Latest / 3 Guys Before The Game / 3 Guys Before The Game - Radford Preview (Episode 514)

Transcript

3 Guys Before The Game - Radford Preview (Episode 514) · 3 Guys Before The Game

0:13
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome one and all. Oh look what we have here.
0:18
Class is finally fully attended, all three of the three guys present and
0:25
accounted for. This is three Guys before the game. It's episode number five
0:31
hundred and fourteen, and it is our Radford preview Radford Preview. We'll also
0:38
have a UMass review. But I didn't want to put UMass into the title
0:43
because it's kind of like Twitter, you only have a certain number of characters.
0:49
I wait, did I just go RASRDF or Yeah, that's good enough.
0:54
Just do that. You know what you're getting. You're a listener to
0:58
this podcast. You know what you're getting, which is absolutely you have no
1:00
idea what you're getting. That's what this podcast is. And for the first
1:03
time in podcast history, will live update scores. We got a live live
1:10
shows. Yeah, you're going to live update scores. All right, here
1:11
we go. Three guys brought to us by the fine folks at Comac's Business
1:15
Systems, keeping West Virginia's business data safe, secure and efficient for twenty five
1:21
years. If you're a business owner, do not think that you are immune
1:26
to attacks on your network within your business. So all your personal data,
1:32
your customer's data. Is it safe as it can be? Comas will let
1:34
you know. Contact them at COMASWV dot com. Three guys brought to us
1:40
by go Mart. Go for good times, Go for Gomart, get that
1:44
rewards card. Once you have that rewards card, you can save money on
1:49
fuel and food. And every time you use it and buy things adds up
1:53
unless you got the triple points. I'll tell you about that later. Three
1:57
guys also brought to us by lou Wendel Marine Sales in St. Albans.
2:00
They do sell family fun. Visit them at lou Wendell Marine Sales dot com
2:07
and in a few moments will tell you about the special three guys that they
2:12
special deal they have for three guys. Listeners on that Avalon trytune who there's
2:16
a granddaddy of them all, but you know Bowl season people say the Rose
2:20
Bowl granddaddy at try tune from Avalon, that's the granddaddy of them all.
2:24
Visit lou Wendell Maarnet Sales dot com. Three guys also brought to us by
2:30
the Conley CPA Group, providing value beyond the numbers. Though you are our
2:35
sponsor for spreads on stats, he'll break down last Saturday's game against you Mass
2:38
and we'll look ahead to the fighting Darris Nichols's who come into the coliseum on
2:45
Wednesday. Well, it looks like they're going to do this. Looks like
2:49
they're going to do it. Mark Kellogg and the WVU women have trailed.
2:54
I want to bring up step broadcast. I want to see how long they've
2:57
trailed in the game. I bet you they've trailed thirty seven minutes in the
3:00
game, and now with thirty five seconds to go, they're up four.
3:05
Wvu's seventy three, right State sixty nine. Make your free throws. Yeah,
3:12
wow, what a game. So I'll bust into that box score as
3:15
well. Happy. Good to have you back, Good to be back.
3:16
Did you get my picture? Sent you the picture from BUCkies? Oh yeah,
3:21
saw that? Yeah I saw that. Yeah, that's neat. It
3:24
was my son got me my Christmas president BUCkies that day. And what did
3:29
he get you? Bucky shirt? I meant to wear it today. Well,
3:32
we don't sell those, so no, I mean we wear your three
3:35
guys gear. That's what we sell. Throughout episode eight hundred dispil we did
3:38
spend one nice afternoon BUCkies had Karen been before. She'd been before, but
3:44
you know, you get in there and you just can't help it. Just
3:46
keep I'll look over here, yeah, I'll look over there. Yeah.
3:49
Oh, they have a whole section. There's just like a a jerky area,
3:55
all right, jerky count. I talked to the guy that's jerkie DELI
3:59
talk to the guy that stacks that shelf when I was there, and I
4:01
said, uh, it was pretty amazing. He goes, Dude, can't
4:05
keep it up on the wall, he said, during my shift, I
4:08
stock it twice a shift. They got they got all kinds of different They
4:13
got ghost jerky, you know, he heavy pepper stuff, kind of wild.
4:17
Right, So you can get jerky there. You can get like brisket
4:20
sandwiches. And I bought a couple of onesies, oh for your yeah,
4:26
grandson. Yeah, I about a couple of onesies. One that's got the
4:29
bucky. Uh. You pulled it up and it says, yeah, whatever
4:32
he is? Is he? What is he? A beaver? Beaver?
4:34
I think by the way side note to answer your question, Wright states led
4:39
for twenty five minutes twenty two seconds westernrginy eight and a half minutes. They've
4:44
led what's the score now, It's not over yet, only up one twenty
4:46
five seconds, remaining only up one twenty five seconds for Manning seventy three seventy
4:50
two. Yeah, all right, we'll keep an eye on that. So
4:56
not much has happened since the last time we got together. Hopy we had
5:00
this bizarre episode last Thursday because things were happening while we were recording Centered Left
5:09
Set really took a phone call to shed light on exactly what was happening,
5:15
and Center, what was your overall review of our speculation? And we pretty
5:19
much hit it. I think we nailed it. We said it was going
5:21
to be a firestorm. We said it was a massive misstep by the NCAA
5:25
from a PR perspective. We said, every time they seem to go into
5:28
court and have to open up about what their rules are, their decisions,
5:32
it goes the other way on them. I thought, for not having concrete
5:36
information at that moment, I thought exactly what we said was going to happen
5:40
happened, And sure enough what twenty four hours later? The ruling gets extended,
5:46
The temporary restraining order gets extended, goes all the way through winter and
5:48
through the spring. Whole thing changed right there, right, And so we
5:54
fly up to UMass which a couple of things. One and just on the
5:58
last episode, I talked about how overrated the travel is and people complain about
6:01
when West Virginia has to travel travel. I said, hey, it's not
6:05
that big of a deal. However, we got on that plane, I
6:09
asked the flight attendant, I said how long? How long is late?
6:12
She said sixty three minutes one oh three, And I went, that's pretty
6:15
good. But yeah, yeah, can you forget when you're just in the
6:18
Eastern Corridor how quick those flights are. But anyway, so we get up
6:23
there and there's great excitement because everyone had been cleared to play right and it
6:30
was all good to go, and then a Ray Kwon battle gets sick,
6:34
which just makes you want to do, like a what is it gonna take
6:40
to finally get the pieces together? You do get kerk cariesa We're gonna get
6:45
into that. You do get Noah Faara Khan, who's like the most absolute
6:48
wild card of all wild cards. Because I'm sure as West Virginia fans were
6:55
listening Slash watching the game on Saturday, that had to be the one.
7:00
We're there going like he's on our team. There hadn't been a lot of
7:03
talk about it. He's on our team. Where did we get him?
7:06
Right? Because everyone's talking about Ray Kwan, and everyone's talking about Kerry.
7:11
They've got a ton of tape that they can watch on Kerr a ton of
7:15
tape that they could find on Montana State with Raykwon bat But like Farah,
7:19
Kahn was always the like, yeah, there's another kid. He's here,
7:23
but he's not playing this year, right, He's not playing this year.
7:26
Like a week ago today, we're sitting here going like, no, no,
7:28
he's not gonna play this year, right, And then he goes out
7:30
there and balls out, and he's got a completely different style of play.
7:32
He likes to Ray is he gonna like to go to the basket? He
7:36
can go to the basket, he can distribute. Yeah, you got,
7:40
as we said, you got significantly better with the addition to those two.
7:43
And you didn't even have battle on the floor. So we'll get in and
7:45
break some of this down. But it was you could see the immediate difference.
7:48
I thought, Now it took a little bit of time to get going.
7:51
That first half was an ideal and you're you're probably you're in for a
7:56
little more time, But think about what you had to do there. You
7:58
went from you may two guys to your lineup that hadn't been I know they've
8:01
been practicing, but they hadn't played with you in a game. And not
8:03
only did you mix two guys in, you mixed in two ball dominant guys.
8:09
So that changes the calculus for everybody that's involved on how to play off,
8:13
not just the backcourt with a Kobe Johnson whose role was different, or
8:16
Seth Wilson whose role was different, but Quin Sizslinsky having to play off different
8:20
players. So you could tell it took a little bit of time for them
8:24
to get going. But what got immediately better exactly what we've talked about.
8:28
The ability to shoot the three. Right now, I don't know the cur
8:30
is going to go out and get you six maids every day, but that's
8:33
what he can do. He can open the floor up shoot threes. The
8:35
passing was excellent, the ball movement was better. Eleven assists between Crisa and
8:41
Farakhan, so I think it was pretty clear he didn't end up in a
8:45
win. You still have work to do. The team still has flaws.
