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3 Guys Before The Game - Backyard Brawl Preview (Episode 488) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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What do you say, Shall we brawl? Ready to go? Man,
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it's the Backyard Brawl Preview, Three Guys Before the Game. It's episode number
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four hundred and eighty eight. Everything is ramping up for this weekend in Morgantown,
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West Virginia and the Pitt Panthers for the first time in Morgantown since twenty
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eleven, first night game since twenty eighteen. And we got a ton of
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stuff to talk about. And of course, besides the football game, the
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debut I told you I was gonna happen. I told you it was gonna
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an outdoor speak easy is what it is. Speak easy, outdoor speak easy.
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Yeah, that's what it. Yeah. Because you gotta have to like
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to see her passwords. You gotta listen to the podcast here to know that
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it's there. It's like it's like it's like a pop up as well.
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It's got to know the secret location. It's just it's not a permanent loka.
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It's just popped up. It's like that, like Harry Potter when they
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go to get on this Yes, just like you're getting on a train Griffin
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door. Yeah, yeah, yeah, just like they're going to Griffin door.
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Right, I'm gonna say, what the food that's gonna be there?
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in all right, ready to go. So you might be wondering, if
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you're watching here on the YouTube's like, uh huh, live live, what
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what is all this stuff here? What is all this stuff here? You're
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maybe wondering. So this is a lemonade which is really large. I mean
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that's so here's my hand. I got a big hand and a fast hand,
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but a big hand. I mean that's a big lemonade. I can't
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get my can't get my hand around it, right, So it's a big
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lemonade. We also have popcorn, white shudder, white cheddar, white chocolate,
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and Oreo and the peanut butter has already been assassinated. So here's what
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we're doing, folks. I'll give you the skinny and we're gonna get into
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the game a second. It's not all the lemonade because you gave a regular.
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I've got it. I've got a strawberry banana where it's strawberry banana lemonade
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and a spice and a spicy magnolia and a spice Magna. So you'n go.
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What are you guys talking about? Okay, here's the deal. So
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the Three Guys food court opens up tomorrow afternoon at three o'clock and we'll go
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to about eight or nine o'clock on midnight, eight or nine o'clock on Friday.
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It'll reopen Saturday morning at ten am until you know, six, six,
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seven o'clock. Yes, okay, So here's the lineup. Thanks to
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Hoppy, we will be selling Kirchie Val, nice Kerchival, the Chesna Brewerig's
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folks will be there. You'll be able to talk to I believe Bill will
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probably be there, the owner build a written hour who produced hoppy Kerchievel will
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also have some hallock available and you can have some there or we have four
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packs. You get four packs to go in the cans. Four cans.
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We also have for Friday and Saturday, Olive areos. So I don't win
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too knows Italian food right knows. Olive areos. They have a stealth division.
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They have a stealth division that they don't sell these publicly, almost like
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a secret menu. They have a secret double secret menu of pepperoni rolls that
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I want to tell you. We tried them this week, Senator and I
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woo. So we'll have plain pepperoni rolls were sliced. We'll have pepperoni and
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cheese, and then we'll have we'll have pepperoni roll with hotsts hotsts hots and
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Clarksburg Marion County. You just go like they got hots hot peppers. I'm
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gonna sell you something hot, no beautiful, like perfect like not too hot,
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like you get a little bit it lingers there a little bit, but
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it's not like you can't eat it. It's truly the perfect amount of hot,
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excellent good. Also there Friday and Saturday. These are the folks that
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brought us this. This is a great story. In all seriousness, all
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the bs that we do on this show and all seriousness, what we're trying
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to do is we're trying to highlight businesses and honoring folks that do business in
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the state of West Virginia. And that's what we're trying to do. So
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let me tell you about this. There's a company called It's Tardy Time tr
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d Y Tardy Time. See it's a double play. They're tardy on time,
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Tardy Time. They do these unbelievable homemade lemonades and drinks and popcorn,
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multiple flavors of the lemonade and popcorn. And we just talked about and bread
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was hitting the rec's popcorn today, good old fashioned lemonade for hoppy. Who
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they are is this two w two recent WVU grads who said, guess what,
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We're gonna stay here and we're gonna hustle and we're gonna build this company.
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And cas Citi's originally from Princeton, Brett's from Petersburg, and they'll be
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there selling their stuff. So you don't I mean, well, you know,
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obviously not everyone's gonna drink Kirchievel and we have that. Then on Saturday,
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this is how we're gonna help. This is how you can help.
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On Saturday, our boy, Reverend Kevin Kane aka Rev. keV and his
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barbecue tent will be there. Oh man. So this is what they're doing.
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They are cooking brisket, pulled pork, and pulled chicken. Okay,
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you can buy it. You can buy it. Buy the pound briskets,
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twenty pork's, fifteen chickens ten. You can just say I need whatever,
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or you can buy tacos, flour or corn shell and they'll make them right
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there for you. They're five out. They're five bucks each, and they'll
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have three different ways you can make them. Okay, then they'll just wrap
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them and foil. You can say, hey, give me ten of them.
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Ten year out, you're gone. They're five bucks each. But here's
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the deal. All of the money from Rev. Kev's barbecue goes to the
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lunchbox program at Skyview Elementary here in Morgantown, and that costs the source,
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which is Kevin's Outreach Church organization. They give those kids thirty five hundred calories
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of food every weekend when they go home thirty five hundred calories. It cost
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them one hundred thousand dollars a year to do that. They've already raised sixty
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thousand dollars this year. They need another forty thousand dollars before the year is
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done. This is why they do the food that they do. This is
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exactly why they So so I gave you the numbers I want it costs.
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If you want to make a bigger donation, every single penny of that goes
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to that programmed to for the lunchbox program at Skyview Elementary. So that's kind
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of stuff we're trying to do great. And the food, I'm just telling
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you what listen, Tony, I mean we've had barbee Que, yes,
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in many many places. His brisket, this is not exaggeration. His brisket
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is the best brisket I've ever had. He now, I mean no question.
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Red pull pulled pork is pretty good too. So brisket's excellent. Really,
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So Vin, Kevin is just there with the barbecue on Saturday, correct
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Friday. All the other stuff is there, all the other Saturday, all
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of it will be there, including Kevin. Yes. So again all kidding
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aside as you well know, I want good food. I'm a food snop.
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And if your food sucks I'll say, have food sucks. Don't have
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any hesitation doing that. Every single thing that's there, every single thing that
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is there has passed my that's really good, has passed my really good.
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If it wasn't, we'd just go like, no, we don't want to
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do that. So that's what we're doing. So we'd love to have you
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there. Where is it you might be wandering. Come down University Avenue.
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You know where Daniel's Men's Store is. Face Daniel's Men's Store if you're facing
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the store to the left toward the Alumni Center, about forty yards way from
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the street. No street. It's a big concrete, big concrete pad,
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big three guys before the game, all right in the middle seat logos.
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It'll be the logos. Now here's the deal, though, Park park your
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car somewhere else. I don't care where you park. Cheat Lake Fairmont,
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Randolph County, Blue lot and walk over, blue lot. Walk over.
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It's a walkover, is what it is. It's a walkover. So wherever
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you are go, park your car, come in there and just hang out.
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Malice Sum. If you're walking down on the Sum, just turn up
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there, come see us. Maximum capacities one hundred forty people. So I
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don't know if we're gonna get ten people. I don't know if we're gonna
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get forty people. I don't know if we're gonna get four hundred people.
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I don't know what it is. We're just we're just like anything else.
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We're flying by the seat of our pants. But I'll just tell you this.
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The food is gonna be excellent A plus. Yeah, now, Kirchi
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probably tastes pretty good too. Oh yeah, yeah, nice. We're gonna
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host a sports line from the area there tomorrow night as well. Oh what
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time are you going over by the way me? Yeah, oh, I
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don't know. I think you might be able to come over them. A
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lot of people are asking, and we'll see. It's unbelievable. I think
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you would committed earlier, show her, so go you might have committed anyway,
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Boy, what am I gonna do? I'm trying, trying, you
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know, So we'll be we'll help me. See, it's three guys,
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it's not two guys. It's three guys. I mean team hoppy, team
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together, everyone accomplishes more. Team. There's no I in team. No,
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No, there isn't me though there is the M and E. Yeah,
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that's true too. We'd love to have you there again. I don't
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know what's gonna happen. We're gonna have fun, I'll tell you this.
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We're gonna have fun just the three of us, or we could have fun
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with you. So you want to have fun, let's gonna have fun.
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We'll hang out, have a big time. You're to do some stuff on
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Duque and West. Oh wow, I hope that are not still stuck on
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that Duchane. Strong chance that they're not. They checked out. Probably,
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strong chance that they're not. Let's talk about the backyard brawl West Virginia and
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Pitt. You said you got a lot of this. Yeah. Let Hoppy
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give his opening statement first. You haven't give an opening statement, mister Kurtchville,
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if you would, the floor is yours, a gentleman from the Eastern
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Panhandle, a great state of West Virginia. Thank you, Anna. This
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is quite simply the biggest game in Neil Brown's coaching history, in his coaching
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career, I think it's his ninth year. You know the years at Troy
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and out West Virginia, and this game in and of itself, we know
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that his job is on the line. This game in and of itself does
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not determine whether he keeps his job or loses his job, but it does
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start the arc. Okay, it's start. It's it's pivotal in beginning the
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arc toward whatever the out come is going to be. If he wins this
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game, if West Virginia wins his games, Okay, you beat your rival.
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You you get back what happened last year. You got some momentum heading
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into another home game. Uh, and you know you're in good shape now.
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Okay, you're cooking if you lose, If you lose this game,
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now you've got two losses already, you still have a tough september. You've
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lost to your rival, and you've probably got to find a way the rest
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of the season to get seven wins. So quite simply, and there have
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been bigger games in mountain football history. Clearly, there have been bigger pit
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games in Mountaineer football history. Will name some today, but in terms of
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Neil Brown and where this program is today, it's the biggest game. Couldn't
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agree with you more? Spot on And the white shutter is freaking unbelievable.
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He just hammered the whole thing, the whole thing, really good next two
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weeks are huge without this one, but these next two weeks really start to
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define this season a little bit, change the narrative potentially around this season.
