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- 0:08Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, welcome in. It is time for another episode
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- 0:28Speaker 1: Bowl recap and Hoppies announcement. Stop stop just saying you
- 0:38Speaker 1: said it. I didn't say it. I was gone. You
- 0:41Speaker 1: made this big announcement. You didn't ask me, didn't tell
- 0:44Speaker 1: me about it.
- 0:44Speaker 2: Two significant firings in the same month.
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- 1:31Speaker 1: going here. First things. First, football season is over officially
- 1:39Speaker 1: and the transition has formally begun. Fair to say, yeah,
- 1:46Speaker 1: fix that, Flowers, you get the flying wuv in there?
- 1:49Speaker 1: All right? So it came to an end late night
- 1:53Speaker 1: Tuesday night into Wednesday morning. West Virginia falls to the
- 1:58Speaker 1: Memphis Tigers and they celebrate the Scooter's Coffee Frisco Bowl
- 2:05Speaker 1: championship by pouring a very large amount of coldbrew on
- 2:10Speaker 1: the head of their head coach Ryan silver Field. Obviously,
- 2:15Speaker 1: the game went down to the final possession and West
- 2:19Speaker 1: Virginia just unable to get it done. Would have been
- 2:22Speaker 1: a heroic comeback, would have been a really super neat
- 2:27Speaker 1: way to end the season, to end the careers for
- 2:30Speaker 1: a lot of the seniors who were playing in their
- 2:32Speaker 1: final game. Would have been one nice blip memory that
- 2:36Speaker 1: they would have to end the season with a victory
- 2:39Speaker 1: and end the season with a winning record at seven
- 2:41Speaker 1: and six. But it didn't happen, and it didn't happen
- 2:47Speaker 1: for a lot of the reasons why the team was
- 2:49Speaker 1: six and six going into the game because they just
- 2:53Speaker 1: could not put together consistency right, slow start, got going, defense,
- 3:07Speaker 1: and it was there for the taking and you don't
- 3:10Speaker 1: get it, kind of like the whole season.
- 3:12Speaker 3: Fair' fair at in turnovers too.
- 3:14Speaker 4: I thought that was what jumped out to me, his
- 3:16Speaker 4: defense and turnovers, which, if you went back and recapped
- 3:18Speaker 4: this season, the two biggest issues this team had or
- 3:21Speaker 4: what made it different from before the year before, defense
- 3:24Speaker 4: and turnovers. And I thought that that showed again, and
- 3:27Speaker 4: I think you're right, Tony. It's it's a shame that
- 3:30Speaker 4: it couldn't end with that Garrett Green marching them down
- 3:34Speaker 4: for a touchdown, because man, he was really good and
- 3:37Speaker 4: I realized in a loss, but what an electric performance
- 3:39Speaker 4: from Garrett throwing for more than three hundred, running for
- 3:41Speaker 4: nearly one hundred. Hudson clement Ar guy was outstanding in
- 3:45Speaker 4: his effort too. But I think you're right, Tony. I
- 3:48Speaker 4: went back and thought about this some more, and I
- 3:51Speaker 4: hoppy I said this on your show. I first and
- 3:53Speaker 4: foremost give a lot of respect to those players and
- 3:55Speaker 4: those coaches that have had a really difficult two weeks
- 3:58Speaker 4: for them to be able to stay again and especially
- 4:01Speaker 4: those assistant coaches that don't know what's coming next for
- 4:03Speaker 4: them and be able to continue to work for a
- 4:06Speaker 4: school that likely you're not going to be with moving forward,
- 4:09Speaker 4: and keep that recruiting class together and go prepare for
- 4:12Speaker 4: that bowl game and then give the effort you did,
- 4:14Speaker 4: and credit to those players for fighting till the end.
- 4:16Speaker 4: And I think it was clear everybody had to kind
- 4:18Speaker 4: of get their footing to start right, even Chad Scott
- 4:21Speaker 4: calling plays for the very first time that ended up
- 4:23Speaker 4: being really well done by him. So a lot of
- 4:26Speaker 4: credit all the way around of that group for fighting.
- 4:27Speaker 4: Just came up a tad short there at the end.
- 4:30Speaker 2: Other than other than the loss, it was about as
- 4:35Speaker 2: well as things could have gone other than the loss,
- 4:37Speaker 2: if you get my context on that. Yeah, okay, first
- 4:39Speaker 2: of all, Second, of all of the seven losses this season,
- 4:43Speaker 2: it is the least impactful loss of the year. I mean,
- 4:47Speaker 2: we lamented a number of these losses and what they
- 4:49Speaker 2: meant going forward, and each one had its own meaning
- 4:52Speaker 2: in one form or another one and a couple of
- 4:54Speaker 2: them certainly led to the firing of the head coach.
- 4:57Speaker 2: But once the coach, once Neil Brown was smissed you
- 5:02Speaker 2: start to move on. And so this game was a
- 5:06Speaker 2: game of interest, but it was about It was also
- 5:09Speaker 2: about sort of that's that's what it was, and you're
- 5:12Speaker 2: already moving on to what is And that was a
- 5:15Speaker 2: subtext of the entire coverage was West Virginia's playing this game,
- 5:19Speaker 2: but Rich Rodriguez is going to be the next head coach.
- 5:21Speaker 2: He's interviewed on TV, interviewed on radio, he's interviewed on
- 5:23Speaker 2: all these places, and so that was it was already
- 5:27Speaker 2: starting to move forward. It's almost as though the game
- 5:29Speaker 2: was a platform for the discussion to begin about what
- 5:34Speaker 2: is next. So for that reason, the loss, while again
- 5:38Speaker 2: it would have been great if Grey Green a great game,
- 5:41Speaker 2: would have been great if they'd marched down and put
- 5:43Speaker 2: an exclamation point, but it wasn't. But it was a
- 5:45Speaker 2: platform to begin to talk about change, and change by
- 5:50Speaker 2: nature creates hope and opportunity, and I think that's the
- 5:55Speaker 2: transition that was taking place.
- 5:57Speaker 4: That's a great point, and that's well said. And I'll
- 5:59Speaker 4: also say that furthers my belief that how much respect
- 6:03Speaker 4: I have for those players for going out and playing,
- 6:05Speaker 4: because you know who, it wasn't about what's next for Yeah,
- 6:08Speaker 4: those guys Garrett Green, Nick Malone, Jacque Hubbard, Brandon Yates,
- 6:11Speaker 4: and a whole bunch of other guys that couldn't care
- 6:14Speaker 4: less if rich Rod was coming right, they were playing
- 6:16Speaker 4: in their final game as Mountaineers, and those are guys
- 6:19Speaker 4: that have given a lot to this program. So I
- 6:21Speaker 4: think you're one hundred percent right that that's what was
- 6:23Speaker 4: going on with the narrative around the game. And yet
- 6:25Speaker 4: you had a bunch of those players that are still
- 6:27Speaker 4: standing there saying, hey, you know what, this is my
- 6:29Speaker 4: final chance to do something I love and I've done
- 6:32Speaker 4: my whole life, and a lot of them aren't going
- 6:34Speaker 4: to get to do it anymore. And they still went
- 6:36Speaker 4: out and put it on the line. That's why it's
- 6:38Speaker 4: unfortunate for all that context that it couldn't just end
- 6:40Speaker 4: in a win. Does it really in the grand scheme
- 6:42Speaker 4: of things matter that it was a loss? Probably not,
- 6:44Speaker 4: except of those guys that put so much into it.
- 6:47Speaker 4: But I walk away with a lot of respect for
- 6:49Speaker 4: a lot of people in that building for how they
- 6:50Speaker 4: handled it.
