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- 0:16Speaker 1: Alrighty, showtime in the big city. I hope wherever you
- 0:20Speaker 1: are right now, you're nice and warm and comfortable.
- 0:23Speaker 2: Boy.
- 0:23Speaker 1: I tell you what what a winter had this been?
- 0:26Speaker 1: It's crazy, crazy winter, crazy winter. What are we gonna do?
- 0:29Speaker 1: We're gonna fly out to the midwest, Manhattan, Kansas where
- 0:33Speaker 1: the winds are winds.
- 0:35Speaker 3: Probably not as cold as it is here, is it?
- 0:37Speaker 2: Or is it?
- 0:38Speaker 1: Let me check about say about to say, let's check
- 0:40Speaker 1: about to say'd.
- 0:41Speaker 2: Be like forty out there tomorrow when we get there.
- 0:42Speaker 1: Pretty nice little sun, little sun.
- 0:44Speaker 2: It's warming up here.
- 0:45Speaker 1: Yeah, getting warmer, getting warmer, should be everything should be
- 0:48Speaker 1: taken care of by June. This is our Kansas State preview,
- 0:52Speaker 1: and yes we will look back at Arizona State three
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- 1:31Speaker 1: providing value beyond numbers. Brad will break down the Arizona
- 1:36Speaker 1: State game and also tell us what the key integers
- 1:40Speaker 1: are for Saturday's date in Manhattan. Time to go over
- 1:43Speaker 1: to the weather center. Right now, here's hoppy, hoppy. What's
- 1:45Speaker 1: the weather in Manhattan, Kansas?
- 1:47Speaker 3: Well, sony Right now, it's twenty two degrees. We have
- 1:50Speaker 3: mostly cloudy sky. It's going to be a high today
- 1:52Speaker 3: of about twenty six. Google sunshine later in the afternoon.
- 1:55Speaker 3: Now tomorrow when you and Brad and the mountaineers arrive. Yeah,
- 1:58Speaker 3: start out cold tomorrow morning, nat with the temperature of
- 2:00Speaker 3: thirteen degrees, warming up to forty with sunshine tomorrow. So
- 2:05Speaker 3: not bad at all considering it's winter in Kansas. I
- 2:07Speaker 3: think you guys are going to be fine. Safe travels, Yeah,
- 2:09Speaker 3: thank you very much.
- 2:11Speaker 1: Kansas State's one of the good trips to go to
- 2:13Speaker 1: because the airport is thirteen steps from the arena.
- 2:17Speaker 2: Nice.
- 2:19Speaker 1: Nice, you're gone Waco, You're out Manhattan, you're out Oak State.
- 2:25Speaker 1: Gone see you later. Easy to get to believe it
- 2:27Speaker 1: when I see it. No, trust me, travel travelers.
- 2:30Speaker 4: I've trusted you on the first two trips and he
- 2:31Speaker 4: had his delayed on both sid I don't trust you
- 2:33Speaker 4: on this one.
- 2:33Speaker 1: We have had a few travel issues. Is that fair?
- 2:37Speaker 3: Hot, I believe it, I say, I believe to be cautious,
- 2:40Speaker 3: cautiously optimistic. I hate that phrase, but cautiously optimistic.
- 2:43Speaker 1: All right, so we're all, well, no, the doctor's not Yeah,
- 2:48Speaker 1: I know he's My boy's down. My boys down by
- 2:50Speaker 1: the way. That's a hell of a nice shot. Is
- 2:52Speaker 1: that a new shot? Do they move the camera? That
- 2:54Speaker 1: shot is different?
- 2:55Speaker 2: I don't think.
- 2:56Speaker 3: I don't think so, really, I just think it looks
- 2:58Speaker 3: like perfect. You're in it for the first time. That's
- 3:02Speaker 3: I think that's the same as Jake Jay.
- 3:05Speaker 1: I mean, Jake might be working some buttons back there.
- 3:07Speaker 1: We don't know about it anyway. So since the last
- 3:10Speaker 1: time we got together, West Virginia lost to the Wildcats
- 3:14Speaker 1: of Arizona State that you probably know if you're listening
- 3:17Speaker 1: to this show, exactly why did it happen? And can
- 3:20Speaker 1: West Virginia. Do the rebound now, have not lost two
- 3:24Speaker 1: games in a row this season, right, you go all
- 3:26Speaker 1: the way back, and you had the pit game, bounce back,
- 3:29Speaker 1: got a w down in the Bahamas, lost to Lewisville,
- 3:33Speaker 1: came back, lined up, beat Arizona right lost to the
- 3:39Speaker 1: lost to the Houston's turned around, came right back, beat
- 3:42Speaker 1: the Iowa.
- 3:43Speaker 2: States, Arizona first the second time. Then you beat Colorado Colorado.
- 3:46Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right, skip that one. And then so okay,
- 3:50Speaker 1: let's keep doing this thing, keep flipping it.
- 3:54Speaker 2: Go ahead.
- 3:55Speaker 1: Obvious obvious observation, Not ladies and gentlemen, for obvious observation
- 4:01Speaker 1: brought to us by obviously no one.
- 4:04Speaker 3: There's not much margin in this league for an off night,
- 4:10Speaker 3: and you had one of those where you were Look,
- 4:13Speaker 3: you just played Iowa State and Houston. Those are just
- 4:17Speaker 3: tough hills to climb. And then although you're home, and
- 4:20Speaker 3: although Arizona State had been on the road, it seemed
- 4:26Speaker 3: like they felt like maybe their backs were against the wall.
- 4:28Speaker 3: They'd lost four in row, and they came in and
- 4:29Speaker 3: they got guys. We saw that they got guys, especially
- 4:32Speaker 3: guys underneath, and Arizona shot well, especially down in the
- 4:37Speaker 3: paint and Brad will have numbers on that West Virginia
- 4:39Speaker 3: did not. I mean, you were twenty five of twenty
- 4:41Speaker 3: nine from three point range and Javon was oh of
- 4:45Speaker 3: eight from three point range. It's thirty one percent for the.
- 4:47Speaker 2: Game were you were off.
- 4:49Speaker 3: And I think that's a game too where you missed
- 4:52Speaker 3: Tucker Devrees Brad every game, but boy, you could have
- 4:55Speaker 3: used him there because I don't think there would have
- 4:57Speaker 3: been many nights where Javon and Tucker would have both
- 5:00Speaker 3: been off that much. And if Tucker's scores was there
- 5:03Speaker 3: and scored twelve, you probably win the game. I mean,
- 5:05Speaker 3: it was a winnable game. That pressure at the end
- 5:07Speaker 3: almost turned the game around. But uh just uh just
- 5:11Speaker 3: you're going to have those nights and uh Basher jahad
- 5:14Speaker 3: jahad Am I saying had had.
- 5:17Speaker 1: Now it's it's spelled jihad, but they said, yeah.
- 5:23Speaker 3: Uh said we were the bigger and more physical team.
- 5:26Speaker 3: We went out there and we imposed our will And
- 5:28Speaker 3: we talk about that a lot. Which team is able
- 5:30Speaker 3: to impose their will and bred in that game, especially
- 5:33Speaker 3: with the inside shots, Arizona State was able to impose
- 5:37Speaker 3: their will.
- 5:39Speaker 1: Well done, very obvious. You're right on course, no no, no, no, no,
- 5:45Speaker 1: but you're but you're but you're exactly right. And for
- 5:47Speaker 1: him to come out and say that afterward, he's exactly right.
- 5:51Speaker 1: And West Virginia normally runs that. Like West Virginia could
- 5:56Speaker 1: have said that about Iowa State last week after that
- 5:59Speaker 1: game they imposed there will they were more physical, and
- 6:02Speaker 1: you're right, obviously, you are right that that's what wins
- 6:05Speaker 1: in this league. The team that can do that through
- 6:08Speaker 1: the course of an entire game, you.
- 6:09Speaker 4: Give them credit. Arizona State. They they made some plays
- 6:13Speaker 4: down the stretch. It got close a couple of times.
- 6:15Speaker 4: West Virginia was making its run and they had an
- 6:17Speaker 4: answer each time. And but I'll tell you what, guys, though,
- 6:20Speaker 4: that's a that's a disappointing loss. Right, you change your
- 6:22Speaker 4: expectations when you pull the win off against Iowa State.
- 6:25Speaker 4: That was a game that you thought you could have
- 6:27Speaker 4: had even at halftime. Hop I looked at Tony at
- 6:30Speaker 4: halftime and said, this is fine, this is gonna be
- 6:32Speaker 4: a West Virginia win. Here nineteen to nothing points off
- 6:36Speaker 4: turnover advantage at halftime, nineteen to nothing and ended up
- 6:40Speaker 4: couldn't close that game out.
- 6:42Speaker 5: That was just that was a tough one.
- 6:43Speaker 4: I really thought that would get turned around on the
- 6:45Speaker 4: second half, that at some point Westerdan would come out,
- 6:47Speaker 4: Javan had hit a couple threes, and Moni would hit
- 6:49Speaker 4: a three, and then you'd be off and running in
- 6:51Speaker 4: that game. And you just couldn't get over the hump.
- 6:53Speaker 4: And you said it with the thin margin and vera.
- 6:56Speaker 4: If Javon's gonna have a game where he doesn't make
- 6:58Speaker 4: a three pointer, this team's gonna be in trouble. It
- 7:00Speaker 4: can't go four of twenty nine a season low three
- 7:03Speaker 4: point shooting. It's got to make some shots. And it
- 7:05Speaker 4: just couldn't the other night. And I listen, we know
- 7:07Speaker 4: Darren's not gonna make excuses, but it was clear there
- 7:10Speaker 4: was some sort of bug running through that team, and
- 7:12Speaker 4: I think that ultimately affected the guys that there just
- 7:15Speaker 4: wasn't that extra gear where you could dig down and
- 7:18Speaker 4: go in and make that run in the second half,
- 7:20Speaker 4: just didn't have it in the tank.
- 7:21Speaker 3: But Tony, how many listening to you, how many times,
- 7:23Speaker 3: especially in the second half when you were calling the action,
- 7:26Speaker 3: did you in the play by play say this shot
- 7:29Speaker 3: was short, We're off the front of the rim.
