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3 Guys Before The Game - BYBlues (Episode 527) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  Welcome in one. It all welcome, welcome, welcome. It is time
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  for three guys before the game. And oh what a week it's gonna be.
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  I mean, you don't just get one of these. Yep, you
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  don't just get two of these this week. No, no, no,
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  I'm saying once twice. This is a three episode week. I didn't know
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  that. Oh yeah, I missed the meeting. Three episodes. Now you're
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  only gonna be here for one. Who wins the third one? Well for
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  third one's Thursday? Who wins the second one tomorrow? You're right on that.
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  Yeah, I knew that. Is this a summer series already? Might
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  be why we scheduled it. Would you take three thirty three? I mean,
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  if you're if you're playing baseball, Brad, you're playing baseball, you're
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  in the Hall of Fame at three thirty three, well out of three?
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  Absolutely welcome in everybody. Yeah, But if you're shooting from the field,
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  I wouldn't like your three thirty three. If you're showing up for work,
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  wouldn't take the three thirty either. Maybe some mountaineer shot three thirty three on
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  Saturday. I didn't get it. We'll get into that. The title of
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  this episode is Claude by cougar Son. No, we've changed it. It's
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  not Claude by Cougars, by b Y Blues, b Y Blues. We
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  had well, we had a working title that was Claude by Cougars and then
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  Brad said, no, how about by Blues. I'm good with that.
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  I like said b Y Blues. I don't participate in the title naming because
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  you don't listen to anybody anyway. I don't even remember what I w that.
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  You said that you came up with both of them. How about that?
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  So I created the beer, I created the popcorn, and I created
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  the time of the show. Finally, you give me the that that I'm
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  due. Are unbelievable. Yeah, I thought if West Virginia Women had lost,
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  it would be BYU Blues. But the women came up big win on
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  the road. Oh yeah, I think they just got back. That was
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  a back Now that that was a travel nightmare. Anyway, I'm gonna talk
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  about that too. Don't even know what time the game was at the same
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  All of that and more? Thanks for being with us, All right,
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  let's jump right in. So just the way that it worked out, WVU
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  men and women each played BYU, not that it would have made sense for
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  the games to be in the same city on the same day. Crazy anyway,
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  the women advance to their nineteenth victory with a seventy six sixty nine win
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  over BYU. Had a crowd of seventeen fifty four inside the Marriott Center,
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  and they've now won six in a row and they're on the precipice of twenty.
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  Then get twenty tomorrow, and get twenty on Tuesday with the Texas Tech
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  Lady Red Raiders coming into town, Chryl Swoops and crew will be in and
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  then on the men's side, we did not get the result eighty six seventy
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  three b YU over the Mountaineers. We'll break down all the numbers before we
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  get into the really really in depth digital numbers, the analytics, and really
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  get to the calculus level. What do you say we headed over to preschool
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  and get Hoppies obvious observation, who's a new segment Hoppy's obvious observations? Who's
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  what do we got? Man? Well, first, a couple positive things
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  for West Virginia to lost. Props to West Virginia for battling back, got
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  down seventeen, hit that bad scoring drought Brad at the end of the first
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  half, star of the second half, battled back, got to within five,
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  showed some grit I know, lost it at the end, but still
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  battled back, So props to them for that. Jesse Edwards is getting it
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  back. He's not all the way back, but he was what sixteen and
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  seven in that game, so that that was a good effort giving you more
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  minutes. Kerkkrisa was red hot, had I think twenty three, So there
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  were some positives in that game. But let's talk about by you guys,
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  they are one of the best teams that you will see. Ooh, Kirsville
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  comes out well. He said they're one of the in case you haven't heard
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  of, he said, they're one of the best teams that you will see.
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  By yes, yeah, and by that I don't mean that individual talent
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  like one through seven or eight. I mean the way they play, they
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  play so well together, they're so disciplined offensively, the way they're the way
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  they're spaced, the way they find the open guy for the shot, and
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  brand I'm going to look forward to your stat on uncontested shots by BYU.
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  I'll be surprised if it's not higher than average. So uh. And defensively,
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  they just don't make a lot of mistakes. West Virginia only got to
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  the free throw line twelve times in that game. That's good. A defensive
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  discipline by BYU. And the play of a couple guys for BYU. Treorri,
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  who was I think starting at the beginning of the year and then then
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  now and then went to the bench, and then another I was playing,
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  but he was hurt or sick, and he comes in and Tony he's six
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  six, as you well know, you did the game, six six,
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  but he's but he's two thirty to forty and he he's not the tallest guy,
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  but he plays big. He plays big. He got down in that
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  low post and you could not move him out of there, or he could
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  back down a defender. Edward's still dealing with that wrist, so it's hard
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  for him to keep, you know, to keep him out of there.
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  And for a big guy, he's got good feet, good hands, was
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  good around the basket, soft shot around the basket. He was a handful
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  and West Virginia ever figured out what to do with him. Also, I
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  think the best player on the court, best player, best player was is
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  it Dalen or Dallen Hall? Yeah? Dalen sure, Dalen Hall. Where
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  here's a guy who just was in complete control of this game for BYU distributing
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  the basketball, getting it to the open player. And when West Virginia,
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  if they fell asleep on defense a little bit penetrating and scoring. Only had
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  eight points, but he had twelve assists Tony. The national leader in assists
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  is Braden Smith of Purduce, who averages seven a game. This guy had
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  twelve in this game. So just a really good team. They play well
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  together and West Virginia was outmatched on that front. So I just thought it
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  was a really good team effort by b Yu and and fun if you if
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  you were not a w VU fan, right, a fun game to watch
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  because of the way Byu executed. And that is Hoppies obvious observations. I
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  think you think you had a good segment. You failed to mention that on
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  haul, not only did he have twelve assists, he had one turnover.
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  He went twelve and one. Yeah, that's pretty good. Dog a dog,
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  a dog. So you seem to take he kind of wins, kind
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  of hould back when he said, they're comment about BYU's team. No,
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  they're very they're very good there. They're gonna be a they're gonna be an
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  full for people. We told you on Thursday. Their assist right to watch
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  their ability to move the ball and pass the ball third nationally in assist raight.
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  I thought, Hoppy, that's exactly right. You just so much of
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  what you need against them as a night when they're not making their threes,
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  you know, and it's intentional by them. They shoot so darn many of
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  them. To have them cold for an entire game is hard, right,
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  and West Virginia was there. Teams are not shooting well against West Virginia in
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  the coliseum from three, it's about thirty three percent. Coming into this game.
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  BYU was below that mark for most of the game. We said,
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  Hoppy, they don't go to the free throw line. They're three hundred and
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  sixty first out of three hundred and sixty two teams and getting the line.
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  So that simply came down to if you could keep them for making threes,
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  you were probably going to be in that game and have a shot, which
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  West Virginia was for a long time. Right there, the formula was in
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  front of them. What surprised me about them, They've got incredible defensive numbers,
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  their top twenty five nationally in defense. I thought West Virginia was getting
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  shots. That surprised me more than they think. I thought their offense was
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  going to be a handful, and it turned out to be. I didn't
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  think it would it would look the way it did with Treory, but their
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  offense was a was a handful. It was really hard for West Trainia to
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  stop. But I thought West Virginia offensively, there were some things available for
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  the taking there that I'll get into a little bit, but that offensively,
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  I thought West Virginia would produce a little bit more and a little bit better
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  down the stretch. To your point, I think you're saying that that defense
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  was not as enveloping or suffocating as the Houston or UCF defense that West Virginia's
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  had to deal with. Their Yeah, fair but you know, but again,
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  they didn't put you on the line, right, I mean they didn't
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  make mistakes. Nope, and that's one of our keys. Well we'll get
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  into you know, we're far enough in the season now, Hope. I
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  said this on Thursday. There's some specific markers when West Virginia wins, and
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  you could see early on in this game, even when it was close,
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  West Virginia wasn't going to hit those marks and it was going to be trouble
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  because as soon as by you figured out the long ball, it was probably
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  going to be over. West Trainia just wasn't doing what it does when it
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  wins games. And I'll explain that a little more so when they were missing
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  earlier. I think they were one of seven or one of eight to start
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  the game from three. So that's good news. The bad news is they're
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  going to start making them and that's going to become your problem. And Tony,
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  that extra pass that they do where they know where the other, they
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  know where the open guy is and they know how to find them, that
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  was very impressive. Pretty the game is pretty. The game is pretty.
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  The game is a pretty game when you play it the way agreed that Jimmy
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  Naismith thought you could play it. How many times? I mean, we
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  talk about the ball. Nothing moves faster than the ball. There's no you
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  know, right, Carl Lewis, Bob Hayes, if you want to go
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  a real old school on this thing. Jim Thorpe. Jim Thorpe, the
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  greatest sprinters of all time. You saying, bolt can't outrun a basketball.
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  So when you pass that thing and move it quickly, your feet can't get
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  there fast enough. And they do, they make They were the They're the
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  quintessential team that makes the additional pass. It gets you absolute walk in threes.
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  And I said, and by the way, I don't know if you
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  know, if you were listening, probably weren't. He invited me in on
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  his I don't know what you call that thing, public affairs, show trading,
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  post the press, meet the press thing what he does. And uh,
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  I said, there are Blne esque characteristics of that offense. You know,
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  we remember back when John Beeline was here and when West Virginia would do
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  that to a posy team. We would just kind of sit back and just
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  kind of inside smile like giddy. How that extra pass just makes people go
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  absolutely zany and you can't you can't get there fast enough. And great shooters
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  are demoralizing. Yeah, the opponent aren't right the bee line teams, that's
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  where we'd snicker and giggle and elbow each other. What's this you're leaving Pittsnogle
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  open a you got problems to boot splash? That just absolutely just crushes you
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  as a defense. When they swing it and the guys open and you go
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  there, you go go make it or booth, Yes, knocks it in.