- 6:51Speaker 1: Yeah, I couldn't agree with you more. That was that
- 6:54Speaker 1: was a great effort to keep the kids together and
- 6:57Speaker 1: to go out there and play as they did. But
- 7:00Speaker 1: despite all of that, obviously this group just had some
- 7:03Speaker 1: inherent weaknesses and as a result of that, it cost
- 7:07Speaker 1: them the game. Now onto the other side of things, Hoppy,
- 7:12Speaker 1: to your point, the transition has begun, and what is
- 7:16Speaker 1: going to take place here now in the next several days,
- 7:20Speaker 1: It's going to be just NonStop. You Christmas is coming,
- 7:22Speaker 1: but guess what, It's just going to be phone calls
- 7:25Speaker 1: and constant conversations. Who's in the portal, who's out, who's
- 7:28Speaker 1: coming in, what staff members coming in? How many players
- 7:31Speaker 1: are you going to bring from Jacksonville State, What assistant
- 7:33Speaker 1: coach is coming in, where's he coming from? Is he
- 7:36Speaker 1: going to bring dudes with him? All of that is
- 7:39Speaker 1: happening now, and that will be this next several months
- 7:43Speaker 1: before they literally get out there. Classes start in January.
- 7:46Speaker 1: Obviously again you'll have your spring semester. But you know,
- 7:49Speaker 1: in talking to Rich this one blew my mind. So
- 7:51Speaker 1: he had sixty new guys on his team at jack
- 7:53Speaker 1: State this past year, sixty And it blows my mind
- 7:56Speaker 1: because I knew how hard it was for him to
- 7:59Speaker 1: in pound his culture right the first time he was here.
- 8:02Speaker 1: But he got it together and he said, like forty
- 8:04Speaker 1: of them didn't come until the summer. They weren't there
- 8:07Speaker 1: in January, So he's gonna have a similar situation here
- 8:11Speaker 1: because who knows, you know, I saw Tomas Remax in
- 8:15Speaker 1: the portals, Trey Lathan's and the ports l Solomon Sullivan
- 8:20Speaker 1: Weedman is in the port so you're gonna lose. Just like,
- 8:23Speaker 1: don't don't get bummed out, because don't be surprised, I
- 8:26Speaker 1: guess is a better way to say, because anyone and
- 8:28Speaker 1: everyone can pop right now, and that's what this is
- 8:31Speaker 1: going to be.
- 8:32Speaker 4: The Remac one was bummed me out a little bit.
- 8:34Speaker 4: We'd talked last night on the sports Line. It was
- 8:36Speaker 4: almost in real time. I think Famil was listening to
- 8:38Speaker 4: the show because immediately put the tweet out after I said,
- 8:40Speaker 4: I hope Remac stays here. That position group is one
- 8:44Speaker 4: I'm watching closely. We've heard for a while now from
- 8:47Speaker 4: the previous staff that they thought they had some maybe
- 8:49Speaker 4: potential pros on that offensive line, but certainly some really
- 8:52Speaker 4: good talent. You wonder how many of those offensive linemen
- 8:56Speaker 4: stay hot, because one of the real disadvantages Neil had
- 8:59Speaker 4: when he took over was complete lack of an offensive line.
- 9:01Speaker 4: There just weren't anybody that was returning that you could
- 9:04Speaker 4: build on. That had to start from scratch. Ultimately gave
- 9:07Speaker 4: us Zach Frasier, Wyatt, Milm, a Remac who played very well,
- 9:11Speaker 4: Yates Hubbard, a bunch of these guys that ended up
- 9:13Speaker 4: playing a lot of football for West Virginia. But it
- 9:16Speaker 4: was a slow build process because of that. If you
- 9:18Speaker 4: don't have a line now, it's a different scenario now,
- 9:21Speaker 4: and that Rich has the ability to go out and
- 9:22Speaker 4: get folks in. But my hope was that you were
- 9:25Speaker 4: going to keep a couple of those linemen to anchor
- 9:27Speaker 4: that line, then go out and fill from the portal
- 9:30Speaker 4: if you had to. Remac was one you were hoping
- 9:32Speaker 4: would stay. He'd played a lot of football, has a
- 9:35Speaker 4: bunch of offers that he's already received. He's in the
- 9:38Speaker 4: portal as of last night. Johnny Williams was really good
- 9:40Speaker 4: the end the night, stepping in for Wyatt. Mylon third
- 9:43Speaker 4: best grade among offensive players for West Virginia. He's another
- 9:46Speaker 4: guy you look forward to moving in the future if
- 9:48Speaker 4: he could stick around. So I'm watching that group in
- 9:51Speaker 4: particular just from a building block perspective, because if you
- 9:54Speaker 4: can start there, then you can devote more resources over
- 9:57Speaker 4: to fixing that defense. And Lord knows, you need to
- 9:59Speaker 4: get some guys over there. Somebody's got to be able
- 10:01Speaker 4: to rest the passor somebody's got to be able to
- 10:03Speaker 4: cover the passer. You've got to start there. Then you're
- 10:05Speaker 4: gonna have to start filling in skill around there.
- 10:07Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it's a wild time. It's a wild time, but.
- 10:11Speaker 2: It but it is a time again. Going back to
- 10:14Speaker 2: the change, is that if and look, we all fans
- 10:18Speaker 2: of Neil Brown, and as Neil Brown said, I think
- 10:22Speaker 2: very accurately, it was probably best for him and for
- 10:27Speaker 2: the school to move on because if you hadn't, what
- 10:29Speaker 2: would you be talking about for the next six months.
- 10:31Speaker 2: All you'd be talking about was will the coach get
- 10:33Speaker 2: fired next year? Okay, so that's off the table. That's
- 10:36Speaker 2: off the table. So you have these other stories that
- 10:39Speaker 2: will drive the narrative that are much more positive than
- 10:41Speaker 2: will the coach get fired?
- 10:43Speaker 1: And think about this, I mean, these things are happening
- 10:46Speaker 1: right now. Like there was a safety to play the
- 10:48Speaker 1: Jacksonville State this year that just signed with Miami this week, right,
- 10:51Speaker 1: So like these forget about.
- 10:53Speaker 3: Me or may not have discussed him on the last program.
- 10:57Speaker 1: He might have got about four hundred large, but anyway,
- 11:00Speaker 1: up a couple of dollars on him. Yeah, So like
- 11:03Speaker 1: you can't wait, like don't think this is Christmas break
- 11:07Speaker 1: and like, hey, things are gonna slow down now. Everything
- 11:10Speaker 1: says you have to make the phone calls. These are
- 11:12Speaker 1: calls today. These are conversations now that are happening with families,
- 11:16Speaker 1: with players agents. You have to get your guys now,
- 11:19Speaker 1: otherwise guess what the shopping list is going to be gone?
- 11:22Speaker 4: Well, when Rich came in the first time, he a
- 11:24Speaker 4: couple couple key phrases, the spot the ball and play
- 11:27Speaker 4: like your hair's on fire. He's playing like his hairs
- 11:29Speaker 4: on fire right now, right, I mean you got you
- 11:30Speaker 4: got to get in it. It's been happening. It's not
- 11:32Speaker 4: like it just started today. It will ramp up for
- 11:35Speaker 4: West Virginia now that they're through the bowl. But it's
- 11:37Speaker 4: gonna go now. You gotta get going.