8:48
Yes, yes, yes, all of that, but I think you've added
8:50
two really good pieces and a third piece is about to come. Well,
8:54
West Virginia had a good week on the waiver wire picking up those guys,
8:56
Brad and and adding them in. Well you could see, and we watched
9:00
the game Saturday while we were doing Football Bowl games, and it was evident
9:03
the talent level increased significantly with those two guys. Then you had raykwon battles,
9:11
So you know that talent wise Saturday you were better instantly. What you
9:16
don't know yet is how much better the team will be because, as you
9:20
said, Brad, there's going to be an adjustment period. And Tony was
9:22
talking on my coffee clatch and Tony's and by the way, than thanks for
9:26
that invite. Didn't even know you're doing it on Mondays. Yeah, I
9:28
do it on Mondays and Wednesdays. That that you you kind of wish that
9:33
that had happened in October, but it didn't, So, uh, call
9:37
you mass called game one, right, that's called game I mean because it
9:41
really is game one of what the team is going to be. But but
9:46
really it's is it maybe game one half because it's not because you didn't have
9:50
battle in there that, Yeah, that changes it. Saturday was the was
9:54
the one exhibition game, and then Radford will be game one if Raykwan's feeling
9:58
better and the season begins, so you know it's going to be It's interesting
10:05
because it's going to look entirely different than it did for the first first part
10:09
of the season. Yeah, that's the thing. And you've got this week
10:11
Radford, who will talk about here in the second, and then the Toledo
10:13
mud Hens come in on Saturday, and then that's it Christmas break and then
10:20
Ohio State the following What is that? What is that a Saturday? Gay,
10:24
I'm sure it's a Saturday. That's a Saturday week from Saturday. So
10:28
then you have that game. So it's a final. By the way,
10:31
WV Women's seventy seven, Wright State seventy two. Nice in advance. When
10:37
you do your spreads on stats, I want to go through this box score
10:39
and show you how an absolute aberration anomaly box score can get you a win.
10:46
I'll just give you one number. Right State shot fifty one percent,
10:50
see high dou WVU shot thirty nine, and WV still won. I'll give
10:54
you my tony on stats and just a little bit. Anyway, there's two
11:00
ways that happens. But yeah, go ahead and I'll show you. So
11:03
you're right, we're still await now what this thing is going to be.
11:07
Everyone's role does change. And now the big question with this team is and
11:13
Josh Eilert has said this and he knows it, and the players whether they
11:18
buy it, your role is now going to change, you know. And
11:22
also that before you added those guys, you would look at times on the
11:24
court and go who's going to score? Who's going to score? Now you
11:28
say, you see what kirk kirk Karsa didn't Again, we don't know what
11:31
he'll do going forward. He go, Okay, this guy can score fair
11:33
con he can make something happen. He can dish and Kerkkrisa just the other
11:37
things that he brings to it other than just scoring. I mean hitting the
11:39
threes. What'd you say, Brad six, hit six, hit six,
11:43
but also distributing to basketball and those other guys got got to get ready because
11:48
the fastballs coming in from Kerr fourteen to three pointers most since twenty twenty one
11:52
at Oklahoma. West Virginia also lost that game despite hitting fourteen threes and another
12:00
asterisk that you can put next to this game, is it also was Jesse
12:03
Edwards's poorest game of the year. Yeah, if he had a middlean game,
12:07
you probably probably win the game. If he's instead of one for one
12:11
for seven, is that what he was, one for seven. If he
12:15
goes a typical he goes four for four for eleven, four for nine,
12:22
you're probably a whole different situation. But he never went off, so you're
12:26
still waiting to see the whole thing. It's got to come together. But
12:30
one of the things that I did like, beyond the Crease's ability to stretch
12:33
that defense open, he and Farakahn both did a great job of the penetration
12:37
and kick When Tony we talked about that on Thursday. That's where it's going
12:41
to be incumbent on guys to get to their spots and make shots. I
12:45
thought Jojo Harris did that, A couple did right, squared himself up in
12:48
the corner, got the ball. As Creasa went down, you have to
12:50
collapse on him. The ball was kicked to the side. Puts the ball
12:54
up so you can see it coming. But I also thought there were times
12:58
when Kerr got caught up at the top the key end, having to dribble
13:01
longer than he want as guys were trying to figure out, or where do
13:05
I go? Where's my first move in this offense? So it's it's there.
13:07
It's underlying in there. It's just going to take some playing together to
13:11
bring it out. Yeah, were there any warrants issued for the assaults on
13:15
Edwards? Jeez? Jeez? He gets pounded inside. Man, that big
13:20
twelve reps are gonna have to be on that. He takes a beating.
13:24
He takes a beating inside. Yeah, that's and he hurt his wrist.
13:28
I don't know what is what the status is. I haven't talked to anyone
13:30
today, but hopefully that was just maybe a you know, a day or
13:35
something like that. But I mean, he worked and worked and worked the
13:37
entire game on that sideline trying. You could see him. He's getting a
13:39
towle, he's squeezing the tile. He's trying to make sure you could tell
13:41
he didn't have feeling at time because he's continued to shake it. And I
13:46
don't know, I'll have to find out later today, like what was that?
13:50
Did he hit it when he went up for an alley oop on the
13:52
rim or did he get chopped, chopped across the wrist. Is that what
13:58
it was pisses me off. It pisses me off. Is I hate to
14:03
get beat physically, and when teams try to big big boy yet, that's
14:09
what makes me upset because I just want to absolutely just go face to face.
14:13
And unfortunately this team at this point hasn't shown that like the Quinn Slazynskis
14:24
and the Pat Sumnicks, they need to match the physicality in the course of
14:28
a game. And because you don't want to have the perception of other teams
14:35
on their scouting report that these guys will back down and they're soft. Yeah,
14:39
I think this UMass was certainly more physical than West Virginia. But remember
14:43
you're coming off a game where you were the more physical team against Drexel,
14:46
So you've seen that. Now how's that going to look when you get into
14:48
Big twelve play? But you're right about that. I thought you Mess did
14:50
a better job of being physical. You know, we talked about their ability
14:54
to get in the paint. Umasses. They had thirty six points in the
14:58
paint. Forty one percent on other points came within the in the paint.
15:01
Now that's lower than their average, So you held them below their average,
15:05
but it was still a pretty stark difference in there. Here's the other part.
15:07
Go back to West Raingy's offense for a second. Tony. We talked
15:11
on Thursday the pick and roll would become a bigger part. Have you jumped
15:15
in the spread zone? Now you can give a stinger if it's up,
15:16
but this isn't full on stats you want to give a stinger. We talked
15:24
about pick and roll was going to take a step forward and how often West
15:26
Virginia used it with Cresa coming back, and then you were going to see
15:30
it even more once Battle returns. So in this game that was the second
15:35
most points all season from the pick and roll ball handler that West Virginia's had.
15:39
So that's going to continue to evolve as you get going, which I
15:41
think is going to be a great weapon as you figure out how to Okay,
15:45
what are you going to do? You're going to try and stop and
15:46
hedge out on Battle and crease a you're going to drop on Edwards, the
15:48
lob becomes available, the hedge out and the kick becomes available for three,
15:52
so multiple options coming off the pick and roll, and also a couple of
15:56
times where maybe this just happens, Tony. You can speak to this where
16:00
where you mass beat West Virginia down the court after a misshot West Produce was
16:04
not able to get back defensively. Was that just because they were just aggressive
16:10
or is that just how it goes in the flow of a game. Sometimes
16:12
I think those guys, I mean my perception of their personnel, they got
16:18
like dudes, they got like Eastern like East may they they may not all
16:21
be from the Eastern Seaboard, but they got a little they got a little
16:23
Eastern Seaboard basketball to them. They were tough and played and they were ready
16:27
to go. That point guard, he'll push it up the floor. The
16:30
kid hit six threes. Kid hit Robert Davis. He hit six threes.
16:33
He had eight the entire season, and he hit sixties. This's a second
16:37
time this year that someone became a hero. And I can't remember who the
16:41
other dude was, but there's another guy that absolutely went off scorching hot monmouth
16:45
rice yeah and just bang, just bang shots. Yeah. And you can't
16:48
let that happen well to hotpies point. How many times was there a missed
16:52
shot by West Virginia turns into a transition opportunity that ends in a three.
16:57
They had multiple freezing transit, a ton of threes on the game. But
17:00
they were up thirty four fifteen in fast break points. At one point they
17:04
were up twenty one nothing in that category. So to me, that was
17:07
one of the big differences right there, their ability to score in transition.
