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3 Guys Before The Game - Week 1 - Voice of the Nittany Lions Visits (Episode 482) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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in Game one is on deck. Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to Three Guys
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Before the Game, episode number four hundred and eighty two. Yes, it's
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West Virginia and the Nitney Lions of Penn State on Saturday night in State College,
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Here it goes. I know baseball people when the start of the season begins,
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they just get this like mass amount of emotion that just like makes you
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tingle. Same thing for college football fans, right, you can just kind
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of feel it, you get excited. We had Week zero this past weekend.
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Several games we're played. We'll talk a little bit about that. We've
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got textual healing coming up in just a little bit. But right now,
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let us welcome the play by play voice of the Nitney Lions of Penn State,
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mister Steve Jones. Steve, thanks so much for being with us,
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my man. Yeah, Tony, it is great to hear you on the
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other end of looking forward to seeing you this weekend. I must be refreshing
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for West Virginia to play a road game at eastern time. Yeah, yes,
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we'll see. Yes, indeed it is. You know, I was
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thinking this morning, how far we go back? Now, this is how
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far we go back. So I started here in eighty four, that was
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before digital audio so as you remember, Steve, phone call would be made
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and the call would be like, hey, do you have any penn state
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audio sound bites? Yeah, I've got some paterno, and I've got some
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of this, and i've got some of that. Okay, can you send
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it? And you would flip a coupler and send it down a regular phone
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line and we go, you got any kneeling, Yeah, we got kneeling,
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and we sent him down the kneeling cuts. And that's so I think,
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what would you flip? Flip the couplerupler? Of course, of course,
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Steve Right, you know the coupler. You just flip a coupler.
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This is after we edited them bites splicing take exactly right, had two big
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reels of tape, you had like grease pencil, You made your razor blade
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cut, you put your little tape on there, and I got it.
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Yeah, I got it. These young guys have no idea how easy they
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have it. Oh my gosh, not splice in anything. Things have changed,
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hey man, So we were talking just before we rolled here. Let's
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do a little background. So you have been the basketball play by play voice
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since eighty two nineteen eighty two and football since the two thousand season. So
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you are in one of those very special, unique positions that you have seen
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Penn State from its days as independent into the Big Ten. And now you
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guys sit back and you watch your league expand you watch the rest of the
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conferences across the country just do crazy things that we never thought would ever be
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possible before we talk ball. Just kind of give me your perspective on all
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of this that we've just seen this summer. Well, obviously it's been crazy
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because I mean, you never would have imagined that Oregon, Washington, USC,
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and UCLA would all be in the Big Ten conference. You'd never imagine
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that Arizona Arizona State BYU and Utah and Colorado, well Colorado could imagine it
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would all be in the Big twelve to go with UCF, Cincinnati and others.
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It's amazing how it's all come together. And I think that when you
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look at what the Big Ten has done, USC and UCLA. When Texas
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and Oklahoma went to the SEC, somebody brought up to me, Hey,
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what do you think the Big Ten is going to do? When they started
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rattling off Iowa State Kansas, I said, are you kidding me? I
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said, if you're going to expand, go big, right, go big,
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say, obviously, the biggest chip in the game's notre day. Okay,
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I said, the next biggest chip, I said, the USC.
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This is two years ago. I looked at me like USC, I said,
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yeah, USC said Los Angeles Market. I said, look, they're
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they are not beholden to the state, their private institution. And I said,
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I said, I'd go big now that I think they're going to do
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it now. But then they brought you Cla with them, and I liked
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the idea that they were at staying at sixteen. And I also like what
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the Big Ten was doing with the schedule because the original schedule they put out
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had everybody playing everybody home and away over a four year stretch. Now that's
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a conference. That's the way it should be. That you should go to
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everybody's stadium once in a four year period and they should come to your stadium
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once at a four year period. That's that way everybody sees everybody. How
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they're going to do this with Oregon and Washington, now, I don't know.
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And I talked to the conference commissioner, Tony Pettiti, who was here
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last week, and they're not sure yet. They're working. They're working on
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it because it happened so fast. And the name of the game is TV.
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The name of the game is money, Tony. You and I get
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on the plane, if the coaches and the players get off the plane,
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we follow them. I don't really worry too much about it. Yeah,
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just tell us where to be when to do it. Yeah, But you're
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right in the Big The Big twelve is going through the same thing right now
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as to they'll have sixteen once everything gets set a year from now. Do
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you go pods? Do you go two divisions? But you do pods inside
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your divisions. It'll it'll all figure itself out. And it's just it's going
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to be interesting to say. To say the least, your football team for
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Saturday Night comes in ranked number seven in the country. You guys finished incredibly
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strong last season. You won your last five games. In fact, your
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only two losses last season we're at Michigan and against Ohio State. Other than
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that, you end of the year victories over Indiana, Maryland, Rutgers,
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Michigan State. You win your bowl game against the against Big twelve member,
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against Big twelve member Utah, against Big twelve member Utah and you have the
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your off season announcements in which key members of your team say, now we're
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not leaving, we're coming back. So with all of that as the precursor,
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you've done this a lot of years, what's the level of anti anticipation
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and excitement as to what could be for the season, for the for the
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Nitney Alliance, the greatest level of anticipation since twenty seventeen, deepest teams since
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two thousand and eight. And with the players that said they were coming back
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and not going pro reminiscent of eighty six because the same thing happened in State
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and eighty five. A number of guys from Shane Conlin on down all said
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they were coming back and they played in eighty six. So those would be
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the year comparisons, and every team is going to be different, the competition
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is going to be different. But they played Ohio State, they led that
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game with eight minutes to go, couldn't win. They actually were, you
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know, despite the final score, we're beating Michigan in the third quarter at
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Michigan and obviously we know what they did. They ran crazy with Blake Korum
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and Donovan Edwards it's a good football team, and it's it's a deep and
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athletic team. But you have a new quarterback, a new starting quarterback,
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which I'm sure you'll get to in a moment, but a lot of talent
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at running back, I mean, not just good talent, big time talent
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at running back, big time talent at tight ends. They've got a big
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They've got big time talent at linebacker and at in the secondary and at defensive
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end. But it's a tan I think every team in college football. I
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mean, there's still a couple of things you're not sure about going into the
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season. You know, Let's see how the quarterbacks perform in the opening game.
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Let's see how the defensive tackles perform. Let's see how the kicking game
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plays out as well. Those are all things that just can't be answered until
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you actually play a game. All right, Steve, let's start there.
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You brought up a bunch there that we want to get to all of those
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different pieces. Let's start at the quarterback position and take Drew Aller first,
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the talented, highly acclaimed five star quarterback that's presumably taking over. I know
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James Franklin hasn't announced that as we record this podcast. But let's talk about
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him specifically for a minute, his strengths, and then how do you think
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Franklin handles him in this game? Does he turn him loose a little bit
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or does he play more conservative with him? Well, let's start about his
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strengths. He's really good moving in the three foot circle in the pocket.
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The ball comes out of his hand a bit differently. I mean it really
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like heat. I mean I think the ball goes. I mean so in
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other words, let's take just a basic you know, flank or screen,
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you know, with a couple of blockers in front. Well, the guy
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can get going right away because the ball gets there quicker. You know,
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he throws the deep ball really well. I think throws really almost everything well.