- 7:31Speaker 1: You know, just side of the rim. Yeah, yeah, those
- 7:33Speaker 1: kinds of things. Just one of those nights.
- 7:35Speaker 3: Yeah, And I mean gave up fourteen offensive rebounds. They
- 7:38Speaker 3: were able to get dominate rebounding and you know their
- 7:40Speaker 3: inside game, you just didn't they did a good job inside.
- 7:43Speaker 1: No, man, they're long, they're long there. They're talented. Everyone
- 7:47Speaker 1: we talked to going into that game last couple of
- 7:49Speaker 1: weeks say, hey, what about Arizona State. Guys that have
- 7:51Speaker 1: played them and things like that, They like, they're really talented,
- 7:54Speaker 1: but they had just hadn't put it all together. They
- 7:56Speaker 1: had their proverbial backs up against the proverbial wall. That's
- 7:59Speaker 1: an obvious observation. And you didn't know, after sitting here
- 8:03Speaker 1: since Saturday, when they got in from the Cincinnati game
- 8:06Speaker 1: on Sunday, would they be like ooh or would they
- 8:09Speaker 1: be like, let's go. I think a similar situation is
- 8:13Speaker 1: coming up on Saturday night. Case State has been kicked
- 8:17Speaker 1: around and kicked around and kicked around. You gotta be
- 8:20Speaker 1: careful here because they came close last night against the
- 8:25Speaker 1: Baylor Bears on the road. You gotta be careful. I
- 8:28Speaker 1: don't think they're dead yet. They're still breathing, so you're
- 8:31Speaker 1: not going to go in there and just say, hey,
- 8:32Speaker 1: what's up. You guys have lost six in a row,
- 8:35Speaker 1: and was it nine out of their last ten, nine
- 8:37Speaker 1: out of ten.
- 8:38Speaker 3: Nineteen, the last fourteen road games, yeah, last fourteen road games. Yeah,
- 8:42Speaker 3: at their home.
- 8:43Speaker 1: But I mean, yeah, I know, but just like you
- 8:44Speaker 1: gotta be careful here too.
- 8:45Speaker 4: I thought Arizona State game was an example of sometimes
- 8:48Speaker 4: a team can play its way into some confidence, because
- 8:50Speaker 4: I thought that was an Arizona State team in the
- 8:52Speaker 4: first half that was ready to be put down. If
- 8:54Speaker 4: you had gone on a run and got up five
- 8:56Speaker 4: or six, I think that thing was over. They were
- 8:58Speaker 4: really struggling offensively, and he was active. I mentioned that
- 9:01Speaker 4: points off turnovers numbers. West Nam was getting any shot
- 9:04Speaker 4: it wanted in the first half. They just weren't falling.
- 9:06Speaker 4: I think that's where that game changed at halftime. I
- 9:09Speaker 4: think Arizona State kind of woke up at halftime and said, well, hey, listen, okay,
- 9:13Speaker 4: we're here, we're up one, we might as well win
- 9:15Speaker 4: the thing. And then they did a better job in
- 9:17Speaker 4: the second half of attacking West Virginia inside and those
- 9:20Speaker 4: offensive rebounds became an issue. But I thought that team
- 9:23Speaker 4: got more confident starting in the second half when it
- 9:26Speaker 4: came out and made some shots and extended that lead.
- 9:29Speaker 4: I thought that's maybe where the game was decided. Had
- 9:31Speaker 4: West Virginia come out hit a couple and taken the lead,
- 9:34Speaker 4: I contend Arizona State would have been done at that point.
- 9:36Speaker 2: Instead, it flipped the other way.
- 9:37Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 9:38Speaker 3: On interesting that West Virginia, and correct me if I'm wrong.
- 9:42Speaker 3: For the first time this season put on that full
- 9:44Speaker 3: court press. Was maybe not the first time.
- 9:46Speaker 4: Yeah, They've done a lot of it, and you could
- 9:48Speaker 4: tell Arizona State was not ready.
- 9:49Speaker 3: To not ready for that, and that almost got West
- 9:53Speaker 3: Virginia back in that game. But again, props to Arizona State.
- 9:57Speaker 3: They eventually figured out management, scored points when they didn't
- 10:00Speaker 3: need it to, and won a game. West Virginia just
- 10:02Speaker 3: couldn't hit shots at the end.
- 10:03Speaker 4: You couldn't do that press too often just because of
- 10:05Speaker 4: the short bench with all of West Virginia's injuries. But man,
- 10:09Speaker 4: it's that was effective. You got some length, right, That's
- 10:11Speaker 4: what jumped out to me. You got Sincere and Toby
- 10:14Speaker 4: trapping on you there. That's some length that might be
- 10:16Speaker 4: something you see used here a little bit more because
- 10:18Speaker 4: I thought it was. It was really effective there for
- 10:21Speaker 4: a time.
- 10:21Speaker 1: Yeah, little guy, the mason, the point guard there.
- 10:24Speaker 2: Yeah, he want no part of that.
- 10:25Speaker 1: He got caught in that corner a couple of times. Oh,
- 10:27Speaker 1: he had that kind of look like when you forgot
- 10:29Speaker 1: to study for your final exam.
- 10:31Speaker 3: And you know, one thing I do like about officiating
- 10:34Speaker 3: typically is if you get yourself in a jail, they
- 10:39Speaker 3: will not Typically they will not bail you out. It's
- 10:42Speaker 3: like they should have a signal for you on your own.
- 10:45Speaker 3: You got you got the ball in the corner. You
- 10:47Speaker 3: guys on you You're on your own. I'm not helping
- 10:50Speaker 3: you here.
- 10:50Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. John Gaffney, who refereed the West Virginia Arizona
- 10:56Speaker 1: State game very next night, work the TCU game. Think
- 11:00Speaker 1: about that. So he was here literally in Morgantown. At
- 11:04Speaker 1: the earliest he got out of there was eleven forty five.
- 11:06Speaker 1: By the time he walked out of college. Yeah, up
- 11:08Speaker 1: to Pittsburgh, Dallas, fly to Dallas, pit the Dallas. I'm
- 11:13Speaker 1: just I'm not saying he can't do it. I'm just
- 11:15Speaker 1: saying I was tired yesterday, That's what I'm saying. I was.
- 11:19Speaker 1: I was to travel and I didn't. As my wife
- 11:21Speaker 1: pointed out, you didn't run. Say, yeah, you're right, it's
- 11:25Speaker 1: just a grind man.
- 11:26Speaker 3: That's a late tip man at nine o'clock tip, that's
- 11:29Speaker 3: a late tip. And and props to the fans who
- 11:32Speaker 3: did make it there you you said you get me tickets.
- 11:34Speaker 1: I didn't show.
- 11:35Speaker 3: I was not there, but I know it wasn't a
- 11:37Speaker 3: big crowd. But props to the fans who did on
- 11:39Speaker 3: it cold night, nine o'clock.
- 11:40Speaker 1: He could have been the one person applauding that would
- 11:42Speaker 1: have gotten this team right over that edge.
- 11:45Speaker 3: It was more about those shooting in basketball, but it
- 11:47Speaker 3: just might have been you.
- 11:48Speaker 1: So anyway, all right, coming up, we'll do some spreads
- 11:53Speaker 1: on stats look ahead to the one and only regular
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- 13:26Speaker 1: Sure, yeah, just drinking. I mean, we're we're, we're, we're.
- 13:30Speaker 1: I don't know if you know this, but three guys
- 13:31Speaker 1: before the game, strong advocate of hydration.
- 13:34Speaker 3: Big hydration people were probably it's been working on that
- 13:36Speaker 3: last year.
- 13:37Speaker 1: You have been you pounded during the day how much.
- 13:41Speaker 2: I try and get between seventy five and one ten.
- 13:44Speaker 1: Do you feel it makes a difference. Yeah, it does
- 13:46Speaker 1: make a difference, There's no question makes a big You
- 13:47Speaker 1: didn't hesitate.
- 13:48Speaker 2: Didn't hesitate?
- 13:49Speaker 4: No, because I think I was chronically dehydrated for decades,
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- 13:54Speaker 2: I think it makes a big difference to me, I
- 13:56Speaker 2: really do.
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- 14:08Speaker 4: About seven pm, there's no doubt finding the sweet spot
- 14:12Speaker 4: of ounces.
- 14:13Speaker 5: Versus not getting up to nail the night's work in progress.
- 14:16Speaker 1: You know what I tell you how we're going to
- 14:18Speaker 1: figure it out. Let's break down the numbers.
- 14:20Speaker 2: Numbers.
- 14:21Speaker 3: I'll just go right to the numbers versus bathroom.
- 14:25Speaker 1: Let's jump into the what do the analytics say as
- 14:28Speaker 1: to what time you should stop drinking?
- 14:29Speaker 2: Ounces?
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- 15:15Speaker 1: doing this? You want to do Arizona.
- 15:16Speaker 2: Stadium, We'll break down Arizona.
- 15:18Speaker 1: It's a whole lot on area. I think we figured
- 15:20Speaker 1: that one out already.
- 15:21Speaker 2: I know, but some of these numbers are just staggered,
- 15:23Speaker 2: Like what.
- 15:27Speaker 1: We'll hit you.
- 15:27Speaker 2: You only had six turnovers, and hey.
- 15:30Speaker 1: You're right, it was a wacky statistic.
- 15:32Speaker 4: Most of these numbers you look at and say, okay,
- 15:34Speaker 4: that would have been a win. Again, you ended up
- 15:36Speaker 4: plus twenty three points off turnovers.
- 15:39Speaker 2: That was that remarkable nineteen to nothing.
- 15:41Speaker 4: Yeah, run in the first half, but hop that where
- 15:45Speaker 4: it got you. You only scored twenty three points in
- 15:47Speaker 4: the first half. Right, nineteen of them came off their turnovers.
- 15:50Speaker 4: But that's also why I thought you were in good shape,
- 15:52Speaker 4: so that even if that levels out, you're gonna start
- 15:54Speaker 4: making some shots.
- 15:56Speaker 3: Wasn't it like nineteen and non turnovers to nineteen points?
- 15:58Speaker 1: Is that what it was for them for West Virginia.