17:11
And then we talked going in that West Virginia had to get to the line
17:14
because you Mass puts you on the line at a time you not only didn't
17:17
get to the line enough, you ended up down sixteen points at the free
17:21
throw line. So that was an area where you had to find. Now,
17:23
you made some threes, which made up for that, so you found
17:26
a way to score. You scored wild You score almost eighty points, so
17:30
scoring wasn't the problem. But you were minus sixteen points at the free throw
17:33
Yeah, that's in West Virginia, as you said, needs to get to
17:36
the line. But also w battled back. I mean they were down.
17:37
It looked like they were close to getting blown out of the gem. They
17:40
were down eighteen. Where where here's the stat were they three forty one in
17:45
the country and files committed you mass? I think there were I think it
17:51
was in defensive free throw shooting, right, So I don't know if it
17:53
was Foules committed, but it was the amount of time you put the other
17:56
team on the line. Well, they commit, they're whistled for sixteen files
17:59
and game and West Virginia is whistled for twenty four files. No, no,
18:07
see, they play the way that West Virginia played in Press Virginia.
18:11
You're not gonna call it. We're just gonna keep whack and you're not gonna
18:14
call every single one. And again you've got to when when when it's that
18:18
kind of a game, you have to match that. You have to match
18:22
that, and that's what they need to get better at. And to your
18:25
point about fast break points, that's been one of the biggest concerns from the
18:27
start of the season. It's West Virginia's defensive transition not getting back. And
18:32
as you said, they're up twenty one zip at one point in fast break
18:34
points, so a lot to get into. All right, three guys before
18:38
the game, you know, the Christmas season quickly approaching, hut Absolutely,
18:44
that means people are gonna be traveling around this state of West Virginia. And
18:48
this reminder, up until the thirty first of this month. Up until the
18:53
thirty first, at Gomart, you can unwrap sweet rewards the holiday season Sweet
19:00
your Day with bonus points. So this is how this works. You buy
19:03
these M and M's products at gomart stores during their winter winter land, and
19:07
then you earn game tokens with the purchase of each product. So until the
19:11
thirty first, you collect all five of the game tokens. In other words,
19:15
you get yourself a particular minem's product, and you get all the bonus
19:22
points. You get all five game tokens, twenty five hundred bonus points,
19:26
no limit to how many times you can do it. You get build up
19:29
like a serious, serious cachet of points. Don't let this offer melt away.
19:34
Visit the Gomart app gomart dot com to learn more and bang off some
19:37
of those M and M's products. Get yourself twenty five hundred bonus points on
19:41
five tokens. All right, so textual healing is coming up. But right
19:48
now, let's really jump into the numbers with some Yeah spreads one stats,
19:55
We'll just go right to the numbers here. Let's jump into the analytics worship
20:00
of the show. Spreads Out stats brought to us by the commonly CPA group,
20:12
Complete service Public Accounting and Consulting. They pride themselves and doing so much
20:18
more than just filling out the forms, filling out the numbers. They become
20:22
your guide, walking hand in hand with you along your business journey, giving
20:27
you the best advice possible so that you pay your fair share, but you
20:30
don't pay more than your fair share. They also offer outsourcing your CFO services,
20:38
so if that is a hassle, if you've got financial you've got a
20:44
CFO, maybe you had a CFO, you don't want to have a CFO
20:47
in the building with you. They can do that remotely outsourced accounting and CFO
20:52
services. I'll just pop right in there, probably using COMACS. Probably when
20:56
they get into these, when they go into these other you know, it
21:00
can remote end. Probably COMACS opens up that tunnel, make sure everything is
21:03
safe and secure. Probably visit the conleyue CPA group to probably arrive at your
21:07
office in a loud Wendell marine. Trytoon as well. When it gets spring
21:11
summer, they're in marrying they're probably not now. Conley's based spring and summer,
21:15
I said Kirtchibal. Conley's in Marion County icebreaker put a little blade on
21:22
the front. Yeah, yeah, boy. All right, So just recently,
21:26
how the way the day is getting longer? Yet speaking of pontoons,
21:30
did we establish that? I forgot what was established? Days are not getting
21:33
longer, the sun rock, the sunset is getting later, but the morning's
21:40
starting later. So twenty first summer. Now say that again, So what's
21:44
happening from like the eighth of December until the twenty first. You're the days
21:49
are getting shorter, but you're getting a later sunset already, but the day
21:56
is still getting shorter up until the twenty first and then your sun rise and
22:00
we had this. You haven't been around. It's been an established fact.
22:04
Don't play with it, hoppy, Oh, let it go, Okay,
22:07
I haven't done the research, So I'm deferring to you, who seems to
22:11
be an expert in all things of day length. And you keep track of
22:15
it, you like you know the starting lineup for you mass you also knew,
22:18
like, hey, you got a check here. Actually is it actually
22:21
minutes longer? Actually, this craziness is anony me. Someone texts us and
22:23
said, I'm I'm They said, I'm disappointed that you did not announce that
22:27
it was like the eighth of December. From this point forward, sunset gets
22:33
longer. It gets laid out every day until the until June twenty one.
22:37
And you haven't he said, you haven't pointed that out. The sunrise is
22:41
happening later, but the same what'd you say? Expert in all things?
22:45
Day late? All right, what do we They should have a talk?
22:52
Just call in ton I got a question about daylengths. When you go,
22:55
sure, go ahead, what do you got Zambia yep, minus twenty two
22:59
hours sunset next, Collor I. When we were growing up, man,
23:04
you could call the bank and they had this automated thing and it would go
23:07
like, the time is seven twenty one, the temperature is forty two degrees.
23:12
Now what phone would you use when you call Rotari? It was a
23:15
rotary phone. Rotary? All right, spread zone, start it, don't
23:18
start on phone, let's go, let's get into Radford. Yeah, Jody
23:21
played the music. But yeah, hey, by the way, hoppy,
23:23
we issued a moratorium on we got so many party line thing we cut them
23:29
off. They're done. So we've done that chapter of three guys. You're
23:33
on Go ahead, all right, Radford Priefe, you mentioned head coach Darris
23:37
Nichols comes in former WV point guards, so it'll be fun to see Daris
23:41
back into the coliseum. They're pretty hot, hop Yeah. They've won four
23:44
in a row, seven of their last eight now. Each of those opponents
23:47
over that stretch has been ranked to sixty nine or higher in Ken Palm,
23:52
So this will certainly be a test for Radford coming in. Not a ton
23:56
of size. They do have a six' ten center doesn't start for them,
23:59
but he will play. Their tallest starter is six seven, so West
24:03
Virginia's gonna have to be able to eat inside. YEP, slow paced team
24:07
is Radford or Radford has been throughout the season three hundred and thirty six in
24:11
terms of tempo and possessions, but they've been kicking that up a little bit
24:15
lately. They've been getting into seventy, even touched eighty possessions here recently,
24:18
so we'll have to watch how that game goes. They've shot the three really
24:23
well this year so far, nearly forty percent from three thirty second nationally.
24:29
Now, let's get down in the weeds here, Tony, because I know
24:30
you're interested in this. I like weeds. They're fifty four percent from three
24:33
from the corner, So the corner, the corner threes combined fifty four percent
24:41
from there. Don't shoot a lot of them, but they've been very effective
24:42
when they go there. Wow, forty five percent from three from the wings.
24:47
So wings and corner, which is most of the three point line.