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If you can find wins, and you're right that this is massive, this
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is also massive for the fan base. Huh, yes, we all know
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what happened the last time Pitt was here. It's hard to believe. Or
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last time they won here? What game that was? It's hard to believe.
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It's been that long since there's been a game in here. What is
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it twenty eleven? Last time Pitt was here, last time they won here?
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That oh? Seven games? So this is massive not just for Neil
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Brown and this football parking, but for a fan base, for a fan
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base that loves this rivalry and likes to play this game and had had a
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wonderful atmosphere last year up in Pitt and so many Mountaineer fans were there.
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Now you get them on your home turf. Now there's a little revenge angle
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to this. So I'm with you. This is a massive game for two
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teams trying to figure out what they are. I think now, if you
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want to go onto the field a little bit here and off the macro these
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two teams are both saying what are we? Who are our guys? What
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do we need to do to win? And Pits situation they need to back
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from a disappointing performance for them last week. Can I go macro before we
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jump into the xs and nose to both of your points? By human nature,
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we all demand value when we make an investment, and that includes fans
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and so fans have been priming themselves for this game for a long time.
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Pits Coming, Pit's Coming. So it is a tremendous emotional investment that fans
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are making for this game now that is going to have a payoff one way
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or the other. The payoff could be plus you win that game, everyone
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feels different, everyone seems different, everything seems different. Right. If it
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doesn't happen, you'll get the opposite result. Everyone will take one more big
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step back. And so it is an extremely volatile result one way or the
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other. It could be this massive catalyst, a booster shot, and everyone
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goes, hey, we are heading in the right direction. Or if not,
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oh that's even gonna make it more significant. Yeah, yeah, because
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even if you win, yes, it will be tremendous amount of momentum.
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But even if you win, there's still more to prove. But if you
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lose, it's going to be for a lot of people, a affirmation that
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you're headed in the wrong direction. A wind says, okay, maybe you
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are now turning it around. A lose is an affirmation that you're not getting
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it done. Yeah, you're right. The extremes are never going to change.
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The absolute most passionate lovers of what's going on will still love. The
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absolute haters that hate will still hate. Regardless you win or lose. There's
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still gonna hate. But it's the middle that's gonna swing here. It's your
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it's the pendulum of where that middle is that can make more people go to
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one side. Or it's also locker room related, right, and I thought
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this staff really did a good job last year in the face of some adversity
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of keeping that locker room together. You saw those wins late in the season.
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That's hard to do. That's hard to do what they did at the
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end of the season. Credit those guys in that locker room for being able
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to do that. But that's also what this narrative effects as well. Those
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players hear the outside noise. So I think it's important from a moving forward
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standpoint from the players, play well, get a win, and then you
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can be If you're Neil Brown, you stand up and you continue to say
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great, just keep doing what you're doing. We told you put in the
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work. It's going to turn into results. That's what I think this is
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about, too, the work turning into results. You need to see that.
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On Saturday and look where pit is pit loss that came to Cincinnati.
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They were favored to win. So this is and they're one of the six
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teams, as you pointed out to me, Tony playing two Power five teams
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in the non conference schedule. This is gigantic for them too. Sure,
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I mean to play Arrival. Are you gonna lose two in a row.
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It's going to be to Arrival. And they didn't play well against since Nat
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he said, you're right, You're absolutely right. You know, they had
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the hometown kid come back and filled your Covic. Their quarterback did not play
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well and he chastised the fans for booing him and the team. And so
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this is real tenuous on their part as well. And you know they drop
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a couple early on. You know they could become you knows or extinguished pretty
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early in their season, so it's it's huge. So it's it's college football.
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This is what this should be. You should have a ton on the
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line all the time you play. You're ready to do your thing. Let's
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go lemonades really good, oh delicious, and get a drink one. Let's
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go play the music. We might have had a kerchevel in here, but
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that would not be permitted on work premises. It's not I don't think.
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Oh man, I've been you've been breaking that rule Employee handbook. Do it?
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I said, do it? So I checked your numbers and just go
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you're ready. You've you got me hyped up here. Oh you're going classes.
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Here we go. Let's go, let's go, let's get into this.
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We have a lot of stuff here. Let's move. Let's go,
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big game, stop talking, you're ready. Here we go. I wasn't
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saying anything. Here we go, starting with a couple of things. I
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got a bunch of them. No you can't, so just hang on.
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First of all, we talked all off season about the success of the passing
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game, didn't we hoppy big topic? How would Garrett Green do? Who
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would emerge as playmakers on the outside? Needed some questions answered at the receiver
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position. It was only one week. You got him answered last week,
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Dan, Yeah, Hudson Clement emerges as the star coming out of that game.
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A couple numbers for you guys, I thought you'd be interested in.
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Did you know, Hudson Clement leads the nation in yards per reception thirty five
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point seven per reception nation I said not big twelve leads the nation yards per
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reception five yards perception I bet, I bet number two is fifteen yards behind
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that. The staff that you and Hoppy can't seem to grasp yards receiving per
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route run. Hudson also leads all of the nation's wide receivers in that category.
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Two is really good. Two receiving arts per route run. He's at
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eight point zero five. That's where receivers are twenty or more snaps. Ye,
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so anyway point being small sample size obviously opponent adjusted because of Duquesne.
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But Hudson Clement emerged for one week as a massive option. Can that continue
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and listen, He's chances he's not going to have one seventy seven this week
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are pretty good. But he doesn't need to just become a reliable second or
24:32
third receiving threat along with Devin Carter that you know, Cole Taylor emerging,
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you need another receiver. Can Clement be that guy? And a guy that
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the opposing team has to prepare a four point you have to account for him?
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Yes, Last week he was on No Scott in Reporter. This week
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they go like, okay, eighty four, you better watch eighty four.
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Garrett. We talk so much about him, and I'm going to keep doing
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this as long as this holds true, because I'm sure people were tired of
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me talking about he's got to be good with the ball and limit turnovers in
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the off season, right hop did we talk about that? No interceptions or
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fumbles for that matter for Garrett Green through the first two games, excellent deep
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ball, as we talked on last Sunday's podcast, was about as good as
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you'll see in that game against the Dukes, and more to the point with
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that, it could have been against air guys where he was dropping those deep
25:21
balls were absolutely fantastic. That wasn't just guys fell down. Now, the
25:26
first Hudson Clement one was the coverage busted and he hit him deep. Those
25:30
other ones, including some drops, were right smack on the money. And
25:33
to me, that's important because now Pit's gonna look at that and it's not
25:37
going to be yeah, he hit some big plays, but that those were
25:40
busts. Those were lucky throws. They're gonna have to say, Okay,
25:44
kid can throw it deep. Here, we're gonna have to protect against the
25:47
deep ball. That's a critical move. Here's some numbers to back up how
25:49
good he's been early. Garrett leads the Big twelve in Pro Football Focus grade
25:53
on deep passes twenty yards or more leads let me say that again, leads
26:00
the Big twelve in Pro Football Focus grade on deep passes. That's pretty good.
26:03
Again, small samples, as I get it. He's third in the
26:07
Big twelve in adjusted completion percentage on deep passes. So again, numbers to
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back up what your eyes saw. He was very good last week with that.
26:15
His grade ninety four point nine on those passes. That's seventh nationally.
26:22
So you got some guys again if they can Garrett's not going to finish seventh
26:26
nationally in deep passes. I wouldn't think. If he can stay up there
26:29
and just be effective enough to back that defense off to try and lighten the
26:32
box a little bit so those safeties can't fly down. Now you're starting to
26:36
move a little bit, all right, So that's one that's well, he's
26:41
on it. He'scuse me, let me get a drunk of strawberry banett.
26:45
What's this tardy time? Yeah, tardy time. This the Conleague group sponsorship
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really is taking your game to the next level. I think now he's playing
26:52
for money. Yeah, that's what he's doing. All right, a couple
26:55
more. Let's go to the pit side for a minute. Talk about the
26:57
pit offensive line. This is going to be a critical component, Hoppies,
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stay with me here, you ready, I'm ready. Cincinnata lived in the
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backfield last week and had constant pressure on Phil Djerkovic. Six sacks, fifteen
27:11
hurries, hit him twenty one times. That's pretty good day for the defense.
27:15
Which side note, Hoppy, make a little note, may have underestimated
27:19
Cincinnata their defense. Will my takeaway, there wasn't pitch struggles. It was
27:25
like Cincinnati we watched some film and win. Oh my god. But also
27:29
yeah, I mean, but but you do have to factor in that pit
27:33
offensive line, which by Pat Ardozy's own admission, made at least twenty five
27:38
errors in past protection. So they were bad in past protection. They were
27:41
bad in protection all day, thank you. Some of that was a Cincinnati
27:45
defense, a lot of that was since defense. And that's the question is
27:48
can West Virginia, even if it can't get to that level that Cincinnati showed
27:52
how close can it get? Here's the parts to watch. Right guard for
27:56
Pitt b J. Williams was a true freshman. He had an eight pass
28:00
blocking grade against Cincinnati excuse eight on a scale of one to one hundred eight.
28:07
He allowed five hurries. He only has a fifty four grade on the
28:11
season through two games. I bet you he's not there Saturday. They don't
28:15
put him back out there. I bet you the other right guard list it's
28:18
played snaps. There is Jason Collier. He has a fifty one grade.
28:22
He started in week one on their depth chart, he is the backup left
28:26
guard this week. B J. Williams still listed as the starting right guard.
28:30
The backup right guard. The backup right guard, also a true freshman.
28:34
Along with b. J. Williams, the right tackle is a gentleman
28:38
by the name of Branson Taylor. He's given up three pressures on the season,
28:44
second only to Williams pressures. So that left side, if it stays
28:48
intact, here's the matchup I want you to watch Sean Martin and Trey Latham.
28:52
Both of Martin's quarterback hurries this year have come when he's pressured from the
28:56
left side. Trey Lathan. Both of his quarterback hurries have from he have
29:00
come from what side, hoppy do you think? From that side? Left
29:04
side? And he has two hits on the quarterback from the right side,
29:07
but his pressures have come from the left. Lathan and Martin, when they're
29:10
lined up on that left side against that right side of that pit line,
29:14
can they get in there and pressure Jerkovic keep an eye on that. There's
29:18
your pressure. Yeah, all right. Now go to the third area of
29:22
this pit offense that I think is the most important. They were really pit
29:25
was really out of character the other night against Cincinnati. Threw it a lot
29:29
hoppy. Some of that was because they were behind, but as we talked
29:33
with Chris Peak from Panther Layer on sports Line this week, if you go
29:36
back and look at their first sixteen plays, they threw it a lot.