- 16:03Speaker 3: West Virginia, I mean forced nine turnovers and got nineteen
- 16:06Speaker 3: points off non turnovers. Yes, so you.
- 16:08Speaker 4: For the game, you had thirteen live ball turnovers and
- 16:10Speaker 4: you averaged one point eight five points per possession, so
- 16:14Speaker 4: almost a basket on every turnover. That usually gets you
- 16:17Speaker 4: gets you to win. If you did that for a
- 16:19Speaker 4: season that was in the ninety fourth percentile, held Arizona
- 16:22Speaker 4: State to thirty five percent shooting in the first half.
- 16:26Speaker 4: You usually think that comes true with a win what
- 16:28Speaker 4: flipped They got up to sixty one percent field goal
- 16:30Speaker 4: percentage in the second half. You made as many free
- 16:33Speaker 4: throws as they attempted.
- 16:35Speaker 1: You never lose then never.
- 16:37Speaker 4: That shows you just how much WESTERNI struggled from the field,
- 16:40Speaker 4: that you had that big of an advantage in points
- 16:41Speaker 4: off turnovers and an advantage at the free throw line,
- 16:44Speaker 4: and there just wasn't any of those baskets in between.
- 16:47Speaker 4: You mentioned the Arizona State's ability to get to the rim.
- 16:49Speaker 4: How about these numbers. Fifty percent of Arizona State shots
- 16:52Speaker 4: were layups or dunks, and fifty five percent of Arizona
- 16:56Speaker 4: States points came in the paint. That was up eleven
- 16:59Speaker 4: percent for their previous five games. That was the second
- 17:01Speaker 4: highest points in the paint percentage for Arizona State, and
- 17:05Speaker 4: their best was just a half percent better. So I
- 17:07Speaker 4: thought that was as good of a job of an
- 17:08Speaker 4: opponent as getting inside on West Virginia. I thought Arizona
- 17:12Speaker 4: did it in the second meeting at the coliseum and
- 17:14Speaker 4: got the win. And I thought that Arizona State team
- 17:17Speaker 4: was able to do it as well.
- 17:19Speaker 3: Brad, How did they do it? Was that a defensive breakdown?
- 17:22Speaker 3: Was that just guys making plays, guys get in position,
- 17:24Speaker 3: offensive rebounds. What was it?
- 17:26Speaker 4: There was both the West Virginia didn't do a great
- 17:28Speaker 4: job of its defensive rotations. When the Sun Devils went
- 17:31Speaker 4: to the basket and West Virginia's bigs went over to
- 17:34Speaker 4: help to provide either shot blocking or to just get
- 17:36Speaker 4: in the way. Arizona State did a nice job dropping
- 17:39Speaker 4: it off and West Virginia seemed to be a step
- 17:40Speaker 4: slow on its defensive rotations. On the back end, Arizona
- 17:44Speaker 4: State was great on the offensive glass as well. That
- 17:46Speaker 4: was the Sun Devil's best offensive rebounding performance of the season.
- 17:50Speaker 4: And here's the number that really jumps out. Arizona State
- 17:53Speaker 4: rebounded forty two percent of its misshots.
- 17:55Speaker 2: Whow.
- 17:56Speaker 5: So yeah, that was it and that put that along
- 17:59Speaker 5: with West Virginia.
- 18:00Speaker 2: He's in low.
- 18:00Speaker 4: Three pointers made adds up to the loss in which
- 18:03Speaker 4: we saw. All right, I got more, but we can
- 18:06Speaker 4: move on.
- 18:06Speaker 1: I took care of that.
- 18:07Speaker 2: We've solved.
- 18:09Speaker 3: Go ahead, Hoppy, Well, if you're going to Kansas State,
- 18:11Speaker 3: I have obvious observations. So I talked to Wya Thompson today.
- 18:16Speaker 1: Did you call?
- 18:17Speaker 3: Why I called?
- 18:18Speaker 1: He had a late night he was in Waco, last night.
- 18:20Speaker 3: And he said, and why Thompson has been the venerable
- 18:24Speaker 3: play by play voice of them Cats as I had
- 18:27Speaker 3: to call him there, and he said that this is
- 18:31Speaker 3: one of those teams that is just always has something
- 18:34Speaker 3: going wrong, that they're just inconsistent. That one night they're
- 18:38Speaker 3: not shooting well, one night the defense isn't there, one
- 18:41Speaker 3: night the rebounding's not there, one night they're not getting
- 18:43Speaker 3: back on defense. He says, it's always something good.
- 18:46Speaker 1: I hope they forget to show up for the game Saturday.
- 18:48Speaker 3: Continue and he said it's front that there there is
- 18:52Speaker 3: a level of frustration now because they can't quite figure
- 18:56Speaker 3: it out. And he said this team was quote unquote
- 18:59Speaker 3: while inconsistent wild again consistent against Baylor Bred. I think
- 19:04Speaker 3: they were up twelve, they were seven and a half
- 19:06Speaker 3: and lost the game. So it's just and they go
- 19:09Speaker 3: through these spells where they're not scoring. And as he
- 19:11Speaker 3: was telling me this and Brad, you'll get into the
- 19:13Speaker 3: numbers on this, I was thinking, we've seen teams like
- 19:16Speaker 3: that where it's just it's you'll go the whole season
- 19:19Speaker 3: and it's always something, but you never quite figure it out.
- 19:23Speaker 3: And maybe it's just you don't have the talent, or
- 19:25Speaker 3: maybe it's just not a good fit with the players
- 19:28Speaker 3: or or whatever reason, but it just never quite comes together.
- 19:31Speaker 3: So with what Wyatt told me, this sounds like one
- 19:34Speaker 3: of those teams where maybe you're almost a fabruary it
- 19:37Speaker 3: may not come together this year.
- 19:40Speaker 1: Really good points, and I think perhaps, as you said,
- 19:43Speaker 1: like last year's West Virginia team only had nine wins. Now,
- 19:47Speaker 1: on paper, had some talent, So what do they do?
- 19:50Speaker 3: Well?
- 19:50Speaker 1: They knocked off Kansas last year on a one off.
- 19:54Speaker 1: That's what you have to be careful about, right, That's
- 19:56Speaker 1: exactly what you have to be fearful of.
- 19:59Speaker 4: It's very similar to Arizona State. Arizona State came in
- 20:02Speaker 4: here scuffling injured on the road for a second trip,
- 20:05Speaker 4: and you thought, Okay, you've got a good matchup here.
- 20:07Speaker 4: But if you don't play and you have an off night,
- 20:10Speaker 4: there's enough talent there. And I think that's what this
- 20:12Speaker 4: Kansas State team is. Yes it's lost nine of ten.
- 20:14Speaker 4: Yes it's lost six big twelve games in a row,
- 20:17Speaker 4: but if you look, four of those are to I'm
- 20:19Speaker 4: gonna go Ken Pom rankings here number three, Houston number eleven,
- 20:22Speaker 4: Texas Tech number seven, Kansas and number twenty eight Baylors. So, yeah, Tony,
- 20:26Speaker 4: I'm with you. I don't think this Kansas State team
- 20:29Speaker 4: loses out the rest of the season, which means they're
- 20:32Speaker 4: gonna step up and snap up and get somebody. You
- 20:35Speaker 4: just hope it's not you. There's a lot of talent
- 20:37Speaker 4: on that team, and there's some big talent, some physically
- 20:40Speaker 4: big talent with Gassan and Coleman Hawkins. That concerned me
- 20:44Speaker 4: from a West Virginia perspective, given what we just said
- 20:46Speaker 4: about Arizona State. So this is one of those what
- 20:49Speaker 4: West Virginia has shown after losses to your point, where
- 20:51Speaker 4: you haven't lost back to back, they have shown they've
- 20:53Speaker 4: come out with renewed intensity and so hopefully whatever illness
- 20:57Speaker 4: was running through the team has cycled through and you
- 21:00Speaker 4: get guys back and you get a really good effort.
- 21:03Speaker 4: Because I think all things being equal, you'll get a
- 21:05Speaker 4: West Virginia team that'll come out and compete really hard
- 21:07Speaker 4: as it's as it's done really in every game this year.
- 21:09Speaker 1: I agree. I don't know how it goes, I don't
- 21:11Speaker 1: know how many shots go down and things like that,
- 21:13Speaker 1: but I do think this when it's over I don't
- 21:16Speaker 1: think we're going to say West Virginia seemed a step slow,
- 21:20Speaker 1: West Virginia seemed fatigue. I don't think we will say that.
- 21:23Speaker 1: After this game. They're going to go and they're going
- 21:25Speaker 1: to ball out. Now. If it's going to be good
- 21:28Speaker 1: enough or not remains to be seen. But I do
- 21:30Speaker 1: think you're going to get that connected effort that they've
- 21:32Speaker 1: used so far this season to get their w's.
- 21:36Speaker 4: Here's a couple things to watch that matchup wise. Again,
- 21:39Speaker 4: you're on the road, which always makes it difficult, but
- 21:42Speaker 4: some things matchup wise that you think should help West Virginia.
- 21:46Speaker 4: Kansas State's a bottom sixty team nationally. An opponent three
- 21:50Speaker 4: point field goal percentage. West Virginia likes to shoot the three.
- 21:53Speaker 4: It takes nearly fifty percent of its shots from three.
- 21:56Speaker 4: That three point variance can be good or bad, as
- 21:59Speaker 4: we saw the other night. If you're not making them,
- 22:00Speaker 4: you're in some trouble. But against a team that hasn't
- 22:03Speaker 4: defended the three will this should be an opportunity to
- 22:06Speaker 4: get some shots. Hopefully they fall tonight, but it's a
- 22:08Speaker 4: bottom sixty teen an opponent field goal percentage from three,
- 22:13Speaker 4: Kansas State turns it over quite a bit. They're eleventh
- 22:16Speaker 4: and Big Twelve play in offensive turnover rates or percentage
- 22:19Speaker 4: versus a West Virginia defense that's fifth in Big twelve play.
- 22:23Speaker 4: So again, it didn't get you to win the other night,
- 22:26Speaker 4: but that's what Westervinia's defense is predicated on.
- 22:29Speaker 2: Getting steals.