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Turning him loose, I think they'll turn him loose. I don't think
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they're going to sit there and just you know, and play a game and
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gradually, you know, integrate him. I think the idea is he can
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handle a lot of things, and he can go. The fact that he
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has a running game, he's a huge plus and Pence Date went through a
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couple of years for Singleton and Allen, but they had good running backs,
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but not great running backs, and it showed because he can't really go the
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fourth quarter of a big game and run a play action fake and you're not
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running the ball. Nobody's going to sit there and respect it. Now,
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with these two guys, and then the addition of Trey Potts from minnesota's really
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good. Now they can run all sorts of things with them. They could
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use them out of the backfield, they can play action fake with them.
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And I think that all is not going to be somebody that's gonna be babied
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as the season goes. I mean, they're gonna just play their game with
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him because I think they have a lot of confidence in him, more on
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him. So I was watching him last night. I was watching him not
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only play the game, I was watching him be interviewed. So he seems
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to have those intangibles that you want. Firstly, physically, he just seems
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like a big, strong, fire hydrant kind of kid. Right, Like
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he's got a thickness to him, right. I mean, even as voice
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sounds like, hell, let's go, let's do this thing, he's got
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that it factor. Is that a correct perception? You know? Tell me
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it's interesting he and both for Beula because bows are really good. They really
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competed hard for this. And if you were to sit there and say who
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is the natural, more outgoing leader of the two, it's bow. Drew
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has had to work himself into being that more vocal guy along the way,
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which he's done because he knows at the quarterback he has to and he has
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to do it at this level. And because of that, that's the area
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where he's worked on the most. He's not a guy that he's not a
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guy that swaggers in. He's not a guy that you know, he commands
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the room because he's a quarterback. He commands the room because he has great
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size. But he's a really down to earth kind of guy now begging you
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know, he's also a lifeline queenland Brown, I'm fan. So that's going
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to you know, keep you grounded, which did I kill him about?
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But I mean he's actually that's an area where he's had to, you know,
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in his personality has had to be you know, more juiced up.
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It's more natural for both than it is for Drew. But when you have
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the talent he has, he already has, you know, the universal respect
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of his teammates. All right, Steve up front obviously a top ten pick
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over at left tackle, a lot of experience returning in that offensive line.
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Strengths and potential weaknesses of that line would be what well, oh it was
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obviously a not a good player. He's a great college player. He gave
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up literally I think I don't even think. He gave up a hurry last
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year, which was really impressive, and he shocked everybody by coming back,
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including his parents. I mean, now he's the one that made the decision.
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Nor Zad Hunter. Nor Zad has moved from starting guard to center.
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That's gone well, sal warmly is now in his second year as a starting
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guard, and he is much better now than he was a year ago.
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Caden Wallace is a veteran starting at right tackle, and over the past couple
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of years pencety pants will tell you that they have not been happy with how
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he has played. Now he has had a terrific camp and everybody's kind of
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kept it low with him because of the criticism that Walls has received in the
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past. Now we have to see him do it in a game. And
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you know, we watched him in practice. As have you seen the improvement
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there? Yeah, now you're going to see it in a game from it
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and then and so that's and they'll get help from the tight ends because the
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tight ends are critical in this offense, not just catching the ball, but
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as blockers. Theo Johnson, Tyler Warren and kill Il Dinkins are guys that
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will also help out, especially in the running game. Their ability to help
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in the running game, and that's where they have a big difference. I
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think they have the ability if they want to, can play eight guys in
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the offensive line. They are capable of playing at least at this time,
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so they can go, you know, at least let's see too deep at
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three spots. But for example, Vega Juana, Tony, you can practice
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that all thank you. We appreciate that Vega Juwani can play all five positions
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all right, for example, and he'll probably play in the game. No,
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Tony doesn't have to mention him, you know, he just needs to
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know Singleton Allen Allen and guys like yeah, that's exactly who I was just
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going to bring up. And as we said at the start, you've got
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great perspective on the great players who have gone through Penn State for nearly fifty
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years. So with that being said, Nick Singleton and Katron Allen. You're
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two running backs at tremendous tandem who ran for over nineteen hundred yards combined last
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season. Put into perspective that two together, and then go back and Penn
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State lore as to where these guys rank. Well, they went through their
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freshman year and they just rotated him here and there, and there wasn't any
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time now kind of plan like Okay, one guy will start, go to
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series and the other guy will finally come in. And the interesting part,
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Tony is after thirteen games they were separated by eleven carriers. That was it.
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I mean, talking about how it played out organically, they're different.
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I mean Singleton has that great burst. I mean he broke off so many
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long runs last season, including the eighty seven yard or in the Rose Bowl.
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And he just has that speed that when he gets to the edge and
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there's a crease, I mean, he's very difficult to catch. Catron Allen
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is terrific at the inside run and the jump cut and impressive in that way.
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So there's just enough differences between the two that you have to think about
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which guy is in the backfield at a particular time. They also don't care
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who carries the ball, which is something every coach loves. These two are
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standing next to each other in practice all the time, and it's something that
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you know they'll line up. You know, you saw last year Penn State
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used that T formation in the backfield and well, each one of them is
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carries out of it and they don't care who ends up doing what, And
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that's the kind of situation you want. I think Alan is the better receiver
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of the two coming out of the backfield, although you'd love to get Singleton
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in the open field because of the speed. Then they've added in Trey Potts,
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who gained eleven hundred yards Washington, Minnesota, and he's from Williamsport,
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which is sixty miles from State College, and he just wanted to come back
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home to play. Well. He's been a really, really good third edition
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into that backfield that can take pressure off these two guys during the course of
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the game. Comparison Sez, I mean, you're you know, you're talking
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about Penn State's had multiple really terrific running backs at the same time as recently
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as Sekwon Barkley and Miles Sanders together. I mean that's I mean, that's
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that's not a bad tandem to have. Okay, Barkley's coming out, let's
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see, let's replace him with Miles Sanders. This will work. And you
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know, they've had tandems like that over the years. It's like West Virginia's
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had some great tandems too. But I mean, these two are exactly what
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Penn State needed because that is what they were missing so badly in twenty and
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twenty one. They were missing that element in the backfield, and they have
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it with these two guys. All right, Steve, let's flip over to
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the other side of the ball. Because its talented. As this Penn State
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offense is, it appears that the defense might be even better. A lot
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of people saying it could be the number one defense in the country, and
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others superstars at every level, and we'll get to some of those. But
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let me maybe ask this a different way. Where where would the potential point
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of attack be against this Penn State defense? Because as you look on paper,
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there's not one that's obvious. Well, I think when you look back
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at the Michigan game, what concerns that everybody would be how will Pennce they
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play at defensive tackle, how will they play in the middle because Blake Korm
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and Donovan Edwards both were in for over one yards that day. Indian Arbor
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and James Franklin talked about, look, we've got to be bigger in that
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spot. We had to be bigger upfront. They've done that. I mean
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Kim Demon, for example, who was playing in the high two fifties,
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low two sixties a year ago, is now in the mid two eighties.
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Zane Durant was playing about that same weight. Now he's in the mid two
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eighties. So they've bulked up in that area on the defensive front. And
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also Kobe King as a middle linebacker is a more physical presence. He and
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Tyler Elsdon will split the time there. They'll probably end up playing equal reps.