- 11:38Speaker 1: You know when Deren Genas, when Darren Devrees got hired,
- 11:41Speaker 1: it was right when we were doing those mountaineer caravans, right,
- 11:45Speaker 1: it was exactly like when I told I told you
- 11:48Speaker 1: guys this, like if we weren't in the air on
- 11:51Speaker 1: a plane and his phone didn't work. That was the
- 11:53Speaker 1: only time we didn't have a phone in his ear
- 11:56Speaker 1: because it's just NonStop. And that's trying to find like
- 12:00Speaker 1: eight to ten dudes, right, this is trying to find
- 12:03Speaker 1: probably fifty guys, fifty guys. So, and then you're gonna
- 12:09Speaker 1: put your and you're not the same time, you'reutting your
- 12:11Speaker 1: staff together. Who's coming, who's not coming?
- 12:12Speaker 2: But he has an operations person too, right, well.
- 12:14Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean he's gonna have his general manager. Whomever
- 12:17Speaker 1: that is going to be is going to be front
- 12:20Speaker 1: and center in this. And then you're working with the universities, say, okay,
- 12:24Speaker 1: we got this revenue share kicking in here. What can
- 12:26Speaker 1: we do here? Dollar wise? What do we have? How
- 12:28Speaker 1: do you spend that monch? I mean, it's a mind,
- 12:31Speaker 1: it's a mine experience, a heck.
- 12:32Speaker 3: Of a puzzle.
- 12:33Speaker 4: Right now, you're right with those moving parts. Yes, how
- 12:35Speaker 4: much money do we have? What's the salary cap? Who's staying,
- 12:38Speaker 4: who's going? How much do you have to give here?
- 12:40Speaker 4: What's this guy worth?
- 12:41Speaker 2: You're going your you're the plane is going down the
- 12:43Speaker 2: runway while it's under construction, yes, we'll.
- 12:46Speaker 3: Actually be in the air.
- 12:47Speaker 4: It might might be up in the air with one
- 12:48Speaker 4: wing and you're out there trying to attach the second wing.
- 12:50Speaker 1: I call this design build. This is this is design
- 12:53Speaker 1: build is what is your building? And way? So yeah,
- 12:55Speaker 1: I mean because like there's quarterbacks in the portal right now.
- 12:58Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we're quarterbacks in it committed.
- 13:00Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 13:00Speaker 4: I was gonna say there's not there's quarter backs that
- 13:02Speaker 4: have been in articulating or at the new place now yeah, yeah.
- 13:04Speaker 1: And all the other positions besides quarterback you got. And
- 13:07Speaker 1: so you need to make a quick determination. What do
- 13:09Speaker 1: I have here? Is that going to be good enough
- 13:12Speaker 1: for what I want? If not, then where do I
- 13:14Speaker 1: need to go?
- 13:15Speaker 2: Wild Man wild I wouldn't I wouldn't want it. I
- 13:20Speaker 2: would not want it.
- 13:21Speaker 1: Yeah, well it's part of the deal. Part of the deal.
- 13:26Speaker 1: One last thing here, going back to the MOUNTAINIR football game,
- 13:30Speaker 1: hats off Garrett Green. Yeah, twenty nine to forty three
- 13:33Speaker 1: to twenty eight, two touchdowns, seventy three percent completion, one
- 13:38Speaker 1: fifty two quarterback rating. He runs for ninety five on
- 13:44Speaker 1: seven carries. He averaged fourteen yards of carry with a
- 13:46Speaker 1: long run of fifty six with a touchdown, five hundred
- 13:50Speaker 1: and thirty four yards of total offense. Hudson Clement eleven
- 13:55Speaker 1: for one sixty six, two touchdowns on fourteen targets for
- 14:00Speaker 1: a buck sixty six, Buck sixty six. Good night, I'm
- 14:04Speaker 1: Boyattie and Tony.
- 14:06Speaker 2: That game, as you well know, because you were calling
- 14:08Speaker 2: the action, I'm sure when you looked at it, it was
- 14:10Speaker 2: seventeen nothing. You looked around like we didn't thought, okay,
- 14:13Speaker 2: see how this is going to go.
- 14:14Speaker 1: They have yeah, they have, they have packed her like that.
- 14:16Speaker 2: And and to come back from that and again people say, oh,
- 14:20Speaker 2: you're you know, you're shining, you know what. But I
- 14:22Speaker 2: mean to come seventeen down in that given all the
- 14:24Speaker 2: other circumstances bad we talked about. You thought, okay, that's it,
- 14:27Speaker 2: and then they they battled back. Man, they battled back.
- 14:30Speaker 2: It just showed a lot of character, all right. So
- 14:35Speaker 2: we got stuff to get into. We've got basketball as well,
- 14:37Speaker 2: plus hoppies announcement. Was that a bad Was that a
- 14:42Speaker 2: big call on the slide? And I'm not saying cost
- 14:46Speaker 2: of the game, none of that you had turnover as yet?
- 14:49Speaker 1: Was that I would say this to that, Okay, I
- 14:52Speaker 1: would say unique unique call, is what you're saying. You
- 14:56Speaker 1: don't often see that. Have you seen it before? That
- 14:59Speaker 1: the player giving himself up. That's not a quarter quarterback.
- 15:02Speaker 3: I had not seen that.
- 15:03Speaker 1: Yeah, so I can understand what they're saying. But I
- 15:06Speaker 1: didn't even know you could do that, to be quite honest,
- 15:08Speaker 1: if you're not a quarterback. I didn't know if you
- 15:10Speaker 1: could slide and say, Okay, he's starting to go down.
- 15:13Speaker 3: He's I told you this on your show.
- 15:16Speaker 4: Yes, West Virginia's due to benefit from the slide rolls.
- 15:20Speaker 3: Slide roll It went against West Virginia twice.
- 15:23Speaker 4: Yeah, that didn't affect you in the Oklahoma State game either,
- 15:25Speaker 4: because he ended up smashing the Cowboys.
- 15:27Speaker 3: But when Garrett slid before.
- 15:28Speaker 4: The first down sticks and right line right uh, the
- 15:32Speaker 4: exact measurement of the exact flode.
- 15:35Speaker 1: And on the last drive for West Virginia, he slid
- 15:38Speaker 1: before the first down stick, which took off a considerable
- 15:41Speaker 1: amount of time. Had he gotten the first down, the
- 15:43Speaker 1: clock would have stopped, and that would have been a
- 15:47Speaker 1: big difference. You're twenty plus seconds you would have had
- 15:50Speaker 1: in your pocket and wouldn't have to be so hurried.
- 15:53Speaker 2: Yeah, but I mean, I just I just thought it's
- 15:58Speaker 2: some of the calls are interest I'm not saying the
- 15:59Speaker 2: call calls of the game or anything like that. I'm just
- 16:01Speaker 2: saying that. And I thought I just assumed that I
- 16:04Speaker 2: probably assumed incorrectly that that that was unique to the
- 16:08Speaker 2: quarterback because you don't usually see it otherwise.
- 16:10Speaker 4: Right, You also don't I don't know many defensive players
- 16:13Speaker 4: that do slide, So maybe that's why we haven't seen it.
- 16:15Speaker 4: Like the guy with the pick never slides, does he?
- 16:17Speaker 4: Sometimes he just falls down? Yeah, Which I don't know
- 16:19Speaker 4: why that guy didn't just fall down. Don't return that thing,
- 16:22Speaker 4: he just fall down? How did he even know.
- 16:23Speaker 3: How to slide?
- 16:27Speaker 1: Guy?
- 16:28Speaker 3: Quarterbacks on work on I had that defense guy, you know, he.
- 16:30Speaker 2: Nobody played quarterback in high school.
- 16:32Speaker 1: West Virginia penalized five times for forty yards, Memphis two
- 16:36Speaker 1: times for nineteen yards. West Virginia one of the least
- 16:38Speaker 1: penalized teams in the country. Sun Belt Crew, I knew
- 16:41Speaker 1: we were going to have problems with the officials early
- 16:44Speaker 1: before the game. Was hour and a half before the
- 16:47Speaker 1: game started. I hate when the officials come out onto
- 16:49Speaker 1: the field and they take pictures of themselves. It just
- 16:54Speaker 1: like makes me crazy. They're on the field taking pink
- 16:58Speaker 1: guy gets his phone out there doing a bawl man
- 17:00Speaker 1: document it grow the up man.