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  Yes, it absolutely takes your steam out of you. And they had
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  a couple well, hell they hit that. They had two seconds on the
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  shot clock, one point whatever it was, and the kid banks one in.
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  Yeah, you talk about just like here, I want to punch you
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  in the stomach as hard as I can and take all the air out of
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  you. That's what happens. I don't know why more teams don't do that,
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  to be quite honest with you. Not banking shots the style of BYU
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  where they shoot seventy three, it takes. It takes a lot. It
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  takes, I think because it takes a lot of discipline. I mean,
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  that's that's a disciplined way to play. Yes, you're correct, No,
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  you are correct, And but you know what it does. How many times
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  have we sat on this program, whether we're talking football or basketball, and
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  said the need to be different. It is really valuable. Yes, And
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  so you're recruiting a specific niche of player and leaving alone a whole segment of
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  players that you probably aren't getting anyway, So why waste our time going after
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  that? And we're finding specific guys that work exactly in our system. I'll
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  give you a comparison. It's what Wes Liberty has done for years and years
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  and years under Jim Crutchfield now Ben Howett. They recruit a it almost looks
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  like the same guy. They roll ten guys in. It's like who's who
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  out there? That's all the same guy. They can all press, that
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  can all run. They call shoot three. It's a very specific niche and
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  you find the guy that the body type and the skill set and you plug
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  it in and it's really fun to one percent. That's why, to this
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  day, I still don't understand why West Virginia left Press Virginia still don't understand
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  it. You found a winning recipe, you find a winning recipe, you
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  get body types that fit that recipe and you plug those guys in, go
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  find the next Twerik Phillip and then might come Well, there's no another Javon
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  Carter, fine, not another Javon Carter, But there are guys out there
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  that can defend and do those things. Daxter Miles is type guys, right,
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  Nate Adrian type guys, John Holton type guys. By the go get
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  that body part, go get their out there. They're out there and may
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  not be as demand. There might not be as a big of a demand
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  for those guys, as Brad said, at certain programs, but if you
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  just make a style. You know, the other day, King McClure,
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  the former BYU player who does a lot of these games now player, what
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  did I say B yu? I had, I had a B and A
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  Y. I just I was missing the the A and the L. So
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  anyway, he said, when they when he was playing at Baylor and they
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  had to play West Virginia, oh god, he said, we would just
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  get so bummed out, Like they'd look at the schedule and go like,
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  oh no, yeah, these freaking guys with these freaking guys because they just
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  knew it was going to be a long, bad just like Oh, they're
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  just even if they won, they just knew it was going to be.
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  You're gonna have to lay rock fight. Yeah, so that's what you need
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  to be. You need to be unique and different on the women's side.
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  Right now, Mark Kellogg he's unique and different. He presses and people.
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  Wow, there's no way once you get into league play that that'll keep.
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  I mean, you take these rumdum you know, load level teams in November
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  and December, and you get thirty eight turnovers. Oh, that will never
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  happen in league play. Go look at their stats. I didn't. I'm
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  just gonna do this right now. I didn't even look from Saturday by you
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  ladies, twenty three turnovers every game, every game, they're geting twenty plus.
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  Yeah. So why you got to be different? Man, I'm on
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  a ring. You are football option. Rich Rodriguez he was different. He
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  played the odd stack defense, which did not have a whole lot of people
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  using it at that time. And then he ran power spread with a quarterback
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  which nobody was doing, which no one was doing. Everyone was spreading it
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  out and throwing it. He went like, I'm gonna spread it out and
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  run a quarterback. You have to be different. Wow, well you were
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  on a ringe. I don't know where that came from. I just want
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  to be if this is a hard job, West Virginia is a hard job,
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  but it's a good job. It's got a lot of really good elements
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  to it. But it's a hard job. So don't try to do whatever
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  one else does because you'll never be able to do that. Be your own
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  thing. We look at you, what you took that talk show? I
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  mean, no one's doing that kind of talk show before you're unique, you're
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  different, and you become you become a celebrity. It's about a thousand talk
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  shows, not like that one, not like yours, right, not like
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  yours. Difference, unique and different, that's why it's successful. All right,
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  I'm done. I'm gonna leave now. I said everything. I'm gonna
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  say. You know, one more point on that on Traory was I I'm
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  sure it'll it'll probably come up in the text is why weren't you doubling down
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  Brad on Trayori and I think they did some. But when if you're going
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  to double down, you got to stop him. Okay, it has to
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  be effective and if you if you do, also guess what there's another guy
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  open, and they're really good at finding the open guy. So that was
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  a problem too. So let's just go ahead. You want, you want
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  to do it now? Why don't we just why don't we won't we?
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  Why don't we just just just just do it? What? What do you
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  can be for? We're talking about that story of the game. Oh there's
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  something going on over there. I forgot to tell you. Yeah, there's
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  something wrong with the audio coming out of there. I'm sorry, I forgot
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  to tell you. Wait a minute, didn't you play You already played it
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  once. Didn't you any tested before the show? Play this out of here?
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  That comes from the computer. So the computer audio is off. There's
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  something appreciate I forgot. I forgot. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. So
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  now we got no textual healing, we got no sprints. We can still
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  let's just stop the show. Let's just call it off, just end it.
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  Hey, Austin, if you remember how we fixed the audio last time,
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  you can walk in here and fix it. Tony, if you drop
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  the snap, the play's not dead. Okay, pick up the pick up
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  the snap and run the play. Bred right, that's pretty good. That's
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  very good on his point. That's good point. Oh I wasn't gonna quit.
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  You just said you were. You were going about to stop. Just
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  go go on, run the play. Oh no, I was gonna go.
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  All right, yeah, I was trying to. I did forget to
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  tell you. I'm sorry. It's it's more of a problem that's not working,
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  not that you didn't tell him. Such a problem. Your secondary in
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  the full line right there. Damn, ping doesn't work. Maybe that's our
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  issue, not that you didn't tell him. You know what else says this
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  is a stunning development as well. I think it's the first time anything in
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  this studio hasn't worked. First time ever. Can I talk about trailer,
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  because don't get me going off on something else. Let's just talk. Come
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  and get back to tray. Give me the ball, Just flip it back
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  to me. You picked up the snap, just throw it over here.
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  ahead ready, Yes, Which, by the way, Traory is now Jet
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  Duffy. He's the basketball version of Jet Duffy. I couldn't help think that,
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  like, are you freaking kidding me? A non starter comes in.
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  He's gonna be the nationsmith Player of the Year. So welcome to Jet Duffy.
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  So you hit on exactly the point. As you're watching that, and
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  Treyory is am I saying that right Tony backing him down, You're backing him
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  down. It was Westry just did not have an answer for him. I
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  give him a lot of credit on the offensive end of being unstoppable. And
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  some probably wondered, do something, what do you? I mean, what
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  are you doing? But what you're doing is exactly what you said. How
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  can you throw doubles at him and leave those shooters open? So I think
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  if you step back for a minute and think about what the game plan was
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  from Josh and that staff, I think they got it right. Here's why.
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  The thing you were worried about with Cincinnati was what points in the paint?
• 21:52
  And you wanted him to shoot from the outside. So what you do.
• 21:55
  You close the paint off pretty well and made him shoot from the outside,
• 21:56
  and they couldn't effectively enough to beat you. What's BYU's scouting report,
• 22:02
  it's exactly opposite. They're going to shoot threes. Don't give up threes,
• 22:06
  see if they can get made. So if you let Traori score, okay,
• 22:08
  fine, because you'll take their two versus them getting threes. And it
• 22:12
  was working. He was scoring a ton. But that's fine. I mean,
• 22:15
  it's not an MVP vote. The scoreboard was. It was still close,
• 22:18
  so I think they did it. They did it right in terms of
• 22:22
  theory. Now let's get to the numbers on this. That was a season
• 22:26
  high against West Virginia with the fourteen post up points that he provided, and
• 22:30
  he had some others that were not quite defined as post ups, but he
• 22:33
  had a bunch, So I was season high. Okay, fine, but
• 22:36
  that's a three point shooting team. That wasn't a season high on threes given
• 22:38
  up? Was it? So give points to their center, not from three.
• 22:41
  Here's the numbers on it. As a team BYU was one point seven
• 22:47
  to five points per possession on post ups. That were single covered, so
• 22:52
  almost perfect, right, you can only get two I guess you could get
• 22:56
  free throw that two points per possession if you're posting up. They were one
• 22:59
  point seven. Well in the second half, West Virginia did dig down on
• 23:03
  him a couple of times and went after him on a double team. When
• 23:06
  they did that in the second half, they averaged one point five points per
• 23:10
  possession. So it wasn't a significant change. So at the end of the
• 23:14
  day, I know a lot sat there and went, he's just eating you
• 23:17
  up. You gotta do something. I think they have the right approach there.
• 23:19
  Let him score his hope they're missing threes or not taking threes, and
• 23:23
  then you've got to convert on the offensive end. So I didn't really have
• 23:26
  a problem with it. And the numbers right there dictated that even when you
• 23:29
  did double didn't change a whole lot there. Interesting n take on Trey or
• 23:33
  what about uncontested shuts? You have that he's big on this uncontested shot thing
• 23:38
  and let me find it? Thanks for asking. Huh. Yeah, I
• 23:41
  just so you were locked in on this game up like you weren't. You
• 23:44
  weren't like saying it down an that Arondick chair you were focused in on I
• 23:47
  was watching it was I mean, I'm sorry, I was watching the game.