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But King is more experienced now and that really helps in that power running
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game against teams. Secondary is really good. I mean, as you pointed
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out in the past game, and what helps is you have linebackers. And
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I get all my linebacking information from my broadcast partner, Jack Camp. So
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I'm not going to sit here and pretend on the genius that tells you about
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linebackers. I'm just parroting everything he tells me. And he may know he
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may know. Yeah, yeah, you look at Jacobs as a three down
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NFL linebacker. I mean, he'll be in the NFL, you know,
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and he'll be able to play all three downs because he can play the run
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well. He scrapes on a blitz and he understands the proper depth of a
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drop of a linebacker. Carter had del Carter as a special talent, and
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you know, once he got into the line of full time mid season,
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it made a big difference in the winning streak that Tony's talking about. So,
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I mean, that's where they are with these guys, and that would
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be the point that you're wondering, you know, how well will those defensive
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tackles. And then has Kobe King made the advances which we think he has
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in watching him, I mean Jack and I watched him. We think he's
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a lot better as a more physical presence, uh in that in that center
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spot. So I'm looking back at the numbers from last season and towards the
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end of the year, this defense gave up in its last five games fourteen
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zero, ten, sixteen, and twenty one. So if I'm gonna stand
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here and say, like okay, like tell us where the weaknesses are it's
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it maybe a little bit of a head scratcher, although you gave some interior
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run stuff against Michigan. So let me ask you this. There's a strong
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chance that West Virginia will run its quarterback with some somewhat great frequency, which
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has people are I know already barking in state college. Yeah, yeah,
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yeah, they're yeah, they're fighting each other a bit morning. Yeah,
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that's all right, it's game week. They gotta go to Steve. I
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mean it's time. They're they're tired against They've been practicing against each other for
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a month now. They just want to go. They just want to go.
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So what what a what a quarterback that runs at all be a concern?
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Uh, let's see. That's that's really good because they don't. They
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didn't face a lot of quarterbacks that ran last year. A limp seat of
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of ructors can run, but they didn't have the offensive line to stack up.
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They don't have the vetteran offensive line that West Virginia has. And I
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really like West Virginia's offensive line a lot when I watched them on tape.
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Indiana's quarterback can run, same story, but you know, West Virginia's offensive
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line is better. I mean, so they don't didn't really face a lot
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of running quarterbacks and camera rising of Utah. No, totally bring that up.
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That was fine. No, yeah, we're yeah, we're gradually,
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we're gradually warming towards them. Yes, we're graduating. Obviously can can move.
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But they didn't run options with him. So a team that runs option
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PENNC doesn't see a lot of during the course of the season. It's not
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like twenty years go where a number of teams were in it. Now it's
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very few. A lot of people are running spread and those are the kind
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of teams are used to sing. That's why I felt Notre Dame in the
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opening weekend it was a right time to play Navy because having to adjust to
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their style of play mid season in practice is difficult. Getting ready for them
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in the preseason gives you all the time in the world to get ready for
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you. Saw they gave up three points. Steve defensive backs extremely talented.
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We've mentioned that a couple of times here. And they like to play man
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coverage, which at times has given West Virginia problems. Are they physical?
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Will they get up and play a lot of press coverage? How will they
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handle the coverage part of that back end. Well, the coverage part has
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been I mean Johnny Dixon and Kalon King King had it with Joey Porter Junior.
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Over their last year. People have picked on Kling King and then they
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figured out they couldn't go at them. There's a big problem. So when
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they got to the Rose Bowl, Joey Porter sat out to get ready for
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the draft. This after Joey hadn't happened. Deck to mc doo. I
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mean, so and Clark Phillips and Utah that out and both were considered high
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picks until he ended up being the first pick of the second round. And
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somebody asked me, you know what he kind of impact they'll have in the
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game. I said, the difference is Pennsday is Johnny Dixon and Utah doesn't.
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And Dixon is really come on and played well. And they're going to
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rotate guys out there. I mean other guys. Kim Miller is going to
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play out there. De Quan Hardy out of Pittsburgh's gonna play out there in
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the secondary. I mean losing a Jaire Brown, who looks like he's going
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to start for the forty nine ers is one of those losses because not just
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his ability to read everything because he had ten career interceptions, but he also
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was a quarterback in that secondary, the communicator, they got everybody into the
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right spot. He also had the ability to play in the box. So
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they have to replace a guy like that. They have to replace not only
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his physical ability, but they also have to replace it penal ability and the
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fact that he was in the secondary last year, so they have to replace
25:04
that part of it. One of those stubble small things that coaches will talk
25:07
a lot to you about that maybe a lot of fans may not realize and
25:11
think about all the areas that a guy could contribute. So that has to
25:15
be replaced, and they have to find that guy at the safety spot they
25:19
can get to the light. And also the ability to go into the box
25:25
and play physically the way up Brown good last year. A couple more and
25:29
we'll let you go. And I really do appreciate the insight so special teams.
25:32
Obviously we don't talk about those enough. Forget about punts and field goals.
25:37
Let's just talk about return game. Do you have anyone special back there
25:40
that we need to be aware of? Well, I mean last year they
25:45
put believe it or not, last year they put both Nicolas Singleton and Catron
25:48
Allen back on kickoffs. I see that right now. Yeah, And in
25:52
fact, Singleton took back a kickoff one hundred yards for a touchdown against Watchers.
25:57
I mean, so they put those guys back. This goes all the
26:00
way back. Remember the I'll make West Virginia fans go the days when they
26:04
put Kurt Warner back there. I mean when Kurt Warner took I think what
26:10
three kickoffs back in his career for touchdowns in his first couple of years.
26:14
So they're they're a big believer in trying to get something out of out of
26:18
out of that. Uh, you know, most teams will try to fair
26:22
catch it, you know which you know Penn State, you know, like
26:25
everybody else does the same thing. Just take it and it's going to be
26:32
the Penn State has the explosiveness and that part of its game to get something
26:36
going the punt return game. Let's let's face if the vast majority of punts
26:40
these days are fair caught. Along the way, they've worked two or three
26:45
different guys back there. Parker Washington did it last year, but he's with
26:49
the Jacksonville Jaguars. Now it's and so you know, the explosiveness and that
26:56
part of thing with the punt game, you're just you're just trying to make
27:00
sure you don't lose hidden yards in the in the punt return game, and
27:03
in the punt game kickoff return game, you got maybe more of a shot
27:07
to get a couple of big plays here and there. I mean, the
27:10
preference is not to return a lot of them. Yeah that's true, Yeah,
27:14
that's true. Yeah. You know what else you said though, You
27:15
know what you said, Steve, something that we talked about how much things
27:19
have changed through all these years. You said that Nicholas Singleton returned to kick
27:25
one hundred yards last year against Rutgers. Isn't that one of the nice things
27:27
that hasn't changed. I mean, you still have Rutgers on your s that's
27:30
a given. I mean, that's always a nice thing. Respect us,
27:34
But I'll due respect, I'll tell you we'd like to see Rutgers on the
27:37
schedule, you know, Ruckers Maryland. Yeah, you know, it would
27:41
be nice to have it. It's especially in basketball season. Tony. Oh,
27:48
I know, buddy, I know, I mean you you know,
27:52
I mean, hey, let's go to Ames. Hey. Great, I
27:56
was just thinking, like, you're you're out there too, right, You're
27:57
like, at some point early on in your Big ten arrival, I would
28:00
think that at some point you got into Iowa City and you kind of looked
28:06
around and go, what exactly are we doing here? Aren't supposed to be
28:08
in McGonagall Hall at Temple? Oh? Yeah, well I was in Iowa
28:12
City one time. It's nineteen ninety six, ninety six. We go in
28:17
there, we land and see the rapids. It is twenty seven below zero.
28:22
Sure it is? Yeah, okay, yep. It got to a
28:26
low of thirty four below over night and Iowa City. I'm watching TV that
28:30
morning and they do the old thing where they pour the hot cup of coffee
28:33
and they throw it in the air and it crystallizes. Yeah, I'm looking
28:36
route thick you why okay? Anybody think about the a SEC? Anybody?