- 22:29Speaker 4: What did it have fourteen against Iowa State and eleven
- 22:31Speaker 4: the other night against Arizona State, which is pretty remarkable.
- 22:34Speaker 2: It's a ton of.
- 22:35Speaker 4: Steals, so you would hope again this is a game
- 22:37Speaker 4: where you can get some turnovers, you can get out
- 22:40Speaker 4: and run a little bit and try and get some
- 22:42Speaker 4: easy baskets, so you're not so reliant on half court offense.
- 22:48Speaker 4: Kansas State's fourteenth and Big twelfth play in three point
- 22:52Speaker 4: field goal percentage, so it's three point shooting near the
- 22:55Speaker 4: bottom in the Big Twelve. It gets a West Virginia
- 22:58Speaker 4: defense that's number two in a ponent three point field
- 23:01Speaker 4: goal percentage, so you feel pretty good there. I think
- 23:03Speaker 4: the question offensively for k State, defensively for West Virginia
- 23:07Speaker 4: is can you shut off that lane? Can you keep
- 23:09Speaker 4: Gassan and Hawkins away from the basket, keep them off
- 23:13Speaker 4: the offensive glass. They're not a great offensive rebounding team,
- 23:16Speaker 4: but that's some serious size inside guys. That's six ten
- 23:19Speaker 4: sixty nine. That concerned me a little bit.
- 23:21Speaker 2: Inside.
- 23:21Speaker 1: Baylor doesn't have its typical great size. But k State
- 23:25Speaker 1: outscored Baylor in the paint on Wednesday thirty to sixteen.
- 23:30Speaker 1: So yeah, Hawkins and Gassan's always been.
- 23:33Speaker 2: A problem for us. I think he's really good.
- 23:35Speaker 1: I'll go back and look at like he's a couple
- 23:37Speaker 1: of times now in a row he's been problematic. Yes,
- 23:40Speaker 1: out of the Netherlands hop.
- 23:42Speaker 3: They had a guy from Australia who left in December
- 23:46Speaker 3: that they were counting on not a punter.
- 23:51Speaker 1: That was the reason he left. Kept going to basketball
- 23:53Speaker 1: price step kicking it up in the stands. So now
- 23:56Speaker 1: get out.
- 23:56Speaker 4: K State gives up its own offensive rebounds tipents. Can
- 24:00Speaker 4: West Virginia get in there, and that's not typically something
- 24:02Speaker 4: that's a strength for West Virginia, but we've we've seen
- 24:05Speaker 4: Toby before, We've seen Andre be able to get in there.
- 24:08Speaker 4: Can you steal a few offensive rebounds and get some points.
- 24:11Speaker 4: So this is just one of those go out and
- 24:13Speaker 4: play like you play and you feel pretty good about it.
- 24:15Speaker 4: But certainly no easy task on the road against a
- 24:18Speaker 4: team that does have quite a bit of talent.
- 24:21Speaker 1: Right, what are you feeling you agree with me? I
- 24:26Speaker 1: think we bounce back in the sense that I do.
- 24:29Speaker 1: I think we'll be there. I mean, we're going to compete,
- 24:32Speaker 1: not going to be a step slow, going to compete.
- 24:35Speaker 3: It's just to state the obvious. There's just no off
- 24:40Speaker 3: nights in this league. I've heard that they're there. Just aren't.
- 24:44Speaker 1: No, there isn't. I mean, back in the old.
- 24:46Speaker 3: Days, there'd be some teams.
- 24:47Speaker 1: Oh okay, I mean, with all due respect, there were
- 24:51Speaker 1: a few teams back in the Big East days where
- 24:53Speaker 1: you knew, you know, there's probably an eight out of
- 24:56Speaker 1: ten chance that you're going to beat them. They're just
- 24:59Speaker 1: truly aren't any of those.
- 25:01Speaker 3: And you're not, and you're not so deep or talented
- 25:04Speaker 3: correct that you can say, Okay, it was an average performance,
- 25:09Speaker 3: maybe even below average, but you came away with the win.
- 25:13Speaker 3: I mean, you saw that against Arizona State. That was
- 25:15Speaker 3: a blow average performance and you got and you got
- 25:17Speaker 3: beat You can't that's you can't win like that against
- 25:22Speaker 3: anybody in this only.
- 25:22Speaker 1: I don't think this is.
- 25:23Speaker 4: Going to have to be You've got to bounce back
- 25:24Speaker 4: from a shooting perspective. Javon's got to have a good game.
- 25:26Speaker 4: Amani's got to find a way to get a couple
- 25:28Speaker 4: of threes. JP's got to hit a couple threes, because
- 25:30Speaker 4: I do think Kansas State will look to go inside here.
- 25:34Speaker 4: They're very good at cutting to the basket offensively. I
- 25:37Speaker 4: think if they've looked at the tape, they're going to
- 25:39Speaker 4: see you can have some success Iowa State, Arizona State,
- 25:42Speaker 4: and getting inside on West Virginia. So it's got to
- 25:44Speaker 4: be that old three is worth more than two. You've
- 25:47Speaker 4: got to get up in that eight to ten three
- 25:49Speaker 4: pointers made because you're taking so many of your shots
- 25:52Speaker 4: or threes, you've got to get in that range to
- 25:54Speaker 4: make some. And then if you're giving up some buckets
- 25:55Speaker 4: in the paint, okay, so be it turnovers lead to points.
- 25:59Speaker 4: Then make some threes, and I think you're right there.
- 26:02Speaker 1: The yet to be discussed really unique situational situation to
- 26:08Speaker 1: state the obvious. The situational situation is this one you've mentioned.
- 26:13Speaker 1: Coleman Hawkins teammates with Amani Hansbury and sincere Harris at
- 26:20Speaker 1: Illinoi's played with them practiced with him, so they know
- 26:25Speaker 1: his game. Extremely well coached by Chester coach by Chester
- 26:29Speaker 1: Fraser Mountain here assistant. Is why Amani Hansbury and Sincere
- 26:33Speaker 1: Harris are here at West Virginia. So you have a
- 26:36Speaker 1: little uniqueness there and you know some we had a
- 26:40Speaker 1: little bit of that when West Virginia played Oak State
- 26:43Speaker 1: and Javonne Small. You know, not many guys left on
- 26:45Speaker 1: that Oak State roster, but a couple, so that also
- 26:48Speaker 1: will peak things up here. You think Sincere Harris might
- 26:51Speaker 1: be now I know it's not the it's not going
- 26:53Speaker 1: to be the direct matchup. You think Sincere might want
- 26:56Speaker 1: to stick his nose in there a little bit against
- 26:58Speaker 1: Coleman Hawkins. He's got to pack them a little bit.
- 27:00Speaker 4: And the money might get a little matchup on you will, Yeah.
- 27:02Speaker 1: He will, and vice versa. So that'll be fun. That's
- 27:04Speaker 1: a whole game inside of the game, guys that have
- 27:07Speaker 1: played against each other. I think that'll be what's their
- 27:09Speaker 1: place like, toll me?
- 27:10Speaker 3: What Case State?
- 27:11Speaker 1: Please? When it's filled? Browmledge Coliseum is extremely good, really
- 27:17Speaker 1: extremely good. I was looking at their attendance and I'm
- 27:23Speaker 1: wondering what it does this weekend because they have lost
- 27:27Speaker 1: six in a row. And there are a lot of
- 27:29Speaker 1: similarities between West Virginia fans and Case State fans. And
- 27:33Speaker 1: when things are hitting it here, you know, I don't know.
- 27:38Speaker 1: I don't think it'll be capacity. It'll be you know,
- 27:41Speaker 1: those that will be there will be loud. They do
- 27:43Speaker 1: they do the they do the wabashed thing, you know
- 27:45Speaker 1: when they those students back and forth and back forth.
- 27:47Speaker 1: So it'll be similar to they're going to go there
- 27:52Speaker 1: and they're going to say, Okay, do something to make
- 27:55Speaker 1: us cheer. If they don't, then the crowd won't be
- 27:58Speaker 1: an impactful crowd. But if they start playing well, then
- 28:01Speaker 1: the thing will be it'll get kicked up. Yeah, what
- 28:04Speaker 1: times the game? Six eastern, six eastern, five central? Correct?
- 28:10Speaker 4: Yeah, you want to give me, I'll give you one
- 28:13Speaker 4: more little thing to watch for sure. Yeah'd be very
- 28:16Speaker 4: specific here. Stat was jumped out to me. West Virginia
- 28:20Speaker 4: and its last five games is just two of sixteen
- 28:24Speaker 4: from corner threes, just thirteen percent, two of sixteen. But
- 28:29Speaker 4: how about this number went twenty two of fifty two
- 28:32Speaker 4: in the previous five games, So the percentage forty two percent,
- 28:36Speaker 4: almost thirty percent higher. But look at how many shots
- 28:39Speaker 4: attempted there. That's gone from almost ten, almost eleven corner
- 28:45Speaker 4: threes per game in the previous five games to just
- 28:48Speaker 4: three per game.
- 28:49Speaker 2: Why that is It's a good question.
- 28:51Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 28:51Speaker 2: I got to find that out.
- 28:52Speaker 4: But here's why that matters. If you look at Kansas
- 28:56Speaker 4: State's defensive heat map, teams are shooting nearly fifty percent
- 29:00Speaker 4: from the left corner three twenty of forty one on
- 29:04Speaker 4: the season.
- 29:05Speaker 1: Hmmm, so that's a number.
- 29:08Speaker 4: Look for some corner threes here. Ho, i'p get back
- 29:10Speaker 4: on track that specific part. So you're saying the number
- 29:14Speaker 4: of corner threes taken is down? Yeah, dramastically, Yeah, dramastically dramastically?
- 29:20Speaker 1: Is that is that?
- 29:22Speaker 3: Because also teams, you know, they watch taping, they go
- 29:24Speaker 3: don't let them have the corner three because they make sure.
- 29:26Speaker 4: Now, I just think that's some of that's opponent of
- 29:28Speaker 4: justin you've been so middle ball screen heavy here as
- 29:30Speaker 4: you've got a big twelve play the numbers. Three of
- 29:33Speaker 4: those five games previously were against North Carolina Central, Bathune,
- 29:36Speaker 4: Cookman and Mercyhurst.