• 23:48
  I mean a close attention. Yeah, the UYU took thirty catch and
• 23:53
  shoot jumpers in this game. That's a season high against the West Virginia defense.
• 24:00
  Nineteen of them were guarded, eleven unguarded. Of the nineteen guarded shots,
• 24:07
  they only got eighteen points off those. Pretty good. You'll take that
• 24:11
  all day long. Against a really good shooting team. The eleven on guarded
• 24:15
  they scored fifteen, which still isn't terrible when you consider those threes those aren't
• 24:22
  unguarded twos are. So that's part of why I said there were some things
• 24:26
  that were kind of in West Virginia's favor there for a good chunk of that
• 24:30
  game. They weren't destroying you. They were a forty two percent shooting team
• 24:33
  on unguarded jump shots, and you held them to just over one point per
• 24:38
  possession. One the way happened. One thing you've got to be concerned about
• 24:42
  here. That is thirty six points in two games that have been given up
• 24:47
  on unguarded jumpers. So West Virginia's ability to close out has been something that's
• 24:51
  been a problem all year and it continues to not going to change. Here's
• 24:55
  the other part that West Virginia did a nice job on. We talked on
• 24:57
  Thursday about by us ability to cut to the basket and get points off that
• 25:03
  a lot of that due to their great passing that they just had two points
• 25:06
  off cutters. Western did a pretty good job of sealing that lane, hedging
• 25:10
  the cutter. They were trying to do that curl a bunch. Western AI
• 25:12
  stopped that pretty well. Here's here's one thing that got West Virginia and this
• 25:18
  is just what I say a lot. This is a number to back up
• 25:19
  what you saw. If you were watching second chance points. They only had
• 25:25
  nine offensive rebounds, right, Western EIAs was nine to nine in the offensive
• 25:30
  rebounding category. So sometimes that mantra of rebounding is the most important key to
• 25:36
  the game. You've got to dig down in there a little bit. Because
• 25:38
  we saw West Virginia get crushed against Cincinnati on the offensive glass but win on
• 25:44
  second chance points. So they lost rebounding if that was your key, but
• 25:48
  one on getting points. Same thing here, you tied them rebounding wise,
• 25:52
  right, they didn't out rebound you, but here's where they got you.
• 25:55
  Off of those nine offensive rebounds, they scored nineteen points two points one points
• 26:00
  per possession. Because how many of those were threes, There were a bunch
• 26:03
  of offensive rebounds that ended up in second or third shot threes. That two
• 26:08
  point one points per possession. For reference, the offensive leader in the country
• 26:12
  is about one point one points per possession. So that area really really got
• 26:18
  you those nineteen points right there. That makes up for some of the misses
• 26:22
  on the jump shots. So it wasn't just we've got to rebound to win
• 26:26
  this game. From a West Virginia standpoint, it was timely rebounds and or
• 26:32
  limiting second chance points. That's really more to the point there. That's a
• 26:34
  great stat Those are also demoralizing, Yes, those are really demoralizing. Threes
• 26:40
  off offensive rebounds. That's like a double kick in the mid section. Yeah,
• 26:45
  good thing about mid section. They go below that and thank you adjusted
• 26:48
  on the fly. Okay, a couple West Virginia things. There's two markers
• 26:52
  that have remained must haves if West Virginia is going to win. We've talked
• 26:57
  about one for years, free throw rate. West Virginia needs to be forty
• 27:02
  three percent or greater in free throw rate. That's the number of free throws
• 27:06
  divided by the number of field goal attempts if they're going to win. You
• 27:08
  could see in the Cincinnati game, started slowly, started to build, got
• 27:12
  into the high thirties, kept creeping up. Finished well above that mark,
• 27:17
  like fifty five percent against Cincinnati. Won the game. This game, you
• 27:21
  only had one free throw attempt in the first half, or three percent was
• 27:26
  your free throw rate in the first half. You need forty three percent.
• 27:29
  You had three. It ended up at eighteen percent free throw rate. Again,
• 27:33
  you need to get to forty three So that was a number. If
• 27:36
  you're watching throughout the game, hop unless they're unless they're blistering hot from three,
• 27:41
  that number matters, and it's mattered in every win so far that they've
• 27:44
  had. Here's the other one. West Virginia's assist rate needs to be right
• 27:48
  near sixty percent or better when they win, share the ball right, move
• 27:52
  the ball around when the ball gets stuck, or West Virginia settles for jump
• 27:56
  shots without swinging the ball. It generally doesn't end well. So you got
• 28:00
  to get to that sixty percent. You finished at forty six percent of sistraate.
• 28:04
  I just thought they were at times too reliant upon jump shots, especially
• 28:08
  threes. BYU's Assistraate was fifty nine percent correct, that's the number. It's
• 28:12
  right at sixty percent or more. Yeah, there it is. That explains
• 28:18
  it. Well done. Any individual numbers, I don't think most of my
• 28:25
  stuff was team on this. Anyone stand out. Got to make shots.
• 28:29
  I mean I don't like to get on here. Oh I got one more.
• 28:32
  I'm sorry, go ahead, finish your thought. I don't like to
• 28:33
  get on here in bash guys, but you got to make hey make shots.
• 28:37
  Well, you can't go well once again, like look look at Byu
• 28:45
  so Treori twenty four, Johnson fifteen, Robinson twelve, Saunders comes off the
• 28:52
  bench with seventeen. You look at West Virginia Edwards increase it. Then after
• 28:59
  that, Tony, what have we talked about? Who else is going to
• 29:00
  score? Yeah? Who is going to get you to keep you in there?
• 29:03
  There's enough guys on that floor that can score. That just didn't.
• 29:10
  Crisa was very good offensively. That was encouraging. I thought maybe they went
• 29:12
  away from Jesse too much down the stretch. Yeah, I thought that was
• 29:17
  the flip side of TRIORI. If you're gonna play him at six six and
• 29:19
  he's gonna stick his backside in you and have more girth than score over you.
• 29:23
  Well, then come back at him with Jesse Edwards with plus six or
• 29:27
  seven inches on him and try and go to work. And Jesse was very
• 29:30
  effective inside. So I wonder part of what I said. I think they
• 29:33
  settled for a few too mini threes. Their three point attempt rate West Virginians
• 29:37
  was about five percent above where it normally is. Probably missed some opportunities to
• 29:41
  feed Edwards in the post, I'll give you one. So Kerk Chriesa and
• 29:45
  Jesse Edwards went fifteen of twenty three from the field. You take that any
• 29:49
  game. The rest of the starters went seven of twenty eight. That's twenty
• 29:56
  five percent. Can't win. Yeah, And so that's one of those feed
• 30:00
  the guys that are making shots until they're not making shots anymore, and everybody
• 30:03
  else just stand down until you get it them. Here's here's something to watch.
• 30:06
  You know how we identified some zones in the Cincinnati game, those three
• 30:10
  point wings that were so valuable. Yeah, And we identified a zone on
• 30:14
  Saturday, short left baseline said it's going to be available. It was get
• 30:17
  to the short left corner. You could didn't make shots from there. We
• 30:18
  did we one of six. YEP. I saw him coming when every time
• 30:22
  they went up from that short left baseline. I was thinking, to you,
• 30:25
  season high in attempts from that spot. So I saw him scotting report
• 30:29
  on Thursday. Hopy told us that spot was going to be available. Get
• 30:32
  to it and make those shots. They're available to you. West Virginia just
• 30:34
  couldn't hit those, unfortunately. So the numbers, the numbers are two for
• 30:40
  two in the last two games on shooting zones and Tony. I know the
• 30:44
  battle, I mean Battle had fourteen, but he I don't know what's what
• 30:47
  for what I mean, I don't five of fifteen. I believe five of
• 30:51
  fifteen he was so he you know, he took a lot of shots,
• 30:52
  but I couldn't tell was was he were they locked down on him? Was
• 30:57
  somebody really on him locking him down? Nobody good looks, I thought,
• 31:03
  I got. I think he's settling for threes. He took seven threes.
• 31:06
  I think that's the next evolution for him. I'd like to see him in
• 31:08
  these upcoming games when he's when he doesn't have a single defender, that's super
• 31:14
  elite like Cincinnati. He was just I thought getting ten against Cincinnati for him
• 31:18
  was pretty good because that defender was all up in his grill and had a
• 31:21
  great body type to hold him down. I'd like to see battle maybe put
• 31:25
  it on the deck and work on getting in a little bit. He's got
• 31:26
  a really good mid range shot. He's got a great shot in the in
• 31:30
  the paint, he can get to the rim maybe instead of settling for threes,
• 31:36
  which I know he can hit him. So when he's hitting him,
• 31:37
  you're you're rolling. But I'd like to see him maybe put it on the
• 31:40
  deck a little bit. So I think he's really good when he does that.
• 31:42
  Yeah, I agree, I agree. I've had to make some modifications.
• 31:48
  Okay, because our audio doesn't work. I'm attempting to use a creative
• 31:57
  method. Oh, don't do that. It's going to be really what rinky
• 32:01
  dink, Go ahead, ranky dink. Number analytics of the show tell me
• 32:15
  that's not a West Virginia thing to do. You figure out a way got
• 32:20
  backs into a wall, West West Virginia guy goes like, what did you
• 32:23
  do? Oh? You took my audio away? It's fine. Spreads on
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• 33:01
  I thought it was good. Dum. I mean after dropping the snap,
• 33:07
  Yeah, we picked initially being frustrated. You did come around, Yeah,
• 33:10
  exactly. I went to the sideline, yelled at my teammates, yelled at
• 33:14
  the equipment guy for not ye, I don't know that he dropped the snap.