28:41
Oh? I know it would. I could have been at Florida State today.
28:45
Wait, now you're right. PAC twelve, the late PAC twelve in
28:48
the SEC. There's no question they got the bet. They got the weather
28:51
beat ACC pretty pretty good too. And then us, you know up here,
28:53
we just well it is what it is. We get through it,
28:56
We get through it about Hey, let's go to Lincoln, great, Yeah,
29:02
it'll it'll get cold there too. Yeah. First time we went to
29:04
Aims the play, I was state, dude, it was it went through
29:10
your bones cold and it was. And those fans are unbelievable passionate, they're
29:14
they're regardless, they got their snowsuits on. It's wild, absolutely wild.
29:18
Well listen, really that was. That was in September, yeah, November,
29:23
but it was. I get what you mean. It can be well,
29:26
well, listen, we look forward very much to seeing you guys on
29:30
Saturday, and we really appreciate the time. We appreciate the insight, and
29:34
I wish you guys the best of the luck going forward throughout the course of
29:37
this season. The same here. I think it's a thrill for all of
29:41
us to have West Virginia back on the schedule. I think it's great,
29:45
and I'm looking forward to seeing all the great Mountaineer fans at Beaver Stadium because
29:48
they are great fans. And I know because I go back to the old
29:52
Atlantic ten and Eastern football days. Yep. Absolutely all right, buddy,
29:56
be good, Thanks, we'll talk to you. Hey. Thanks, guys,
29:57
your best. Thank you there. He is the voice of the Knitney
30:02
Lions of Penn State. Steve Jones just a wonderful, wonderful perspective because I
30:07
mean he went all the way. They give us a Kurt Warner reference,
30:10
so he has seen the totality of it all. Yeah, I was going
30:14
through some records there as we were talking to him. They have four eleven
30:15
win seasons under Franklin seven since Steve took over the play by play calling duties,
30:19
and I know he's been around longer than that, but you're right,
30:22
he has seen some really talented teams and I think the fact that he opened
30:26
up there in those years that he referenced we're all eleven win teams for Penn
30:30
State. So we didn't need Steve to tell us, but it backed up
30:33
what we've been saying. You're getting a flat out loaded Nitney Lyon team here.
30:37
This is a heck of a first test for this WV team, and
30:38
it's going to be extremely you know, as if you needed any more excitement,
30:44
which you don't if you're the visiting team, you're gonna have it because
30:47
obviously the game is going to be played under the lights. It's going to
30:49
be the first game is part of NBC's new Saturday night football package, and
30:56
so it will be absolutely REVVD up and so regardless of what transpires, you
31:02
can look at it a bunch of different ways, but this is going to
31:04
be an incredible learning experience for everyone within this West Virginia side to see exactly
31:11
where you are and figure out a lot of things out. Yeah, and
31:15
I think that's I think that's part of what you need to have expectation wise.
31:18
Obviously you're going up trying to win a game, but this is we
31:21
just said, a really good Penn State team will clearly be the best team
31:23
you face on the schedule all year in the toughest environment. So it doesn't
31:27
get any harder as West Virginia moves on. So I think that's the important
31:32
part here is go in have some success in different areas that you can build
31:36
upon, try and keep the confidence up, and walk out of there knowing
31:40
that's as hard as it's going to get all season long. I guess,
31:41
yeah, that's one way to do it. But you go in there,
31:44
you take your swing. You go in there and you take your swing and
31:45
see what happened. But I'll tell you what, watching tape last night of
31:48
those running backs. Extremely impressed with those running backs. As he said,
31:55
single ten, great breakaway speed, and you take a look at a couple
31:59
of those moves that Katron Allen had as well, as he said, he
32:02
runs really well inside tackles and the thing that caught me was really really good.
32:07
Both of them after first contact, after first contact, they still scoot.
32:13
And Neil has been stressing you've got to do a fantastic job in tackling,
32:19
fundamentally tackling, because it's going to take more than one shot to bring
32:22
these cats down. Yeah, we mentioned real quick. We mentioned on the
32:24
last episode that Singleton was top ten national last year in yards per carry after
32:30
contact, nearly five yards per carry after you first hit him. So to
32:32
back that up, yeah, you've got to get to him. You've got
32:35
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32:38
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You're ready to do this thing. I'm ready to do this thing. I'll
33:50
tell you what people are getting creative on these on these texts. A lot
33:55
more pictures people send, a lot more pictures in them let's see pictures.
34:00
Yeah. Also, I'll get to it. But we had one communications issue
34:05
us last week. I didn't brief you on that one. He did not
34:08
know. It didn't go well. We're in the communications business. Sometimes it
34:19
don't communicate really super clearly. Okay, Yeah, you're ready to do this,
34:25
think sure. Nate and the Canal Valley checks and guys. A lot
34:30
of new rule changes are coming to college football this year. What are your
34:32
takes on the change to a running clock after first downs unless two minutes to
34:38
go? Do you take any issue with the consecutive time out ban? Nate
34:44
and the Canal Valley small sample size I get at the first weekend of games,
34:49
what was it seven games? It didn't change much. Shaved three minutes
34:52
off the game and shaved about five places per team off there, so didn't
34:54
have much effect. Yeah. I talked to an official in the spring and
34:58
they said they didn't think that down, not stopping it on first down is
35:01
going to mean much. And literally it's it's so much different like baseball.
35:05
Obviously with the pitch clock has changed the game significantly, but I don't think
35:09
it's gonna be a whole deal. It's gonna be negligible Texter Tony actually not
35:16
Tony, gentlemen, I enjoy the podcast. After filling my growler with Kerchivel
35:22
at Stone Tower and Bridgeport, and after hearing some of the stories about WVU
35:24
around the world, I wanted to share you my story. While we were
35:30
in Italy. First day in Rome, a cab driver mid twenties asked we
35:35
were from where we were from, and when we said West Virginia, he
35:38
began singing country roads cab driver in Rome. Next day, we stumble into
35:45
a Steeler's bar, which also turned out to be a multi team bar,
35:50
including WUVU. There it is Brett in Rome. You got Penguins, got
35:55
Steelers, and then you see a little flying WV. This is a bar
35:59
in Rome lays yeah, this is not Lumberport, isn't Roll. They've done
36:01
a nice shot there. So obviously in the Pittsburgh area, big fans are
36:06
the professional sports team of the Steelers, the Penguins, and then the premier
36:08
college team of West Virginia that goes right in. Yeah, yeah, there
36:12
it is Welcome West Virginia fans and a bar in Roll. Of course I
36:16
walked by that. I didn't go in, but I walked by that bar
36:20
when I was in Rome Steelers flag. Week later during a glass factory tour
36:24
in Moronto, which is the famous class place there, our mid seventies guide
36:29
asked us where we were from, and then he broke out into country roads.