- 29:37Speaker 5: That basically, get whatever shot you want, Okay.
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- 31:30Speaker 1: hundredth career win for West Virginia women's basketball.
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- 35:35Speaker 1: There really big Bremberton Chawamichi negative seven degrees fahrenheit here
- 35:41Speaker 1: in Touchdown City as I type this after the game, Brad,
- 35:44Speaker 1: I love you, man, but do you now understand why
- 35:48Speaker 1: Tony and the Hobster were downplaying that where should we
- 35:51Speaker 1: be ranked? Talk? I was shaking my head at you
- 35:54Speaker 1: when we were going through you, when you were going
- 35:56Speaker 1: through your rent, knowing that you were cursing us for
- 35:58Speaker 1: a letdown. No heart feeling. I've been a Mountaineer fan
- 36:01Speaker 1: too long to get my hopes up. Stay warm, Dino
- 36:05Speaker 1: in Morgantown. Next one. Brad had to mention snow on
- 36:09Speaker 1: the deck last episode, and thus it has appeared in Myrtle.
- 36:12Speaker 1: Thanks for the four and a half inches, Brad. Neither
- 36:14Speaker 1: I nor my bottle of eighteen sixty three are going
- 36:17Speaker 1: outside until Saturday. Mike and Myrtle picture right there. Look,
- 36:21Speaker 1: you boys got snow. Snow in Myrtle beach.
- 36:23Speaker 5: I say snow, and it appears all over the country.
- 36:26Speaker 3: Say sunshine.
- 36:27Speaker 5: I say Western you should be ranked, and they automatically
- 36:29Speaker 5: are not ranked.
- 36:30Speaker 1: A lot of people are really yeah, a lot of
- 36:32Speaker 1: people are really struggling.
- 36:33Speaker 3: Here.
- 36:35Speaker 1: Someone comes in, I have to take full responsibility, complete
- 36:40Speaker 1: responsibility for the lost against Arizona State. See the fact
- 36:44Speaker 1: of the matter is I am cursed. My last name
- 36:47Speaker 1: is Kelly, and there is something called the Kelly Kiss
- 36:49Speaker 1: of death hashtag KKOD. The teams I cheer for usually
- 36:54Speaker 1: falter in weird ways. I had a chance to go
- 36:56Speaker 1: to the Iowa State game but could not make it,
- 36:58Speaker 1: and look what happened. I wasn't there to curse us. Meanwhile,
- 37:02Speaker 1: not only could West Virginia not buy a bucket against
- 37:05Speaker 1: Iowa State, the lady that did the Kroger shopping carts
- 37:08Speaker 1: you couldn't even make it in those gardens pitch you
- 37:11Speaker 1: in baskets.
- 37:12Speaker 3: It was off night for everybody.
- 37:14Speaker 1: The curse is so bad. When I woke up this morning,
- 37:17Speaker 1: my friend texted me and said, had I known you
- 37:19Speaker 1: were going to go to the game, I'd have bet
- 37:20Speaker 1: the farm on Arizona State. Sorry, Mountaineer Nation. I'll do
- 37:24Speaker 1: my best to be away from here on out.
- 37:28Speaker 3: It's funny how we all not we all, but many
- 37:30Speaker 3: of us have superstitions about those kinds of things.
- 37:33Speaker 1: Yeah, I think basketball maybe even more so than football.
- 37:36Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I do.
- 37:37Speaker 1: Texas says this is not sports.
- 37:39Speaker 3: What's yours? What's yours?
- 37:41Speaker 1: I really I don't think I really have any.
- 37:43Speaker 3: Oh you said, yeah, I thought you said I do.
- 37:44Speaker 1: No, I think a lot of people do basketball. I
- 37:47Speaker 1: come across a lot of people that say, like, if
- 37:49Speaker 1: they're listening to the game and they're sitting in a
- 37:51Speaker 1: certain chair and West Virginia does well, they won't move
- 37:55Speaker 1: even if nature calls. They're just sitting there, legs are cross,
- 37:57Speaker 1: are all balled up by the end of the game
- 37:59Speaker 1: because they think that they're impacting the game, which is fine.
- 38:02Speaker 3: My wife thinks that she won't. Like, we had the
- 38:03Speaker 3: game on the other night and we're listening to you
- 38:05Speaker 3: guys synced it up with the TV listening to you
- 38:08Speaker 3: sink got it sync up? Excellent?
- 38:10Speaker 2: And that's a game changer, isn't it? Oh?
- 38:12Speaker 3: Absolutely?
- 38:13Speaker 1: I did it last night with the Arizona State women's game.
- 38:16Speaker 2: Oh did you It was easy?
- 38:17Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 38:18Speaker 2: Not hard.
- 38:18Speaker 3: Yeah, even if I did the first couple of times, Yeah,
- 38:20Speaker 3: I got it straighten down, got it word out, Yeah,
- 38:22Speaker 3: that's gonna word a couple of times. But then I
- 38:23Speaker 3: then I fast forward until we lost the game. But
- 38:28Speaker 3: I mean, if if West Virginia is winning I'll yell up,
- 38:30Speaker 3: I said, West Virginia win. He said, I can't come down. Yeah,
- 38:32Speaker 3: I can't come down.
- 38:33Speaker 1: I love the craziness. Yeah, craziness is great. Texas says,
- 38:36Speaker 1: not sports related, but I figure you three guys would
- 38:38Speaker 1: appreciate this West Virginia connection. The writer of Frosty the
- 38:43Speaker 1: Snowman's song was from Kaiser. He also wrote Peter Peter
- 38:48Speaker 1: Cottontail and the Smoky Bear ads for the Forest Service.
- 38:52Speaker 2: I'll know that.
- 38:53Speaker 3: Let me find out who that was.
- 38:54Speaker 1: Texas says, I just finished to listening to episode six
- 38:57Speaker 1: oh nine. This is Lynn Napped from Fort Wayne, Indiana,
- 39:00Speaker 1: by the way of Bridgeport hashtag Maple Lake. I believe
- 39:04Speaker 1: Hoppy is correct. Games on ESPN don't get viewership like
- 39:08Speaker 1: it would a major network. Just one game on ESPN
- 39:10Speaker 1: or a network and a win and you move up
- 39:12Speaker 1: three to four spots. Love your podcast and that Mountaineer popcorn.
- 39:16Speaker 1: Glad to hear the crunch will be back. I also
- 39:19Speaker 1: ordered some Barney's Bakery Pepperoni rules for Christmas. Being a
- 39:22Speaker 1: big ton country, a level of a mount heres. There
- 39:24Speaker 1: he is, take a look, so there he is. There's
- 39:27Speaker 1: his popcorn. Yeah, he boughts on a lot of it there.
- 39:30Speaker 1: That's all. Thank you very much. Good to see that.
- 39:31Speaker 1: And then there he is with family holding onto his
- 39:35Speaker 1: pepperonnier roles. Don't know about the young lady with the
- 39:38Speaker 1: is that Indiana? Is he wearing an Indiana shirt? There?
- 39:41Speaker 1: I guess they're in Indiana. I guess they'll be all right. Awesome,
- 39:44Speaker 1: Thank you Texter. It was great catching up with Hoppy
- 39:47Speaker 1: at Gomart last week. We were both getting gas. Also
- 39:51Speaker 1: got an obvious observation myself, if allowed, Darren Devrees is
- 39:54Speaker 1: a good basketball coach. I can't wait for the baseball
- 39:57Speaker 1: tailgates Zach and Morganton. You're right, Zach, Tony, I had
- 40:02Speaker 1: to send you this one. I went to Bill's game,
- 40:05Speaker 1: a Bills game last month. Megan and I enjoyed a
- 40:07Speaker 1: couple of beef on Wicks taigating from bar Bill Huge
- 40:11Speaker 1: and delicious, and got a few Let's go chance in
- 40:14Speaker 1: the stadium rocking the West Virginia gear. Very similar fan bases,
- 40:18Speaker 1: even listening to some five guys and a corn dog
- 40:21Speaker 1: on the way up. Hope to see you guys in
- 40:23Speaker 1: another basketball game if our schedule lines up. So there
- 40:25Speaker 1: they are. So the beef on wick that she is
- 40:27Speaker 1: holding right there. That is a classic buffalo sandwich. That
- 40:30Speaker 1: is roast beef on a kemel wick roll. And then
- 40:34Speaker 1: you get the juice. The juice is an absolute and
- 40:36Speaker 1: then you put horse radish on that and it makes
- 40:39Speaker 1: you want to change your name. It's so good. And
- 40:40Speaker 1: then there they are outside of the they were in
- 40:43Speaker 1: the stadium. There he got the old school he's wearing
- 40:45Speaker 1: the old school Buffalo Bill's logo. There just a big.
- 40:48Speaker 3: Buffalo, guys. Jack Rawlins was actually who is one of
- 40:55Speaker 3: the author wrote the lyrics to Hear comes Peter Cottontail
- 40:58Speaker 3: Frosty the Snowman, Spook of the Bear was born in Scottsdale, Scottsdale, Pennsylvania,
- 41:02Speaker 3: but he was raised in Kaiser. But he was raised
- 41:05Speaker 3: in Kaiser.
- 41:06Speaker 1: Right in Kaiser or Burlington.
- 41:10Speaker 3: Kaiser is the information I have. And he's buried in Kaiser.
- 41:16Speaker 1: Wow, that's Nate. Thank you, sir, whoever that was? Hey,
- 41:19Speaker 1: Three guys, two pictures here. Pick one is to jog
- 41:22Speaker 1: Brad's memory. Tony remembered me, you didn't, Brad. Now, I
- 41:25Speaker 1: wouldn't quite say that I'm a member of his posse
- 41:28Speaker 1: As Tony put it. But I've been a long time listener,
- 41:30Speaker 1: and Tony, we got our picture made in Fort Myers
- 41:32Speaker 1: watching the World Champion Mountaineers under Hall of Fame coach
- 41:35Speaker 1: Josh Eilert. So, uh, I don't know where the pick is.
- 41:40Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's Devon. Isn't that Devon from Goshen Road, right, Brad?
- 41:46Speaker 3: I think? Yeah, what's uh, Tony?
- 41:50Speaker 2: That's a T shirt?