24:51
West Virginia better be able to defend and run them off that line. They
24:53
really only struggle right straight on at the top of the key from three,
24:57
and it's interesting that's the spot they shoot the most from. So you wonder
25:02
if they start to switch that around a little bit and take advantage of the
25:04
wing and corners a little bit more. But point being, West Virgina is
25:07
gonna have to run them off the line, force them to come in and
25:10
take those twos, get them off the three point line. They're top one
25:14
hundred nationally and offensive rebounding, So a former West Virginia product has a good
25:18
offensive rebounding team. Stop if you've heard that before. So this is another
25:22
game where as you start to look at this West Virginia roster and they get
25:26
these pieces together, I think we can see offense is going to take a
25:29
step up. The questions remain around the rebounding prowess of this team because your
25:33
front line, Tony, you outlined it the other day when you were watching
25:36
practice. There's just not a lot of guys at that end of the floor
25:38
when they break up into smalls and bigs. So Jesse Edwards is going to
25:41
need to be healthy. He's got to get on the glass. Jojo Harris
25:45
has to get back to getting on the glass. Quince Lezlinsky get on the
25:48
glass. A cook, Cook. There's your guys. I mean, that's
25:51
your guys that are going to have to rebound. So given the size advantage
25:53
here, you should be able to keep Radford off the glass. But they're
25:56
going to try and get their offensively and find a way to score. They've
26:00
been very good. If you want to look at specific play types for Radford,
26:03
they've been very good spot up shooters. I just mentioned their ability to
26:08
hit the three. They've also been very good with the pick and roll ball
26:12
handler part of it. So you're going to see two teams that are going
26:15
to try and pick and roll each other at the offensive ends. Keep an
26:18
eye on Kenyan Giles Giles or Giles You got there yet? Oh? Are
26:22
you spelling that? G I L E. S of Giles number three is
26:26
what you want to watch number three. He's He's the one that will go
26:30
most often to the pick and roll. He'll have the ball in his hands,
26:33
he'll look to score off of that. He's also very good pulling up
26:36
off the dribble. So keep an eye on Giles number three. There's a
26:38
quick overview of Radford. What do you think the line will be? I
26:42
think the line will be West Virginia by three is four ish five ish,
26:49
that's it, and Ken Palm has a West Virginia win by four, so
26:52
it's usually right in that range. HM seventy sixty six is the projection there.
26:59
Again, it's hard though, if you're trying to use computer numbers for
27:02
West Virginia. Is this this is a totally different different team? Yeah,
27:04
yeah, No, rakwon battle. Yet what impact does he have correct correct?
27:10
I would imagine that he will. I think scoring. I think scoring
27:12
starts to go up. I think West Fringans tempo starts to rise. You
27:15
know, they go from one of the slowest teams in the country up to
27:18
this point. We've talked all season, why that is three hundred and thirty
27:22
sixth in the nation in tempo or possessions as we as we sit here today,
27:26
I think that continues to rise a little bit as you get these guys.
27:30
I mean you mentioned it, no a fair con. You've got to
27:33
get him out and let him run, don't you. M he can scoop.
27:34
You cook a cook very good filling the lane. Jesse Edwards can run.
27:37
I mean that team now is one where Josh talked about it when he
27:41
was in here. He said he wants to get up and down the floor
27:44
more. I think over the next few games, guys will play their way
27:45
into game shape. You start to see West Virginia be able to push it
27:48
a little bit more. Yeah, you have a little bit of an advantage
27:52
too, because Radford, at least for the next couple of games. I
27:56
mean, they're looking at a different team. They haven't you know, sure,
28:00
absolutely right, they're preparing for a different team. Yeah. I mean
28:03
you think U mass when they found out on Friday that Carisa and Faarakom we're
28:08
going to go and they were assuming battle. I mean they were scramble mode.
28:11
Okay, what do we do here? What do we got here?
28:14
Well, guys, I get it. You know we're gonna do our unc
28:17
preview on Thursday and Friday. Excuse me, it's Friday. Oh we're doing
28:22
Friday Friday. Breaking news there Friday, okay, Friday, but our spreads
28:26
on stats. We might have to talk basketball during that segment. I don't
28:30
know what I'm going to give you for North Carolina because I feel for what
28:33
the coaches are trying to do. They have so many different pieces and they're
28:37
namely, a quarterback that's going to be one or two in the NFL draft
28:40
is off. You bring in a guy that's serned six passes all year.
28:42
All those tendencies are out the window, right, so it is difficult to
28:47
prepare. I know, everybody laughs and giggles. And when defensive coordinator said,
28:49
well they brought it a back up quarterback, we didn't know what to
28:52
expect. Well, there's some truth to that because all the tendencies are gone.
28:55
Yeah, so you figure they're not going to change. I mean,
28:59
they have to do what they can. They're not going to go to the
29:00
option. But you're right, you don't have you don't have tendencies, but
29:03
they can't throw it as much as they have, right, Right, that's
29:06
a difference in quarterback. And I have a really good running back. Didn't
29:08
mean to jump ahead there in the UNC preview. Boy, that's fine.
29:11
Well, Neil had a presser yesterday, so CJ. Donaldson out obviously,
29:15
Zach Frazier out. Preston Fox is questionable with the injury that he suffered in
29:21
the Baylor game. So you're running back position now goes Jaheem White, Jalen
29:26
Anderson, dj Oliver, give me a little dj Oliver in this one.
29:30
I mean, we want to see Jem White. Hope he can bust a
29:32
couple. This is one much like I was saying, and then we can
29:36
move offull save it for Thursday. But I want to watch some of these
29:37
new offensive line pieces in this game. I think that'll be fun. I
29:41
won't give me a little dj Oliver carrying the ball a few times. Shout
29:44
out to Jared Parker, the former WV assistant, most recently the offensive coordinator
29:48
at Notre Dame today named as the named reports are saying and not officially named
29:52
yet. Reports are saying that he'll be the next head coach at Troy.
29:57
So he's a goodude. Yeah, he's a nice he's a good guy.
30:03
So hey, can I do my spreads on stats? Spreads on Tony scopes,
30:07
on spread scopes, on stats. So I just found this WV women's
30:11
game interesting. Seventy seven to seventy two. They win. They get out
30:15
shot fifty one percent to thirty nine, but at the foul line they outscored
30:19
Right State by seventeen twenty nine to twelve. They forced twenty five turnovers by
30:26
Right State. So points off of turnovers thirty WVU fourteen for Wright State.
30:33
You're plus sixteen there. And West Virginia apparently didn't just turn the heat on.
30:38
They turned down the welding torch. In the last three twenty six they
30:42
forced five turnovers from the Right Staters, and West Virginia made baskets when it
30:48
most had to. They made four of their last five shots seventy seven seventy
30:52
two. They're ten to zero on the campaign. Here's the other one.
30:56
As you know that we said earlier, when you don't shoot it well in
30:59
the other team does and you still win, identify two areas. One will
31:03
be the free throw line, the other is offensive rebounding. West Virginia held
31:07
a fourteen to three offensive rebounding advantage. Second chance points fourteen to nil.
31:14
Yeah, fourteen nil hope you don't see that very often. That's all it
31:18
was rolling on good win for coach Kellogg and the crew. That's all he
31:21
does is win. Wright State had had the lead for twenty five minutes and
31:26
WVU had the lead for nearly nine minutes. There were thirteen lead changes,
31:30
twelve ties. You know, that's that's an impressive win in that that's the
31:36
game with that you should win, right, Tony, But you came in
31:38
on my show and said on WVU, women are down, they're losing the
31:41
game, haveing, not playing. But when you find when you're not playing
31:45
as well as you should and win against a team that you should beat,
31:48
and you find a way to win, brand find a way to win without
31:52
your best stuff. Yeah, that's sometimes you don't have command of all your
31:55
pitches. That's right. So what works? Yeah, attendance seven five hundred
32:00
in thirty five seventy five Education Day. What was funny was it was supposed
32:05
to tip at ten, but they didn't get all them school buses in there
32:07
on time. It's tough logistically, Yeah, so they had to move the
32:10
start. They went. They went at ten eighteen. They start college baseball
32:15
ass right there, just like when's the game start. Whenever you guys get
32:19
here, we'll just we'll wait on you. Just get all the kids.
32:21
I love that day. That's one of the all time great days. That
32:23
five kids. Yeah, that's good. That's why all the autographs afterward.
32:28
Oh yeah, sure, yeah, absolutely absolutely, three stage thinking. What
32:31
in the world. Yeah, well, you know what you're stepping into when
32:34
you do an education day. It's by the way, you see, our
32:36
girl got ejected yesterday. Huh Kimberly Malkey, Oh yeah, she went off.
32:40
Yeah, I had to be restrained. Yeah. They were kind of
32:43
a mess this year. They a lot of things going on. People suspended
32:46
their backs, She's getting tossed. What are they doing down there? What
32:50
happened? What's happening? Get it together? I loved it. I just
32:54
got something for her in her cranky ass little voice. I just love you.
32:59
Yeah, I can't. The official just came up, dur So.
33:05
I was just gonna say the videoboard production is always an easy day at the
33:07
coliseum on kids Day. I mean, you do a lot of promotions,
33:10
but you really don't need to. He basically just take that camera. Just
33:13
a couple of kids in the audience, nuts Yeah, that's awesome. That's
33:16
a great event. I'm glad they do that. That's a big thing.
33:20
Getting your face on the camera during that fan cam thing, it's a big
33:23
thing. And I made the I made the fatal parent error of asking my
33:30
youngest, who's a big basketball fan, big women's WV women's fan in particular,
33:34
Hey are we are we going to that game on Monday? There?