36:32
Really is a small world with WV and West Virginia and here you go
36:37
and that kind of neat. Yeah, it's kind of neat, Texter says
36:40
continues, by the way, my wife and two siblings on fifty five acres
36:45
in Harrison County with a barn full of junk and a tree stand full of
36:47
bees. Signed by Dank Born in Biloxi, Mississippi, raised in Weird and
36:53
ten years in the year four, three years in Morgantown, thirty nine years
36:57
in county in Bridgeport. Thanked, appreciate that. Good to see you,
37:02
Texter. Hi, guys, Randy from state college. It may be time
37:07
for me to pay the piper. I've lived in the last twenty five years
37:13
and Happy Valley attending Penn State sporting events. I've got season tickets to both
37:17
football and basketball. That may sound like a bit of a trader, but
37:21
in my own defense, I really enjoy college sports. They're the only show
37:24
in town. If Penn State wins, I'm happy. If they lose,
37:28
well, I'm still kind of happy. Specifically, when I'm discussing a loss
37:31
with a friend or a family member who's going through sheer agony, I like
37:36
to think they don't see through my ruse, but instead believe I'm consoling them,
37:39
when in fact, I'm just patronizing them, throwing a few well timed
37:44
jabs just to make them feel a little worse. It's shameless, I know,
37:47
but hey, I suffered a lot in the eighties and the nineties and
37:50
I needed to take it out on someone. I like that question for both
37:54
of you. Like most, I've got some confidence in our offensive line and
37:58
run game. I'm more concerned with the d line. We lost two key
38:01
players from last year's team, and unfortunately, Penn State also has a very
38:05
good running game. What's the outlook for our d line? Can we tie
38:07
up the offensive line? Let our backers and safeties make plays. I love
38:10
the show, Randy, Let's go Mountaineers. Number one question on the defensive
38:14
side is right there, Randy. I think you've identified it, and that's
38:16
the question. Quite frankly, the answers don't know at this point. But
38:21
that's what you're gonna see. You're gonna see them running heavy and they're gonna
38:23
try and big boy West Virginia from a size perspective. You heard Steve mentioned
38:28
those talented tight ends. I was hoping they're tight ends would take a hit
38:30
Breton Strange, West Virginia native graduate or moved on he's in the NFL.
38:35
They didn't take a step back. They've got three really good ones and they're
38:37
going to try and run and use their size and then set up that play
38:40
action. So you're right on it. That's the critical question right there.
38:45
Texter. Three guys had the chance to watch Swamp Kings, the new documentary
38:50
on Florida's run of dominance under Urban Meyer. I can't help but notice every
38:54
time a top ten pole was shown, West Virginia was in it. I
38:58
saw as high as far and seven. I think people forget how good we
39:02
were consistently good those four to five years. Time really brings it into perspective.
39:07
I guess rich Rod is who he is, but one thing for sure,
39:09
he knew how to win football games, and rich got one Saturday.
39:15
That's a big win for them. First win is an FBS program I loved
39:19
watching rich He's the same man. He'd be losing his mind on that sideline.
39:22
No, you watch them at all? Did he gets those? He
39:25
did? He did, tightens every get down. Oh boy, that was
39:32
a good win. Text are three guys, Hello, spend some time recently.
39:37
It's some land down in Richee County that my in laws have. Shocker.
39:43
First picture is a flying WV version of Stoneheage. Second picture shows a
39:49
mountaineer themed outhouse. Note the dilapidated barn in the background. I love this
39:53
show and love the pride that our state has. This is signed by the
39:58
Three Guys. GI doc so this is that that gastro intestinal doctor. I
40:01
think he listens to our podcast while performing colonoscopy as if I'm not mistaken.
40:07
Also unconfirmed, though unconfirmed, but I think he does. If he doesn't
40:10
make everyone listen, I'm sure he's got earbuds in listening to it. It
40:16
goes really good with that sound that's in the operating room. Whoop whoop.
40:22
Text Hello Love the Summer series started my fortieth year of officiating on Friday night
40:27
Lights. After the first play from Scrimmage, I hear in my earpiece,
40:30
hoppy hoppy, hoppy. I immediately respond by giving the first down signal with
40:36
a smile on my face and the thumbs up to my back Judge Andy.
40:38
I love the show. It's game week, very anxious to see how the
40:42
world champion Mountaineers stack up. I feel better about this year than last.
40:45
Be positive, efforting to get to Morgantown for a game or two. Let's
40:47
go Mountaineers. Signed by Fred from Hurricane, sent with loud effect. Love
40:52
it. So they are using that call, that crew uses the call when
40:58
the time to move the first down sticks hoppy, hoppy, hoppy. I
41:01
didn't realize high school officials were using the ear pieces. Did you notice that?
41:06
Not? Good job, Fred, Nanny. I like good use of
41:09
Effordine. Do you see my T shirt today? When like jersey other day?
41:13
So I finally got two things on that. Firstly, yeah, that's
41:17
very nice. How how smooth is that material? That's very is very noise.
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You can get that shirt plus a whole lot more on our website at
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effordin Ain't no, it's not. It's episode eight hundred dot com Episode eight
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hundred dot com. Crushing the Coffee this weekend too. I had people in
41:37
crushed at coffee, Texter, this really is almost heaven. John Denver nineteen
41:45
eighty Leave no doubt tonight, Bill Stewart two thousand and eight. Because Mauv
41:51
had its day. I think you know that, Tony Kariti twenty twenty three.
41:54
Great moments in Mountaineers SoundBite history. Sub is that the line you were
42:06
talking about the other day that you can remember because mav had its day?
42:08
I think you know that, And I think you know that, well it
42:15
did? You know? It came and it went kind of like pet rocks.
42:19
They was just they were in and then they were gone. Everything had
42:22
to be mav mov Mov. Mav Mov did have it's day. Y'all know
42:28
that, Texter says. I listened to episode four eight one. I am
42:35
now convinced we're playing against the monsters of the Midway, led by Dick Bugis's
42:38
clone. My over and under pick is now one hundred yards of toadal offense.
42:43
And after listening to that, I'm taking the under signed by Michael and
42:45
Clodin. Well, I'll really think that. After hearing Steve earlier, Texter
42:52
haven't missed an episode in years. By the way, this week is our
42:59
six year anniversary. Is that right? Yeah, Thursday, when we come
43:04
back and do the show, I'm gonna have numbers, some metrics on the
43:07
show. It was the thirtieth or the thirty first of August of twenty at
43:12
seventeen. This is a sixty six years. You believe that crap? Now?
43:15
Six years now? Hey what, We're gonna give it another good three
43:20
four We're gonna give it about another three four months. We're gonna put the
43:22
curtain down on this bad boy Texter. He haven't missed an episode in years.
43:29
First time I've texted. Last Saturday, I ran a five k.
43:32
The race was about an hour from where I live. On my way home,
43:36
I was listening to episode four seven eight. I of course didn't want
43:39
to eat before the race, so I packed myself a little cooler of snacks
43:43
to eat on the way back. I had just polished off a handful of
43:46
nuts and a few venison sticks from a deer we harvested last year on my
43:51
in law's farm in Waynesburg. I was just about to drive in to the
43:55
part of dive into the part of the meal. I was most looking forward
43:59
to two big squares of rice crispy treats my wife had made the night before,
44:04
but these were not ordinary rice crispy treats. They had butterscotch chips melted
44:08
throughout in a chocolate coating on top, and as I was about to grab
44:13
the first one, Tony started to explain the rice crispy treats that had been
44:16
brought into the studio by Madden Savannah Jones that also had chocolate and butterscotch.
44:22
I thought to myself, there are no coincidences in life. I must be
44:28
on the same spiritual wavelength as the three guys before the game crew. Thanks
44:32
providing a weekly connection to my home state and alma mater, both of which
44:37
I love so much. Signed by p One Ryan in Noblesville, Indiana.