- 41:51Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 41:51Speaker 3: How about that gold jacket?
- 41:52Speaker 1: Tony, Well, his dad went in the NFL Hall of Fame.
- 41:56Speaker 1: My induction, my induction day. Now to the real reason
- 42:01Speaker 1: of my text. Rate my plate. This is my go
- 42:04Speaker 1: to order at a waffle house. And I might say
- 42:06Speaker 1: it's a travesty not to have one in Morgantown, closest
- 42:09Speaker 1: ones an hour north in Pittsburgh. It makes it out.
- 42:11Speaker 1: But here's his plate. Two eggs over medium, two pieces
- 42:15Speaker 1: of toast white double order, a hash party smothered means
- 42:19Speaker 1: made with onions, four pieces of bacon chocolate chip waffle,
- 42:24Speaker 1: and always enjoy the show. Love all you guys do
- 42:26Speaker 1: for the community in state. That's a nice play take.
- 42:30Speaker 1: That's really really nice.
- 42:31Speaker 3: Did you have a bad have you had a bad
- 42:32Speaker 3: food day?
- 42:34Speaker 2: I'm kind of hungry. Now, that looks good.
- 42:35Speaker 3: That does look good, but that'd be good. Well, but
- 42:39Speaker 3: all due respect to waffle House.
- 42:41Speaker 1: We have Tutors lines. I mean, I mean waffle House's
- 42:46Speaker 1: waffle house. But you want to talk about Tutors, are
- 42:49Speaker 1: you kidding me? Line up, make you a biscuit any
- 42:53Speaker 1: which way, and you know, while we'll talk about that,
- 42:57Speaker 1: let me tell you about what Tutor's got going got
- 42:59Speaker 1: a little special going here. Okay, So like if someone
- 43:02Speaker 1: were to ask me, okay, what's your favorite desert, let
- 43:04Speaker 1: me tell you what my favorite desert is. My favorite
- 43:07Speaker 1: desert is apple anything apple apple pie. And right now
- 43:11Speaker 1: at Tutors, apple turnover is on special. Check this one out. Flaky,
- 43:16Speaker 1: golden pastry filled with sweet apple goodness. The perfect treat
- 43:20Speaker 1: stop by Tutors today. Savor the taste. Not available at
- 43:24Speaker 1: some of them. But you go in there and say,
- 43:26Speaker 1: you got that apple turnover. It is a sweetie pie.
- 43:30Speaker 3: Nice.
- 43:31Speaker 1: So I mean they're branching out. You also got a
- 43:33Speaker 1: heck of a deal going on. The potato soup. Well, really,
- 43:36Speaker 1: you talk about a time of the year for potatoes.
- 43:38Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, uh, Texter sounds good too. Well, you're
- 43:43Speaker 1: just hungry too, Go get that apple turnover.
- 43:46Speaker 3: How about a big plate of kale? Oh boy, let's
- 43:48Speaker 3: get on that because I'm hungry.
- 43:49Speaker 1: This is Bob and Fairmont, living temporarily in the toenails
- 43:52Speaker 1: of the foothills of Appalachia Lancaster, Ohio for the past
- 43:55Speaker 1: forty eight years. Just finished watching the last episode, wanted
- 43:58Speaker 1: to know what inflinderation Brad come up with the word
- 44:01Speaker 1: flabbergasted when he could have used the word that I
- 44:04Speaker 1: used flinderation. That being said, I have to say Saturday's
- 44:07Speaker 1: Iowa State game has to rank up there with the
- 44:09Speaker 1: seventy five football backyard Brawl, the very first game I
- 44:13Speaker 1: ever attended, and also the Triple Ot coming out party
- 44:16Speaker 1: for Pat and newly minted Hall of Famer Steve Slayton.
- 44:19Speaker 1: When I left with friends of mine in the fourth
- 44:21Speaker 1: quarter and had to listen to it on the radio in.
- 44:23Speaker 5: The green lot, Well, he admitted it right.
- 44:26Speaker 1: I gotta say that Darren DeVries is a breath of
- 44:28Speaker 1: fresh air. I love hugs. But when he would talk
- 44:30Speaker 1: to Tony and Jay after a game, no matter whether
- 44:32Speaker 1: the Mountaineers won or not, he had always sounded like
- 44:34Speaker 1: e or after someone kicked his dog. I'm looking forward
- 44:37Speaker 1: Episode six ten. Let's go forgot to mention that I
- 44:40Speaker 1: have rat piss in that coffee cup. So he's watching
- 44:43Speaker 1: the game on his laptop computer and he's got must
- 44:46Speaker 1: have folgers in there. Why would he go with some
- 44:50Speaker 1: get you some mountaineer roasting game day grind. Just do
- 44:52Speaker 1: this for me, Just buy it off the website, Episode
- 44:55Speaker 1: eight Hunter dot Com. Try it and then you tell
- 44:58Speaker 1: me what you think. I guarantee it you'll go.
- 45:02Speaker 2: Like we saw Rusty at the game the other night.
- 45:04Speaker 2: He came down.
- 45:05Speaker 1: Oh, he came down, said hello, all right, yeah, Rusty,
- 45:07Speaker 1: good to see him.
- 45:08Speaker 2: It was nice he came back.
- 45:09Speaker 4: Because that was the night where I had a late
- 45:10Speaker 4: afternoon cup of coffee to stay awake for the nine
- 45:12Speaker 4: o'clock ten had some game day grind late in the day.
- 45:15Speaker 3: You guys are going to have to start having about
- 45:17Speaker 3: a twenty minute meet and greet prior to tip off,
- 45:21Speaker 3: like rock like rock groups, dude, how about like you
- 45:24Speaker 3: get to go behind the stage and meet the So
- 45:26Speaker 3: you guys are gonna have to start doing that.
- 45:28Speaker 1: Well, we had a guy come up to us last
- 45:30Speaker 1: game while on air, like I don't mind it when
- 45:34Speaker 1: I'm not on the air, but you.
- 45:35Speaker 3: Don't like it.
- 45:36Speaker 1: Like when I'm talking, like I struggle enough to think
- 45:38Speaker 1: of what I want to say to begin with, I
- 45:40Speaker 1: don't need anyone bat me on the back. And so
- 45:43Speaker 1: guy bats me on the back. Got like a full
- 45:45Speaker 1: length long winter code on, has a toboggan on with
- 45:50Speaker 1: the hood pulled over his head, and he taps us
- 45:54Speaker 1: on the back. He looked, I mean close, looked a
- 45:58Speaker 1: little bit. He it's in there, and he had good
- 46:02Speaker 1: looking eyes, but you could hardly see his face. And
- 46:05Speaker 1: he gives us the handshake, animated handshake.
- 46:09Speaker 5: He clearly knew us right that there was some familiarity there, and.
- 46:12Speaker 1: So he he takes off, And so what you're doing
- 46:17Speaker 1: to play by play?
- 46:18Speaker 3: No?
- 46:18Speaker 1: No, no, So we get a freak game. Okay, we
- 46:21Speaker 1: get out. Well we're still on the air. We're on
- 46:24Speaker 1: the air. Now the words count.
- 46:25Speaker 3: Now we're on the air.
- 46:26Speaker 1: We're on the air. Yes, we're on the air. I
- 46:29Speaker 1: just figure if someone did that to you, you'd be anyway, So.
- 46:32Speaker 3: I said, it would get ugly.
- 46:33Speaker 1: So I say, so, I say to him, I said,
- 46:35Speaker 1: who the freak was that? He goes, I don't know, dude,
- 46:39Speaker 1: So like about eight minutes later, same dude comes walking
- 46:43Speaker 1: back down. I go, Okay, now we're going this guy's
- 46:46Speaker 1: either crazy or what's who is it? Stalker? What do
- 46:49Speaker 1: we got going? Takes off his hood, takes off his hat.
- 46:52Speaker 1: Grant Wiley clearly.
- 46:56Speaker 3: No kidding, I said, dude, I didn't even know.
- 46:59Speaker 1: It was you.
- 47:00Speaker 5: As I've said to Grant.
- 47:01Speaker 4: So now, like the last four times I've seen him,
- 47:03Speaker 4: he never looks the same.
- 47:04Speaker 2: He never looks like he did what he played.
- 47:05Speaker 1: He doesn't.
- 47:06Speaker 2: We had no idea what he looks like. It was Grant.
- 47:08Speaker 2: We had a great, great talk circle that.
- 47:11Speaker 1: He's fifty pounds lighter than when he played. He was
- 47:13Speaker 1: two thirty five when he played. He's about bucking KNYE.
- 47:16Speaker 3: What's he doing now?
- 47:17Speaker 1: He's living in his hometown, PA, but also has some
- 47:22Speaker 1: stuff going on with a farm in New York State
- 47:24Speaker 1: near the Hudson Valley. But he came in because Vic
- 47:29Speaker 1: Lombard is doing this is kind of interesting too. Vic
- 47:32Speaker 1: Lombard is doing a documentary on Rich Rod's first stint
- 47:37Speaker 1: as West Virginia's head coach and how it ended in everything,
- 47:40Speaker 1: the whole tenure of it. But he has already been
- 47:42Speaker 1: doing that before Rich got named as the head coach again.
- 47:46Speaker 1: So now the movie, whenever it comes out, will be
- 47:49Speaker 1: like completely different. So Grant was in town to do
- 47:52Speaker 1: the interview for the doc and he said he went
- 47:54Speaker 1: over and saw Rich and it was the first time
- 47:56Speaker 1: in twenty years he had seen Rich, and it was
- 47:59Speaker 1: the first time he ever had a conversation with Rich
- 48:01Speaker 1: that wasn't coach player, which he said was kind of different.
- 48:06Speaker 3: That wasn't Rich going.
- 48:09Speaker 1: What you do.
- 48:11Speaker 3: So yeah, he so he loved it. Yeah, he was Wowie.
- 48:15Speaker 3: Now he was a pretty good player. He make place,
- 48:18Speaker 3: he makes place. He also him, it's always great.