• 33:15
  He's here, I mean he's in position, he's speaking. Well,
• 33:19
  yes, I mean he didn't drop the snap. It was a bad snap,
• 33:22
  just snapped it way over his head. The person in charge of the
• 33:24
  audio is the one that dropped the ball there, That not the guy receiving
• 33:28
  it. Yeah, but he was. He was throwing a hissy fit about
• 33:30
  it. So you're an apologist, Hoppy. You know that the studio constantly
• 33:35
  has stuff we ever seen a coach throw a hissy feel in the center snaps
• 33:37
  the ball over the quarterback's head. Never they just say that's okay, don't
• 33:39
  worry about it like that center for all the Yeah, did Nick Savor say
• 33:45
  no problem, buddy, that's all right. You're out there trying. Yeah,
• 33:46
  I know where hees. Get to worry about a good snap whenever he
• 33:50
  gets a chance. We'll just keep playing the game with bad snaps. You
• 33:52
  just figure that out when you get a chance. Hoppy, I I apologize
• 33:57
  for trying to make the show sound good. Oh my bad, my bad.
• 34:01
  Apology accepted. WV women knockoff. The Baylor's seventy six sixty nine.
• 34:08
  West Virginia was up ten at halftime. The user the Baylor, You said,
• 34:13
  Baylor did I again? Yes? What he's going on with, Well,
• 34:15
  I know you watched that Baylor game that was bizarre and weird and it's
• 34:19
  stuck in your head. Oh my goodness. I went home Saturday night and
• 34:22
  watched the Baylor Iowa State game. It was like this combination of like,
• 34:29
  uh wrestling or like raw. It's like it was like a combination of like
• 34:35
  raw, Housewives of Waco and a basketball game. All at the same time,
• 34:42
  would you agree with that? It was? It was super weird.
• 34:44
  I turn it on and these guys are going like and Scott Drew has better
• 34:49
  ejected, and I'm going Scott Drew ejected? What what? How in the
• 34:57
  heck Scott Drew doesn't say, I mean, he doesn't curse, he doesn't
• 35:00
  How did that happen? They got him for the coming out of the coaches
• 35:05
  box twice. But the game was just a fist fight. I mean a
• 35:10
  fistfight. It was those Baylor fans were going zany yeah. And then there
• 35:16
  was a weird possession deal at the end of the game that gave Iowa State
• 35:22
  instead of having to just pick it up live with the clock running down,
• 35:24
  would have had to throw a full court shot to win with no chance to
• 35:29
  ball out of bounds. Go to review, put time on the clock.
• 35:30
  They get it inbound the ball, they moved it all the way up to
• 35:34
  near half court. They inbounded the Iowa State guy banks in a three for
• 35:37
  the win, which if you Baylor had lost that like that, you would
• 35:43
  have been apocalyptic, apocalyptic out of their on that right. Instead, go
• 35:49
  to replay again, no good, didn't get it off in time just missed.
• 35:53
  It was wild. Hey, how Baylor ad went off on the officiating
• 35:55
  afterwards. Yeah, and it was similar to what we said in a recent
• 36:00
  episode about that is you can't you don't always have to just ignore the officiating
• 36:07
  and say, well, make two more shots and then it's on you.
• 36:09
  And he started with that. He said, Listen, I normally am of
• 36:13
  the mindset you got to make a couple more shots, get a couple more
• 36:15
  stops, he said. However, he said, and basically what he broke
• 36:19
  it down to, he said, this is the best basketball league in America.
• 36:22
  The officiating did not live up to that standard in this game. That
• 36:25
  was not the best officiating in the country. This league deserves better. That's
• 36:30
  not what this league's about. That's not what this league normally gives you.
• 36:32
  That shouldn't have happened like that. Yeah. Yeah, to my point,
• 36:37
  you can talk about the officiating when it's when it's not right, that's a
• 36:40
  part of the game that matters. Scot Drew had never been thrown out of
• 36:43
  a game. I know, So how close were you watching? Were watching
• 36:45
  close? Well? I had multiple TVs going so over there was this wonderful
• 36:50
  moment. So Scott Drew gets ejected, and now he's got the associate head
• 36:53
  coach coaching, so obviously it's not something he does on a regular basis.
• 36:59
  Up, he's standing up, he's going. So at the end of the
• 37:00
  game, when Byu was at the foul line, the guy sitting next to
• 37:05
  Yes wanted to take the time out to see that, and the associate head
• 37:08
  coach who was coaching the team gave him to know and he was like a
• 37:13
  kid, like a five year old. You said, no, you're not
• 37:15
  getting another cookie, Johnny, You've already had enough. Cat he was,
• 37:17
  and he shook his head. Yeah, the great moment. Great moment,
• 37:21
  right there was an awesome moment. And it felt to me as if when
• 37:23
  because my first thought when Baylor I thought they lost, was oh, that
• 37:28
  sucks for Blair. Then I thought there's going to be a fight in the
• 37:30
  locker room. Those coaches are actually going to fight because the one guy's not
• 37:32
  going to be able to help it and say, I told you to take
• 37:35
  a time out and set it up and he wouldn't do it. Yeah,
• 37:37
  that was high drama on the bench. I saw it too. Yeah,
• 37:39
  that was good. Exactly did you see in our game? Saturday. Wasn't
• 37:44
  there an obvious wasn't there a makeup call? Did you see? It was
• 37:47
  a call against West Virginia on the BYU end, a questionable call, and
• 37:57
  then immediately on the next position. I'll be honest with you, I was
• 38:00
  concerned. I was concerned when I saw the officials for our game. Really,
• 38:07
  yeah, I was concerned. It was called even right. Yeah,
• 38:10
  they didn't have a bad day. They did not have a bad day.
• 38:15
  That was fine, and didn't decide it. I sidetracked there. You were
• 38:17
  gonna mention the women's Yes, I was, yes, I was so.
• 38:20
  Anyways, say the fighting Mark Kellogg's. They got up to a forty three
• 38:24
  to twenty nine lead at the halftime, their cruising long. But then the
• 38:29
  bailer that the Baylor's the BYUS. You have struggled with that all day.
• 38:31
  Well, I've been in the league twelve years with Baylor BYU. It's the
• 38:36
  first time I'm saying BYU. And it's gonna take me about another week or
• 38:38
  so. The BYUS outscore West Virginia by six in the third quarter and by
• 38:46
  one in the fourth quarter. But anyway, West Virginia wins it by seven
• 38:52
  and Lauren they had four double figure scores for West Virginia. Lauren Fields had
• 38:58
  twenty two. JJ Quinnerley scores nineteen with five boards. He had eleven for
• 39:08
  Jordan Harrison. Kyle Watson played thirty nine minutes and had ten and West Virginia
• 39:16
  went on its way. And that's just you go on the road. That's
• 39:21
  a good thing. But anyway, so that game was exactly at the same
• 39:24
  time as the men six o'clock our time, which would be four o'clock in
• 39:30
  Provo. And so they were delayed getting out to Provo on Friday because of
• 39:37
  whatever. And then on the way home they get delayed again. Snow,
• 39:45
  then they got a d ice, but the icing truck broke the d ice
• 39:49
  trucks they had to kind of scoot around the airport find another d icing place.
• 39:52
  Long story short, they get in at six am. Okay, So
• 40:00
  my point to that is this, I continue to tell you and say this,
• 40:06
  when these presidents in these leagues put these little ideal ideas together to reform
• 40:15
  at these conferences, they are not paying attention to what it logistically operates like.
• 40:23
  They're not thinking about that, well, yeah, you can do anything.
• 40:27
  Hey, what if we did this and this and this, it can
• 40:29
  make us this much more money. But the reality of it is that's the
• 40:34
  wrong way to do this. This crap that they always say, like we're
• 40:38
  the experience and the health of the student athlete is always at the forefront.
• 40:43
  Horse crap that should never be mentioned. Right, So now next year it
• 40:47
  only gets worse, It only goes farther west, Arizona, Arizona State more
• 40:53
  often and more often. Yeah, and then this craziness in the acc right
• 41:00
  with Stanford and Kale coming all the way. Will someone say it? Will
• 41:07
  someone say there's a white elephant in the room. Will someone say this and
• 41:13
  just stop it? It's part of why the discussion about football should potentially be
• 41:17
  a separate entity makes a heck of a lot of sense. Absolutely, why
• 41:22
  Oregon and UCLA softball are coming to play Rutgers and Iowa in the snow is
• 41:29
  there is no defense. There is zero defense of it, as those schools
• 41:32
  should stay out west and be playing softball all along instead of having to play
• 41:37
  fifty non conference and then come to Rutgers exactly. I mean, no one
• 41:42
  wants football at least for the most part, is traveling on a weekend.
• 41:45
  Okay, I'll say it. I'll say football and men's basketball make money.
• 41:50
  Okay, they should be handled differently. Okay, they should be handled differently.
• 41:57
  No one will ever say it. Keep saying we'll use power people that
• 42:02
  are running these things. Put a circle around your campus and those are the
• 42:07
  teams that you're going to play. You get great competition. West Virginia could
• 42:15
  play Pitt Penn State, Maryland, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Ohio State,
• 42:21
  North Carolina, Duke. Name your schools. You can play all of those
• 42:24
  schools. If it's the baseball team, if it's women's soccer, if it's
• 42:30
  fill in volleyball. That's great competition. And you can do that in college
• 42:35
  sports without taking your team and putting them in freaking Arizona and bringing them over
• 42:40
  here to play Tony. I agree completely. However, all the money is
• 42:45
  coming from television, and television likes it. Wait man, and television likes
• 42:50
  it. If they can have an Oregon Ohio State Oregon Michigan matchup. They
• 42:53
  don't football, they still do that are excited for Oregon rut softball is that
• 43:00
  brother? Okay, you're talking about it. Separate, That's what I said,
• 43:04
  break it apart. Those sports need to be handled. Bet, it's
• 43:06
  fine. Okay, don't make Oregon softball come all the way here because the
• 43:09
  Oregon football team because Fox wants the Oregon football team to play Ohio State.