44:42
About that that's a wild My man's reaching his hand in for a chocolate butterscotch
44:46
and we're sitting on four seven eight talking. Those were extraordinarily good. As
44:52
you're reading that, I wish they were still here. I'd have five of
44:53
them ranges. Now, I don't think they were that good if you were
44:55
diabetic, but they were really, really good. Congrats Ryan on the Okay,
45:00
well done, well done. Congratulations to you Texter. Hello spreads,
45:05
Scopes and Hopster, although I doubt the sabbatical is over. Longtime listener,
45:09
first time Texter. I was driving in this morning. They said Hoppy's had
45:14
a sabbatical. Heard Chris Lawrence say, Hoppy's on sabbatical. Sabbatical. That's
45:20
a long time on those sabbatical. He'll be back next week. Boy just
45:25
took a head to stretch his legs. Anyway, I enjoyed the Neil Brown
45:30
episode, hoping our world champs can shock the world this year and end up
45:34
with a surprising season. Very excited for the pit game and to host those
45:37
unbearable Panthers in Morgantown. As a native of Pittsburgh, though having lived in
45:42
Morgantown for the last seventeen years and a two time WUVU alum, I cannot
45:46
begin to tell you how much this game means to me. If we go
45:49
one and eleven this year, I pray the one winners against pitt and that
45:52
we shred those good for nothings from Oakland. Wow. Last year, there
45:57
was a lot of talk about analytics involved in Coach Brown not making the call
46:00
on fourth and one. Curious if there is a stats guy in the stadium
46:05
that assists with these calls. Is this something we do or something that other
46:08
teams do? If not, might I suggest spreads at you for the role,
46:14
though I'd assume his side hustle wagering, maybe some type of nuble a
46:16
violation, that is, if they choose to enforce said rule out of the
46:21
show Terry and Morgantown. So yes, West Virginia has internal analytics that they
46:28
work subscribe to collect all the data. During game week they review. It's
46:34
either Thursday or Friday they do their review, so they have a base knowledge
46:39
based on certain situations. But at the same time, it's still you're gonna
46:44
go by flow of game. You're gonna go by field of game, right
46:46
if the analytics says this, but your let like they if the analytics says,
46:53
I don't want to say when it's gonna get injured. Let's just say
46:55
there's an injury at a certain situation that blows the analytic out because now you're
47:00
operating it less than one it, so you're gonna change things. So there's
47:04
still a feel to it. But yes, they do look use a lot
47:07
of base stuff based on based on that well, real quick, on that
47:12
specific fourth and one, we spent a lot of time on that last year,
47:14
the analytic the analytics really did tell you it was a toss up at
47:19
worst, but slanted towards the punting. Then you take into a fact how
47:22
the defense was playing. So we went through that that one in particular.
47:24
The numbers did tell you to kick it. That's correct. However, that's
47:30
also like a face tattoo. That one will never come off. No.
47:32
I know, yeah, but that doesn't mean my point on that as we
47:36
as we talked a million times last year. You can say that all you
47:38
want, and that's fine, but don't say that the numbers told you to
47:42
go for because they didn't. It was a It was a coin flip.
47:44
You could have gone either. The winning percentage changed only slightly if you kicked
47:49
it. It was one that you had to feel on how you were playing.
47:52
Here's where I screwed up, Tony. I hope you received the bag
47:58
on Wednesday, and I hope they were real ways. If not, let
48:02
me know and we can arrange something else, because the senator needs a bite
48:07
too. If he didn't get one. Wends thing, this is a shocker.
48:09
I didn't get one. Hayton was stoked for the shout out and after
48:13
we started talking about it, we decided that we were much younger than seven
48:15
years old listening to you on the radio, more like diapers. We actually
48:20
have a vivid memory from his late father's restaurant, the Stray Cat Cafe,
48:24
when Quincy Wilson steamrolled his way to the end zone against Miami. We may
48:29
have been too young to be at the bar, but we had our own
48:31
spot by the pool tables and a twenty inch bubble TV heartbroken when they made
48:36
that field goal. Let us know how much you enjoyed the chimneys signed by
48:39
Grayson Kaiser, West Virginia by the way of Stinky Michigan. Would you do?
48:45
Why are you looking at me like? Because I mean i'd I'd love
48:47
to comment to Grayson, but as he correctly identified, you were probably gonna
48:51
screw this up and I did not get a bite to the chimney. So
48:52
these are the cats from No Punintenda from the Stray Cat Cafe down their Star
48:57
City, right. Yeah. So they texted and they said, hey,
49:00
we want to bring you some chimmy chongas because that's respecially Friday's Chimi chongs They
49:04
were they based out of Kaiser. Now they've moved to Morgantown, big big
49:07
city. It probably were in Burlington. Actually, I don't even know if
49:09
they were in Kaiser. May were probably Kaiser Metroplex, Burlington. Anyway,
49:15
looking forward to these chimnies. They sounded really good. So we're texting back
49:17
and forth and I said, he goes, when can I bring them?
49:21
And I said, I was thinking, I'm looking. I said Thursday,
49:24
Thursdays are good. Thursday would be good. Third, I think some like
49:28
Thursday would be good, not like, hey, in three or four weeks
49:30
when we're all back together, bring it on a Thursday. So I was,
49:35
where was I last Wednesday? Oh, I was doing that t Yeah,
49:37
I was doing the thing. I was shooting them and phone rings from
49:42
here at work. They said, hey, this guy just dropped off these
49:45
chimmy chongas, and oh, I'm like, that was the night I had
49:50
to go to Doddridge County, so I never I never even came in.
49:52
So they said, what should we do? Put him in the refrigerator.
49:54
I said, no, man, I can't have it, Like, I
49:57
don't think you can have a cold chimmy chonga. So I said, bring
50:00
him to the girls downstairs on our floor. And just let them let them
50:05
go to town. I have not been back yet to hear how. We'll
50:07
get a report next episode. We'll do that again. Thank you so much,
50:12
Grayson, Texter, Hey, three guys, Austin, Bedford, Virginia
50:16
Charleston native Tony. You took a had my picture made with me before the
50:21
Kansas game last year at top to Law School. Here it is. I
50:25
just wanted to comment on how short you make me look. I never knew
50:29
you were that tall. Although it was rainy and we lost, it was
50:30
certainly a highlight. Let's go Mountaineers. Thank you very much. It's a
50:34
good looking young man there. Austin, Yeah, thank you very much.
50:40
Texter. Hey, guys, give or take a hoppy appearance. Caleb from
50:46
the Edge of the Gorge and Fayettable. I've been to every home game the
50:51
past nine years except two, one for COVID and one to be in a
50:53
wedding. I missed two weddings though, and I told them both i'd catch
50:58
them at the next wedding. I did indeed catch them both at the next
51:01
one. That's what they get for having a wedding on the Mountaineer football Saturday.
51:07
So how about that he tells two people don't get married on game day.
51:12
I'm not coming to your wedding. I'll catch you on the next one.
51:14
And then they both got remarried. Le choose this guy to get stock
51:21
tips. Ps. I'm making the trip from Fayett County to Penn State.
51:24
Any food recommendations there, I'm sorry, I don't have anything. I really
51:30
apologize. We're staying like an hour and a half away from state college,
51:34
so I don't know. I do not know. Text her this one.
51:40
You got to think about this one, so put your head on. This
51:45
is from Yogi Chris in Salt Lake City, Big twelve Country Country written the
51:49
heart of it. We swim in a sea of words. Every day.
51:53
We create the world we live in with the words we speak and write.
51:59
Words can create suffering or possibility. For example, coaches say try or trying.