- 17:03Speaker 3: First bowl game, second bowl game.
- 17:05Speaker 1: First act like you've been there.
- 17:08Speaker 3: I haven't been there.
- 17:08Speaker 1: Like a referee takes a get a picture. It's just
- 17:11Speaker 1: it's unnerving when a referee takes it's unnervous. Where unnerving
- 17:17Speaker 1: when a referee takes his cell phone out of his
- 17:19Speaker 1: referees uniform pocket and he's taking pictures, And like two
- 17:23Speaker 1: of them are sitting there taking a selfie of each other, Like,
- 17:25Speaker 1: come on, did you.
- 17:26Speaker 2: Take a selfie? If you're what about the selfie you
- 17:28Speaker 2: took it yourself in the booth that I got hold
- 17:30Speaker 2: me in Dusty, did you take a selfie?
- 17:33Speaker 1: But that was that's different.
- 17:35Speaker 3: He was trying to document the moment about I was.
- 17:39Speaker 1: Sending you a picture of me and Dusty that I
- 17:41Speaker 1: thought you would like to know that that relationship is flourishing,
- 17:45Speaker 1: so you take a picture. But I didn't because I
- 17:48Speaker 1: was not your first I didn't listen. I didn't take
- 17:51Speaker 1: a picture because I was at a bowl game. I
- 17:53Speaker 1: took a picture because Dusty walked into the booth. I
- 17:55Speaker 1: haven't seen dusty. Yeah, no, no, I'm wing some for history.
- 18:00Speaker 1: Did I sit up there and go, hey, I'm at
- 18:01Speaker 1: the Scooters coffee? If he has Frisco ball, grow up,
- 18:07Speaker 1: grow up.
- 18:08Speaker 3: You're wrong on that one.
- 18:09Speaker 1: You're a part of the You're a part of the activity.
- 18:11Speaker 2: Don't tell you a mean one.
- 18:12Speaker 1: Mister.
- 18:14Speaker 3: Happy holiday season to you too.
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- 20:55Speaker 1: Was that? Well? I can do that kind of stuff.
- 20:57Speaker 2: Maybe the cup by.
- 21:00Speaker 1: The way you guys would want it done. Maybe I
- 21:01Speaker 1: could have a picture of it, mate, I have a
- 21:04Speaker 1: picture of it. Instead, I give it.
- 21:06Speaker 3: I never see a picture of Karedi anywhere. Ever, again,
- 21:09Speaker 3: no pictures for Karedi.
- 21:10Speaker 4: Anybody wants to come up to him a game, wants
- 21:12Speaker 4: a picture, No, no pictures, no pictures.
- 21:15Speaker 1: Sorry, what's that music?
- 21:16Speaker 2: Oh?
- 21:16Speaker 1: Is that music? Oh? I'm sorry? What's that music?
- 21:18Speaker 4: He's not a picture of mister Creedy at the game
- 21:20Speaker 4: because it's your first basketball game.
- 21:21Speaker 3: He's attendant. You want a picture with five year old son? Sorry?
- 21:24Speaker 4: Sorry, play no pictures here, security staff next game that
- 21:28Speaker 4: nobody's allowed to get pictures for Tony.
- 21:30Speaker 1: That's no different than a doctor getting ready to do
- 21:33Speaker 1: a surgical procedure. He's in the operating room taking a
- 21:36Speaker 1: picture of Himself's the same thing. You're gonna.
- 21:39Speaker 3: Differ because you say it. The higher volume doesn't make
- 21:43Speaker 3: it true.
- 21:45Speaker 2: I did not do that right when he's because he's
- 21:48Speaker 2: he has no argument.
- 21:49Speaker 1: That's why.
- 21:51Speaker 2: It's just like a brain surgeon. He's getting ready to
- 21:54Speaker 2: cut open a skull and he takes a selfie.
- 21:57Speaker 1: Man, you are bad of all the people to say
- 22:00Speaker 1: they lift their volume when they want to be heard.
- 22:02Speaker 1: You are guilty as charged. You gotta be freaking kidding me.
- 22:07Speaker 2: Actually, Tony might have a point on that.
- 22:10Speaker 1: I got him to turn on your real true.
- 22:15Speaker 3: I mean he raises his vallume. What am I supposed
- 22:16Speaker 3: to do? Not raise mine? We're on the right side
- 22:19Speaker 3: of it.
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- 23:11Speaker 1: the Mattinee basketball game two pm. Tip. West Virginia closes
- 23:16Speaker 1: non conference play. That's how fast this thing's going, right,
- 23:19Speaker 1: They'll take on the Mercy Hearsts at two o'clock and Lakers.
- 23:24Speaker 1: Are they the Lakers? Awesome? Oh, that's nat the Lakers
- 23:30Speaker 1: up there? Are they? Erie? Pa Erie?
- 23:32Speaker 2: Yeah?
- 23:32Speaker 1: Yeah, So there's a lake right there. It brings a
- 23:34Speaker 1: lot of snow, lots of snow, you know, Lake Erie
- 23:37Speaker 1: truly one of the great lakes, all right, So yes,
- 23:43Speaker 1: it is a lot of by the way, a lot
- 23:45Speaker 1: of low Wendell boats on the Lake Erie. I'll guarantee
- 23:48Speaker 1: you that, all right, Brad. So this is an interesting
- 23:50Speaker 1: matchup in the sense that you're about to go from
- 23:54Speaker 1: playing Mercyhurst and then your next game is going to
- 23:56Speaker 1: be Kansas. Well, there is there any any difference between the.
- 23:59Speaker 4: Two little all due respect to Mercyhurst, little bit. Yeah,
- 24:04Speaker 4: this is when I'm not going to give you an
- 24:05Speaker 4: extensive breakdown. Is this to me is more just about
- 24:08Speaker 4: West Virginia working on itself, working on additional lineup combinations,
- 24:14Speaker 4: working on that bench, continuing to get stronger. This is
- 24:17Speaker 4: a team you're going to come in favored by what
- 24:19Speaker 4: twenty five plus over Mercyhurst.
- 24:21Speaker 3: Here, this is a.
- 24:22Speaker 4: Team that offensively and defensively struggled so far on the season,
- 24:25Speaker 4: three hundred and forty first offensive efficiency, three point fifty
- 24:29Speaker 4: defensively out of how many teams are three sixty four,
- 24:32Speaker 4: three sixty seven somewhere in there. So West Virginia should
- 24:34Speaker 4: be able to do what it wants on both ends
- 24:37Speaker 4: of the floor. The challenge just is and it's it's
- 24:39Speaker 4: probably not a challenge in terms of winter loss. It's
- 24:42Speaker 4: just in how sharp you want to be. These are
- 24:44Speaker 4: always the tough games for teams, right, Yeah, the December
- 24:46Speaker 4: twenty second, twenty third game, when guys are going to
- 24:49Speaker 4: have the opportunity to go home and get a couple
- 24:51Speaker 4: of days off. Their bags are packed when they come
- 24:53Speaker 4: into the locker room, and you just want to get
- 24:55Speaker 4: this effort in, get out of there with no injuries,
- 24:57Speaker 4: and then get a few days off, then come back
- 24:59Speaker 4: and start to for the start of Big twelve play.