• 43:14
  That's nonsensical. If I was softball, I would be beside myself out there.
• 43:17
  Yeah, like, what did UCLA and we came here to play on
• 43:21
  the West coast play softball on the West coast and you're sending this to Rutgers.
• 43:24
  Yeah, I'm saying this for football first. On basketball, stay the
• 43:28
  same football and basketball. You're in the league. Okay, we're going to
• 43:30
  do it because basically this is professional anyway. So that's fine. South's gonna
• 43:35
  play the Lakers every once in a while. That's fine too. I'm fine.
• 43:37
  I'm talking about the Olympic sports. Okay, I understand now. I'm
• 43:42
  sure people will lose their mind, but that's the reality of it. It's
• 43:45
  a bad experience. I think Cary real quick spicking women's basketball super efficient at
• 43:52
  the rim twelve of fifteen. You know, I always talk with them with
• 43:57
  threes. They didn't have a ton of threes. Three point attempt rate more
• 44:00
  than usual, made seven of them shot forty. I want to shoot forty
• 44:02
  three percent from three to forty four percent. So efficient. But they also
• 44:06
  got to the basket to and finished. That's a nice win. Went on
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  somebody before I forget sure? You know that you got the handkerchief over there?
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  Yeah? Here? So it was Marshall day last week at the legislature,
• 45:22
  I think it was Wednesday, and Mark DeLong came forward and gave me
• 45:27
  this. These are handkerchiefs that we have, one for each of you.
• 45:30
  Huh, one for each of you, three guys. Uh. It has
• 45:34
  your initials Brad, Tony, and me. So there's one for you,
• 45:42
  one for Tony, thank you, a lot look a hanky, got a
• 45:44
  hanky? Yeah, one for you, thank you. And Mark is a
• 45:46
  WU graduate who Mountaineer fan, but he works for Marshall. So it was
• 45:52
  flying the Green on Wednesday, which is fine, losing South Charleston Big three
• 45:57
  Guys listener, but he he had in graved hanky's made engraved. Three they're
• 46:02
  not engraved, they're embroidered, embroidered engraved you do with like a coin,
• 46:07
  embroidered three guys handkerchiefs. I have yours right now, so don't blow over
• 46:12
  there. You'll got the h K you got CC Yeah, I do keep
• 46:16
  your he didn't use it yet, did you keep he is a closet blower.
• 46:22
  Well, thank you my first hanky, Yeah you go, first hanky.
• 46:25
  That's really good. That's nice, isn't it. Well? Second,
• 46:29
  we also were gifted some yeah from Australia. Australia. Yeah, my second
• 46:32
  hand. So thank you. It was good meeting you. And appreciate the
• 46:37
  embroidered handkerchiefs. Yeah, absolutely absolutely my pocket right now. Not a surprise,
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  I do give you credit for pivoting. Yeah, had a had a really
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  good meeting over at WV Business School on Friday. Really three guys related and
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  four on two three. Three of the people in the meeting where there in
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  person and runs the whole school or something like that. And so we're giving
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  this whole spield out of talking about things out of da Dad. And then
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  the guy gets on there and I said, I don't know if you're familiar
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  with the show and he said, he said, well, first off,
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  I just want to say thanks for having me at P one listener. It's
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  orders, all the popcorn for Valentine's Day. Then today's like the last day
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  it's going all right, Sentator, Today was it February fifth? People are
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  getting there out the door, starting to get some rave reviews on the popcorn.
• 48:19
  All right, here we go. This is an update from a couple
• 48:22
  of shows ago. Actually last week's show Monday. Remember I showed you Matt
• 48:25
  and Tulsa and Shamboo and I said, okay, he was got introduced to
• 48:35
  him and he was adopted, and so I said, I don't know what
• 48:38
  the details are. So his dad Matt wrote in, So this is the
• 48:44
  deal. So Shamboo and Is and his sister are both adopted from Ethiopia.
• 48:53
  Yeah, there he is, twenty eighteen. We're in We were in the
• 48:57
  process of adopting twin girl Gros from India, but my wife got pregnant.
• 49:01
  We didn't think that was ever going to happen. God has been good to
• 49:06
  us, and now we have a five year old boy that keeps life very
• 49:09
  interesting for all of us. So there you go. So there's the update.
• 49:14
  He's going to be the five corner playing not a play in a corner
• 49:17
  at Metro Christian in Tulsa, and uh, looking to come back to West
• 49:22
  Virginia because his dad's risally from wearing a play up. I don't know,
• 49:24
  maybe you know you hear that occasionally anecdotally somebody says we don't think we can
• 49:31
  have children, and then it happens, then they adopt, and yeah,
• 49:36
  same exact thing. Uh, Texter Sam from Johnson City, Tennessee. Fire
• 49:46
  Fire, whoever is Rucker? Have a song? He's Johnson City, Tennessee.
• 49:52
  Is it Wagon Wheel? I don't know, go ahead? Wagon was
• 49:55
  a big one. Fire whoever is fire? Whoever? Is responsible for scheduling
• 50:02
  the women's games on the same day and the same time as the men's games.
• 50:07
  That's happened more often than not. It's happened more often than normal this
• 50:10
  season. Howsome ever? And I know you know we're a radio company,
• 50:15
  but I did finally figure out ESPN Plus and I could just toggle back and
• 50:20
  forth. Wait a second, what did you do figured out ESPN plus.
• 50:24
  What does that mean? You figured out ESPN plus? Oh, I ask
• 50:28
  Brad, it's you know, it's a little bit of a it's a little
• 50:30
  bit of a art more than science to trying to get to where you want
• 50:36
  to go right sometimes sometimes sometimes. So I was toggling back and forth between
• 50:42
  the two. What pretty impressive, Brad. Your music acumen on this day
• 50:49
  continues to just blow me away? Is it in a wagon wheel? The
• 50:52
  versus walking to the south of Roanoke. I caught a trucker out of Philly,
• 50:57
  had a nice long toke, but he's a head and west from the
• 51:00
  Cumberland Gap to Johnson City, Tennessee, and I got to get a move
• 51:06
  on before the sun. I hear my baby calling my name, and I
• 51:08
  know she's the only one. And if I died in Raleigh, at least
• 51:13
  I will die free. Darius Rucker wagon will Well, it's not Darius Rucker.
• 51:16
  They didn't do it originally, well, but the Old Crow Old Crow
• 51:20
  Medicine Show did it first. Unfairly attacked for not liking music, I'm all
• 51:23
  over the music. Now you are, like you're a guy that you just
• 51:28
  disavowed music and now you got all the music info today, Grammy start to
• 51:31
  finish last night. That's that's impressive. Text three guys. If there was
• 51:37
  an episode, if there was an End of the Year Awards episode, I
• 51:42
  nominate the following sentence from your recent show for the best quote, taken out
• 51:45
  of context from episode five two five at one nine forty six onto the show,
• 51:51
  Brad said to Hoppy at your advanced age, your mobility on that poll
• 51:55
  was really impressive. Just let leave that hang is a the moment I heard
• 52:05
  that, all I could think about was three guys being in a dimly knit,
• 52:07
  dimly lit club that smelled of cheap perfume and cigarettes. Try to do
• 52:12
  one another, un said poll. Where is the bleach from my eyes?
• 52:15
  I love the show JD Southern Coal Fields. That's on you, JDS,
• 52:20
  that's on us. That's you Evan and Iowa. Why did we not try?
• 52:23
  Its impressive? What's that? It was impressive? You've come back.
• 52:28
  I felt like I was a little bit It wasn't as smooth as I wish
• 52:30
  it had been. Well, it was, he evaluated pretty well. You
• 52:32
  had the handbreak on a little tight Yeah, but I get that for your
• 52:35
  first time. First I didn't want to go crash. Agreed, you would
• 52:39
  have much rather been criticized for the handbreak than busting an ankle because you went
• 52:44
  down at twenty miles an hour, because there is a moment because you're you
• 52:46
  where you just go completely poll and you think like or you go completely poll
• 52:53
  and you think, what what if this thing just goes I think like second
• 52:59
  time down would have been Smith. I think if you're like fifth time you
• 53:01
  did it, you'd be coming down there like those guys like big boy firemen.
• 53:06
  Yeah, Evan and Iowa. Why did we not try to foul Triory
• 53:10
  out? He finished with three, which he got about halfway through the second
• 53:15
  half. Our runs happened after he picked up his third. Why not go
• 53:17
  right at him when he re entered? He was the difference. I think
• 53:20
  that was Brad's point. Maybe try to get down here a little bit more.
• 53:22
  Edwards, Texter free Gomart rewards. Thanks for enlightening me on the new
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  Gomart reward program. Was not a fan when it first came out, but
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  they have since improved it. Ten cents off a gallon of gas, yes
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  and thank you. Free stuff, Yes, and thank you. The staff
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  at the Johnson Avenue one are the best. You guys need to stop and
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  see them on your next trip to wherever south of Morgantown. Question, you
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  guys promote Gomart along all the other wonderful sponsors. But I, if I'm
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  not wrong, isn't there only one Gomart in Morgantown or Mon County? Even?