52:07
They are not trying. They are running the ball and playing to win
52:10
the game. Trying suddly creates suffering. So does the words have to Hoppy
52:22
does not have to go to the podcast. He is choosing to go to
52:25
the podcast. Notice the subtle difference of having two and choosing two. I
52:31
wish coaches would remove the word try trying and have to signed by Yogi Chris
52:38
in Salt Lake City. There's a lot there to think about. Chris went
52:42
deep, well, happan he's ever since he started texting. He goes deep
52:45
on certain things. I mean, those guys, he's a different guy,
52:49
right, He's not a normal Joe just walking down the street there in Salt
52:52
Lake. He's a different guy. I wouldn't be shocked if he wore those
52:55
shoes those kind of like those those foot shoes that your toes go into,
53:01
right, that's kind of how I am vision that dude. You know what
53:04
I mean? What they call those things, I don't know, but I
53:07
know your footstocks shoes they had. They had a good run. It just
53:12
like MAV they had a big run. You don't same as much anymore.
53:15
Hoca's taken over. Like we went from like minimalist put your foot inside of
53:20
a sock and walk around and pretend that's a shoe. Now you got these
53:22
hocas like like human mushroom, like marshmallows you walk on. Herb from Aurora,
53:30
West Virginia checks in. Longtime listener, first time text her just for
53:34
a lot of first times today. Yeah, I just moved back to West
53:37
Virginia after forty five years away and loving retirement and a season ticket holder for
53:43
decades. Came to all the games even when I was living in Florida and
53:45
North Carolina. Anyhow, I was watching a random show saw that the University
53:50
of Arizona has an anchor from the USS Arizona in the middle of their campus.
53:54
We've got the bell from the USS West Virginia in the middle of our
53:58
campus. And it got me thinking, a lot of conference opponents have something
54:01
they play for. Since we have no ties to the University of Arizona,
54:06
how about we play for the bell and anchor trophy. Very good. I
54:09
figure you gotta start somewhere. Thanks, and I love the show. It's
54:14
not bad. Thank you very much, Texter, says Scope senator Parentheses,
54:20
who was the other guy again. The Notre Dame TV and radio broadcast are
54:24
drooling over former WVU coach Jared Parker, the new offensive coordinator of the Irish
54:30
Hindsight twenty twenty, but Neil Brown's biggest mistake in Morgantown was demoting Parker and
54:36
bringing in Graham Harrold. Harold was simply a bust. Fortunately, like Bob
54:40
Huggins, I don't have a rear view mirror in my truck on depend State.
54:44
Let's go Mountaineers. Morgan and Morgantown. I think that's a real name,
54:47
Morgan and Morgantown. I'd strongly think not Notre Dame offense did roll against
54:53
Navy. They did anything they wanted. It's amazing when you have a guy
54:58
guys up front that can move people off the ball. How everything looks better.
55:01
And then Sam Hartman obviously helps that team. The wake Forest transfers the
55:05
best free agent acquisition of the off season by a team, absolutely, no
55:08
question. I was happy for Jared Parker, Yeah, because he got a
55:12
lot of heat in the off season from people they didn't know what they're talking
55:15
about. He lines up and I was happy to see their offense come through
55:17
him. Yeah, he's a great guy. Texter. Three guys, Hello,
55:22
Well, none other than this is Jumping Jack checking in from Mountain Vernon,
55:25
Iowa. How about that just got moved in today and of course I
55:29
had to wear my effort in T shirt. There he is, Thanks and
55:31
love the show. Now there's a classic example. You just talked about the
55:35
best free free agent acquisition. Sure, they got Sam Hartman from Wake Force.
55:39
Now he's a notre dame. We tried, we tried to unsuccessfully recruit
55:45
jumping Jack so he wouldn't go back to that guy like he went back to
55:49
that college dorm. We could have given him a plush place here in Morgantown.
55:52
Instead he gets up there and puts his Pirates penning up his Mountaineer pennant
55:55
and his Cornell College pennant up there. We tried hard to everything we could.
56:00
I think Cornell came in heavy and I sometimes you just get beat they
56:04
did, didn't right, and sometimes you get beat they did. I mean,
56:07
the guy runs the whole sports program out there, if I'm not mistaken.
56:09
Wish you the best, Jack, Thank you very much, Texter.
56:15
This thing's starting to get deep to this whole thing. Hello, I'm chiming
56:20
in with a potential clarification on the Portuguese pepperoni roll. I would bet that
56:25
these rolls are made with chorico, which is Portuguese sausage, and not charizo,
56:31
which is Mexican sausage. I've had quite a bit of charico and my
56:36
visits to Rhode Island, and it is a culinary delight. It would also
56:39
resemble pepperoni in a roll much more than charizo. Screenshot research to follow.
56:45
So there you go. Is Portuguese cherico similar to charizo? Answer? Yeah,
56:51
they're similar, but they're not the same. Both spiced pork, however,
56:57
Mexican charizo fresh, not cooked, Spanish terzo cured, Portuguese erico smoked.
57:02
So it's fully cooked. Ready, it's more of a pepperoni ps He
57:07
says. Rhode Island has a large Portuguese population. Yeah, they do.
57:13
I did know that. I did know that. Here's the thing I'd eat
57:15
either one of those made with Chariko or Theresa. Either bring both. Texter
57:22
Luke and Clarksburg writes, I decided to try my hand at sports betting this
57:28
year. Nothing major, just a little bit here, a little bit There'd
57:30
start well. I used a free bonus bet on the under forty eight and
57:34
a half for the Navy Notre Dame game. Now I don't have any ties
57:37
to this game, but towards the end I was completely engaged and it actually
57:43
hit the under forty five total. I was nervous as hack. Now I
57:46
understand why you do what you do. Ready for a great season. That
57:50
was directed to you, Luke and Clarksburg a little sweat, little sweat and
57:54
add some excitement to the game. Well, you got it. You got
57:57
a number, you got another disciple, disciful in your truth, and that
58:00
was a sweat if you had that under I mean, you get forty two
58:02
from one team. There. You think that thing's sailing over? Yeah,
58:06
I was out, congratulations. I was attending a social engagement on Saturday and
58:09
a guy I was next to had the over sure and they got a little
58:13
bit bumped. Yeah, text her a lot of food this one. Chris
58:20
and Nashville. Hey, three guys. I'm at my girlfriend's apartment over the
58:22
weekend and I was looking in her fridge. I happened to notice the word
58:27
Marzano on a back. Upon further inspection, I discovered that the bag contained
58:31
mini Sam Marzano tomatoes, but the packaging said produce of Canada, clearly indicating
58:38
where they came from. I tried to explain to her real Sam Marzano's lore
58:44
from this podcast, but she gave me a confused look and she rolled her
58:49
eyes. I'm attaching the picture to make this message, so you know,
58:52
I think you'll understand. I totally know what you do. So what you
58:54
got there is basically it's the sad Marizano seed, but they're grown in a
59:01
greenhouse and connect Canada. Well, you get a lot of tomatoes. By
59:06
the way, in Canada you go to the Kroger's and you're a lot of
59:09
Canadian tomatoes, which is big, big in Canada. HU means it's like
59:15
geographically doesn't make sense. But yeah, I mean so they yeah they are.
