran into a long time nearly forty year season
• 1:22:10
  ticket holder here for Mountaineer football games. That'd be Rich Gibson Okay. Here
• 1:22:14
  was Richie Gibson. He's an usher up there at old PNC Park. Comes
• 1:22:17
  down here and watch his games for forty nearly forty years. Comes out West
• 1:22:23
  Virginia, West Virginia guy. He happens to live in Pittsburgh, but he's
• 1:22:25
  a westerning at forty years. See thirty seven year season ticket holder here at
• 1:22:29
  Mountaineer games. I was walking out. He said, hello, loves the
• 1:22:31
  podcast listens in so nice. Rich thank you for your support. We appreciate
• 1:22:34
  beautiful day there at a great ball they played the Cardinals. Oh yeah,
• 1:22:45
  gotta wine parts, gotta win. That made a great time. So thanks
• 1:22:48
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  man, the cryptid quest is on. You get all those reward points for
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  the stuff you're already buying. You unlock all seven cryptids and you get five
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  skittles? A big bag of skittles? Would you be most likely to buy
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  out of all those things? And we see him Taylor put that other shot
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  back up there with all the uh I got. I know one. I
• 1:24:15
  got flood bread, Starburst. I like Starburst. I probably have to fall
• 1:24:20
  to the chocolate person to candy. But if I have to go at non
• 1:24:24
  chocolate candy, Starburst way at the top of the list. Okay, the
• 1:24:27
  bag of skittles too, but Starburst, ver I go one in each box?
• 1:24:30
  I'd go the Fuji water I go the uts and I'd go to the
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  Toastito Chips thing there. Yeah. Good to see him go to Gomar.
• 1:24:38
  Probably red bull huh, I'll be a rid bull. Really well. If
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  to see you first ever. Probably are well. I mean he went so
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  early on that announcement, there's barely any discussion on that. Any discussion Old,
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