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  Come on, go Maart. You need one at every corner so we
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  can rack up these rewards for free stoff. Seriously, just one? Actually
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  there's two. Looked it up. Two in Morgantown vicinity? Where are they?
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  One's on the mile ground and one's on some postal something somewhere. You
• 54:13
  know where that one is, Brad, So there's two. I looked it
• 54:15
  up. Anyway, you got a picture of that? Where's that picture?
• 54:17
  Austin got a big big go got a big soda pop and a slim jib
• 54:23
  Jim so big doesn't make it in the picture. No, that thing goes
• 54:27
  all the way out that window over to the other pumps. So how long
• 54:30
  that one is across the street? Rob from New Jersey. I don't think
• 54:35
  the recent trend of downsizing basketball arenas will help West Virginia's atmosphere. Moving the
• 54:40
  students back to the middle and upper bowl would bring back the energy. Having
• 54:45
  only a small section in the lower bowl is shameful. I understand the money
• 54:49
  they make from those middle seats helps the revenue, but a better home court
• 54:52
  atmosphere will lead to winds, which will lead to more revenue rob in New
• 54:57
  Jersey, don't I don't think that's going to change. That's been a decade
• 55:04
  plus right back when you were there, right, Brad the student, they
• 55:08
  put that middle section in there. Yep, that's a long time ago.
• 55:14
  As a student in the mid seventies, I remember reading Hoppy's work in the
• 55:16
  Daily Atheneum. Glad that both of us are still above ground. I will
• 55:22
  share my nap story. Hoppy, you talk about taking a nap coming up
• 55:25
  the road so you can Yeah, yeah, he says. Halfway through a
• 55:30
  twenty five mile post midnight trip home, I pulled into a rest area,
• 55:35
  turned off the motor, and reclined the seat for a nap. My next
• 55:38
  recollection was of driving down the highway. Oh jeez, with my headlights off
• 55:44
  and my seat still reclined. What I had managed to exit the rest area,
• 55:50
  turn left onto the highway, and travel in the correct lane for maybe
• 55:54
  fifty yards maybe farther before coming to my senses. Fortunately, no traffic on
• 56:01
  rural Penn Highway at two am. Since then late nineteen seventies, my road
• 56:07
  naps have been taken in a reclined passenger seat with no key in the ignition,
• 56:13
  justph tips. Yeah, now the important handkerchief question. I sided with
• 56:17
  Hoppy. In addition to the benefits he and others have cited, I suspect
• 56:22
  unconfirmed that occasionally carrying germs in my pocket is strengthened my immune system, which
• 56:27
  through these many years has been very good. I enjoy your show. Keep
• 56:30
  up the good works done by AJ and PA. Yeah that's a great point.
• 56:36
  If you're going to take a nap and you think you might wander back
• 56:39
  onto the road, go to the passenger seat and take the keys out.
• 56:45
  Yeah. Wow, that's scary as hell. That's yeah. Texter. Hello,
• 56:52
  three guys, we have a red alert. Red alert. Was just
• 56:55
  perusing the schedule of the Big twelve site and notice that all the times are
• 57:00
  in CST seem to have won a victory on social channels, but not the
• 57:07
  official website. Why does in anyone in Morgantown or Provo care about what time
• 57:13
  the game is in Central. Realize that it is good for Joe, Mock
• 57:16
  and Jason and Tulsa, but not US East Coasters Signed by Jay and mid
• 57:22
  Lothian. Hoping one day to see Charlie at the Kroger to get more cheap
• 57:25
  gas, he wrote Kroger's. I think the correct pronunciation is Kroger, the
• 57:31
  Kroger right, the Kroger's. Now we're going to begin a Jay Jacobs segment
• 57:37
  here. It's several texts about Jay. Hi guys. I was at Saturday's
• 57:42
  game against BYU. It was great to be part of the crowd. As
• 57:45
  Jay Jacobs called his last game, I wanted to share a quick story about
• 57:49
  the Silver Fox nineteen ninety eight through ninety nine, ninety nine through two thousand.
• 57:53
  My grandpa John Aldoshuk helped me get a gig as a ball kid for
• 57:59
  the Mountaineers during the ninety nine zero zero season. All the games I was
• 58:02
  assigned to were in Wheeling since the coliseum was closed due to the asbestos removal.
• 58:08
  Nowadays, they don't fill those roles with ten to twelve year old kids,
• 58:15
  but I got to rebound during pregame warmups, sit right behind the basket,
• 58:17
  even wiped the floor when a player went down. This was such a
• 58:21
  fun opportunity for a young Mountaineer fan to have. I may have even been
• 58:24
  the first girl to do it, but you'd have to fast fact check that.
• 58:30
  I got to cross paths with many former players and coaches. But the
• 58:35
  most memorable moments from this period happened well before the tip off or even warmups
• 58:40
  while the team was still in the locker room. The ball kids would always
• 58:44
  shoot around and play pig or horse during that time, and Jay Jacobs would
• 58:47
  often join us. He definitely still had it. It was an honor to
• 58:52
  rebound for a Mountaineer legend. Jay was always incredibly kind to us kids,
• 58:55
  and I wanted to share how much fun that was. He's a great guy
• 59:00
  and it was such a joy to be there as he was honored calling his
• 59:02
  last game Saturday, Cheers to the Silver Fox signed by Megan from Pittsburgh by
• 59:07
  way of Whirton. That was a nice event Saturday. Of course you were
• 59:09
  part of it, Tony, where they paid tribute to Jay Jacobs got to
• 59:15
  call one more game and honored there during the ballgame that that was outstanding.
• 59:21
  He's an important part of Mountaineer war. Absolutely, no question about that.
• 59:24
  And I've said this before. Jay could shoot the living heck out of it,
• 59:28
  that shot baby, I mean well into his seventies. Just absolutely,
• 59:32
  he'd take kids on the team and he'd say, all right, let's go,
• 59:36
  kids like bigs that couldn't shoot a three, and he'd step behind tel.
• 59:39
  You mentioned it on Saturday during the broadcast. But also just unbelievably,
• 59:44
  I don't know if it's our ironic or coincidental that his sixty eight year scoring
• 59:47
  record at Morgantown High gets brosenclipsed on the same within twenty four hours of him
• 59:53
  doing his last game. Pretty wild. Yeah, n youngraduacensed to him bring
• 59:57
  record. That's just a pretty wild story. That's amazing, just amazing.
• 1:00:00
  Greetings, Esteemed Triumvirate. This is your neighbor Wilson from Wetzel from one County
• 1:00:07
  Westward, identifying himself as the fan who verbally accosted Brad in the parking lot
• 1:00:12
  after the women's game with Iowa State. I really wasn't looking to get in
• 1:00:15
  line early, but if I hadn't, I would have set social media ablaze
• 1:00:20
  with my account of How's lack of graciousness all of that aside, I'd like
• 1:00:27
  to suggest an item for your thriving Three Guys merchandise line, a high quality
• 1:00:31
  Rugger and authentic gold golden blue colors. I've searched the web looking for such
• 1:00:36
  garment, and the closest I've seen it to is the golden Black. But
• 1:00:39
  I want to be a mountaineer, not a steeler. So here's hoping Tony
• 1:00:43
  thinks of it and someone else can make it happen. What's a Rugger?
• 1:00:47
  Good text? I looked it up. I don't know what it is.
• 1:00:50
  As the old school rugby shirts. Is that what he's talking about? Stripes
• 1:00:52
  with the white collar. Yeah, okay, that's what I thought it was.
• 1:00:54
  Okay, those are big. When I went to college, rugby shirts,
• 1:00:59
  rubber buttons me. Some of those buttons. I love that. I
• 1:01:01
  love those. I had a golden blue one back in the day. Hop
• 1:01:05
  did you yeah, Texter? Go on? Huh gone gone, Texter?
• 1:01:10
  Dear Three Guys, Oh boy, here we go, Professor Vinnie Here.
• 1:01:15
  Last episode, Tony suggested that I might be on a sabbatical leave since I
• 1:01:19
  text in so much. I actually am serving as the chair of the Sabbatical
• 1:01:23
  Leave Committee, which means I am not eligible since I am part of the
• 1:01:27
  committee who recommends other faculty for sabbatical leave. I'm also an assistant professor,
• 1:01:32
  and only tenured professors are eligible for sabbatical leave. But I now know what
• 1:01:38
  I'll do with sabbatical leave once I ascend to those heights in my career twice
• 1:01:43
  text twice as much, Signed by Professor Vinnie Yeah uh Texter, Hello gentlemen,
• 1:01:51
  logan from Greenboro County. During dinner Saturday, I kept going back and
• 1:01:54
  forth between the men's and the women's games against BYU. You figured it out
• 1:01:59
  too. Yeah, I saw on social media just how very polite the women's
• 1:02:04
  fan base is nothing but respect for them. Tony, your suit from Saturday
• 1:02:08
  night was top notch. You did look good. By the way, I'm
• 1:02:12
  a fine looking Phil. He's not gonna send somebody out there looking bad.
• 1:02:15
  Good point, right, I mean, Phil's gonna make you look good.
• 1:02:17
  Well. You always dressed very very nice the ball games, that's all Phil.
• 1:02:22
  I mean you saw me dress for years before. Phil. Right,
• 1:02:27
  it's better. My wife will point that out to me. Yeah. I
• 1:02:30
  don't like the gold jacket, but that's yeah. I'm not crazy about it
• 1:02:35
  either. A word for dumb dumb over here because he wanted to stripe the
• 1:02:37
  state stripe the stadium. Yeah, I got that. Well, okay,
• 1:02:43
  fine, Texter. Appreciate all you guys do, Logan says. Last episode,
• 1:02:46
  you guys mentioned fram oil filters. Well, we sell them at the
• 1:02:50
  auto zone here in Louisbourg and we're right next to a Gomart. Come by
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  any time and I'll be more than an honor to help you. Texter.