33:37
Your class is gonna be there. I'll meet you over there like I usually
33:38
do. They didn't go this year. It's a different grade level from their
33:43
school that went. Almost take her out of school, happy to take her
33:46
over there. That's sorry what a lawyer said, don't ask, don't ask
33:51
questions over the Yeah, exactly. My neighbor next door came over. He's
33:58
like nine or ten. He asked me the other day, he said,
34:00
hey, get a couple of tickets from you. I said, yeah,
34:06
what do you need? What game? And I said, I said,
34:08
well get with your dad, see which one you can go to? And
34:12
he said one other thing. I said, yeah, he goes, you
34:15
think you can get the fan can on me? And I said, he
34:17
goes, I'm bringing my stuff. I said, what do you mean you're
34:19
bringing your stuff. He says, bringing my bringing my foam finger and got
34:23
some he got some other stuff. He just brings a whole. He brings
34:27
a whole. He smart stuff and the accessories. Get him on the board.
34:30
Yeah, may have sunglass. I think there may have had a pair
34:32
of sunglasses and oldlas. Do you have one of the golden blue wigs?
34:37
I think he does crazy hair wig. Yeah it's Carter, you know,
34:39
I know, the mayor well known. It's like carrot tops. Got a
34:44
big, big trunk of stuff. That's a thrill, I would imagine.
34:47
Get your face on there. Uh, Three guys before the game is brought
34:51
to us by Lou Wendell Marine Cells in Saint Albans. They are the absolute
34:53
best when it comes to selling family fun. What better way to spend those
34:59
great days in our spring and summer here and even in the early fall in
35:01
the state of West Virginia on the pontoon sold by the premiere pontoon boat dealer
35:08
in our state. It's Lou Wendel Marine Sales. They've been in business.
35:12
Heck, they're heading toward fifty years. Founded in nineteen seventy three and right
35:17
now offering this three Guys special. It is the twenty twenty three Avalon twenty
35:22
three eighty five entertainer. It's the top of the line tritune model. You
35:25
can do with it whatever it is that you choose to do with it.
35:30
Brad really has been infatuated by the awning in the back that comes up.
35:34
The honest. Got a speaker system in there. You think you're at a
35:37
Rolling Stones concert. Got a Honda one fifty plus the trailer. Ask for
35:40
the three guys special price and you'll have yourself a special pontoon boat. It's
35:45
lou Wendell Marine Sales in Saint Albans. Yeah. The key to that awning
35:51
is the ability the little thing it has that goes in the hole. Yeah,
35:53
it's it's pretty easy that secures it. Yeah, it's a pretty easy
35:58
mechanism. So it's just you just hold up, slide it back, lock
36:00
it in there, no tools needed, goes up, very easily stable.
36:05
It's very stable. Oh yeah, and plus I mean if it's really super
36:07
different settings, well yeah, because you can just put it back, you
36:12
can put it up, you can halfway the thing. Okay, exact things
36:15
you can do with it? All right, Ready to do this sound system
36:17
and that thing oh yeah, complete sound system. Like I said, you
36:21
think you're at a Stones concert. Won't be long back out there on the
36:25
lake. It's coming soon. A long summer is quickly approaching. Well,
36:30
sunsets, light days aren't even longer. It's well, Documentari, you're gonna
36:34
go back and watch. What's that? We gotta go back and watch?
36:36
What I mean? I say the days. I don't mean the day is
36:40
literally getting longer, all right, I mean the day is the day.
36:45
The sun is moving, therefore there's more day light. Correct, last the
36:51
expert, don't ask me correct miss correct time? Master? Yeah, what
36:59
times since this evening? What the hell is this? Chick? Jesus?
37:07
What what now? Sunset four fifty seven? Now, what's wrong? What
37:13
just happened? From WVU jeez WVU Senior soner Jesse Edwards will miss approximately four
37:22
weeks due to a fractured right wrist. He will have surgery this week.
37:29
Oh my gosh. He's unbelievable. It's truly unbelievable. It's unbelievable. Josh
37:37
Eilert is like a pincushion. I mean, it's just how many how many
37:40
body blows? Is do you take? Every weird situation that could happen is
37:45
happening over the last six months for this program. That's so you still don't
37:52
have your full compliment of guys. You're gonna get raequon battle Back, but
37:55
now you're big in the middle. So where's your big who's the file?
37:59
A cook becomes your friend who backs up a cook at some nick. I
38:02
mean, you're you're kind of back to what you were, but you're missing
38:05
as we've as we've said all year, you just took an NBA guy out
38:07
of your lineup. Man, you say surgery, and you know you know,
38:15
and also after four weeks you don't just come back. Okay, I'm
38:17
fine now, Oh jeez, it is four weeks is the end of January.
38:22
Basically, you're gonna be in February. It's a bummer. Well,
38:30
you can't make this stuff up. You can't, You truly can't. You
38:34
cannot make this stuff up. This is unbelievable. This is I've never seen
38:39
anything like this get battle back through a prolonged court case and process. He
38:45
gets the flu. Presumably we'll be over the flu by Wednesday ready to play
38:50
with everybody. And your NBA center has to have risk surgery Jesus helly,
38:58
I'll tweet that out. What is it again, Jesse Edwards? Dude,
39:08
talk about a cloud? Right, talk about a cloud? Four weeks you
39:15
said, yeah, okay, well that certainly takes all the fun and frivolity
39:29
out of the show, right it does. It's too bad. Oh what's
39:35
that? It's just it's just simply amazing, is what it is. Okay,
39:39
So let's do these things. Three guys minus one. Tony. The
39:47
stress must be getting to you. You were discussing eligibility last episode. You
39:52
said the funniest thing I've ever heard. You mentioned NCAA rulings and common sense
39:57
in the same sentence, and you sounded soon brad and hoppy at your job
40:01
to keep Tony grounded and point out when he's being silly. He does not
40:07
doesn't buy into that? Yeah, not often? Is are those two associated?
40:12
Next one, we'll skip that one for nagas. Send that picture in
40:17
here. Joe Bricotto was at the game, so we'll have women's game,
40:21
will have highlights up. Well, sure, I mean, why wouldn't you,
40:25
three guys? First off, it was no fellas. Fourth time,
40:29
long time. This this text here will be good for what we need right
40:34
now fellas fourth time, long time. On this day, one year ago,
40:40
I had a twelve hour surgery to remove what remained of my cancer after
40:45
six months of chemo. The surgery and all the treatments were a success.
40:50
Thank you Jesus. Coming out of surgery, I didn't know which way was
40:53
up. I needed something to get my mind off all the beeping and my
40:58
body looking like Clark is Wald's power outlet. I handed my phone to my
41:02
wife, having a hard time speaking. I barely got out the words three
41:07
guys before the game. She cued up the latest episode for me. As
41:10
I laid there trying to rest, I just wanted to thank you for being
41:14
part of my recovery. I'm happy to announce a year later, I'm still
41:17
cancer free, and Lord willing, I'll be that way forever. Thank you
41:21
for always being and entertaining escape from reality through life's ups and downs. Excellent,
41:28
that's awesome. Glad to hear, absolutely thrilled that we could be some
41:31
small little piece of that recovery. Text her, by the way, thank
41:37
you for reminding me of how old I am. I was referencing Randy Swinson
41:44
as a point of reference. Though the Kermit Punch was less than two years
41:47
after the Catch and Kick. So last episode I talked about Rudy tom Jonovich,
41:52
I identified the wrong Kermit. It wasn't Kermit, I says, Kermit
41:55
Johnson's Kermit Washington, Cermit Washington, Kermit Washington. Many people have called that
42:00
to my attention. So all right, so this this kind of loses its
42:06
funniness. Put the picture up. This member. We were talking about the
42:09
Harold Horns who said we're gonna put hang the flag down, hoppy. We
42:13
said we're gonna hang have like the Harold Horns. When we finally got all
42:16
the players on the team together, Yeah, I can't now roll up the
42:21
roll them up. Yeah, right now it sounds like wah wah wah,
42:24
that's what it sounds like. Jeez, Happy holidays, three guys, Tony.
42:30
It's well documented that you're a hater of many professions. Having said that,
42:36
I am so happy at the props that you've given the Postal service from
42:38
the love you give, the Star City Crew, the High Street Gang,
42:42
and even a mailman in Mercer County who's likely currently listening to the Texas Tech
42:45
Preview from twenty nineteen for the third time. Thank you for the props.