29:38
That's not the identity of Nardozi, of Frank Signetti, and that's not what
29:42
Jerkovic wants to do too. In fact, not only do they want to
29:45
run it, they want to utilize play action. So they not only need
29:49
to run the ball, they need to have success running the ball. So
29:52
you can put play action in and help Jerkovic when he throws it. He
29:56
really struggled last week. As you guys mentioned ten completed passes in the game.
30:00
Ten. Now go back to this play action for a second. You're
30:04
ready for this, guys, Yeah, we're all ears. In three of
30:07
the last four seasons, Jerkovic's completion percentage has been higher on play action than
30:14
regular passing plays. In three of the last four years, his average depth
30:18
of target has been more off of play action plays than regular plays over the
30:25
last three full seasons. In first two games this season, forty six percent
30:30
of his touchdown passes have come off play action. But how about this gap
30:33
from twenty to twenty two, twenty twenty two, twenty two, sixty one
30:37
percent of his touchdown passes off play action. Only one out of four have
30:41
been this year. And here's the number to watch. In the reason I'm
30:45
setting this one up, I can't imagine Pitt doesn't come out and try and
30:48
absolutely pound the ball. If you can stop their run, that is going
30:52
to foul them up completely. I think there's no way those pit coaches sat
30:56
there and watch that film and watch the beating they took last week to since
31:00
Nattie and said, yeah, we're good we're gonna go throw it again.
31:02
We're gonna throw it a bunch. They're gonna get back to what they do.
31:04
Darn Doozy said in his Monday press conference that both he and Signetti have
31:08
already had already talked and they conferred, and they basically said the paraphrase like,
31:12
what the hell will we do it? Yeah, So they're bummed out
31:15
about So you're absolutely right, they're gonna come in here and it's just gonna
31:18
be ground ground ground. So but if you can't run it, then the
31:22
play action becomes ineffective. Here's some numbers for you for Djerkovic off play action.
31:26
In twenty twenty, thirty three percent of his dropbacks came off with play
31:32
action involved. In twenty twenty one, forty three percent of his dropbacks involved
31:37
play action. In twenty twenty two, thirty one percent of his dropbacks Getting
31:41
the picture there, Yes, they love dropbacks. A lot of those were
31:44
with Frank Signetti Juniors, the offensive coordinator. This year, so far,
31:48
just thirteen point eight percent of his dropbacks have involved play action. It's coming
31:52
on Saturday. The running game is coming. Play action is coming off of
31:56
that. How does West Virginia handle it. Can they get any where near
32:00
the pressure that Cincinnati did. If you did, and you make Jerkovic try
32:04
and beat you, it's kind of like the Penn State theory exactly what West
32:07
Virginia did there. Right, Those running backs aren't going to beat us.
32:09
The quarterback is going to have to show he can. He did. I
32:13
think you do the same thing here. Shut down this run, limit play
32:15
action and say to Jerkovic, go ahead if you can beat us, ahead
32:19
and try. Do you think he can? No? No, I think
32:22
if you put the game in his hands, that's advantage West Virginia. Now
32:25
maybe I come in here Sunday and I have to say, well, I
32:28
was wrong he threw for three hundred and eight because the other equation that we
32:30
won't get into here. But it's part of the bigger picture. What do
32:34
West Virginia's defensive backs look like? Does Marcus Floyd being back help that?
32:37
Do the adjustments that Neil Brown said they have that they didn't show against Dukane?
32:42
Does that matter? So West Virginia's defensive backs are a huge question mark.
32:45
If I was looking at it from the pit side, Tony and you
32:47
asked me that same question, I'd say we had Jerkovic shown he can make
32:52
some throws, and that West Virginia defensive backfield hasn't shown it's ready yet.
32:55
But if I'm West Virginia, I make Jerkovic show he can win. I'm
32:59
not gonna let them on us. Go ahead? Can I add to jump
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in? Those? Those are my categories. I think I think you've really
33:07
brought it. You're you've reached mid season form and only game three. You
33:09
should be commended. Well, I think, I mean those are great stats,
33:13
and I think they reinforce just what what Pitt is thinking, like,
33:15
what are we doing? Why aren't we doing what we do and that is
33:17
play action, try to get the running game going and then throw down field,
33:22
because that's not what they did. They had only eighty three yards rushing
33:24
against Cincinnati. Cincinnati had one had one guy. Can you that ran fore
33:29
hundred and fifty yards? So they didn't they didn't get that going. Here's
33:31
a couple other stats. Let me give you this. Tony's coming now,
33:34
wait, do you wate? I'll give you a baby stinger. Since you're
33:37
not fully spreads on stats, I'll give you a little baby one hang out
33:39
second, go ahead, thank you? We know Djokovic struggled and some of
33:45
it was him, but a lot of it was at offensive line, the
33:46
inability to run things like that, he targeted bub means go ahead set eleven
33:52
times. How many catches did he have? Zero? Zero catches eleven target
33:57
zero catches. Running back situation. They have a good running back in Rodney
34:02
Hammond. Rodney Hammond's a doke walk doke walker nominee. You know how many
34:07
times he's carried the ball eleven eleven times? So it was either Frank Signetti
34:14
Junior or her Dazzy was asked, do you want to get more carries to
34:21
Hammond, And before the question was finished, he said, yes, so
34:25
you look for number six, look for number six to get to try to
34:30
get him greased up because he didn't have it. He hadn't had cars six,
34:32
four and twenty four. Those are the three dudes, okay, Sibo
34:36
Flemister, Daniel Carter and Rodney Hammond. Those will be their three dudes,
34:39
you know. And also it's interesting that how much Nardoozy and Signetti this week
34:45
talked about their mistakes, talked about how they're just that every play and Tony.
34:52
We've heard this from coaches forever and heard this from West Virginia coaches a
34:55
lot. Every game, every play, there's just a guy or two that's
35:00
in the wrong place, okay, or going the wrong way or doing the
35:02
wrong thing. And Pitt was absolutely eviscerated by that in the Cincinnati game.
35:08
A lot of a lot of detailed mistakes by their team in that game.
35:13
Now did they clean it up, Brad in week three? I would think
35:15
they'll play better because you know they're in essence, their Week one to Week
35:20
two is now scrub the Wofford game. That's an exhibition, just like wester
35:23
Vininians was last week. So yeah, I would think they'll be better.
35:25
I think the philosophical part comes into play though with this pit thing though,
35:30
is remember last year's game. They started out doing what Signetti and NARDUSI want
35:37
to do. They I mean, they were huddling. They were huddling up
35:39
and running the ball right up the middle of West Virginia and it wasn't going
35:43
anywhere. Their success came when when they finally said, hey, those defensive
35:47
backs are having trouble, why don't we let keatons love us throw it.
35:50
And that's when they started moving the ball and then that opened the run a
35:52
little bit and they had some success. So I think their challenge is they're
35:55
sitting there saying, yeah, we gotta run it, we gotta run it,
35:59
we gotta run it. They run it. You go back and look
36:00
at Pitts play shifts. It was almost two to one throw the ball when
36:05
Kenny Pickett was there for like three years, and last year it flipped and
36:07
they were a run heavy team. They ran it more than they threw it.
36:09
That's what they want to do. There's no secret to that. That's
36:12
what Frank Signetti Junior has been. That's what nur Duzi wants to do.
36:15
Run it, play defense. But the scout, when you look at West
36:17
Virginia is gonna say, what, let me have a pretty good job against
36:20
Penn State up front. They had a pretty good job against us up front
36:22
last year. The way we beat them is in that defensive back off.
36:25
We got to challenge those defensive backs and see if they've gotten any better.
36:29
So you're putting them in conflict right away, insane to them. The way
36:34
to beat West Virginia so far appears to be to throw the ball, but
36:37
they don't want to. Ye. In Week one, much was said about
36:40
the noise at Penn State and dealing with that noise and could have impact West
36:46
Virginia. Well, it didn't. West Virginia had one procedure called the entire
36:52
night did not get any delay of games. So you have an offensive line
36:55
that's coming off a shaky performance from Pitt. You've got guys, as Brad
37:00
set, very youthful at certain spots. We're talking about true freshman, which
37:04
is almost unheard of in major college football to be playing true freshman. You
37:08
would think, and you would hope from a Mountaineer perspective, that the crowd
37:13
sound in the stadium could throw those guys off. I mean, if they're
37:16
if they're lacking confidence to begin with and the place gets hopping loud and they're
37:22
trying to change a play, you could you could absolutely have an impact.
37:27
A missed assignment, a missed call from your offensive line is how you're going
37:31
to block something. And West Virginia will use a lot of pre snap movement
37:34
as well on its defensive front, and that'll be a part that'll be a
37:37
significant part of the game. Well, I think you should be commended.
37:42
I think both of you guys brought some stuff there. Very nicely done.
37:45
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number, real click? Well sure, miss number. Yeah, this line's
37:59
moved quite a bit. Excuse me, line has moved quite a bit.
38:01
Really, what's going on there? Started Pitt minus two pit favored, flipped,
38:07
got all the way over the kind of last night and this morning moved
38:08
into West Virginia favored territory. Then right before we came on the air today
38:13
now nish on Thursday, thing went to minus three. These are all on
38:16
draft kings by way that yeah, yeah, So ultimately the move has been
38:22
since when it opened earlier this week minus two, Pitch favored by two all
38:27
the way to West Virginia favored by three by the time we started, Big
38:30
move, Big move. There's a couple of reason. A couple of months
38:36
expected people with some money came in. I like the home, like the
38:39
early home dog. Right, liked early on the home like the early home
38:43
dog. How much money literally has to come in and move a number like
38:47
that, I don't know that millions, No, And it all depends sometimes,
38:52
as those guys will tell you, sometimes it's not even about total dollar
38:55
amounts. It's about who's placing the bet. How about that? So if
39:00
it's somebody that comes in that you know they are that person or a representative
39:06
of that person. What do you mean by representative? Well, some people
39:07
don't bet in person. They have representatives that go in and place the bet
39:10
for them, because if the book sees the actual person coming, then they
39:14
know they're can change the number even quicker. And those people may want to
39:17
get down at multiple books before word gets out that so and so has made
39:21
a bet here. So sometimes it's not about total dollar figures, it's about
39:24
who's placing the bet. So the sharps are on West Virginia now or some
39:30
are. And that's also a misnomer phrase, probably because there's there's gonna be
39:34
sharp people, respected betters on both sides of this. Let those college gage
39:37
will get you'll get you'll get pros on each side of this that have different
39:39
opinions. But as of right now, that's been maybe a better way to
39:44
say that is there's been a couple of moves made in West Virginia's favor that
39:47
appears to be the early side doesn't mean that side's gonna win, but that
39:52
appears to be the early side based on the line movement. Gotcha, you're
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a pace? All right? Ready to do this thing? This is from
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Textual Healing Scope spreads Hoppy. I was in Winnipeg on business over the weekend.