- 25:03Speaker 4: It's amazing, guys. You know this, We know this, everybody
- 25:06Speaker 4: listening knows this. But when you see it, Hoppy you,
- 25:08Speaker 4: I mean, you can't see exactly what's on my screen here,
- 25:10Speaker 4: but as you scroll down, this is on Ken Palm
- 25:13Speaker 4: and it lists all the upcoming opponents and the rank
- 25:15Speaker 4: of each of those teams. You're about to embark on
- 25:19Speaker 4: what is in essence, you know, West Rage, You played
- 25:22Speaker 4: that four game stretch where it went Gonzagar, Louisville, Arizona, Georgetown.
- 25:27Speaker 4: So you're talking about four teams that were in the
- 25:29Speaker 4: top sixty ish in the country. That's what's about to
- 25:34Speaker 4: come for the next twenty oh jet anything excuse me,
- 25:37Speaker 4: as high as a number one, two, three, or four,
- 25:41Speaker 4: all the way down to a low of only eighty one,
- 25:44Speaker 4: which is UCF right now, and those numbers are are fluid.
- 25:47Speaker 4: But you're about to embark on twenty consecutive games with
- 25:50Speaker 4: teams all ranked in that area. So it's a it's
- 25:52Speaker 4: a heck of a stretch coming. As we will know,
- 25:54Speaker 4: it's brutal.
- 25:55Speaker 1: Yeah, so that'll be fun probably without right Yeah, yes,
- 26:02Speaker 1: remains remains indefinitely on the sideline. We need to do
- 26:08Speaker 1: a couple of things. Jake Hour is going to have
- 26:11Speaker 1: an opportunity to participate in the game on Sunday, may
- 26:15Speaker 1: get more time than normal. We need to set and
- 26:18Speaker 1: he's got four to three pointers in the last two games.
- 26:20Speaker 3: He went over your three and a half.
- 26:22Speaker 1: Thank you. I think I took the over, didn't I?
- 26:24Speaker 3: Yeah, we all took the Okay.
- 26:26Speaker 1: So now let's set a number specific to Sunday's game.
- 26:29Speaker 1: The over under is three and a half in the game.
- 26:34Speaker 2: In the game under, that's hard to do.
- 26:39Speaker 4: I mean, Jake has been so blistering hot. He's certainly
- 26:42Speaker 4: on the scouting report this week.
- 26:43Speaker 1: Two and a half. You want me to set it?
- 26:45Speaker 4: Two and a half is probably a better number, even
- 26:46Speaker 4: that's even, that's high. But two and a half is
- 26:48Speaker 4: a better number over three and a half in.
- 26:50Speaker 1: Any games a lot, I'm taking over. If you go
- 26:52Speaker 1: two and a half, I'd go over. I think three
- 26:55Speaker 1: and a half you're going under under, Okay, But like
- 26:59Speaker 1: you said, even two, I mean even three is.
- 27:03Speaker 2: Well, what's what? What minute? How many minutes?
- 27:05Speaker 1: Is it?
- 27:06Speaker 2: Well?
- 27:06Speaker 1: With him?
- 27:06Speaker 2: Though, doesn't matter minutes.
- 27:08Speaker 1: Our will play really super close to double digit minutes.
- 27:13Speaker 1: He'll get ten to twelve minutes, I would think, will
- 27:15Speaker 1: you be bread?
- 27:17Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm just looking at his at his shooting chart.
- 27:20Speaker 2: Where's he shoot from?
- 27:21Speaker 1: Shot one is good?
- 27:23Speaker 3: Hoppy?
- 27:23Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 27:24Speaker 3: Look at the red around the three point line right corner.
- 27:26Speaker 4: One of one right wing, one of one dead on
- 27:29Speaker 4: top of the key, three, one of one, left wing,
- 27:31Speaker 4: one of two left.
- 27:32Speaker 1: Corner, two of three. The other day at the show,
- 27:35Speaker 1: blistering hot from three. The other day, picture around. They
- 27:37Speaker 1: were just getting up shots. He shot one from the
- 27:40Speaker 1: corner behind the basket. He was out of bounds, he
- 27:43Speaker 1: was inside the base line and he shot one and
- 27:45Speaker 1: it went straight through and I went, yeah, he can
- 27:48Speaker 1: shoot a little bit. You can shoot little bit.
- 27:49Speaker 4: Okay, seven year he's been great. Are we doing spreads
- 27:52Speaker 4: on stats? The end of that is that part of
- 27:54Speaker 4: the segment.
- 27:54Speaker 1: Now I played the music.
- 27:56Speaker 3: I didn't hear the music. You were yelling, so.
- 27:57Speaker 4: Did the a thing. I've read the whole thing. Yeah,
- 28:00Speaker 4: here's a basketball one. Then I'll give you some football ones.
- 28:02Speaker 4: Here's one on on Sincere Harris. We continue to talk
- 28:05Speaker 4: about his maturation and especially on the offensive end. The
- 28:08Speaker 4: defensive end to hoppy he is. He is elite in
- 28:12Speaker 4: locking up opposing guards. How about this stat. You don't
- 28:15Speaker 4: get this very often. In his last four games, he
- 28:19Speaker 4: has more steels than turnovers in each one of those games.
- 28:22Speaker 2: It's impressive.
- 28:24Speaker 4: Now that's a good stat. You'll take that all day.
- 28:25Speaker 4: Long more steels than turnovers in each game for a guard,
- 28:29Speaker 4: So he's going to be one of the there's many
- 28:30Speaker 4: keys going into conference play, he's one of them. The
- 28:33Speaker 4: continued development of him on the offensive end will be
- 28:36Speaker 4: important for this team moving forward. But that's a good start.
- 28:38Speaker 4: You've got more steels and turnovers. You'll take that all the.
- 28:41Speaker 1: Time, all right, WV women's basketball.
- 28:43Speaker 4: I got one more for since here. It's top ten
- 28:47Speaker 4: percent in the country in block shots out of twenty
- 28:51Speaker 4: three hundred players, A six, three, six or four guards
- 28:54Speaker 4: top ten percent.
- 28:55Speaker 2: So we knew going into the season just would be
- 28:56Speaker 2: a top team for blocking shots in the country.
- 28:59Speaker 1: We know they're going best.
- 29:00Speaker 4: It's part of what makes him. We've talked about this
- 29:02Speaker 4: a bunch how good he is defensively. If you happen
- 29:04Speaker 4: to get a step on him and get around to
- 29:06Speaker 4: the basket, lookout because he's coming behind to close with
- 29:08Speaker 4: the block.
- 29:09Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 29:09Speaker 3: Yeah, he's been really good.
- 29:10Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 29:12Speaker 1: Anything else, well.
- 29:13Speaker 3: I got football stuff, But go ahead and do what
- 29:15Speaker 3: you're going to do there on basketball.
- 29:16Speaker 1: WV women's basketball team leaves Friday Boulder, Colorado. This is
- 29:24Speaker 1: the league opener for WVU West Virginia just one loss
- 29:27Speaker 1: on the season. The Buffs have two losses. I believe
- 29:30Speaker 1: they're nine and two. West Virginia is a ten and
- 29:33Speaker 1: one and it's an eight o'clock start on Saturday, but yeah,
- 29:40Speaker 1: I think so eastern. Okay, yeah, so what would be
- 29:42Speaker 1: what's six? What the hell time it is over there?
- 29:45Speaker 1: Do they even have time? I mean, I don't even
- 29:47Speaker 1: I don't even know anymore. So when the sun sets,
- 29:49Speaker 1: it's at night time. And uh, this will be their
- 29:52Speaker 1: their league opener, and we'll see if they can keep
- 29:55Speaker 1: it rolling. This will be a good This will be good.
- 29:57Speaker 4: Kylie Blaxton returning home. She's Colorado Spring's native. Play couple
- 30:00Speaker 4: of years at Colorado.