42:52
This time of the year is like tax day for your accounting friends. We
42:54
call it our super Bowl. Thanks for keeping us entertained while we get the
42:59
Three Guys coffee, popcorn, shirts and even bourbon barrels delivered signed by Craig
43:05
and Craigsville. I can't I'll tell you what. We can't say enough good
43:09
things about the postal service people because now that we're in e commerce. Right
43:14
on episode eight hundred, those folks have been off of the chart, elite,
43:22
absolutely off the charts. I mean, we had a big delivery because
43:27
we have suspended our sales of our coffee and popcorn until after Christmas now because
43:31
we simply just can't get it to you and we don't want you to buy
43:35
it with the hope that you're going to get it, so we've suspended that.
43:37
However, the last shipment went out this morning and the guys at Star
43:45
City could not have been nicer to facilitate and make sure that our stuff got
43:51
through, So a huge shout out. They've been great. Credit to people
43:55
carrying the ball to I see postal service workers in my neighborhood all hours right
44:00
now getting those out, so the one bringing it actually to the home.
44:05
Steo are doing a great job. Yeah, thank you, Texter. On
44:08
a river cruise in Strasburg, Germany and the boat is playing country Roads only
44:14
song to get into applause signed by Adam from Amsterdam. Yeah is that true
44:20
from Amsterdam? M h. Yeah, probably he's on that tour river tour.
44:25
Yeah, one of those things. You've done those yet not yet looked
44:28
at them. Yeah, Well you'll get up there in the age point.
44:30
What do you want to want to do that instead of going on these hikes
44:32
up in Africa, You'll probably want to sit on nice on a river cruise.
44:38
Very close solid point, Texter, hoping these will be happy holidays from
44:45
mountaineers everywhere. You recently mentioned the composition of the NCAA Transfer Portal Committee.
44:49
I found it interesting. Presumably presumably these folks hold esteemed positions in their academic
44:54
institutions, which indicates that they have a modicum of intelligence. However, it
44:59
does doesn't appear any of them have a lick of common sense. Hopefully,
45:02
especially for the sake of the athletes, the mess gets resolved. Speaking of
45:07
intelligence, it's obvious that Garrett Green is a smart, well rounded young man
45:10
who has the grace to acknowledge the role his family, teammates, and coaches
45:15
have contributed to his success. He's such a likable guy. Hopefully he'll lead
45:19
lead him to a winning the Bowl game. I'm a static to be going
45:22
to the game. My son Rob and his family are gifting me with the
45:25
trip. I'd be delighted to celebrate my seventy seventh birthday with a winning Some
45:30
cake with a dollop of mail on top. That sounds tasty. Lastly,
45:37
I just received a package out of my mailbox that was wafting a delicious aroma.
45:42
It is, of course, from episode eight hundred dot com and that'll
45:45
be going to Rob. Don't want to tip my hand about what it is
45:49
since he listens to your podcast, but he'll be a happy recipient. Love
45:52
the pod, love the guy, love the laughs. Thanks MJ and Savannah
45:55
awesome. Thanks for the order. I have a great time there Bowl Game.
46:00
Jeremy from McDowell here, I'd like to say congratulations to the all,
46:05
to the all the two time transfers who are able to play, and for
46:08
you guys for basically predicting the future on last Thursday's show. I've got a
46:14
question. Is there a reason why Carresa Kerr? Carisa has Kerr on his
46:17
jersey? And why a cook A cook has a Renya on his jersey?
46:22
Thought, if anyone can answer this, it'd be this crack team of investigators.
46:25
Love the show. Always a bright spot. Tony, you knew that,
46:30
right. I don't know why I have to ask him. I asked
46:32
to Cook what his name was last week I interviewed him. He said,
46:35
a cook, A cook. I don't know. I'll ask, I'll find
46:38
out. But Brad, you're the one who told me about Kerr. Well,
46:40
I don't know if that's right, that's accurate. I mean, I'm
46:50
not going to repeat it, but it's just I mean, usually when you
46:52
tell me something, I'm like, Okay, Brad knows. Ask Brad.
46:54
And he told me something nice. You say you don't know if it's right.
47:01
Maybe you should. I didn't yet. I didn't. Hand you have
47:07
paper with three sources. I just said, here's what I think it is.
47:09
I thought you speculated. He speculated speculating you're here. He heard something
47:15
about that. I was in the middle of doing nineteen Bowl games, with
47:17
fourteen basketball games, with three NFL games. You're holding me to one line
47:21
over the course of thirteen hours, Classic Hopy, Classic Hopy. We did
47:27
remember how many games you guys do Saturday, Well we did. We did
47:30
four, but there were seven going on, so we talked about all of
47:32
them at certain points during the day. There was Ricky Ricky Hunt from Ohio.
47:37
You Lizy was the star of the day. He was Hunt. Ricky
47:43
Hunt had seven touches coming into the game. Ohio, you lost a ton
47:45
of guys to the transfer portal. This is what we was talking about.
47:49
Ohio, you lost a ton of guys, including their starting quarterback to the
47:51
portal. So I probably had no chance to win, right, I don't
47:52
even know why they should up got no chance to win. Absolutely came out
47:55
and ran them. Ricky Hunt had seven touches going in the game. He
48:00
had six carries, one reception. He went for one hundred and fifteen yards
48:04
and five total touchdowns in the game. He touches are good. He had
48:07
seventeen carries one catch, so eighteen. That's almost tripled his touches. But
48:12
his he almost equaled his touches with touchdowns going into the year. So guy
48:15
got a chance, stepped in played great. We had we had highlights and
48:19
Tony that was the first one of the first games of the day, So,
48:21
I mean eleven o'clock at night, were still we're still talking. But
48:23
he had he had a great game along with Garrison Rippa, the kicker for
48:29
the Fighting Rich Rods. Yeah, I saw a great game. First film
48:32
boy made all year, was a game winner. He was a true freshman.
48:36
The kicker entered the portal, so he comes in in overtime and I
48:40
think, who are they playing? Louisiana. Louisiana miss men on their first
48:45
position, louisianands. So Rich finished with nine says with nine and becomes the
48:51
first program in college football history to win a bowl game in its first year
48:55
as an FBS program. About that, because normally you have to wait to
48:59
come in. Yeah, waiting period. They didn't make it. Was excited
49:00
after the game. He's fired up. We had a cut from him.
49:04
He was he was fired up. I think there might be a little bit
49:07
of a contract extension there. They didn't like to keep him. He's winning.
49:10
Yeah, Texter, Hello guys, and Merry Christmas. I have a
49:15
lot in common with Hoppy. I'm a product of the nineteen fifties and we
49:17
also had a party line in my home, which was in the rural out
49:21
of the way out post known as Huntington. And I've carried a handkerchief for
49:23
me with me every day of my adult life. Please make me a hanky
49:28
to sell on episode eight hundred dot com with embroidery that says three longs and
49:31
two snorts. By the way, Tony, as you no doubt have been
49:36
told, it was Kermit Washington, not Kermit Davis, who sent Rudy T
49:39
to the er in a five month recovery, there's always a West Virginia connection,
49:43
as Kermit Washington's coach was Jerry West. Really from Joe Mack in Texas.
49:52
Ps. My wife, my sister, and my son are all receiving
49:57
gifts from eight episode eight hundred dot com. And I bought a shirt for
49:59
my that Tony will see on me in Houston on January the sixth, Thank
50:05
you, Jie, Texter Jeremy from Cooperstown, my kids and I, Hayes
50:12
and Harper made the three hour drive to day to Springfield for the game.
50:15
I gotta say it was looking pretty grim at half. We even discussed an
50:20
early departure, but my son just three days short of his tenth birthday has
50:23
already taken on the never die optimism. A Mountaineer fan must have to endure
50:29
the lifelong roller coaster of not having any of that talk. Luckily, the
50:34
boys played hard in the second half made a game of it. As we
50:37
started to leave the arena, we ran into one John Flowers, who was
50:42
extremely gracious to take a photo with my kids. Well there he is.
50:46
Though we didn't get to sing Country Roads. The hook is being said to
50:50
my little ones. They'll have decades of opportunities to sing the greatest tradition in
50:54
college sports. Go ears hope to see all in Charlotte. Absolutely love the
50:58
show Armie in Cooperstown. So something about Flowers, I must say this,
51:04
This was classic. So I saw him. He was in the stands watching
51:08
the game, right, and he's with you know some guys. Guy had
51:13
a golden blue Mountaineer jersey on game's over. Okay, twenty minutes have passed.
51:19
I'm sitting there getting ready to do postgame interview. Places. I mean,
51:22
you know, people clean up. All of a sudden, on a
51:24
corner of my eye, I see motion and movement. Two guys are racing
51:31
each other. Excuse me. Two guys are racing each other baseline to baseline
51:38
and one of them on the court. Yeah, and one of them happens
51:42
to be Flowers. So this dude, I can tell you exactly what happened.