• 1:03:00
  Oh, this is video. Get this video up here. This is pretty
• 1:03:04
  interesting. I've got an issue that I got a problem here. Oh,
• 1:03:06
  you can't play the audio game. No, I can play the audio here.
• 1:03:08
  That's not it. We've lost. There's a ton of texts that aren't
• 1:03:12
  here. Really, there's a ton of text I don't want the hell get
• 1:03:15
  them. No, no, no, no no. They all printed.
• 1:03:17
  There must have been a control copy and some got blown away because there's a
• 1:03:24
  ton more here. Anyway, I'll do it, Just do this for now,
• 1:03:27
  then I'll go maybe look at it. Wednesday night was a perfect night
• 1:03:30
  for basketball and Monroe County, where a small county with only two middle schools,
• 1:03:34
  one high school, no stoplights. This was from last week our Peterstown
• 1:03:38
  Middle school boys defeated Princeton at home, both JV and varsity. Our Peterstown
• 1:03:45
  Middle school girls did the same at Princeton. So we sit down. We
• 1:03:49
  watched our children win. Many of us had one or two games streaming on
• 1:03:52
  our phones. And the world champion Mountaineers or the state champion, James Monroe
• 1:03:58
  Mavericks, as you know, West Virginia prove they can fight to the end,
• 1:04:00
  pulled out a win. This was against Cincy. James Monroe won an
• 1:04:04
  overtime against Summers County. Not only did we have a perfect night of basketball,
• 1:04:09
  but junior Layton Dowdy sank a three quarter court shot at the buzzard.
• 1:04:14
  It's a great day to be a mountaineer, Maverick and a pirate wherever you
• 1:04:16
  may be. So go ahead, let's run that bean video. There we
• 1:04:19
  go, hop, take a look at this. So this kid goes up
• 1:04:21
  for a shot, miss second, here's audio. You're again to get that
• 1:04:25
  rebound. He talked about Pam teaching him. You know, you just float
• 1:04:28
  around and oh goodness, yeah, how about that shot. Layton Dowdy gets
• 1:04:35
  a half hard handed just a throw would have never banked in because it would
• 1:04:43
  have come in too hot. I figured it would be a little bit strong.
• 1:04:46
  Had great lighting in that gym for the Canton. Very nice. There
• 1:04:49
  you go. So that congratulations? Uh that was Layton Dowdy that hit that
• 1:04:55
  for sure? Yeah, Layton Court no that So that was a heck of
• 1:04:59
  a shot. It was all right. So now the other issue I got
• 1:05:01
  here is where in the hell did the all the other textgo. I'm surprised
• 1:05:08
  we didn't catch that in show prep. We don't do any Oh, that's
• 1:05:13
  right, Brad. Do you want to talk about the special episode this week
• 1:05:19
  coming up on? When? An't we releasing that? Do we know that
• 1:05:21
  yet? You think we hold it or we just go with it? I
• 1:05:25
  think we just go with it it. Just put it out right, Yeah,
• 1:05:27
  So subscribe to the feed right, follow the feed, whatever the terminology
• 1:05:31
  is. Yeah, putting one out. We will be talking football transfer portal
• 1:05:38
  recruiting. Drew Fabianic returns. Okay, three guys before the game. All
• 1:05:42
  right, that's good for kind of a pre spring update on what's happening about
• 1:05:45
  who West Virginia got in. That'll be fun. Yeah, and just more
• 1:05:48
  processed stuff too. Get into some of the process there. That's interesting,
• 1:05:54
  all right, that'll be good. That'll be good. Okay, so let
• 1:05:56
  me find some of these other texts that got blown away. Hey for this
• 1:06:00
  episode. Uh, this is this is really not good because he's not going
• 1:06:04
  to have a handle anyway. I'm doing these. Hey, three guys,
• 1:06:09
  I haven't texted in a while, but I thought i'd give you an update
• 1:06:11
  on our little fellow Bow. We hit a milestone first w V game Saturday
• 1:06:15
  against b Yu here. He is unfortunately the dude dude to the little guy
• 1:06:19
  needing to eat. We only lasted a half. Fortunately he was great while
• 1:06:24
  he was there. Can't wait to get back for a couple of saturdays.
• 1:06:28
  For another that's our guy, Sammy Sammy Lusk, Sammy Lusk, his lovely
• 1:06:32
  wife and baby Bow. That's a hell of a name for an athlete,
• 1:06:36
  isn't it? Bo Lusk a Lusk. Oh, that's gonna be a good
• 1:06:40
  one. You have headphones on, it's loudes. You got to protect the
• 1:06:45
  ears, I mean don't. Uh. Here's another one and I'm gonna miss
• 1:06:49
  how do you pronounce that bread? N A A n is that? NaN's
• 1:06:55
  just called nan nan? That's Indian bread. Okay. Chris from Memphis,
• 1:07:00
  I at d C from Morgantown. Guy's been all over the place scope Senator
• 1:07:03
  absentee at Aron deck Dean took a shot at you in your hair. Since
• 1:07:10
  spaghetti and sandwiches was mentioned in five point twenty five, I give you the
• 1:07:14
  Frederick. How'd you say? That bread was nan Nana non non nana da
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  from a restaurant called Let's Eat in Huntington That what has unfortunately closed. The
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  Sadric had nan sandwich had nan bread with vegetables and spaghetti inside. It was
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  delicious. I'd hit that look good? I think now none anyway, you
• 1:07:36
  wouldn't eat that hoppy? Oh yeah yeah. Craig and Craigsville in game text.
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  Really realize how much I'm gonna miss Jay Jacobs, a true mountaineer.
• 1:07:45
  I'm gonna miss that little fella so am I. I talked to him today
• 1:07:50
  this morning. He had a great time. I bet he did. But
• 1:07:54
  I'll tell you what. He was tired. He I was gonna say he
• 1:07:56
  was tired. Yeah, he was in the spotlight man. Yeah, it
• 1:07:59
  was awesome. Texter BYU must have a great theater major and all of the
• 1:08:04
  guys on that basketball team must be theater majors. Based on all the falls
• 1:08:09
  and flops they exhibited during the game on Saturday, where there I didn't notice
• 1:08:14
  whether, I don't know that I noticed that. I didn't notice it either.
• 1:08:18
  I haven't noticed that. Ah Tti dotti dom, I'm gonna miss text.
• 1:08:25
  It's gonna bum me out. Let me see here. Maybe just got
• 1:08:30
  into a rut where I just kind of let me hear. We've had a
• 1:08:33
  rough technical day today, Ted from Colorado, our best moment. I really
• 1:08:39
  enjoyed the BYU broadcast. You and Jay have a great rhythm, but neither
• 1:08:43
  of us can dance. Jay will be missed. That's right, Ted from
• 1:08:46
  Colorado. A couple more bags. Jay's what eighty eighty eighty five and how
• 1:08:56
  many years did he do the color Tony so well? He started started television,
• 1:09:02
  gave the late seventies, really late seventies. He and I started doing
• 1:09:08
  TV together. He did it with Woody up until eighty eight. Up until
• 1:09:15
  eighty eight we did TV. Then Jay and I did TV from eighty nine
• 1:09:19
  on to ninety six, and then radio from ninety six up until last year.
• 1:09:25
  Teammate of Jerry West's right Willie akers Willy, was there. They had
• 1:09:29
  a little reception from Willy Willy was there after the game. Yeah, through
• 1:09:34
  long time. First time. I wanted to express my gratitude to Jay for
• 1:09:38
  his long career. I'll miss him during games, the many years of listening
• 1:09:41
  to him and Hugs Banner around the Hug Show. Although I've been a season
• 1:09:44
  ticket holder for football for a while, Saturday was my very first Mountaineer basketball
• 1:09:49
  game. I told my wife, Wow, I told my wife when you
• 1:09:53
  announced that it would be Jay's last game, I knew my first game had
• 1:09:56
  to be Jay's last. Thank you for all your insights. Signed by Derek
• 1:10:00
  in Parkersburg. That's pretty well. Yes, football season ticket holder, first
• 1:10:04
  basketball game. Sometimes that'll happen. People will come up to me and they'll
• 1:10:09
  say, hey, want to say hello. I say, hey, how
• 1:10:11
  you doing? And they'll say like, this is my very first basketball game,
• 1:10:16
  and I mean like older people, and I'm going like, are you
• 1:10:18
  like like first the seat? No, first time I've ever been in this
• 1:10:23
  building. And I go like, well, because we just take it for
• 1:10:26
  granted. Yeah, and we just kind of like, yeah, we're there
• 1:10:29
  and that's awesome. Texter our boy Charlie from Midlothian. Since there's been some
• 1:10:36
  discussion pertaining to refereeing in youth leagues. Wanted to pass along the story my
• 1:10:42
  brother shared that happened to him. He was refereeing a game at the Beckley
• 1:10:47
  y All Starts a couple of years ago. One of the guys sitting courtside
• 1:10:50
  was constantly questioning his calls. So at halftime, my brother went over,
• 1:10:57
  sat next to the guy sat right next to He then turned to that guy
• 1:11:00
  and said, you know what, I can see the game better from here.