- 30:01Speaker 1: Oh that's cool.
- 30:02Speaker 3: Good luck to her returning into om State.
- 30:04Speaker 2: Interesting when they run that buffalo in the court too,
- 30:06Speaker 2: that's I'm sorry, Byson.
- 30:08Speaker 1: That just for football, Oh, just for football. All right,
- 30:11Speaker 1: go ahead, you have football.
- 30:12Speaker 4: Yeah, just some some football numbers. Let's talk about as
- 30:14Speaker 4: we wrap up that bowl game. Put a bow on
- 30:16Speaker 4: this season. You mentioned those three hundred yards passing three
- 30:19Speaker 4: and two hundred yards rushing. So the last time a
- 30:22Speaker 4: West Virginia team went for more than two hundred on
- 30:25Speaker 4: the ground and more than three hundred and twenty yards
- 30:26Speaker 4: in the air. You got to go back to November
- 30:28Speaker 4: third of twenty eighteen against Texas last time West Virginia
- 30:32Speaker 4: did that. So a really balanced offensive effort. You guys
- 30:35Speaker 4: have both mentioned Garrett's performance. An eighty nine point five
- 30:38Speaker 4: passing grade for Garrett from PFF. That's his best of
- 30:42Speaker 4: the season and his second best versus an FBS team
- 30:45Speaker 4: in his career. He had a season high run grade
- 30:48Speaker 4: of seventy six to nine, So just some numbers to
- 30:50Speaker 4: back up what you saw. He was electric. That was
- 30:53Speaker 4: fifty six yard touchdown run. We mentioned his longest of
- 30:56Speaker 4: the season. But here's what really jumped out, guys, And
- 30:58Speaker 4: this was one of the things that I thought limited
- 31:02Speaker 4: this offense some this season, and it was the deep
- 31:05Speaker 4: ball and the effectiveness of the deep ball that was
- 31:07Speaker 4: so good two seasons ago. This year you had some
- 31:10Speaker 4: defenses that took that away. Number one, Right, they saw
- 31:13Speaker 4: your success with that and said you're not going to
- 31:15Speaker 4: do that to us again this year. And then just
- 31:17Speaker 4: the execution part wasn't there. So on deep balls, deep
- 31:21Speaker 4: passes of twenty yards or more, Garrett had five of
- 31:23Speaker 4: those in the game on Tuesday, four of four to
- 31:27Speaker 4: the deep right side where you saw how he catch
- 31:29Speaker 4: that one touchdown pass, which is a remarkable percentage to
- 31:32Speaker 4: one area of the field for a deep ball. But
- 31:34Speaker 4: here's the number that got me. Garrett had six big
- 31:38Speaker 4: time throws just on deep balls, just on passes twenty
- 31:41Speaker 4: yards or more. Six from that PFF staff called big
- 31:44Speaker 4: time throws stat Six of them in the one game,
- 31:48Speaker 4: only nine on the season going into that game.
- 31:51Speaker 3: Wow, how about that?
- 31:52Speaker 4: So that was one of the things that limited this
- 31:54Speaker 4: offense a little bit this season, was just the ability
- 31:57Speaker 4: to have that big passing play downfield. It was there
- 32:00Speaker 4: in full force on Tuesday. Six of them just in
- 32:03Speaker 4: that game. Nine leading into the game that season. I
- 32:06Speaker 4: think that told a story right there. Hudson, we mentioned
- 32:09Speaker 4: that an unbelievable game. That's his best grade in his
- 32:12Speaker 4: career receiving wise, and certainly best against an FBS team,
- 32:16Speaker 4: career high in targets and catches in his second ever
- 32:19Speaker 4: multi touchdown game.
- 32:20Speaker 3: He was outstanding.
- 32:22Speaker 4: So it's good to see those two guys in particular
- 32:24Speaker 4: close that season out. I already mentioned Johnny Williams had
- 32:27Speaker 4: the third best overall offensive grade. That was encouraging for
- 32:31Speaker 4: as well as he stepped in started for Wyatt Milm.
- 32:34Speaker 2: There's some numbers that's standy.
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- 33:31Speaker 2: Time of year for all of us, Like it doesn't
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- 33:35Speaker 2: a Bowl game? Are you on the air it is.
- 33:37Speaker 2: This is there a do you have a basketball? So
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- 33:41Speaker 1: No, we do hop. We just work to show up.
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- 33:58Speaker 2: you're eating habits, all of that. You just you know what,
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- 34:09Speaker 2: like I'm hungry, I gotta eat, or I gotta I
- 34:12Speaker 2: guess raining, I gotta. You just sort of react to
- 34:14Speaker 2: the environment. I don't think you're dictated by hours or days.
- 34:17Speaker 2: This is what's the environment of what's going on, and
- 34:19Speaker 2: you react to that and that's okay. This is how
- 34:22Speaker 2: I identify you.
- 34:23Speaker 4: I got things going. Putting gas in the car was secondary.
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- 34:28Speaker 3: Car filled up?
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- 35:08Speaker 2: Well, ask Tony. He just reached down and got a mug.
- 35:10Speaker 2: You might have some might have one of those.
- 35:12Speaker 1: Biscuits over there. I do have stuff underneath there. Uh.
- 35:16Speaker 1: Before we start the textual healing, you made an announcement
- 35:19Speaker 1: yesterday on your radio program. You have formally announced your retirement.
- 35:26Speaker 1: Congratulations to you, Thank you. It's totally caught me by surprise.
- 35:30Speaker 1: I didn't didn't know one stitch of this.
- 35:33Speaker 2: Well, you've been pushing me out the door for years.
- 35:35Speaker 2: Why would surprise you?
- 35:37Speaker 1: So like we've told everyone there's not going to be
- 35:39Speaker 1: eight hundred episodes.
- 35:43Speaker 2: That might be I'm not retired.
- 35:44Speaker 1: Did you know your release?
- 35:45Speaker 2: Did you relead that you didn't read the release or listen,
- 35:48Speaker 2: so you don't know you were.
- 35:48Speaker 1: I didn't even know you were going to be here today.
- 35:50Speaker 1: After I saw that you were retired, I don't.
- 35:51Speaker 2: Want to be here, I said, I'm good. Look, here's
- 35:54Speaker 2: the short version is that I'm going to be seventy
- 35:56Speaker 2: in February. I've worked at this wonderful company for more
- 36:00Speaker 2: than four decades and I just feel like it's time.
- 36:03Speaker 2: That's that's the short version. And addendum to that is
- 36:06Speaker 2: I'm going to continue to do several things with the company.
- 36:08Speaker 2: I'm gonna do one commentary a week. I'm going to
- 36:12Speaker 2: make some appearances on talk Line because CJ. Meadows and
- 36:16Speaker 2: Dave Wilson are taking over. And the third thing is,
- 36:19Speaker 2: with your all's consent, take a vote, see how it goes.
- 36:22Speaker 2: I will continue to do three.
- 36:23Speaker 1: Guys as long as three Guys goes.
- 36:26Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I'm not going to continue if you're
- 36:29Speaker 2: not doing it. So I would like to continue doing
- 36:31Speaker 2: three Guys with your alls consent.
- 36:37Speaker 1: We'll see. Still got to talk to Nate Adrian.
- 36:41Speaker 2: Yeah, that's my biggest fear is that Nate retires from basketball, like, hey,
- 36:45Speaker 2: next days.
- 36:46Speaker 1: It's been a good run.
- 36:47Speaker 2: It's been a good run getting Ate in here.
- 36:48Speaker 1: Yeah, this is good.
- 36:49Speaker 3: Well, congratulates, Thank you, appreciate that.