- 48:20Speaker 1: Yeah, he's strongly, always, always has said he could have
- 48:24Speaker 1: been a Division one basketball player. And he said, I
- 48:27Speaker 1: could play for this guy for Devrees And I said, yeah,
- 48:31Speaker 1: you probably could, but I don't think he would be
- 48:32Speaker 1: good enough. I always love busting him. He said, Dude,
- 48:36Speaker 1: I'm just telling you I could have been a Division
- 48:39Speaker 1: one big East point guard.
- 48:41Speaker 3: But also wildly maybe also could have been on the
- 48:45Speaker 3: track team, the swim team, the dive.
- 48:47Speaker 2: He's probably you don't bet against doing.
- 48:49Speaker 3: It right, the golf team. I mean, he's a guy
- 48:50Speaker 3: that probably could do a lot of things. Yeah, did
- 48:53Speaker 3: he make a play Virginia Tech.
- 48:56Speaker 1: And I introduced him to Renn. I said, this is
- 48:58Speaker 1: this is the guy you see jumping over the pile.
- 49:00Speaker 1: This is what I told Red. I said, this is
- 49:01Speaker 1: the guy you see that stop Lee sogs on that
- 49:03Speaker 1: eph and Rang goes yeah, yeah, yeah, I said, classic
- 49:06Speaker 1: him not following the play call, just did his own thing.
- 49:11Speaker 2: Goodness they did.
- 49:12Speaker 3: But you know what, there are guys, not many, but
- 49:16Speaker 3: there are guys that you say, and Steve Dunlapp has
- 49:18Speaker 3: told us that like you you just go you do you.
- 49:22Speaker 1: Grant is a classic chameleon in the sense that he
- 49:25Speaker 1: is so different than when he was here. He was
- 49:27Speaker 1: like his vocabulary while he was here was grunt right,
- 49:31Speaker 1: And he'll be the first to admit he goes like
- 49:32Speaker 1: I was just like a meathead, he said. He'll say
- 49:35Speaker 1: that I was just like see ball, get ball. And
- 49:39Speaker 1: now like he's like this most eclectic guy like you
- 49:42Speaker 1: ever meet. He's in all kinds of different stuff.
- 49:45Speaker 2: So that was fun.
- 49:46Speaker 1: Good to see him, uh Texter. Someone asked Chad Gpt
- 49:52Speaker 1: do NCAA college basketball rankings like Ken Palm used the
- 49:56Speaker 1: previous year's data in their current ranking. I'll do it,
- 50:01Speaker 1: and the chat GPT said, I got the answer. I'm sorry. Yes,
- 50:04Speaker 1: Ranking services like ken Palm do use previous year's data
- 50:08Speaker 1: in their current rankings. Ken Palm system incorporates both current
- 50:12Speaker 1: season performance and historical data, including metrics like returning players,
- 50:16Speaker 1: past team performance in the efficiency trends from the previous
- 50:20Speaker 1: five or from the previous years. For example, if a
- 50:23Speaker 1: team has a strong returning roster has been consistently effective,
- 50:26Speaker 1: they can influence the early season ranking even before it's
- 50:29Speaker 1: played many games. Currently, I don't know since West Virginia's
- 50:33Speaker 1: rosters so different. Texter, well, YouTube TV does not work.
- 50:40Speaker 1: But Tony and Brad never fail us. We're cheering on
- 50:43Speaker 1: the Mountaineers from Costa Rica, sending a little sunshine back
- 50:47Speaker 1: to the mountains, Justin and Angie from Parsons. So there
- 50:50Speaker 1: they are on the beach in Costa Rica.
- 50:52Speaker 2: It's a good shut.
- 50:53Speaker 1: That wouldn't be too bad to Hey.
- 50:56Speaker 3: Here's that's well done. This got me thinking about chat GPT,
- 50:59Speaker 3: so I use that sometimes. I just entered what are
- 51:02Speaker 3: the chances WV will beat Kansas State in basketball centerdy
- 51:06Speaker 3: And this is where chat GPT is not ready. West
- 51:11Speaker 3: Virginia versus Kansas State is always interesting matchup. As for
- 51:15Speaker 3: the chances, it's hard to give an exact percentage without
- 51:17Speaker 3: knowing more factors like injuries, recent team performances, and where
- 51:20Speaker 3: the game is played. That said, West Virginia's had a
- 51:23Speaker 3: solid season under coach Bob Huggins.
- 51:29Speaker 1: Yeah, I hadn't got the update yet. Apparently Brian got
- 51:33Speaker 1: the update.
- 51:35Speaker 3: It's like the facts version of chat GPT right there.
- 51:38Speaker 3: You know, I'm not quite caught up.
- 51:40Speaker 1: May have missed there, Texter says Javon Small a pro.
- 51:44Speaker 1: He gives very business like answers to press questions. Would
- 51:47Speaker 1: love to know or hear more about him. So accomplished.
- 51:49Speaker 1: What was the sales pitch for West Virginia? So fortunate
- 51:52Speaker 1: to have him? Faithful fan loving this team, Tim and
- 51:54Speaker 1: Saint Albans. How did West Virginia get Javon Small? Is
- 51:59Speaker 1: this question?
- 52:01Speaker 2: Want to win? Said he wanted to play in an
- 52:03Speaker 2: NCAA tournament. I thought he could do it here.
- 52:06Speaker 1: There you go. Hey, three guys, Corey from Ripley, myself,
- 52:14Speaker 1: my boss, and a mutual friend. All three of us
- 52:16Speaker 1: got to attend the Iowa State game. This was my
- 52:19Speaker 1: boss and I's first ever game that we ever attended,
- 52:25Speaker 1: and what a first game for us. Be hard to
- 52:28Speaker 1: top that one off of the memory for life. I
- 52:30Speaker 1: keep hearing the topic about how simply remarkable it is
- 52:32Speaker 1: for Darren and his staff to get this team of
- 52:34Speaker 1: transfers to play like they are. My response is, after
- 52:37Speaker 1: watching Saturday, would be to encourage everyone to go to
- 52:40Speaker 1: a game and witness how he gets the crowd fired up,
- 52:43Speaker 1: fist pump slapping the floor, animated get up waves of
- 52:46Speaker 1: the crowd. He simply makes you, as a fan want
- 52:49Speaker 1: to run through a wall for him. I couldn't imagine
- 52:51Speaker 1: how the players playing for him feel. That being said,
- 52:54Speaker 1: I love the way this team, coach, DeVries and coaching
- 52:56Speaker 1: staff are representing us for our state. Keep it up.
- 52:59Speaker 3: Films was talking to why Thompson today and I was
- 53:01Speaker 3: telling about the Mountaineers and he said, Brad the Reese
- 53:05Speaker 3: must be a pretty good coach, and I said, he
- 53:07Speaker 3: runs good stuff. Watch him coming out of timeouts. Now,
- 53:12Speaker 3: why did you tell him that?
- 53:13Speaker 2: Don't tell him that.
- 53:15Speaker 1: Tell him, boy, they really struggle a.
- 53:16Speaker 3: Lot of timeouts.
- 53:16Speaker 2: I think Jerum Tang knows.
- 53:18Speaker 3: Yeah, I think they know.
- 53:19Speaker 1: Yeah. Texter, Hello, tough loss. At no point in time
- 53:22Speaker 1: did it look like anyone on the floor quit before
- 53:25Speaker 1: the final whistle, And that says a lot. Speaking of whistles,
- 53:28Speaker 1: I just wish we would have known that the reps
- 53:30Speaker 1: were going to be getting tape for their clinics this summer.
- 53:32Speaker 1: On what an inconsistent whistle looks like in a game?
- 53:35Speaker 1: On to the next one.
- 53:36Speaker 3: Was it? Was it inconsistent?
- 53:41Speaker 1: Yeah, same old simo. Didn't cost him the game. Make shots,
- 53:45Speaker 1: make shots. It was there for you, Yeah, it was yeah.
- 53:49Speaker 1: After game. Texts from Arizona State love the show, loved
- 53:52Speaker 1: the senator, but he jinxed us with the rankings complaints.
- 53:56Speaker 3: He knows better Senators take a lot heat today for the.
- 54:01Speaker 4: Live program here and stare ahead, will analyze, won't discuss,
- 54:07Speaker 4: won't talk, just stare straight ahead.
- 54:09Speaker 1: I love this lot. The best line of this whole
- 54:12Speaker 1: thing is best line is he knows better. You know
- 54:14Speaker 1: better who performs best as an underdog? So for the
- 54:19Speaker 1: sake of all mountaineer fans, let the rankings take care
- 54:21Speaker 1: of themselves. Keep up the great work, gentlemen, Brian and
- 54:25Speaker 1: pad Alaskaa.
- 54:27Speaker 3: I'll check it.
- 54:28Speaker 1: Oh and and Brad might need a two recent Cup suspension.
- 54:31Speaker 3: West Virginia fans might be more suspicious than other fans text.
- 54:36Speaker 1: Are liking football. I'm willing to bet you get more
- 54:38Speaker 1: text after a loss, but I'm sure enough we'll be
- 54:41Speaker 1: talked about in spreads on stats. This team will learn
- 54:44Speaker 1: from it, they'll rebound. I personally think it's better to
- 54:46Speaker 1: be out of the top twenty five anyway, we seem
- 54:47Speaker 1: to play better.
- 54:48Speaker 3: Pad Alaska is in Ohio, just northeast of Columbus. Hi.
- 54:56Speaker 3: He's just east of Columbus.
- 54:57Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 54:57Speaker 1: A question for Brad since he knows Iowa, could the
- 55:01Speaker 1: Senator shine some light on the rumors of Darren Devrees
- 55:04Speaker 1: taking the Iowa job. I'm assuming and really hoping these
- 55:06Speaker 1: are just rumors and that Ren is committed to keeping
- 55:09Speaker 1: him here.
- 55:09Speaker 2: Brad's thoughts Iowa doesn't have an opening. Fran McCaffrey still
- 55:14Speaker 2: go there.
- 55:19Speaker 1: I love man, I just I just I just love rumors.
- 55:23Speaker 1: I mean I hate them. I know you did because
- 55:27Speaker 1: you because you because you put credence into that. Like
- 55:30Speaker 1: as soon as the U Mass job was open, I
- 55:33Speaker 1: tell you what, Neil's gonna be going to you Mass
- 55:35Speaker 1: Literally Neil played there yet come stop Neil, you ever,
- 55:40Speaker 1: do you ever just take a deep breath and srike,
- 55:42Speaker 1: try to like put some rational thought into it.