41:00
Decided to go to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in Saskatchewan Rough Riders football game.
41:05
CFL football is different, big field, huge en zone, bigger football,
41:08
twelve players, offensive backs running all over the place before the snap.
41:12
Anyway, I looked at the Rough Riders roster and who was at the top.
41:15
Mario Alford kick returns specialists got lots of tries. Winnipeg won fifty one
41:21
six. Always a West Virginia connection, no matter where you go, beat
41:22
Pitt, Paul and Fincastle Virginia. Always yeah, Mario Alford can return a
41:28
kick. Take a little Mario Alfern right now, he could burn too,
41:30
he could taken stress. The defense memory serves me correct, State champion high
41:36
school track in Alabama. I'll double check pretty sure, Hey, Tony Bratt
41:39
Hoppy, My dad and I enjoyed our conversation with you at Daniels last week
41:44
and on our way to Happy Valley, Brad the CPA's we're glad that Tony
41:49
was nowhere to be found. I mentioned that I was hoping my seven year
41:52
old son, Jackson, would be able to make the trip for the Duquee
41:54
game. Well, my wife and I were crazy enough to bring him along
41:58
for his first of many trips to Mountaineer Field. He was a trooper and
42:02
he made it through the weather delay. There they are, and understandably he
42:06
was asleep for the singing of country roads. Definitely one of the coolest days
42:08
of my life. Let's get another one this weekend. Congratulations picture I talked
42:13
about them. That was Trey from Elki and his dad were on the way
42:15
to Penn State. Yeah, they stopped in Daniels get a couple of things
42:19
hoppy and then continued on up. Absolutely, that's awesome, great memory right
42:23
text her good morning, three guys, long story short, which is difficult
42:30
for me. Last forty three years, our family Johnny O's have gone to
42:36
opening day. Yesterday was no different, except my sister was in a walking
42:39
cast due to a ruptured achilles tendon. We made the walk from the light
42:44
blue lot over to our seats in one twenty seven. After the first hour
42:47
into the delay, she was war out. We decided to call the night.
42:50
Driving out of Morgantown, we thought about Kerchival, stopped at Ashbrook,
42:55
Jack Pott snagged snagged our sons Brian and Arizona, Via Weird and Adam and
43:02
Weird and both p one listeners. Three cases. Wow, we're now up
43:07
from Mother of the Year. Thanks to Owen and Cole for loading up the
43:09
truck, pouring it in the rain, Donna and Weird and that's Johnny oos.
43:14
Oh there it is. Yeah, thanks Donna. Oh nice took three
43:17
cases home with him hopping. Mario Alford deserves it. Mario Alford probably doesn't
43:22
unpack. He has been with the Bengals, the Jets, the Browns,
43:27
the Bears, the Argonauts, the Alouettes and the rough Riders. It's just
43:30
twenty fifteen. Still playing, still playing, still in the game, keep
43:34
going. That's good work. Conglation should be plenty in the marketplace. Bill
43:37
Bill pop some more out there, distribute, It'll be at the food course.
43:42
Will happy and Tony's comments were excellent. If God is a Mountaineer fan,
43:46
he sure has put us through some trials recently. No one has seen
43:50
more interworkings of the football program than Tony. If he says that winning the
43:52
next three at home as a must, then I must take him literally.
43:58
There you go, Texter. Hey, fella, is my very first time
44:01
getting textual and no need for healing. As I know the boys in the
44:06
Golden Blue are going to get the dub By two t ds against the Pitters.
44:10
I just wanted to text him for the first time after driving by Tony
44:15
out in front of Old Milon Pushcar Stadium, as it looked like he was
44:17
cutting a promo video. I know I had made the blooper reel as I
44:22
yelled out, Sir, I loved three guys before the game out of his
44:25
window, he replied, Sir, you are a great American. That truly
44:30
made my day. I thought I saw a bald eagle fly overhead too.
44:34
The show's amazing. Can't wait to see episode eight hundred plus. My name
44:37
is Drey Hodges, mechanical engineering senior at the University. I'm from Fairmont.
44:43
I've been watching your show since I was a freshman in nineteen Brad. I
44:45
love the analysis that you bring to each show. As a fellow numbers guy,
44:49
I catch myself courting you a lot whenever I talk mountaineer sports hops.
44:52
The glue that holds everything together and this is hilarious. I've attacked a picture
44:57
of me at two years old top of my dad's shoulders at a WVU versus
45:02
Wisconsin game. I hope to recreate this with my sons someday and to be
45:07
amazing of a dad as he is. Also, I've attached a picture of
45:13
my girlfriend Amra and I at last year's West Virginia Pittsburgh game tough ending,
45:17
but I know they ain't ready from Motown. Thanks again, Fellows. And
45:22
if you can hook up a broke college student with some swag, that would
45:24
be crazy. Dre. Like he's getting me a horns down while in Hinesfield.
45:30
Yeah, we were, we were taking we were recording something in front
45:35
of the stadium and he drove by and he screamed out there three guys.
45:38
Cool. Yeah, I thought it was nice, Dre. You're the guy
45:42
in high school. Mario Alfred High jumped six foot two inches ten seven in
45:46
one hundred meter and twenty two three in the two hundred meter. Pretty good.
45:52
Yeah, I'll get it done. It's good. Charlie from mid Lothian
45:55
Scope spreads and Hank handkerchief truncated. Here's a picture of my coin pouch from
46:01
my days at du pomp in our minority vendor purchasing program in the eighties.
46:07
Obviously it's still in news on that week he did he did send when we
46:10
lost a picture. Anyway, Usually Scope reads one text and then proceeds of
46:15
the next one. Brad, since you've been introducing Tony and Hoppy to new
46:19
statistical categories, YPRR, I've got one for you to consider. I call
46:23
it cats. Comments after text during last Thursday's show, My two texts Josh
46:30
Eilett Interview and the Color Mob generated a lot of comments after being read by
46:32
scopes. There were several on Sunday's podcasts that did the same, always looking
46:37
for continuous improvement. There you go, Charlie from Midlothian. He did send
46:40
a picture of one of those plastic coin change things. By the way,
46:45
what do you got there? Well, I was shamed earlier this week by
46:51
both of you, you for Germ's bread and Tony just because he was doing
46:54
a tony thing like said I was a railroad guy or something. So today
46:59
I brought twosues. Spress your own box of tissues. Your red handkerchief has
47:02
caused a flurry of text activity. Texter Nick Malone's tremendous block in the Duquene
47:08
game had me out of my seat cheering for him as he pushed his opponent
47:12
down the field. It was reminiscent of the movie blind Side. The frustrated
47:17
official felt a penalty was necessary and called it excessive blocking. Congratulations again to
47:22
Nick on his expressive blocking technique. Go Mountaineers, our buddy A John s.
47:25
Marshall, Saint Clairsville, Ohiah, Texter or Tony. I can't understand
47:30
how you can simultaneously fear the money that SMU has access to, yet you
47:36
still want the Mountaineers to be in the top level of college football once alignment
47:39
settles down. Unfortunately, the Mountaineer's face recruiting and financial challenges that the top
47:45
twenty five programs don't have to deal with. It's not fair, but it's
47:47
a reality. There's no shame at being at a level of college football that
47:52
includes pitt Maryland Tech, Kentucky, NC State, Virginia, maybe Tennessee if
47:57
they're smart. It's just not feasible to expect a program with West Virginia's budget
48:01
to compete with the insanity that is Georgia, Auburn, Texas, Texas A
48:06
and m A Highest State LSU. I don't never want to see them Ountaineers
48:09
be a tomato can for everyone else just so the university can earn a little
48:13
extra money. That's what would happen if they are at the top level.
48:15
Just my opinion as a lifelong fans signed JD. Southern Coalfields. A couple
48:20
of things, JD. You said, I can't understand how you can simultaneously
48:23
fear the money that SMO has access to. I don't fear that money.
48:27
I don't fear that money at all. Here's a deal man. Regardless of
48:30
what's happening. Think about what you're just saying and what you're writing. Nothing
48:36
has changed. It's always been Alabama, Georgian, Auburn, Texas, Texas
48:40
A and m Ohio State and LSU. It's never been It's never West Virginia's
48:45
never been with them. It didn't suddenly change where those schools have ascended financially,
48:49
It's always been the same. Now it's just the same with a different
48:52
spin on it that it's legal. So it hasn't changed. It hasn't changed.
48:58
It's the same thing. I don't want to I don't want to be
49:00
there with Virginia right now. So I get you, but I don't fear
49:07
SMU's money. I'm The point I was making was just how crazy this thing
49:09
is. Jeff from Lumberport, first time Texter. I'm listening to episode four
49:15
eight three and the hanky comes out. I'm under forty until December. I
49:21
carry a hanky with me every day, belonged to my grandpa who passed and
49:24
thirteen and my aunt gave it to me. I only use it to wipe
49:27
sweat when I have to. That's what he used them for, and he
49:30
was a hard working man, retired from the gas company. I don't like
49:34
to do that because it belonged to him, and mostly I carry it to
49:37
have a piece of him with me. I want to keep it as long
49:38
as I possibly can. I will most definitely purchase a three guys hanky.
49:43
Please let me know when they are available. PS. If it's a picture
49:46
of Hoppy wiping sweat, now that would be hilarious. So we're gonna get
49:50
a picture you going like this on the handkerchief. Well, two things.