- 36:51Speaker 2: Thank you. One of the great joys of my life
- 36:53Speaker 2: has been working with this company and with you guys
- 36:56Speaker 2: and all the people here. So but I like to continue.
- 36:58Speaker 2: I don't want to go.
- 36:59Speaker 1: I could get serious about the significance of your retirement,
- 37:02Speaker 1: but but no I won't because I'll just I'll weep up.
- 37:06Speaker 2: No, you won't. It's okay. I'll be around. I'll be around.
- 37:11Speaker 3: I'll tell you this significant news, significant news.
- 37:15Speaker 2: Guy. It goes by quickly, yes, I mean it really does.
- 37:19Speaker 2: It really does, man, I mean that's what happens. And
- 37:23Speaker 2: I've even read something that as you get older, it
- 37:26Speaker 2: it does feel like time goes by faster, and we
- 37:30Speaker 2: measure by seasons like season, season, season season, like you
- 37:33Speaker 2: and I have talked, Brad Mike. Now, we don't talk
- 37:36Speaker 2: about individual years of games, talk about decades. Wasn't that
- 37:39Speaker 2: in the eighties, wasn't that in the nineties. So anyway,
- 37:42Speaker 2: but it's fun. I mean, really, I really try to
- 37:44Speaker 2: be in the moment. I enjoy working with you guys
- 37:46Speaker 2: and talking about these things. So I'll be around. I'm
- 37:49Speaker 2: not going anywhere. I'm not moving to Florida, or Panama
- 37:54Speaker 2: or anything that.
- 37:55Speaker 3: You know of the as of today.
- 37:58Speaker 1: I'll put it in the I'll put it in the content,
- 38:00Speaker 1: I'll put it into context, and then we'll move on. Okay,
- 38:03Speaker 1: single greatest radio broadcaster in the history of the state
- 38:06Speaker 1: of West Virginia. And it's not even close. It's not
- 38:11Speaker 1: even close. Like second is looking up at Mount Everest.
- 38:15Speaker 2: Well, you're too kind.
- 38:16Speaker 1: That's the truth you think about the significance of that, right, Yeah.
- 38:22Speaker 2: Well you're very kind, been very blessed, very blessed.
- 38:26Speaker 1: From the text line on three guys, would someone please
- 38:30Speaker 1: tell Will Greer that he is about six years late
- 38:35Speaker 1: to the WVU Bowl game. There's Will at the contest,
- 38:40Speaker 1: lovely wife and talking to Rich Rodriguez there on the sideline.
- 38:44Speaker 1: He did not play, Brad the Texter was referring to
- 38:47Speaker 1: he did not participate in West Virginia's bowl game.
- 38:49Speaker 4: Good to see Will there, West Virginia gear on. Hey,
- 38:51Speaker 4: two things, don't know why he's not in a game more,
- 38:53Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, makes no sense.
- 38:55Speaker 2: Two things. One is that given that there's no rules,
- 38:57Speaker 2: I mean, maybe Rich was recruiting there. Number one good point.
- 39:00Speaker 2: And the second thing is, you know, I did enough
- 39:03Speaker 2: research on this to be dangerous. I might be wrong.
- 39:05Speaker 2: I don't think I am. I have a bucking ninety
- 39:08Speaker 2: percent confidence.
- 39:10Speaker 1: Rate on this. Sure, go ahead.
- 39:11Speaker 2: Do you know only one brand now we're talking about it.
- 39:13Speaker 2: You know only one WVU quarterback has won more than
- 39:16Speaker 2: one bowl game?
- 39:20Speaker 1: Only one.
- 39:21Speaker 2: Only one has won more than one.
- 39:23Speaker 1: Pat Sure, he's the only one that's more won more
- 39:27Speaker 1: than one. Only one is nine one.
- 39:29Speaker 2: I think about the bulls and the quarterbacks. Yeah and again,
- 39:31Speaker 2: check me, fact check me.
- 39:32Speaker 1: On Major lost the Sunball, Major, the Ball Major lost
- 39:36Speaker 1: the Gator Ball, and.
- 39:38Speaker 2: You've had Think of the quarterbacks you've had in the
- 39:40Speaker 2: bowl games you've played. If Garrett, if West Virginia had
- 39:43Speaker 2: completed that drive, he would have been only the second
- 39:45Speaker 2: quarterback to win more than.
- 39:45Speaker 1: One bowl Oliver one to one, Hostelar one one, Mark
- 39:49Speaker 1: one one, Mark one in the city, right, Brad lewis
- 39:52Speaker 1: one one? Yeah, I could see it.
- 39:54Speaker 2: It's crazy, isn't it.
- 39:55Speaker 1: By the way, special thank you these lovely flowers that
- 39:57Speaker 1: are here on set hoppies got one pair down there.
- 40:00Speaker 1: This is from the family of Johnny Olashok, including the
- 40:04Speaker 1: P one listeners. Donna Owen Whirton Bobby Owen, Defiance, Ohaya
- 40:08Speaker 1: and Brian and Chandler Arizona. These are gold and blue beautiful.
- 40:12Speaker 1: That's hard to do, man. I don't know nothing about horticulture,
- 40:17Speaker 1: but that's like gold and blue, really super beautiful.
- 40:21Speaker 2: It is nice.
- 40:22Speaker 1: Did you get worse brands?
- 40:23Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't think I got one.
- 40:25Speaker 2: Let's start you too. I don't have showed up in
- 40:28Speaker 2: my office, but they're very nice. You can take one home.
- 40:33Speaker 1: The first quarter hoppy, I'm gonna do just one thing here,
- 40:36Speaker 1: guidance wise. Yeah, see the big clock. Yeah, I'm sorry.
- 40:40Speaker 2: Sorry.
- 40:40Speaker 1: The first quarter was likely. It was like being fully
- 40:43Speaker 1: awake watching your own colonoscopy. Yeah, you can see that.
- 40:46Speaker 1: Text are in game text. Lots of more game to play.
- 40:48Speaker 1: Obviously not the season we wanted, but I want some
- 40:52Speaker 1: good textual healing. I wanted to ask the three wise man,
- 40:54Speaker 1: what's the exact number of wins for the WVU football.
- 40:57Speaker 1: I know it's fifteenth most and nearing eight hundred. I
- 41:00Speaker 1: hope we get there soon. Off the top of my head,
- 41:03Speaker 1: just go to Wikipedia, look up WV all time victories.
- 41:06Speaker 3: It will be there.
- 41:07Speaker 1: Texter Rich has to spend money on the defensive staff
- 41:10Speaker 1: and players. I've been around forty four years. This is
- 41:12Speaker 1: one of the two worst defenses I've seen, complete embarrassment.
- 41:15Speaker 1: Greg from Pittsburgh hats off Chad Scott and coaching staff.
- 41:18Speaker 1: As I believed for all of Neil Brown's tenure, effort
- 41:21Speaker 1: was never the issue and Tuesday Night no exception. Appreciate
- 41:23Speaker 1: this team, in particular the seniors for efforting all season long,
- 41:26Speaker 1: and I hope as many as possible stick around for
- 41:28Speaker 1: coach Ride.
- 41:29Speaker 2: Let's go think about Chad Scott being in the first
- 41:31Speaker 2: time calling those plays and how West Virginia's offense performed.
- 41:34Speaker 1: That was a pretty good That was pretty amazing well done.
- 41:36Speaker 1: He did a really good job. Chris and Hurricane. I
- 41:39Speaker 1: just want to give a big heartfelt thank you to
- 41:42Speaker 1: Garrett Green the kids, a true mountaineer, gave us everything
- 41:44Speaker 1: he had. Texter and this was interesting and Jordan from
- 41:49Speaker 1: Jordan Creek writes this in their last episode. I did
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- 42:40Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it proves it.