59:20
They're many sam marzanos. But as you well know, Chris, they
59:24
weren't grown into that volcanic soil. They really make them special. Thank you
59:30
tell your tell your girlfriend. Those are fine, but when she has the
59:36
real one one of these days, it'll be a life changer. Texter can't
59:42
believe it's game week. Took in some WUVU volleyball here at t D Arena
59:45
Saturday, goodwin against a solid College of Charleston team. They allowed a set
59:52
point in the second and third sets, but came back and won both and
59:54
eventually won the match in the fourth. There you go, live looking Yeah,
59:58
nice good John, There you go gradually, Texter. Field goal kicking
1:00:05
big question this year. Leg Casey leg made fourteen last year, but none
1:00:07
longer than thirty eight. You think this year someone is gonna have to make
1:00:12
one longer than forty You can't have a shaking kicking on a team that needs
1:00:15
every break to get to a ball signed by Joe and Charleston. True.
1:00:19
Yeah, I think they'll have distance, they'll have the ability to get over
1:00:22
under Do you want the over? Give me a number longest field goal on
1:00:25
the year? Over under thirty nine and a half? Oh? Hell over
1:00:30
over forty three and a half, over over forty six and a half.
1:00:32
We're gonna do this. Then what do I get to win? Do I
1:00:36
get something over forty six half? No, because you won't want to give
1:00:37
anything when you lose over forty six and a half. That's a bomb.
1:00:44
Yes. Oh, don't gonna ask me eight forty eight. I'm going forty
1:00:46
six and a half. Someone marked that down. I'm sure you will.
1:00:49
If I'm wrong, text I no, I'll bring that up. Texter,
1:00:52
Second time Texter. This is good. Everyone always says they're a first time.
1:00:57
This is a second time Chest from Winchester by way of not really Chester.
1:01:01
Huh not really Chester? Second time Texter or Chester from Winchester by way
1:01:07
of Grant and Hardy counties in the category of WOODA coulda shoulda. We wouldn't
1:01:13
be wringing our hands as much over the nil if the powers to be would
1:01:16
have distributed the original TV moneies more evenly instead of making basketball and football coaches
1:01:22
millionaires. In an ESPN thirty for thirty segment, Jim Beheim explains he just
1:01:30
wanted a well pained job doing something that he'd loved. When Biggia's TV basketball
1:01:35
money came along, he became a rich man. Recent painful WV academic cuts
1:01:40
make the inflated coaches salaries seem even more ridiculous. Still on land with my
1:01:45
sister in Hardy County, I love the podcast. To keep up the good
1:01:49
work. So let's break up your text here to the Jim Beheim point.
1:01:58
Bullcrap crap. Jim just wanted a well paying job doing something that he loved.
1:02:04
Yeah, that's why. That's exactly why he just refused those dollars every
1:02:09
year. That's why he refused those dollars. Coaches, don't ever believe him.
1:02:15
Don't ever believe him. It's all about the money. It's quite simple.
1:02:19
Jim Beheim and the rest of those guys saw the league making more money,
1:02:22
and they put their hand out because they wanted more money, because their
1:02:24
school's making more money. And Beheim in particular, when they were in their
1:02:28
heyday and putting twenty eight thousand, thirty thousand people in the dome. You
1:02:31
don't think he's going back going like they're here because of what I'm building.
1:02:35
You pay me up. That's bullcrap. Meanwhile, Carmelo Anthony's probably worth a
1:02:39
couple of bucks though. Yeah. Meanwhile, painful academic cuts make the inflated
1:02:46
coaches salary receiving even more ridiculous. There's no question. I mean, those
1:02:51
are big numbers. I mean those are big, big numbers. Twofold there
1:02:54
obviously is that, Yes they are state employees. Yes they're the high paid
1:03:00
guys in the state, normally your basketball and your football coach. But just
1:03:06
for whatever it matters, and it may not matter to you, those dollars
1:03:10
are not state dollars. Those dollars are raised dollars, right, you can
1:03:16
get into this. Those are raised dollars by the athletic department that generates the
1:03:21
dollars that they pay their coaches. Correct, correct, that's correct. Pearl
1:03:24
Washington is probably worth a couple of bucks. Well, that's a bad example.
1:03:28
He might have got a couple allegedly, or well, let me just
1:03:31
tell you something joking, of course, No, I'm not. Syracuse was
1:03:35
well ahead in the nil game. I always there were in the futurist crowd.
1:03:40
Saw a few student athletes while I was there driving around in those Smokey
1:03:45
and the Band at Burt Reynolds cars. He know, those black transams.
1:03:49
Stunning How those young men from deep in the heart of New York City we're
1:03:53
able to get the Smokey and the Band at trans am good financing, zero
1:04:00
percent forever on everything, Tony. I love the show, and I love
1:04:05
the over and under show. Here's another prop bet, what's the over under
1:04:12
on how long it takes for Brown to pull Garrett Green as a starter.
1:04:15
I'd say the under is halftime at Penn State. The over is Green making
1:04:19
it past halftime for the pit game. Have there ever have any of the
1:04:24
three of you ever heard him say one positive thing about that kid? I'll
1:04:29
so far as say his disdain for this kid is what will cost Brown his
1:04:32
job this year in Kentucky. Signed by Kennon Kentucky. I don't, I'm
1:04:39
not. Do you feel that no, no, not at all, and
1:04:42
give me the over. I don't think he's getting pulled in the first half
1:04:44
of this game. Ken maybe returned to the last couple of years when Neil
1:04:47
would honestly give reasons as to why or what Garrett Green had to improve with,
1:04:53
So he may be referring to that, but no, I think Neil
1:04:55
has been very complimentary of Garrett this offseason about named in the starter. I
1:05:02
think what frustrates coaches the most about players is when they don't do what they're
1:05:06
asked to do. You tell them to do something and they do something completely
1:05:11
different. Therefore you don't have the trust. And I think early on in
1:05:15
Garrett's career he was just such a freelancer that he wouldn't do what he was
1:05:19
told to do. And I think Garrett kind of talked about that when he
1:05:24
was here. If I'm not mistaken, he kind of indicated right there,
1:05:27
kind of a wild fly by the sea too, his pants guy, and
1:05:30
I think that's probably a lot of it. I think Neil Brown likes Garrett
1:05:34
Green a ton, really does. But like a father and a son or
1:05:40
a father and a daughter, like do what I'm telling you to do when
1:05:42
I tell you to do it, otherwise we're going to have a problem.
1:05:45
That's where I think it goes. And I'll take and he's not getting pulled.
1:05:49
Texter Hey fellas Jeff and Parkersburg also known as the bread Man. Oh
1:05:55
yeah, remember who met him. It was nice meeting with you at the
1:05:58
caravan, Tony and hearing worries about your dad's store. I've got a high
1:06:00
school question for the Senator. With their starting quarterback transferring to Cable Midland,
1:06:06
I'm wondering if my Patriots Parkersburg South would take a step back this season.
1:06:11
However, after seeing him drop eighty three to start the season, I wonder
1:06:15
if they will still have enough talent to make it back to Wheeling this year.
1:06:17
Pretty good start, huh. Robert Shocky's who he's referring to, who's
1:06:20
also off to a great start Cable Midland. Three rushing touchdowns on Friday night,
1:06:25
to go along with Curtis Jones, WVU commit at Cable Midland rush for
1:06:29
three touchdowns. He's also coming here. There was a linebacker. Yeah,
1:06:32
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1:08:00
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com. I wonder how many of those will be at the first couple of
1:09:51
games this season. It's a good question. I met you a lot of
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people. It's a good question. Is how's the food court going? A
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good right? I don't know. Is there gonna be one? We'll have
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details on that. We are effordine special. Thank you too. Lucky Luke
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Rousy, our producer here of three guys before the game, and a special
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That'll do it for us. We're gone, three guys before the game.
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Talk to you later