49:53
When should I go back to the hanky then, well, yes, if
49:58
you're comfortable using it, Yeah, we're not gonna try to shame you when
50:00
the kleenex. And second of all, no, I think no you need
50:04
to use the kleenex if you're wiping your brow like that, gentleman, that's
50:07
one thing. You can't use it for your nose and then put it back
50:09
in that has to be disposed of. Really stupid if you want to use
50:14
it for sweat purposes, all for that you whatever you gotta do. The
50:19
nose part of it needs to be disposed of. What's up? Key point
50:22
is that, you know, because Kleenex is pretty readily available now, there's
50:27
no shortage, it's not hard to get. Key point is that in my
50:31
job, I don't really sweat, I don't really work hard, so there's
50:36
not really in need to wipe my brow? What's that thing in front of
50:42
your headphones? Oh? This? What is it? What do you got
50:45
there? Three guys candle? Guys candle? Holy cow, what are they
50:51
gonna come up with? Next? Three guys candle? You imagine that?
50:54
How's a smell? Are those available? Yeah? Episod com you can buy
51:00
candle, you'll get them. Yeah, it's a good smell because it's not
51:01
overpowering. And you know, and Yankee candles, I mean, all due
51:06
respect the Yankee cand yan candle. They're pretty strong. That's much is pleasant,
51:09
nice and mild. Yeah, that's made by that's by made by Tommy
51:13
Jaworski, Monie A Merry, a Morgantown kid and his wife Alex she's from
51:16
marrying candles. Yeah, three guys candle, you can buy this? Yeah,
51:22
they're available. Really nice. Why wouldn't you want you need to you
51:27
know what this? We need a separate podcast, just as a shopping channel.
51:30
Now, Brad, this is nice. You know what this? This
51:32
would be a nice gift for like an aunt or I want to say again,
51:36
just a friend. You stop buying neighbor and say here brought to you
51:37
this candle. But here's the deal, dude, here's the deal. All
51:42
the stuff's good. We're not putting anything that's bad out there, so I
51:45
feel good about it. Okay, here's a here's a poem about Pitt Week,
51:51
signed by the Bearded Ear. It's Pitt Week and we know what they
51:54
can eat. They're lost to sense. He really turns up the heat.
51:58
Saturday is more than just a game as WV turned the corner? Or is
52:01
it more of the same. If we lose, Neil needs a panic room
52:06
where he can retreat. There you go, Texter. This is Kayla from
52:10
outside of Princeton, West Virginia. Three guys. I love the show.
52:15
My dad and I have been pretty faithful mountaineer fans of her a long time.
52:17
My dad has made a few trips to Morgantown to see a few games,
52:21
but I've yet to make it up there between school, college career,
52:23
and healthcare COVID becoming a mother of two small, beautiful children. I haven't
52:28
had the opportunity to go. However. My birthday is this Saturday, sixteenth
52:34
of September. My parents surprised me with tickets to watch the brawl Nice.
52:37
I'm so excited. Nothing would make me a better birthday present than to get
52:42
to see the Mountaineers beat Pitt in person. That's our first game first,
52:46
that's a good start. Question is what's the one thing I must see,
52:51
do eat experience while I'm there? I want to make the most of my
52:54
first trip to milon Putchgar Stadium Or is it just being there going to be
52:59
the experience enough? Yes? I love that everyone sends in photos. Now,
53:01
so here's a pick of my two favorite little Mountaineer fans. There you
53:06
go, awesome, awesome. So what was the one thing you must see,
53:10
do eat experience while you're there? Probably three guys? Food court that's
53:14
one. I would think number two. And she doesn't have any control over
53:17
this. It's the it's the greatest tradition in college sports. With a win,
53:22
the country roads after the game still my favorite part. She has no
53:24
control. You gotta stay till the end. Hope there's a win and that
53:29
stadium will be it'll be electric before hopefully during If West Virginia's rolling afterwards singing
53:35
Country Roads in that environment with a win over pit, that'll be awesome.
53:37
If that happens, I'd be a fun environment. Yes, my favorite thing.
53:40
Also makes you have a rule there hop when I work there, when
53:44
we'd win the game, wouldn't talk to anybody during Country Roads, couldn't talk
53:49
in our box, no talking. Listen, good, We're gonna listen.
53:52
Enjoy it, enjoy the most part. Yeah, I love that. Enjoy
53:53
the moment because you know why, you don't know when those moments you are
53:57
gonna come. Enjoy it. Yeah, well go ahead. No, we
54:01
have conflicting information on whether it was twenty sixteen or twenty eighteen for the last
54:06
game. Now I'm being told the the eighteen Oklahoma game was a nighttime game
54:12
Friday. It was a Friday, a black Friday. So no, I
54:16
got it, Hoppy, it's it's it's our boy. Okay, it's our
54:20
boy that knows. So anyway, it was a Friday, So this will
54:22
be the first Saturday night since sixteen. Text was that the game where that
54:28
ridiculous call on blocking out of bounds? It was back and forth Kyler Murray
54:32
will greer, back and forth, back and forth and what and what's touchdown?
54:37
Pass light for Oklahoma? I have the remember that blocking penalty out of
54:40
bounds on West Virginia Nick a big run cost him the game. One of
54:44
the worst calls in the history of sports, in the history its bad.
54:51
Have you seen it called? Since? We watch a ton of games every
54:52
Saturday. Have you looked up and said, hey, look they flag that
54:54
guy's blocking too far out of bounds. Have you seen that? Never seen
54:58
it since? Never seen an NFL game? No Texter Benny in the Bay
55:04
Area rights Pitt coming in favored. I hope by the time this Texas read
55:08
the line moves toward the world champion Mountaineers. This week seems like a great
55:13
time to remind everyone what Morgantown under the lights is meant to be a nearly
55:16
impossible place to play a top fifteen environment in the sport. Beat Pitt and
55:22
big shout out WV legend JT. Daniels for taking down the fighting Dana's I
55:28
love the show and hope everyone's having fun out there this week. I'll be
55:30
with y'all from the new Big twelve country out here on the West coast.
55:34
Benny in the Bay Area, Texter. Three guys, I love the show
55:39
over here in eastern Panhandle. Very proud of Hudson Clement should be. His
55:44
performance Saturday got us thinking our Hudson and Stebben the only Mountaineers to have three
55:51
TD receptions in one half of football. Also to answer the question is to
55:55
whether Hudson can perform against better competition competition. Here's a play he made when
56:00
Martinsburg went to Highland Springs in twenty one. Their defensive backfield had three that
56:06
went on to play at Oklahomer, BC, and Tech. Hudson beats the
56:09
coverage, catches a deep ball by his younger brother, wins a foot race
56:13
to the goal line. Give me the over on half t D receptions versus
56:16
the Panthers. Thank you not Martin and Martinsburg. Good one, Martin.
56:21
The video that you sent U quality was yucky. Sorry didn't transfer well,
56:27
but thank you very much. We watched him in high school. No,
56:30
he made a ton of kurchfull ton of place. Hudson, Hudson Clement,
56:36
ton of plays high school Texter. Hey, guys, I just listened to
56:38
the Duqueane recap. You all mentioned adding a hoppy hanky on episode eight hundred
56:45
dot com, but I feel like you're missing the obvious by not calling it
56:49
a hand kerchiev kerchev done after handkerchief. Great, Ryan, dude, you
56:55
got your name with the beer. Your name with the handkerchief, Ryan from
56:59
ash for it. Thank you very much on that. On that last show,
57:04
we had people that I could blow their nose on my face by some
57:09
of the texts you get. Yeah, last show, we showed you those
57:14
guys in the lot that had that stump of wood with the nails coming out
57:17
of it. Guy says A stump is a talligating game best played by adults
57:22
who want to a joy of beverage. Each player has a nail that's been
57:25
hammered into the stump to allow the nail to have firm bite. The player
57:30
taking their turn will flip the hammer end over end and then catch it while
57:34
swinging in a fluid motion and an opposing player's nail. If he hits the
57:37
nail, the opposing player takes a drink. When the nails hammered all the
57:40
way down to where the fingernail cannot fit under the head of the nail,
57:44
and the person that finished the nail belongs to the mush must finish the drink
57:49
of their choice. Elimination game, last player standing wins did That's uh,
57:52
that seems that seems very fraught with risk, drinking, hammering nails, fingers,
58:04
high risk, high reward. Evan Evan and I was all bumped out
58:07
about everyone out there playing Evan and I was all bumped out about the difference
58:13
in lag time when you're watching ESPN Plus and he says it just makes him
58:19
lose his mind. He says it could it be the issue is less ESPN
58:22
and more substandard internet. People should bang on Frontier or the Governor's door to
58:30
improve internet options with hockey. That's that's right up your category text or scopes,
58:35
no control. I'm sure you've seen this by now, but just announced
58:39
Sean McDonough will be in the broadcast booths Saturday in Morgantown, West Virginia for
58:46
the Backyard Brawl. Read this pleasing chorus in your World class mcdonnoh Caden's impersonation.
58:52
I love the show. I talked to him yesterday for about forty five
58:55
minutes and look forward to seeing you Tony together. Yeah. The only thing
59:06
more awesome was he if he'd been walking into the set right now. He's
59:09
not here yet. He was thinking about coming down tonight or coming out tomorrow
59:14
morning. One of the two. He's gonna be getting together. And he
59:16
did say yes, Yes, he was if whatever you want, I'm open.
59:22
You want to do lunch, I'd like to do that or something.
59:25
Afterward said by all means we'll do something that's big. Yeah, text her,
59:35
Hey, three guys. Tony Morgan. Morgan is the name of the
59:38
gentleman who established the first settlement in what is now West Virginia, Cool Spring
59:44
Farm, which is located in Berkeley County. Morgan Morgan's great great great grandson,
59:50
who has the same name as a licensed psychologist in West Virginia. You
59:53
all do a great job. Signed by doctor Jeff Love WVU and Charleston.
59:59
So it goes all the way back Andrew from Danville, West Virginia. P
1:00:04
one listener, But I'm a first time Texter. In regards to your comment
1:00:07
about rednecks and bandanas, you were close. The red bandanas around the neck
1:00:12
came from the Battle of Blair Mountain between the miners and the West Virginia State
1:00:15
Police. The battle was because the coal company was treating their employers like slaves
1:00:22
hunt he said employers, and teeting their work like slaves. They used the
1:00:27
red bandana so everyone knew whose side they were on, and the term redneck
1:00:30
was coined. So rednecks started in the southern coal fields of West Virginia.