- 42:41Speaker 1: They go back that far. And thanks to three guys.
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- 43:20Speaker 1: All right, have you seen the stuff from Memphis official
- 43:24Speaker 1: football posting on x I was indifferent about them as
- 43:28Speaker 1: a program going in the game, but they just got
- 43:30Speaker 1: themselves added to my team's hate list. They needed humbled.
- 43:33Speaker 1: Hopefully rich can use his fuel next year. I guess
- 43:35Speaker 1: they wrote a bunch of stuff. I didn't see any
- 43:37Speaker 1: of it. They trashed right West Virginia and stuff like,
- 43:41Speaker 1: let me just tell you, hey, hey, Memphis, let me
- 43:43Speaker 1: just tell you something. That was one of the worst
- 43:45Speaker 1: West Virginia defenses of all time. If that defense was
- 43:48Speaker 1: just a little bit toward average, you would have got
- 43:51Speaker 1: your ass run, plain and simple one, even in close.
- 43:54Speaker 1: So if that's your ten or eleven win team, fine,
- 43:56Speaker 1: go with it. Meanwhile, have you hey, three guys, longtime listener,
- 44:02Speaker 1: third time texter. I'm currently batting a thousand on my
- 44:04Speaker 1: text being read live. What's more likely Hoppy's three guys
- 44:08Speaker 1: attendance goes above sixty five percent post retirement or rich
- 44:14Speaker 1: Rod's reboot win percentage above sixty five percent. I'll hang
- 44:18Speaker 1: up and listen to your response.
- 44:19Speaker 2: Hmmm, I'm plan on being around.
- 44:23Speaker 3: Those are good numbers. He plans on being around now
- 44:25Speaker 3: until he starts traveling.
- 44:27Speaker 1: Yeah, I have travel things going to be interesting. That
- 44:29Speaker 1: was from Anthony and Fayett County, currently living in his
- 44:31Speaker 1: Central Kentucky.
- 44:33Speaker 2: I take me.
- 44:38Speaker 1: Hey, three guys Sean and Athens, West Virginia coach Brown
- 44:42Speaker 1: hired in twenty nineteen. Trust the climb slogan seemed to
- 44:46Speaker 1: suggest a built in grace I remember Hoppy referring to
- 44:48Speaker 1: his first season year zero, which made sense. Do you
- 44:51Speaker 1: think the new staff will receive a similar grace period
- 44:53Speaker 1: or is there already a win now expectation given the
- 44:58Speaker 1: heightened emotions surrounding the program to higher good question?
- 45:01Speaker 2: Yeah, what do you say? Brand?
- 45:04Speaker 4: It feels like nationally there's way less of a year
- 45:07Speaker 4: zero mentality right anywhere because of the portal right right,
- 45:10Speaker 4: which is unfair to an extent. That is really hard
- 45:14Speaker 4: to restart things and come in new. But I'm not
- 45:17Speaker 4: sure there's grace periods that once exist, if they ever did.
- 45:19Speaker 4: Quite frankly, we said that, I don't know how much
- 45:22Speaker 4: grace period existed. I think the way that Neil Brown
- 45:25Speaker 4: tenure when I'm not sure there was grace periods.
- 45:27Speaker 2: Ever, you think the pit game looms large, Going to.
- 45:31Speaker 1: Be special, going to be special, absolutely last one. Russell
- 45:36Speaker 1: from Wichita Falls, Texas. My girlfriend and I had a
- 45:40Speaker 1: great time at the bowl game. We drove down nearly
- 45:42Speaker 1: two hours from to the Green Gator for the Mountaineer
- 45:45Speaker 1: meet up. Before the game. The Pride of West Virginia
- 45:47Speaker 1: stopped by here they right there, hoppy you see the pictures,
- 45:50Speaker 1: played a few tunes. We got a picture with a mountaineer. Also,
- 45:52Speaker 1: Ren Baker made an appearance at the meetup. Had a
- 45:56Speaker 1: nice conversation with him on the hire of rich Rod.
- 45:58Speaker 1: Although our boys didn't win, I did come home to
- 46:00Speaker 1: a winning surprise Mountaineer munch excellent. Looking forward to next
- 46:03Speaker 1: season seeing the world champ Mountaineers and see what they
- 46:06Speaker 1: can do. Russell from Wichita Falls, Texas. And there it
- 46:09Speaker 1: is just work.
- 46:10Speaker 3: Russell, thanks for on the popcorn.
- 46:12Speaker 1: There so popcorn here on set from Mountaineer Popcorn. They've
- 46:17Speaker 1: done a great job and hopefully if you did order,
- 46:20Speaker 1: you get it and you're super enjoyed. I'd love to
- 46:22Speaker 1: hear some reaction from people that do get the popcorn
- 46:25Speaker 1: because it's really what, it's really really good.
- 46:27Speaker 2: Animal over here is like tearing into the popcorn.
- 46:30Speaker 1: You know, he did hit you pretty good. You're just
- 46:32Speaker 1: kind of like this.
- 46:33Speaker 2: He acknowledged it. He then nailed it.
- 46:35Speaker 1: You just what kind is that? The buff Why don't
- 46:38Speaker 1: you turn your is good? Is it the buffalo?
- 46:41Speaker 3: One's got something like cheese?
- 46:43Speaker 1: Yeah? They got all different kind of stuff, all right,
- 46:47Speaker 1: courts and sessions. So let's do a let's do another
- 46:49Speaker 1: unprofessional thing.
- 46:50Speaker 2: You're like my brother. When my brother eats, he eats
- 46:53Speaker 2: some massive amounts. I say, why are you e so much?
- 46:55Speaker 2: He guess because I don't know what I'm gonna eat again.
- 46:59Speaker 1: I got a game to do. Let's uh, let's have
- 47:01Speaker 1: it on. Let's have an on air discussion. When's the
- 47:04Speaker 1: next time we're doing one? Is Monday? Christmas Eve? No,
- 47:08Speaker 1: Tuesday's Christmas Eve. We don't I can't get excuse, we
- 47:12Speaker 1: can't do it. We're doing Bowl season radio Monday games
- 47:14Speaker 1: started eight in the morning. They started at noon noon,
- 47:16Speaker 1: So can we do eight in the morning? Okay, I mean,
- 47:19Speaker 1: what what the check with Bradamy wab Yeah? Maybe wait
- 47:22Speaker 1: in the morning. Oh, they're playing bowl games eight in
- 47:24Speaker 1: the morning. Are you still gonna do your little coffee
- 47:26Speaker 1: clutch on Monday?
- 47:27Speaker 2: I still have a show to do.
- 47:28Speaker 1: Okay, well, that's fine. We'll be here Monday. Unless you want
- 47:33Speaker 1: to come in Christmas morning? What do you want to do?
- 47:35Speaker 1: That hot? You eight?
- 47:36Speaker 2: You want to throw down? You want to come in Christmas?
- 47:39Speaker 1: You want to be here? I want to be the
- 47:40Speaker 1: first time. I want to be the first.
- 47:43Speaker 3: Time I'm come in Christmas?
- 47:44Speaker 4: Will you give me a five dollars beanery gift cards
- 47:46Speaker 4: I can get.
- 47:50Speaker 1: I'm gonna call pash Up and tell him you're retiring.
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- 48:31Speaker 1: to our producer, Doctor Jake. We're back again on Monday
- 48:35Speaker 1: with another episode of three Guys with three guys before
- 48:40Speaker 1: the game.
- 48:40Speaker 3: Might be two guys.
- 48:41Speaker 2: Hey, we should do a special Christmas Eve show.
- 48:43Speaker 1: Yeah, I want you get on that. All right, we're
- 48:46Speaker 1: out see it.