51:47
The guy and Flowers getting a conversation during the game. The guy says,
51:52
I can beat you in a sprint. Flower says, there's no way
51:53
you can beat you in a sprint. So all of a sudden, the
51:57
guy dusted Flowers, no, dusted them. Ran so fast that like an
52:02
usher had to run over because the guy was about to go over the seats
52:06
behind the basket, he put the brakes on. Embarrassed, Flowers surprised to
52:10
hear that. Yeah, well, I mean how old is Flowers? Flowers
52:14
was what on the twenty ten team. I mean, it's not like Flowers
52:17
as a spring chicken anymore, right, retired, probably doesn't do a whole
52:24
lot of physical probably doesn't do a whole lot of physical conditioning anymore. It's
52:28
obvious because the guy that beat him, it wasn't like that guy looked like
52:30
Usain Bolt. I mean, hey, I know that, Like no one
52:35
ever would go to the guy that beat Flowers and say, hey, you
52:37
were a great athlete at one point in your life. Wordship dusted Flowers shocked
52:44
by that. Flowers should have He should have when the guy challenged him.
52:47
If that's what it was, maybe Flowers challenged him. We don't know.
52:51
We have to get to the bottom of the story. But Flowers, you
52:52
just said, I'm not I played basketball here. Yeah, I My record's
52:59
intact. I'm not going to a bad day for John You think he should
53:02
have stood? His record stands record stand, just like Charlie from Midlothian and
53:07
you made the team right now, Charlie from Midlothi and Tony brad in three
53:13
longs and two shorts. Glad the NCAA finally came to its censes. Talk
53:16
about a memory from fifty years ago. Because I was saying, Hoppy,
53:19
how people talk about Randy Swinton's catch that if you equate that to when we
53:22
like in nineteen eighty four, if you were to talk about a catch from
53:25
fifty years before, it would be a thirty four, nineteen thirty four Mountaineer
53:30
game. That's what I said, Yeah, right, And remember how we
53:32
used to look at Mickey for Ferry when he would talk about those old games
53:35
and kind of like look at him like sideways and go like, what do
53:37
you talk about? Mickey? Like Washington and Lee exactly what you think?
53:42
Washington? You laugh? Now, Washington Lee, it was a juggernaut.
53:45
And that's where I am. Now, yeah, you are anyway, Glad.
53:51
The NC talk about a memory from fifty year. How about this one
53:53
sixty years ago. I'm twelve years old. This is Charlie Midloatha. I'm
53:55
watching the Mountaineers play number three Davidson at the Charleston Civic Center on twenty nine
54:01
January nineteen sixty and four games tied at seventy three, Marty Lentz Heaves won
54:08
from half court as time expired, and All American Fred Hetzel jumps up knocks
54:14
it away at the basket. Officials ruled as goaltending. West Virginia wins seventy
54:19
five to seventy three. Rated as number six of the top one hundred Mountaineer
54:23
basketball memories. Huh how about that, I say, Fred Hetzel correct,
54:31
So we say, and don't forget Marty Lentz. Yeah, how about Davidson
54:37
being number three in the country. Priest Steph Curry yeh t crook from Hurricane
54:43
Putnam County. I wanted to share an always a West Virginia connection. I
54:46
recently took a travel nurse job in New Jersey, working for Yes Rutgers University
54:52
Hospital Wreckers. On orientation day, I met a guy from Florida that asked
54:59
me, did you say you worked in Huntington at Saint Mary's Hospital. I
55:02
replied yeah. He said, what a small world. When I was younger,
55:06
my dad moved us to that area and we helped build a camping place
55:08
called Foxfire in Ona. You know that place, I said, I was
55:14
raised in Milton. I said, always a West Virginia connection. He looked
55:19
very funny at me, which led me to explain the phrase. We had
55:22
since become good buddies while working together at that hospital. Always say Rutgers again,
55:28
Rutgers. Hey. This the Fred Hetzel thing caused a memory. We
55:36
grew up in Summit Point our family farm, and we were selling it and
55:40
one of the people that came by to see about buying it was Fred Hetzell
55:45
and his wife. Was he a former player? Was it him? Yeah?
55:49
Yeah? And that's not what they were looking for. I think they
55:52
were looking for a country farm. In ours was a dairy farm. Not
55:53
what they're looking for. And while the wife and the real estate, as
55:57
we're talking, we had a kind of a neat setup. We had a
56:00
a rim inside the hay barn and a concrete floor. Brand we had a
56:02
grand indoor court, indoor court. So I think Hetzel immediately looked around though
56:07
I'm not living here, went down and shot was shot. Hoops hoops.
56:14
That guy that Charlie just mentioned, well, Fred Hetzel has only one Fred
56:16
Hetzel. Unless there's another Fred Hedson, that'd be him Fred Hetzel. How
56:22
about that wild that's a wild one Texter. Hello there, didn't see Fred
56:29
Hetzel coming up during today's episode as potentially buying your farm and shooting hoops in
56:34
the indoor court. That was a nice court, simply amazing. That sounds
56:38
like a nice court. Simply amazing, simply amazing. Concrete floor. My
56:45
brother made the backward out of plywood. You still shoot? Yeah, a
56:51
lot of games in there. Little white bull butt night got in here and
56:53
shoot got shots at Oh yeah, hello there scopes, spreads and snot pocket.
57:01
I have an idea for an embroidered message on your future episode eight hundred
57:05
hankies. It says this, I keep my butterscotch candy in my other pocket.
57:13
Yes, why can't transfers play in the bowl game? Be nice if
57:21
we had our two new defensive guys available. Love the show, Jeff and
57:23
Parkersburg also known as the Breadmant. Transfers can't play because they haven't enrolled and
57:28
attended class yet. So that's why Steve from McDowell County. There's always a
57:34
West Virginia connection. My wife and I were at a doctor's appointment in Tennessee
57:38
when I saw guy walk in with a West Virginia hat on. We began
57:42
to have a conversation. Found out that we went to the same high school.
57:45
Big Creep played football together. He was a senior, I was a
57:50
sophomore. Nearly fifty five years later, our paths crossed crossed, Texter.
57:58
Hey, guys, I still have hope for the season despite the loss to
58:00
U Mass. Need to be more aggressive on rebounds. Near the end of
58:05
the U Mass game, a UMAs player elevated over three Mountaineers to get a
58:09
rebound on a miss free throw. There it is Look how hi is?
58:14
What are we watching? Look at the UMass player head and shoulders above It's
58:19
up. Look where' his feed. Are I know example of a neutral?
58:22
Thanks for having us, It's been fun. Love the show Go bills.
58:23
Jim and Williamsburg Texter Hey fellas Matt from Talmo, Georgia, originally from Grafton.
58:32
I was in Enterprise, Alabama yesterday for my daughter's softball tryout. We
58:37
walked into the local walmarts. While walking in wearing my flying WV hatting gold
58:43
sweatshirt, a man walking right beside me wearing a gold w T shirt says
58:46
hello, he was from Charlestown. I told him I was from Grafton.
58:52
He said, well, Brad and Tony always say there's a West Virginia connection.
58:57
Lol. No mention of hopgasm. I found out. Anyway, the
59:01
West Virginia reach is unmatched. Keep up the good work, drop me a
59:05
line. While in Atlanta catching an aeroplane, so he walks into a Walmart
59:12
in Georgia. So it starts talking to this guys. He says, hey,
59:15
there's always a West Virginia says, that's what Brad and Tony say in
59:20
a Walmart? What is this? What are we doing? I've got gifts,
59:23
not from me, but I've got gifts. What do you? I've
59:28
got gifts this our guy, Tommy Boy, where's our tree? We should
59:31
have a tree? Hold on here. We got to go in order,
59:35
okay, to stay focused here kirtchable, okay from our guy Tommy Boy.
59:37
Yeah, right about Tommy Boy. Yeah, once it's come to use his
59:40
house. All right. He's got a bunch of different things here. He's
59:44
got something for all of us. You're just gonna have to open mine and
59:46
yours. Okay, Yeah, go ahead and open what's that top one?
59:51
Say? Okay, open open that up? Part one? Well, go
59:55
ahead to you, Tony, open yours? Go ahead, open them,
59:59
gonna see what the are. Three big packages and a long handwritten note from
1:00:06
Tommy Boy. Du bas duct tape flush? All right, Churchill, flushing
1:00:15
flush. I don't think they're actually fleshable white. I don't think so,
1:00:20
but I gotta see what that is first. All right, Tony, you're
1:00:22
into yours, let's skip ahead of yours. Take your time there. Grandpa.