1:00:35
PS. With all due respect, no here comes a heater. If you
1:00:39
really want to earn the nicknames scopes, then I'm offering you an opportunity to
1:00:44
hunt actual, real wild boar in southern West Virginia. These are not fenced
1:00:47
in swine that you hunted at that park. These are real wild animals that
1:00:52
will charge you at any given moment. And on our way to hunt,
1:00:55
we can stop at the Battle of Blair Mountain monument that's erected right in the
1:01:00
county uh Logan County line on Roots seventeen. This invitation is yours, Tony.
1:01:06
When I was on my sabbatical, I saw a lot of wild boar,
1:01:09
but it's so ingrained in my head. Every time I saw them,
1:01:13
I thought about you. Were they upright or were they sleeping upright? And
1:01:16
moving you couldn't get very close there. There were more dogs. Is that
1:01:20
what they call those there? Is that what it was they call there?
1:01:22
Bore? No they think. I think they just call them wild boar.
1:01:27
I don't know why, but recently on some of the things I get into
1:01:31
rabbit holes on, I'm seeing a lot of this wild animals stuff. I
1:01:37
hate those freaking hyenas seriously. If I could just why why are I haven't
1:01:42
seen a lot of hyenas lately too. If I could just kill hyenas all
1:01:45
day long, I would kill hyenas because they're like, they're just the biggest
1:01:51
bags of crap that there are. You got these poor look they'll look gang
1:01:54
up on a lion, they'll gang up on I mean, I hate that
1:01:58
seeing the lion king. I just don't like it. I don't like it.
1:02:01
So like I would go hyenas with the bad guys I saw it.
1:02:05
I would just love. I would just love. They're always the bad guys.
1:02:07
Did you see hyenas, Yeah, a couple hate them, hate them.
1:02:13
I just want to trouble. They were looking trouble to get into.
1:02:16
They're shifty little things too. Well, you know, it's circle of life.
1:02:20
I mean you know, they play a role. I mean they're amazing.
1:02:24
Hate them this one I did hear, you know, and they talked
1:02:30
about a laughing hyena. But I did one night. I mean I heard
1:02:34
them. It's very it's chilling. I would imagine you hear him make that
1:02:37
noise at night. They're a good chicken there, really? So can you
1:02:45
can? You can? Can you kill them there? Like? Is that
1:02:47
like like in West Virginia? What's that animal you can kill all the time?
1:02:51
Coyotes? You can kill as many coyotes as you want. West Virginia,
1:02:53
you just like have at it. I wonder if over there in the
1:02:55
Serengetti you can just start waking. We were in a giant national park,
1:03:02
I mean thousands, thousands of acres of this national parks, so you can't
1:03:05
go in your start killing stuff. Anyway, Three guys. I moved to
1:03:12
Princeton fifty one years ago this fall to start my senior year in high school.
1:03:16
Recently celebrated our fiftieth class reunion. What that means is I've had a
1:03:22
fifty one year love affair with all things mountaineers, even while living in six
1:03:24
different states. My West Virginia experience has taught me many wonderful life lessons,
1:03:30
including respect, care, compassion for folks young and old, plus many other
1:03:34
things. It's some of those lessons that leads me to this. The old
1:03:37
golden blue with a little white mixed in has allowed our teams to be displayed
1:03:42
in some great looking uniforms over the years. Since the first game the guy
1:03:45
down in Houston brought out our Mighty Mountaineers in that dingy gray. It has
1:03:49
not set well with me. So I will make this offer to the uniform
1:03:52
equipment managers if they would pack those up send them to me here in South
1:03:57
Carolina. I will use all care, compassion, respect while burning them in
1:04:01
my next burn pile coming soon this fall. Keep up the great work as
1:04:05
I watch every episode signed by John in York, South Carolina, and there
1:04:10
he is. That's where he wants to burn the gray uniforms that they wore.
1:04:13
Last weekend, Bred documented the legitimacy of the gray uniforms. Give me
1:04:20
the reader's digest. They're not They're not my favorite set either, but you
1:04:24
know they are. That is a school color. Gray's a school color.
1:04:29
Do you know that? M Yeah, you look up in the official brand
1:04:31
Guy Gray there's two different kinds of gray that you're school color. White does
1:04:36
not? They were white uniforms. Would you think of him hoppy didn't like
1:04:45
them? Yeah, I mean neither text or I love your content. I
1:04:47
watch frequently. You guys are informative and entertaining. I'm the type that can't
1:04:50
get enough West Virginia sports. With so many wannabes out there, I was
1:04:56
hoping that you could recommend a quality podcast that you respect and mighty and listen
1:05:00
to from time to time, not as an alternative, but as an addition.
1:05:03
Keep up the great works by Brian from Savannah via Van West Virginia.
1:05:11
I'm a college football inquiry guy with a past guest Danny Wetzel, Pat forty
1:05:17
and uh Ross Dellinger. That's so I would. I would lean toward mine
1:05:24
is uh the History Channel, not mountaineers, but they do like a half
1:05:29
hour from some of it and history fascinating. We're not a lot nothing to
1:05:34
do with the mountaineers. I just sucked this in and I had a bunch
1:05:40
of pulp. Had a congestive problem. There a pulp when it is good.
1:05:44
Oh my gosh. I was only gonna have like a quarter of it.
1:05:45
I'm almost down through the whole thing which holds there sugar. You think
1:05:48
they're sugar? No? No, I mean otherwise it be really really it's
1:05:53
natural natural. I don't know that's good. Three guys, This is Wayne
1:06:00
Clarksburg. I'm thinking that I should either move to Waynesburg or change my name
1:06:03
to clark I'm looking forward to the food court, but I'm getting to Vita
1:06:08
finale vibes. If it happens, will it be a point? If it
1:06:12
happens, will it be a cashless cash less operation? Good question. My
1:06:16
real question is regarding Neil Brown's playing time statement. Is there anyone that has
1:06:19
shown flashes that they can step up in the secondary? Please give me some
1:06:25
hope. Well, what are they going to do this week? I mean,
1:06:28
you can't, Brad, you can't continue on this path in the defensive
1:06:32
backfield. No, but you also don't have a ton of other options out
1:06:36
there. I mean, the guys that are playing in the first two games
1:06:39
were playing for a reason. The coaches thought that was the best option,
1:06:42
right, So it's not like you can go to the free agent wire and
1:06:44
pick a bunch of guys back. Now, Marcus Floyd's supposedly coming back as
1:06:47
part of that defensive backfield. Maybe he helps some, but at some point
1:06:50
guys are just gonna have to be better, and that's a that's that's a
1:06:55
tough la guys I know better. Yeah, so some That's that they did
1:07:00
talk about some schematics stuff that they thought they were able to clean up from
1:07:03
Penn State. They didn't want to put on film and show it. Ducane.
1:07:06
Okay, at the end of the day, to me, this is
1:07:10
not about schematics or explaining something different in practice. At some point, guys
1:07:15
either have to be better or they're not, and if they're not, it's
1:07:17
going to be a long year. Got a guard hoppy, So okay.
1:07:23
So if they're not, and granted, I mean they're playing for a reason,
1:07:26
right, They're playing because they are the best available. But if it
1:07:30
continues to be that bad, do you roll the dice and go, Okay,
1:07:32
yes, I'm gonna play somebody else even though there yes, yes,
1:07:35
yes, you can't do insanity. All right, we know, same thing
1:07:42
keeps happening, happening over and over and over again. You expect the different
1:07:45
results not going to happen. That's why pressure is so important. This weekend,
1:07:47
because what helps out coverage a lot when it's the same guys get to
1:07:50
the quarterback. You saw that last week. Now, I thought Cincinnai's defensive
1:07:54
backs were very good if you if you watch the back end of that since
1:07:56
defense, those pit guys were not running open. There was nobody available to
1:08:00
throw too. Even if Djerkovic had all day, but the fact that he
1:08:03
was getting hit that much and somebody in his face, you've got to get
1:08:06
to that point. You've got to bring it, and you've got to beat
1:08:09
those guys up front and get in his face. Just have to Hello,
1:08:13
it's been a while since I've texted. I'm getting married in Morgantown in October.
1:08:16
I need help. I want to have pepperoni rolls for our guests and
1:08:19
the welcome bags when they check into the hotel. With all the talk recently
1:08:25
about them, I thought, what better place could I come to to ask
1:08:27
for help? Who has the best pepperoni rolls, preferably with cheese, in
1:08:32
or around town? I thank you for the help. Well, I mean
1:08:38
we're partial of what we're selling this weekend. I think the olive Aial Pepperoni
1:08:41
rolls if you go to them in advance, they'll package those for you and
1:08:45
have those. And again, how many did he have in that box?
1:08:47
Nine? We had nine of them. Eat them all, eate them all,
1:08:53
had nine of them. The hots went first. I would have eaten
1:08:56
nine hots had they been there. He got nine three hots, three plane
1:09:00
pepperoni, three pepperoni and cheese. And Phil, fine looking Phil from over
1:09:05
Daniels. We were meeting over in his at his room. He kept coming
1:09:09
by. He had a knife and he'd caught a quarter and cut a quarter.
1:09:14
And they'd walked by again and cut a quarter. He doesn't know he
1:09:15
had five of them. Fill your fake in yourself. I just ate five
1:09:20
pepper and every time there was a quarter left. Guess who dove in?
1:09:24
You and him? Better be careful because you get that pepperoni role than you
1:09:28
go like handling nice tying. Sorry about the grease daing uh texture, Stephen
1:09:32
Tennessee, I've been told us that worked there. Now you just wash your
1:09:35
hands after your food before you touch the nice merchandise. We met way back
1:09:39
to Fulda. We met a buddy of yours, Yeah, Rick Harvey.
1:09:44
Rick Harvey. Rick Harvey went to school with you when you wrote in the
1:09:47
da he Knew York column was hop along trails, hop along you. That's
1:09:53
okay, but shout out Rick Ben coaching football since ninety six. It's hard
1:10:00
to tell people the importance of get right games during the season, games that
1:10:02
you let work on, let you work on what you need to work on.