- 55:44Speaker 3: Well, I'm not gonna do that anymore in semi retirement
- 55:48Speaker 3: because that's that stuff drove me absolutely.
- 55:50Speaker 1: Chasing your tail.
- 55:51Speaker 4: Oh, if i'm if I'm the University of Iowa and
- 55:53Speaker 4: I happen to have a basketball job opening, If Darren
- 55:55Speaker 4: Devrees isn't at the top of your list, I don't
- 55:57Speaker 4: know what you're doing Texter right now, friends coaching. I
- 56:01Speaker 4: hope he has a long and prosperous career there at
- 56:03Speaker 4: the University of Isiland.
- 56:05Speaker 1: How many times has the Mountaineer basketball team introduction carpet
- 56:08Speaker 1: been replaced and how long have they had a carpet
- 56:12Speaker 1: for introductions? My dad and I went to the game
- 56:14Speaker 1: honoring Jerry West. My dad mentioned they at least had
- 56:17Speaker 1: the carpet since Jerry played. Although we now have loud music,
- 56:20Speaker 1: light shows, highlight videos, half the court full of dancers,
- 56:23Speaker 1: and fire explosions, we still roll out the carpet as
- 56:26Speaker 1: we've done for generations. We were just curious, Brad.
- 56:30Speaker 2: I don't know that's a good question. I don't have
- 56:33Speaker 2: a concrete answer.
- 56:34Speaker 1: I'll find out.
- 56:35Speaker 4: I don't it being replaced more than once here in
- 56:38Speaker 4: the last.
- 56:39Speaker 1: Yeah, Gail Katlan brought it back, yes, which was a
- 56:42Speaker 1: great yes, great addition. You're right, they did use it
- 56:46Speaker 1: during Jerry West and then Gailkatlt brought it back. And
- 56:49Speaker 1: so it's been used since eight seventy eight seventy nine, right,
- 56:53Speaker 1: which is a ton of time now continuously.
- 56:55Speaker 2: But before that it was.
- 56:56Speaker 1: Yea, it was there, so last so we go, we
- 57:01Speaker 1: go April on that one April mess leaves charge of facilities.
- 57:08Speaker 1: She might know that. I'd be stunned if it's the
- 57:11Speaker 1: same rug, right, I tell you what couldn't if it's
- 57:16Speaker 1: the If it's the same rug that Jerry ran out, Oh.
- 57:20Speaker 5: It's not that.
- 57:20Speaker 4: It's not it's not that. But it hasn't been replaced
- 57:23Speaker 4: very often.
- 57:24Speaker 2: I don't think.
- 57:24Speaker 1: All right, we'll get on that.
- 57:26Speaker 3: Just chat GPT that hop Well, they still think Huggins
- 57:29Speaker 3: is the coach, so I'm not going to ask him that.
- 57:31Speaker 1: Hey, guys, if Hoppy goes to see the basketball team
- 57:35Speaker 1: and he takes Ren Baker's seat on press row, like
- 57:38Speaker 1: Tony suggested, then you would have to change the name
- 57:41Speaker 1: to three guys at the game. Love the show, Kevin
- 57:44Speaker 1: and Prince, that would be true. I think Ren would
- 57:47Speaker 1: give you a seat for a little bit. He's always
- 57:49Speaker 1: getting up and leaving. Might as well just take I mean,
- 57:51Speaker 1: use the seat right. He's always getting up, going down,
- 57:54Speaker 1: getting up, coming back.
- 57:55Speaker 2: I think he's got places to be, people to see.
- 57:57Speaker 1: Yeah, text her hello. I've been curious about Rich's staff.
- 58:02Speaker 1: I feel like every day I see a new coach,
- 58:04Speaker 1: analyst GM, assistant to the regional manager hired. My memory
- 58:07Speaker 1: says we didn't have this many under Neil. Is that true?
- 58:10Speaker 1: Or are we just making more announcements for positions that
- 58:12Speaker 1: were more behind the curtains under Neil? I asked, because
- 58:15Speaker 1: it makes me wonder if we have the money to
- 58:17Speaker 1: pay these people as well as the players. If we
- 58:20Speaker 1: had all these positions before, then, I'm less worried. Can't
- 58:22Speaker 1: wait to attend the brawl September, my fortieth birthday, hopefully
- 58:26Speaker 1: with a large contingent, and I'm gonna hit the food
- 58:28Speaker 1: court as always. Sorry for being long winded. Heath from Baltimore.
- 58:32Speaker 1: The Three Guys Wine Guy. I emailed them for Gale,
- 58:37Speaker 1: Michael Forgal, I know it was under I mean, I'm
- 58:42Speaker 1: like you it was under Katlan back. So is there
- 58:46Speaker 1: just is there a ginormous addition of staff compared to
- 58:50Speaker 1: Neil and Rich? I say no, but there now they're
- 58:57Speaker 1: publicizing it more like today as we were Cord. They're
- 59:00Speaker 1: putting all the transfers in, so they're doing it more so. No,
- 59:04Speaker 1: it'll it'll be it'll be similar, it'll be similar in size.
- 59:10Speaker 1: And uh yeah, but.
- 59:12Speaker 3: Staff size has increased, I would overall staff size, I
- 59:16Speaker 3: would say is increased tenfold in the last since Donnie
- 59:24Speaker 3: Nilan was the coach.
- 59:25Speaker 1: Since Donni nil And it's ten xt no question.
- 59:28Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 59:28Speaker 1: And now for the first time, you are going to
- 59:30Speaker 1: have anyone can go on to the field and coach.
- 59:33Speaker 1: Ten guys can go recruit, but anyone can go on
- 59:36Speaker 1: the fieldhill coach. Oh yeah, you'll have twenty plus guys
- 59:39Speaker 1: out there coaching coaching.
- 59:42Speaker 3: Wow.
- 59:44Speaker 1: Last text, Hey, guys. Big fan recently saw a highly
- 59:50Speaker 1: regarded NBA show list the twelve best handles are dribblers
- 59:55Speaker 1: in the league's history. I felt a connection to three
- 59:58Speaker 1: of them. Of course, two have a connection to West Virginia,
- 1:00:00Speaker 1: Pete Maravitch, Jason Williams. I agree with those two and
- 1:00:04Speaker 1: definitely had a shot to land both of them. How
- 1:00:07Speaker 1: do you guys feel about how much they would add
- 1:00:09Speaker 1: to our already incredible yet limited mount rushmore of basketball
- 1:00:12Speaker 1: legends that have statues hypothetically hypotheically, hypothetically, homeopathically hypothetically.
- 1:00:23Speaker 3: Of hypotheremically hypothermally hydroponically.
- 1:00:32Speaker 1: That ranks up there with the Facade and fakid if.
- 1:00:37Speaker 1: Pete Maravitch had the same career at West Virginia that
- 1:00:39Speaker 1: he did at LSU, and Jason Williams played two to
- 1:00:42Speaker 1: three very productive seasons here, but they also deserve statues.
- 1:00:47Speaker 1: I think someone can imagine the four of them around
- 1:00:49Speaker 1: the colisseum entrances.
- 1:00:51Speaker 3: Pete for sure, too much hypothetical, I can't.
- 1:00:54Speaker 1: Yeah, me too. Makes my head hurt.
- 1:00:57Speaker 3: West and Hunley standalone.
- 1:01:00Speaker 4: There's a lot of good Jason Williams clips out there,
- 1:01:02Speaker 4: like be a Facebook on reels. I get sucked down
- 1:01:04Speaker 4: that rabbit hole. You know, you do those bandits, those
- 1:01:07Speaker 4: sea pirates or whatever they're called.
- 1:01:09Speaker 1: Yeah, the Somali pirates. Pirates out there, those Somali pirates
- 1:01:13Speaker 1: think they're gonna do a little Sunday. My boys get
- 1:01:15Speaker 1: up on that boat with those machine guns and just say,
- 1:01:17Speaker 1: oh is that right? You come a little bit closer.
- 1:01:19Speaker 4: So he watches that I get I was down the
- 1:01:21Speaker 4: rabbit hole of Jason Williams Highlands.
- 1:01:23Speaker 2: Oh really, he was unbelievable. He talked about a handle.
- 1:01:26Speaker 1: He was unbelievable. Was remarkable, one of the once in
- 1:01:31Speaker 1: a lifetime Yeah, remarkable. Yeah. All right, so it's Thursday,
- 1:01:36Speaker 1: so we play Saturday. So we'll do this thing Monday.
- 1:01:40Speaker 1: Makes sense? You available, Hoppy, I'm available, alren't you? I
- 1:01:44Speaker 1: mean tell you what? You're here more now than when
- 1:01:46Speaker 1: you were agree with that Sunator.
- 1:01:49Speaker 3: I gotta It's taken me three weeks to clean out
- 1:01:51Speaker 3: my office. I still got stuff in there. Got a
- 1:01:57Speaker 3: couple of bowl watches.
- 1:01:58Speaker 1: I got away blue Bonnet Bowl windbreaker. Three guys before
- 1:02:05Speaker 1: the game brought to.
- 1:02:06Speaker 3: Us by bag from the Orange Bowl.
- 1:02:09Speaker 1: I gotta show you this bag out in the hallway.
- 1:02:11Speaker 1: It'll make it'll make you left. Someone brought us a
- 1:02:14Speaker 1: West Virginia bag duffle back duffelback that looked like Doc
- 1:02:20Speaker 1: Blanchard from like Field of Dreams halted. It's crazy. I'll
- 1:02:26Speaker 1: bring it out next show, Okay, if it hasn't been stolen.
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- 1:02:42Speaker 1: Well, we know that, but the question was that's not
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- 1:03:16Speaker 1: All right, let's see what happens West Virginia, Ky State
- 1:03:19Speaker 1: Saturday Night WV Women's Saturday against Arizona. We'll be back
- 1:03:23Speaker 1: to recap on Monday. Thanks to producer Jake, We're out
- 1:03:29Speaker 1: hop He's gotta go take a nap. I think I
- 1:03:32Speaker 1: think I think I'll do the same. We'll see you