1:00:27
Well, the thing is, he said those are root beers for Tony
1:00:31
because you mentioned on one of the show shows how much you like root beer.
1:00:36
Hold that up? So what do you give you? A case of
1:00:37
root beer? There? All different flavors sas Marilla, all different roots,
1:00:43
carmel cream root beer, different flavors of root beer, all different companies.
1:00:46
All Dad's got a Dad's root beer. That's a classic. That's a classic,
1:00:51
Red Arrow root beer, holyw Main root root beer. I gave you
1:00:57
a bunch of different kinds. Are you okay? Over there? I gave
1:01:00
you that to get started early. We're taken forever. All right, Let's
1:01:05
see what's in there. I think this is yours. I think this one's
1:01:07
for Hoppy that he's opening, Well, that's mine. Look at these.
1:01:12
Look at these things, the big massive rec peanut butter cups. Those are
1:01:15
the giant ones. We talked about those on a recent show. All right,
1:01:20
get into yours hot. Let me see Tony, look at these.
1:01:22
Look how heavy these things are. Two half pound cups in here of recy
1:01:29
peanut butter cups. So again, these are from Tommy Boy. You got
1:01:34
root beer. It's got big giant butter cups. Crinciples digging in here.
1:01:38
That was a lot of work to do. That. That was a nice
1:01:40
Tommy boy, Thank you for sending all of this. Here's a picture too.
1:01:44
Should have given this to Luke to put up. Look at that beautiful
1:01:46
picture and they're in Hawaii right there. Oh yeah, he gets a round,
1:01:50
right, yeah, so he said, Hoppy, he knows Hoppy loves
1:01:52
his coffee, his Mountaineer roasting Three Guys Blend, but he also wanted to
1:01:58
have some of this coffee from Hawaii, some of the best in the world.
1:02:01
What kind of is that the ConA? Yes, it's it's Oma Malley
1:02:06
Oma Coffee Roasting Company. Oh, it's the ConA. That's what I said.
1:02:12
So how about that? I know you say, you know you're gonna
1:02:15
spend most of your time with the Three Guys Blend, but why you have
1:02:17
something a little different? Awesome? Thank you, that's great. Man,
1:02:21
appreciate all that. Yeah, that's that's all. You go out of your
1:02:25
way. I mean, I know how much of a hassle is to get
1:02:27
all that stuff already in all organ Thank you so very much. Look at
1:02:30
these things happy You can't you're gonna have to like cut. Yeah, that
1:02:36
is absolutely hilarious. So next episode I'll find another picture. Some gentlemen.
1:02:40
In New York City, there's a recy bar that you create your own recy
1:02:49
cup. It's like you're going to a salad bar. You put in your
1:02:52
recy cup. What you want in your recy cup, it becomes this massive
1:02:55
recat cup. That's it. Yeah, that's it. There it is.
1:03:00
You know what, I don't think scoop different stuff in the scoop that see
1:03:05
you scoop different stuff in there and then you close it and you got to
1:03:07
see. I don't know that I would. I wouldn't do. I like
1:03:10
him just as they are. The only think I would add, And I
1:03:13
give them credit. They just came out with these. They have one now
1:03:15
that has caramel inside it. I would be interested in that. I think
1:03:21
I'm good. I'm gonna stand but that, like I'm a traditionalist, not
1:03:22
like a cup is great. There's a plain one don't need to improve.
1:03:28
Yeah, would you try the carmel one? I'm like, yeah, yeah,
1:03:30
I try that, But I don't want all that no offense to No,
1:03:35
he won't take offense to Wow, what an episode this was, Thank
1:03:39
you very much. All right, I have a big comp I can't.
1:03:44
I mean, I don't think you guys are fully grasping what we just had
1:03:46
happen there with that injury. Probably are if you process that thing, well,
1:03:52
all right, everybody put it in perspective. Tony start with you.
1:03:54
What's it mean like, He's the best way to say it, as you
1:04:00
took away a professional, right, you took away a pro. I mean
1:04:03
in this league we've often said, right, you've got to have pros on
1:04:06
your team to be competitive at this level. Right, And you just took
1:04:12
away your inside presence. We were bemoaning the fact that they struggled inside against
1:04:17
you Mass Saturday. And if you remember, I said, you know,
1:04:21
Jesse just did not have a great game because now of the injury, went
1:04:25
one for seven from the field, and you saw what happened, You got
1:04:27
destroyed on the glass. Now it's just a headshaker. You take away an
1:04:34
NBA player, a guy or had a consistent double double guy for the most
1:04:39
part, and a guy who had who draws double teams that frees up other
1:04:45
guys. So I mean, you're losing on a dimensional level when he with
1:04:48
him out of there. Yeah, And we had just talked hop last week
1:04:51
how I thought he was about to really step it up even more than he
1:04:56
already had, which is saying a lot, because he'd been fantastic, but
1:04:58
he was going to start to see e there're more single coverage or his assist
1:05:01
total was going to go through the roof because if you want to double,
1:05:04
you had guys in places around him. So and I think just ultimately guys
1:05:08
other than losing a pro, which at this level you just you can't lose
1:05:12
guys like that. But the second part is it's just another disappointment that you
1:05:15
have to push back the ability to see this roster as you wanted to have
1:05:20
it constructed. You were just starting to have some life in this program adding
1:05:25
guys back in, and now it's another step backwards. I feel bad for
1:05:27
them. And with that being said, right, so a cook now has
1:05:30
played three games, but with his situation, he's a limited not thirty.
1:05:35
He's not a thirty five to thirty seven minute guy. He's not there yet
1:05:40
right now, Pat's gonna have to step up and play significant minutes. You're
1:05:45
going to go small at times too. You're going to basically go without a
1:05:48
true five for a lot of the times as well. Yeah, oh,
1:05:54
I just it's just it's too bad on so many levels. And also again
1:05:57
it probably I mean, he'll be fine, I guess, but it hurts
1:06:00
him as he prepares for the next level. You know, simply you might
1:06:03
see him bummer all right, it's a bummer, So Friday, we're back
1:06:09
Friday. We might have it ready. We have a game. We're gonna
1:06:12
do it early. I want to get up seven seven thirty in the morning.
1:06:14
You might do seven thirty in the morning. We do seven thirty in
1:06:15
the morning, games at night, seven thirty in the morning. It's fine.
1:06:19
I'm available. You don't do much on your show on Friday's right?
1:06:23
You do like your last ninety minutes of that Steam release you do ninety minutes
1:06:26
of that starts at ten thirty or something like eight o'clock. Eight O'clock's fine.
1:06:30
Steam Release doesn't last for ninety I thought you just came into the half
1:06:33
an hour and then you took ten thirty to noon. To tell you one
1:06:36
thing, It is a show that where I appear, although it was off.
1:06:45
Last week's one of my twelve weeks off, so I can't say that.
1:06:49
Probably wouldn't climb that hill. Uh three guys before The game brought to
1:06:55
us by Comac's Business Systems keeping West Virginia's business data safe Secure, and the
1:06:59
fish for twenty five years by Gomart. Go for good times, Go for
1:07:04
Gomart. Take advantage of those rewards points that you can gather up until the
1:07:10
thirty first of this month by buying Eminem's products. Get your card, get
1:07:14
those points twenty five hundred when you get five of those tokens. Three guys.
1:07:17
Brought to us by lou Wendel Marine Sales in Saint Albans. They sell
1:07:20
family fund visit Lou Wendell Marine at salesa dot com and by the conly CPA
1:07:29
group providing value beyond the numbers. All right, done for now? Back
1:07:34
in here. On Friday, we'll have our preview of WVU and UNCA.
1:07:41
We'll also preview WVU and Toledo. OK. And then next week is like
1:07:46
Christmas, right, yes, so we'll just do we'll figure out we're it's
1:07:51
not gonna be twice a week during the holiday season. It's not. I'll
1:07:56
be gone. I gotta go bowling. You gotta going on? Yeah?
1:08:00
Good stuff? What are you talking about? Him? Oh, you're doing
1:08:03
not doing four games in one day. We're doing one over the course of
1:08:06
five. He's gone for six days to do one game. We're gonna do
1:08:10
four for a day. We're gonna go to a game right now? Yeah?
1:08:13
Yeah, enough of enough of this chicanery. It's time to move on.
1:08:15
Thanks for being with us, everyone, have yourself a good day.
1:08:19
Stay well, let's just go. Paul Harvey. Also this gentleman here,
1:08:26
Tommy Boy, Tommy Boy, thank you so very very much, truly appreciate
1:08:29
you. Guys. All right, we're out, see you later. M hm