1:10:06
You find some success, You play a lot of kids who work hard
1:10:10
in practice. Everyone can celebrate. It builds morale. The thing is,
1:10:14
you need two or three of those every year, but the last six years,
1:10:17
West Virginia usually has one. With all due respect to the old Big
1:10:21
East, there were a couple of get right teams on the schedule that allowed
1:10:25
our guys to get rest and heal. I'm thinking of the new Big twelve,
1:10:28
Big sixteen, we might actually have a couple of those again. But
1:10:30
we'll see if Neil can survive two or three more seasons until this thing finally
1:10:33
lightens up. I hope so. But my guess is the next head coach
1:10:38
will come in look like the savior of a program average eight and four,
1:10:40
like Kneeling and Rich, but really will be a result of an easier,
1:10:44
historically normal WV strength of schedule. You know that strength of schedule, saying
1:10:48
that schedule issue is when we've talked about a lot, and it's not going
1:10:54
to be the easiest to resolve in the short term because of the commitments made.
1:11:00
I mean the Penn State next year, it's Penn State and pitt and
1:11:02
unless something drastically changes with the big ten. Tony, you and I were
1:11:06
talking about this. I mean, Penn State's gonna come here, which the
1:11:11
fans like, but it's going to be bad for the you know, for
1:11:14
the coaches. Then you have Alabama in a few years, so it eventually
1:11:25
lightens up. But I mean you're in the You're in the thick of it,
1:11:28
right. I mean, you want you you want to get you want
1:11:30
to get back to where you were. You want to get with a rival
1:11:34
a MAC and an FCS yes, MG and Morgantown writes it seems that yards
1:11:41
per route runs the early season leader for spread stat of the season. While
1:11:45
I understood the stat, I couldn't figure out how Tony thought y p r
1:11:49
R sounded like scooby doo instead, I think it should be pronounced like yeppers.
1:11:55
I'm thinking like Michael Scott from the Assis office is seen in the clip
1:11:59
of up said the reason I said a rut row is because he said a
1:12:01
route run. That's what I was going on. Rout run run Texter or
1:12:10
I think Neil's a good coach. I'd hate to see him fire. But
1:12:12
the issue remains talent. We've got less talent than other teams. What talent
1:12:15
do we have transfers for the money? Please tell me if I'm wrong.
1:12:19
Our problem is a lack of money. We need more money to obtain talent
1:12:23
to meet Country Roads Trust the most essential entity concerning West Virginia. We've got
1:12:27
facilities, we've got coaches, We're in a good conference. Country Roads Trust
1:12:30
is a key. My question is what are we doing to acquire funds.
1:12:33
I see they're making a beer, but obviously we need more than that.
1:12:36
Are they investing the money they receive? To me, they need to expand
1:12:41
as soon as possible. There needs to be a Country Roads Trust Reality I'm
1:12:45
sorry, Reality company. You buy up houses in Morgantown, you run them
1:12:48
to the students, Country Roads Construction, you build some luxury apartments for the
1:12:54
players. Specifically, there should be a Country Road storage unit. Easy money,
1:12:59
Country Roads sports betting. Country owns need to do anything and everything within
1:13:02
the legal limits. To generate cash. Are these dumb ideas or is there
1:13:06
something that they are investigating? Thank you for your time. Let's go these
1:13:11
are I mean, they're ideas, but you know what, they're probably marginally
1:13:15
even if they're successful, they're marginal producers. You know, Steve Martin had
1:13:18
the old joke, how do you become a millionaire? First? Get a
1:13:21
million dollars. I mean, what West Virginia needs is what all these trusts
1:13:25
have that are successful in net is people with large amounts of money who are
1:13:29
willing to donate it. You know, you're not You're not gonna You're not
1:13:31
gonna have this gigantic trust by having bake sales or the equivalent of It's about
1:13:36
individuals with a lot of money who are willing to donate to it. Yeah,
1:13:40
I said. I said that. On Sunday, I went through my
1:13:42
whole speech about retention and players and how that ties into the trust. If
1:13:45
that's if that's going to be the entity charged with raising the money that keeps
1:13:50
players, then yeah, that's got to get up significantly because you've got to
1:13:54
be in a position when you need to keep somebody or you need to go
1:13:56
get somebody. You've got to have the ability to do it. So yeah,
1:13:59
moving forward, to me, is as important of an entity as the
1:14:01
coaching is going to be. It just simply is, and there's no way
1:14:05
to say that it's not. So that's a group that yeah, I think
1:14:08
there. If I'm from a fan perspective, I'd love to know what's going
1:14:12
on over there, how much money is available, And that's not stuff they're
1:14:14
going to tell you. But it's also part of why we've talked about eventually,
1:14:17
I just can't imagine schools with hundreds of millions of dollars in budgets.
1:14:24
Individual schools like to have an outside entity in charge of what they're able to
1:14:29
do when it's procuring their players. That just say that out loud again,
1:14:32
that the model that is set up, and that's not just here, that's
1:14:34
across the country. That model seems like it's an unsustainable one moving forward.
1:14:41
Do schools, like, does any entity want someone else to be in charge
1:14:45
of their most important asset. It's really bizarre to me that this is the
1:14:48
path College athletics has chosen to go down. So that's why I keep saying
1:14:51
I've said it for a couple of years now. Who knows if it comes
1:14:55
to fruition or win at some point the schools have to take that back in
1:14:58
and that's got to be a part of the fundraising where you raise for facilities.
1:15:01
Because here's the thing. Look at the job WV has done as an
1:15:04
entity in raising money over the last twenty or thirty years. It's massive how
1:15:09
much that's gone up. And that's thanks to the people in the state that
1:15:12
have been willing to donate that money. But it's gone to certain things.
1:15:15
This is just now the new line item, player payment is a new line
1:15:19
item that needs to be raised for. So yeah, that's a massively important
1:15:23
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three guys, what's the over under that Sweet Caroline gets played in the stadium
1:16:05
on Saturday? I know it will be on repeat throughout the blue lot?
1:16:09
Is the password work? For three guys? Speakeasy? Is it this weekend?
1:16:14
Is it? Eat blank pit? Signed by Caleb on the Gorge and
1:16:17
Faettable Steven eleanor longtime text or first time listener. I understand you guys are
1:16:28
unflappable, But who have you crossed paths with professionally that has left you star
1:16:32
struck? Maybe a childhood hero, someone you always admired in your line of
1:16:36
work. For Hoppy, I'm sure it was when he moderated the nineteen sixty
1:16:40
Nixon Kennedy presidential debate. Steve had a couple of funnies in there, didn't
1:16:45
he. I don't know anyone ever make you go Google Hoppy. When I've
1:16:49
been at some of the national conventions, I've seen people you know that I've
1:16:56
like Newspeople that I've watched. Yeah, certainly Larry King didn't when you attacked
1:16:59
him in Vegas. You know, I will tell you this. I was
1:17:01
it. I forget which convention was, and there's there's so many pressed people
1:17:06
they interview each other. So I saw Tom brokeall walking up trom bros So
1:17:12
and it was a quiet time. I went up to him and I introduced
1:17:14
myself because I said, can I have three minutes with you? And he
1:17:16
said, how about two? Down? Right away? Did that was a
1:17:23
good broke out two time for a station bright. This is today on NBC
1:17:29
John from Oklahoma City, from one clown to you three clowns. Hello,
1:17:31
I'd like you to take on this. The quarterback was quite hot about the
1:17:35
booze they received in their lost the Bearcats. Now that college players get paid,
1:17:40
do you think they should be booed as pros are? Interesting question,
1:17:45
very interesting question. Yeah, And I know, like the Jerkovic was complaining
1:17:49
about that, and uh Nordoozy was asked about it. He kind of blew
1:17:53
it off, said, I don't think about that. I'm worried about the
1:17:56
game. He just sort of blew it off. Yeah, I don't know.
1:18:00
I would probably say no, probably not a big boot the players guy,
1:18:04
it make money. I know fans are going to do that. It's
1:18:10
impossible to police and control. I mean it's not something I would personally do,
1:18:15
but I know I get some do that me. Yeah. No.
1:18:26
Texter Jordan from Houston, I'm P one listener and previously a pit level texter.
1:18:30
Two things first, I'm contemplating whether Coach Prime maybe could be hopefully be
1:18:35
the catalyst to change the equation around conference realignment, proving the TV ratings and
1:18:41
money not just the about the best teams playing each other, people of rivalries
1:18:44
and stories too, as Nebraska Colorado and almost the same number of viewers as
1:18:48
Texas Bama. Curious to see how many tune into the brawl this weekend.
1:18:51
There has to be the next generation of realignment. It tilts back to the
1:18:57
rivalries. What's the calculus that changes this? We know everything starts with money.
1:19:02
Is the next Coach Prime and amazing story? Love your thoughts. Second,
1:19:06
the Lone Star WV alumni chapter is hosting a P one tailgate before the
1:19:12
Dana Bowl here in Houston, and please insert your Dana voice. Yeah we
1:19:15
got the permits. Seriously, we would love you clowns and listeners to join
1:19:19
us Houston clowns, particularly if you bring a few kerchivils. Let's go mountaineers,
1:19:24
love what you do from me and the world Champion Mountaineer Nation. So
1:19:27
they're having a tailgate there the Houston chapter. God permits too. Yeah,
1:19:31
God permits another one. And here Bob and Clarksburgh said. The first time
1:19:38
the redneck was used was the Battle of Blair Mountain. Texter says, this
1:19:43
is a bit long, apologies. My dad got drafted in the army during
1:19:46
Vietnam. During his basic training, the guys from New York would always ask
1:19:49
him, Hey, chick, what streets you grow up on, assuming since
1:19:54
he was Italian, that he was from New York. My dad would explain
1:19:57
to them, despite their Bill wilderment, that he was actually from Westford.
1:20:00
They just couldn't believe there were Italians in West Virginia. I always laugh at
1:20:02
that story. Growing up, I always assumed there was a ridiculously large contingent
1:20:06
of Italians in West Virginia. My friends and people I know were all last
1:20:11
named Marosola, Chickalella, Piccarillo, the Santas de Carlo. Anyway, let's
1:20:17
beat Pitt on Saturday. Signed by Professor Vinni Chikarello. Strong Italian contingent West
1:20:25
Virginia, Italians, Poles, Czech Slovaks. People that worked hard and we're
1:20:30
looking for an opportunity. Worked in the coal mines, worked in the mills,
1:20:32
worked in the glass factories. Blue collars state, blue collar town.
1:20:38
Hello, always a West Virginia connection. I just got back from a week
1:20:41
in South Dakota, my West Virginia had I was wearing my shirts got noticed.
1:20:45
Our bus driver originally from Morgantown, dinner hostess originally from Saint Alban's father
1:20:48
her father from Cumberland, where I live now, a gentleman running a trading
1:20:53
post across from the Corn Palace. They used to work in Huntington. And
1:20:56
a couple from Saint Mary's. Many let's go Mountaineer shout out in a nice
1:21:00
hockey that worked in the gift shop and Mount rushmore. Great trip, but
1:21:03
I'm more excited to be at the pit game Saturday to watch just get a
1:21:06
big win. And signed by JR. Cumberland. I'm by the Three Guys
1:21:09
food court when you're there. This is pretty wild here, Hey text or
1:21:13
says hey, three, guys, this is the real Morgan in Morgantown.
1:21:16
Since you have access to the facilities building, I'm curious if you've noticed any
1:21:19
of the bulletin board material for this week's rivalry game. I imagine Neil took
1:21:24
a literal page out of John Antonick's book for this one. Football's grim Reaper
1:21:30
eventually paid a visit to WVU in nineteen ten, when quarterback Rudolph Monk was
1:21:35
killed while playing a football game against Bethany College at Island Stadium in Wheeling.
1:21:43
The pit coach Joseph H. Thompson issued a statement following Monk's death, quoting,
1:21:48
while we regret such things, it cannot influence the game one way or
1:21:51
another. Monk should have never been allowed to play in the game at all.
1:21:56
I was afraid when West Virginia played US a week ago at some thing
1:22:00
of the kind would happen. Monk, while a fine fellow, a good
1:22:02
student, and a good football player, was a man of small physique and
1:22:06
week in the lungs. He was not the kind of man to play football
1:22:10
at all. There he is that gentleman passed away quarterback for the Mountaineers playing
1:22:16
against Pitt in nineteen ten, and there was a Wheeling Register illustration up.
1:22:27
What happened that scary Skelton face on the tackler? And the texter says,
1:22:30
now, tell the boys to go out this week and win one for old
1:22:33
Rudy Monk. I think Tony, the first West Virginia pitt game was in
1:22:40
Wheeling. I have that right, Western Western College of Pennsylvania WVU in Wheeling,
1:22:46
maybe eighteen Yeah, yeah, one hundred and thirty five years ago.
1:22:57
Yeah, Okay, we'll check that. Okay. Text Hello friends, said
1:23:01
of my best Jim NaN's voice. I thought I had become weary of hearing
1:23:05
all of the armchair quarterbacks share their reviews on how the Mountaineers should be coached,
1:23:10
until y'all started talking about the plastic squeeze open change purses. The fact
1:23:15
that I knew exactly what you were referring to remind me that I'm getting older.
1:23:18
Maybe the pontification of armchair quarterbacks isn't so bad after all. Here's some
1:23:24
of the info on the Appalachian origin of Rednecks and the Blair Mountain mine War.
1:23:28
Thanks for being awesome and entertaining. Then he gave us a whole link
1:23:30
there to deal signed by you. This is kim not from Kimball, but
1:23:34
from Morgantown by way of Montcom and Mercer County, and that, yeah,
1:23:38
we've we've kind of talked about that. By the summer of nineteen twenty one,
1:23:45
the Redneck Army was outraged over the years of brutality and lawless exploitation,
1:23:48
and so the miners picked up their winchesters and gathered at Marmette that summer morning,
1:23:54
and from there began marching on Logan A, Mingo counties, the last
1:23:57
two non union counties in West Virginia. It wasn't wheeling A eighteen ninety five
1:24:02
West Virginia one, eight to nothing. The next time they played was in
1:24:06
Fairmont. They didn't play in Morgantown until nineteen hundred. M Texter I wanted
1:24:15
to reach out because maybe you saw, or maybe you didn't know, but
1:24:17
our old friend Sean mcdonne is doing the TV broadcast Saturday. Can we get
1:24:21
him on Sports Line or three guys for a quick Tony it's Sean segment.
1:24:28
I would love to hear his thoughts on our welcoming champ directed at the Panthers.
1:24:30
I imagine would be something like sixty thousand plus dressed in golden blue welcoming.
1:24:33
They're friends from the North with the old Neil Diamond song. They hope
1:24:38
their own Neil can have some magic of his own. To know, that
1:24:41
would be good. I could hear Sean saying that, Yeah, sixty thousand
1:24:45
plus dressed in golden blue welcoming. They're friends from the North with the old
1:24:49
Neil Diamond song. They hope their own Neil can have some magic of his
1:24:54
own tonight in Morgantown. Yeah, that would be Yeah, that would work.
1:24:58
Yeah, I'm sure he will say this version of the song is much
1:25:04
different than the one he hears in Boston when the Red Sox use it.
1:25:08
Nevertheless, I digress ears by ninety. On Saturday, Brandon and Raleigh three
1:25:14
out of the Red Sox use it. They play it during a game,
1:25:17
Hey three guys. As a West Virginia Studies teacher, I have to say
1:25:19
that Tony's version of the Red Bandana is in how it identified Union minus from
1:25:26
non units, specifically during the march on Blair Mint is the version that I
1:25:28
teach my kids. So I was way out ahead on that one. Huh.
1:25:32
A couple more Hey, scope spreads Hoppy to the third power keep hearing
1:25:35
Pitt is the first true night games in sixteen. What disqualifies eighteen Oklahoma?
1:25:41
Well, it's because it's technical. Saturday was this is a Oklahoma's Friday?
1:25:46
As we said, Saturday is this game? Whatever, Tony. I'm super
1:25:50
excited about going in for my first backyard brawl game. I'm excited to sing
1:25:55
the WV edition of Sweet Caroline, and I'm scared to miss it if I'm
1:25:59
in the bathroom from Since they are sponsors, does gomart have any deals on
1:26:03
adult diapers? Signed by not Brian in Berkeley, Spring? I believe.
1:26:08
I think they may have them there, if not where when you fill up
1:26:12
with gas. They got those little blue Kleenex's towels that you pull out there.
1:26:16
Bring a couple of those with four man's adult diapers, four mands depends.
1:26:24
Here's Hoppy efforting on CNN Love the Show A long time ago. We
1:26:27
on CNN recently, a couple of weeks ago, maybe a couple of months
1:26:35
text or last weekend we learned our celebrity indicted. I think that's what it
1:26:40
says. Where was your your hair there? That had to be a while
1:26:45
ago, because I had more hair there. I think that was like Jason
1:26:47
Garrett last weekend. We learned from Neil the Chad Scott called the plays in
1:26:58
the second half. He admitted in the past that he struggled with calling plays
1:27:01
while handling all of his other duties as a head coach. Against the Dukes,
1:27:05
our offense appeared more diverse and explosive with Scott calling the plays. Can
1:27:10
we expect mister Scott calling the plays for the rest of the season. Signed
1:27:14
from Rick and Parkersburg. No, Patton or Doozy talked about that and refencing
1:27:20
last year's game and prepping for this year because you know Neil Brown's calling the
1:27:24
plays now, so I have to be ready for something different. It's not
1:27:26
gonna be like last year. And remember the second half wasn't after the delay
1:27:30
necessarily that the break came earlier, so that I don't know if that's the
1:27:32
case. It was more diverse and explosive. That's getting chadded some reps for
1:27:35
a God's offensive coordinator that some day will be calling plays. It was getting
1:27:39
him some reps. We should do that from now and stop midway through the
1:27:41
second quarter, then play the rest of If he starts low it's unplugged,
1:27:45
plugging thing back, no halftime, no halftime, We're going Oh, here
1:27:47
comes the band. Text text, this game to me has the ninety three
1:27:51
Miami feel. Not that pits Miami, well maybe Miami of Ohio. But
1:27:56
the town's ready. You could feel it Monday morning. I think the crowd
1:27:59
will somehow will this team to a win on Saturday. So my question is
1:28:02
will they have anything left next week for tech? Also, will Brad have
1:28:05
a place we can play some bets at the Three Guys food court. I
1:28:10
picture him like a guy on the floor at the stock market taking down stock
1:28:13
by You want Delaware State minus fifteen? Got it? Got it? Fifteen?
1:28:16
Delaware State? He got fifteen? What do he got? What are
1:28:18
gonna be? I'm gonna go fifteen fifteen? Are you gonna now? I'm
1:28:21
gonna get you now? I got twenty? Yeah, I think you could
1:28:24
do that. I'd like gonna see you running around with a big wad of
1:28:27
cash in your head, just waving it. Text or hey guys, I've
1:28:30
heard several people say, this week's Jesus, how many commercials? All right?
1:28:33
Sixteen eighteen? Whatever? A night game? Who cares? Uh?
1:28:39
Anyway? Boom done. That was nice. That was a lot. Well,
1:28:46
I told you it was a lot when we started. We a lot
1:28:48
did work everyone. Here's the deal man, here's here's the Deloski Food Court
1:28:54
open third Friday and Saturday at uh there next to Daniels. Coupled down from
1:29:00
Daniels, you'll see PM. Friday run to about eight or nine Saturday ten
1:29:04
am ish run two hours sub before the game or when the food runs out.
1:29:09
We got lights there is there ain't doing it. That's a good question.
1:29:11
Don't know is this gonna be dark like eight o'clock solid point. I
1:29:16
knew there was something that we forgot, but I'm just telling you this.
1:29:20
If you go there and you get food, I guarantee you're gonna go like,
1:29:26
Oh, it's freaking good. Father Brisket, it was good. Come
1:29:29
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1:29:32
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before we go, Yeah, we got who did shout outs? Did one
1:30:00
earlier? Rick Harvey saw him A Daniels. That was great. Also,
1:30:03
I got Camden, Camden, Camden here in Morgantown. Young listener to the
1:30:09
show how Old doesn't miss he's young? How old and young? Five ten,
1:30:14
fifteen middle school? I like that, listens on his own, has
1:30:17
his own phone, downloads his own He's on its south or where is he
1:30:21
big mountaineer guy Saint Francis? Where's he gotriculates? I don't know. I
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saw him mountain about in the community. Great dude, love Camden, Thank
1:30:31
you Camden big good. Everyone have fun. We'll see you again next week