• 1:11:05
  He then got up and walked away. Guy never said another word the
• 1:11:10
  entire second half. Right by the way, I mean when like we're at
• 1:11:16
  the high school tournament and we're sitting courtside and you can hear everybody, not
• 1:11:20
  every call is wrong, you know. I mean there are calls I think
• 1:11:27
  it's legitimate. You know, you're you're you're engaged in the game, and
• 1:11:30
  sometimes there's a there's a bad call, right Brad, And you can get
• 1:11:32
  on the officials a little bit, but not every call is wrong. Well,
• 1:11:34
  you missed last episode I had. I had a confession. What's that
• 1:11:40
  I used to crush officials? Oh really, well my kids were little,
• 1:11:43
  yeah really yeah, I just I did a one to eighty from it.
• 1:11:46
  Yeah, my god, if you crushed the officials doing your kids game,
• 1:11:50
  that's correct. Wait a minute, how old were your kids? Second grade?
• 1:11:56
  Third grade, fourth grade, fifth and you're crushing the officials in a
• 1:11:59
  third grade game? Well, I wouldn't say third grade is probably middle school
• 1:12:02
  that I'm well, if they were bad, they needed to get a little
• 1:12:06
  bit. But it's bad. It's stupid because the whole thing is stupid.
• 1:12:12
  And the big perspective of what it is I had that I had that epiphany
• 1:12:17
  would go that, wait a second, this is seek because I would take
• 1:12:19
  what the level that I was at and I would like look at it from
• 1:12:24
  that and I're going like, wow, plus at that level, if you
• 1:12:27
  called everything, sure there wouldn't be a game. Yeah. They put a
• 1:12:31
  rule in the North League because of me. North Elementary League. Excuse me.
• 1:12:36
  I had to fill in one day, Mark hot Dog Wilson couldn't make
• 1:12:41
  it to coach. They said, can you coach? I said, I
• 1:12:43
  coach? So I go over there Saturday morning and I was just coaching my
• 1:12:47
  kids up and I didn't realize there was a rule. You can't stand up
• 1:12:53
  as the coach. You have to sit in the chair in your seat.
• 1:12:57
  I'm just trying to coach my kids up. I mean, Anthony Schafano's killing
• 1:13:00
  us, just killing us down long. I'm just stand up, going get
• 1:13:04
  it and coming after you come out. Rule. Randy Metta, the Mountaineer
• 1:13:08
  Basketball train still brings this up. How to create it? How to create
• 1:13:11
  a rule? Because you kept standing? Why why wouldn't I stand up coaching?
• 1:13:14
  That'd be hard, That'd be a hard rule to share. Then I
• 1:13:17
  found out this weekend from from my next door mayor, next door neighbor,
• 1:13:23
  the mayor, Carter mccoochie. He told me they don't even have the North
• 1:13:28
  League anymore. I said, the North League was like the Premier League.
• 1:13:30
  So you ruined the North League. No, I don't know. He's playing
• 1:13:33
  an Eastwood League though, had a good game this week. I don't think
• 1:13:36
  he had eight showed be a Eurostep movie. Used used to be a rule
• 1:13:43
  in West Virginia high school that you couldn't stand up when I when I was
• 1:13:46
  in high school, you couldn't stand up. The coach couldn't stand up.
• 1:13:49
  And we had a coach at our high school team, coach Zambling, and
• 1:13:51
  he would tie you take a rope and he tied himself to the bench,
• 1:13:56
  literally tied himself to the bench. Well, that's a bad rule. I
• 1:14:00
  met some nice listeners at a youth game yesterday. Didn't get names, but
• 1:14:04
  enjoyed meeting them after the game. That's good. How'd your team do well?
• 1:14:10
  What's the record? Pretty good? What does that mean? Have you
• 1:14:14
  lost yet? Yeah? I don't care, not much. First place right
• 1:14:17
  around it, top of the table, probably second tournament coming Texter, Hello
• 1:14:25
  scope spread team, my dad, I don't coach it. Well, okay,
• 1:14:29
  two wonderful catches, okay, hello scopes, spreads and hoppy to the
• 1:14:32
  third Just console when necessary, but it's usually not needed. From the deep
• 1:14:36
  archives of there's always a West Virginia connection. The first selection ever. West
• 1:14:43
  Virginia State's Earl Lloyd was the first HBCU historically black college men's basketball player drafted
• 1:14:49
  to the NBA, and it was in the nineteen fifty draft. He was
• 1:14:53
  the one hundredth pick in the ninth round. Love the show, Dave from
• 1:14:56
  Dayton, PS, I'm the cool uncle and brother. Everyone loves their urban
• 1:15:00
  barrel lids. I met Earl Lloyd, I've met or I met him when
• 1:15:04
  he was did you just like the walk away that I had from him was
• 1:15:09
  like, what an incredibly nice gentleman, that's what he was. He was
• 1:15:13
  just like, that's incredibly but he's what he says is there is right.
• 1:15:15
  That is correct, That is correct. Hey, this is out of the
• 1:15:19
  blue. But Tony, you know my brother Nick, and he well known.
• 1:15:25
  He and his wife Sherry took a camper and were gone for a month
• 1:15:30
  in Florida. So I talked to him yesterday. They went all over Florida
• 1:15:34
  in a camper and I said, how many West Virginias did you run into?
• 1:15:38
  Oh? Boy, none, excuse me, none? And he wore
• 1:15:42
  his WV camp. I said, that's not possible. What state were you?
• 1:15:44
  Where were you? You must be And he's not as reclusive as you,
• 1:15:47
  so he was probably out and oh yeah, oh yeah, he was
• 1:15:49
  out meeting people. I said, no, it's not possibly. As well.
• 1:15:53
  I did meet one guy and he thought his wife was from Elkinsers.
• 1:15:55
  I said, it doesn't count. You didn't meet one person from West Virginia.
• 1:15:59
  Stunning, it is stunning. Wow, that's so he Nick took a
• 1:16:04
  camp route for a month. A month. Now. He's a very warm
• 1:16:08
  personality, great personality, gets into crowds. I mean, just a one
• 1:16:12
  hundred and eight degrees difference from you. It's not fair, but that's okay.
• 1:16:16
  Not a loof, He's not a loof nor distant, No, not
• 1:16:19
  at all. Those are words you use to describe yourself. I mean that's
• 1:16:25
  why I pick those up. You've you said I'm a loof and distant.
• 1:16:28
  I am a little bit. I don't think you're a loof. I think
• 1:16:30
  you're you're distant, which is cool. You have to be to be happy,
• 1:16:35
  you have to be distant. I'm not. I am not as social
• 1:16:40
  as either one of you, particularly you two. I mean you're very I
• 1:16:44
  think you're like a battered dog. What excuse me, I think you're like
• 1:16:46
  a battered dog. I think you you don't get in because you take so
• 1:16:50
  much crap from people. You're going like, man, I've gotten like I
• 1:16:55
  don't. I just I'm good because people just it's a all right. I
• 1:17:00
  was talking to someone this weekend about you, and in fact at the Jay
• 1:17:05
  Jacobs event, and I said, you should see his text line that he
• 1:17:12
  gets. I said, it doesn't matter which side they all, they all
• 1:17:16
  just just pile on. I mean it's so that's probably why you are intentionally
• 1:17:23
  you don't engage because you just don't know where you can't. It's a trust
• 1:17:27
  issue when you say Saturday, it's a trust issue for him. Now,
• 1:17:31
  you doing some big debate tomorrow Tomorrow night. Tomorrow night at five point thirty
• 1:17:35
  at Glade Springs, a debate with four of the leading Republican candidates for governor.
• 1:17:40
  I'll be driving down there tomorrow doing it tomorrow night. It'll be streamed
• 1:17:45
  the audio, not video. The audio will be streamed at our Metro news
• 1:17:47
  website wv metro news dot com and way TV is taming it for a playback.
• 1:17:54
  So so he won't be here for our podcast. I don't know who.
• 1:17:58
  No, you told me, no, I'm not going to be here.
• 1:18:00
  I'm not going to be here. Well, remember I've had in three
• 1:18:02
  thirty three, so you have to a lot of preparation when you go into
• 1:18:06
  one of these debates. Yeah, I got the questions you right? So
• 1:18:10
  you just start them from scratch? Yeah? Or do you pull a file
• 1:18:13
  from past gubernator like see what I used here? No, I got I
• 1:18:17
  worked on him. I asked Michael Henny for suggestions. I ask and they
• 1:18:23
  It's put on by the Republican Party there in Roway County, and they gave
• 1:18:25
  me some suggestions. I'll put it all together. I've worked on it this
• 1:18:28
  weekend. How long does it go? Ninety minutes? Minutes. But these
• 1:18:31
  things have kind of become old hat for you, right, like you just
• 1:18:33
  get in it and it was like, okay, here we go. Well
• 1:18:35
  no, I mean, I got to prepare and they uh. And then
• 1:18:41
  I got an email this morning asking me if I would moderate another debate.
• 1:18:45
  I said, you got to get somebody else, I said, I'm I'm
• 1:18:46
  I'm done. Well, I just think it's better for Brad to have somebody
• 1:18:51
  else in there asking questions and with a different perspective. I have done to
• 1:18:56
  get somebody with a different perspective ask them questions, not just me. Yeah,
• 1:19:00
  so you have to so I would imagine beside the questions that you ask,
• 1:19:05
  you have to your concentration level has to be at about three because you
• 1:19:11
  have to listen because if anyone, by some very unlikely chance, would say
• 1:19:15
  something that would be incorrect, you may have to call him on that correct.
• 1:19:19
  I don't think that happens in those things. Just say, oh,
• 1:19:23
  I don't think that ever happens Okay, well you got to be on your
• 1:19:26
  toes. Yeah, I'm listening and then trying to engage the others because you're
• 1:19:29
  trying to ask questions, to elicit, to try to get specific responses,
• 1:19:32
  but also trying to manage the event. Right, So I'm not looking down
• 1:19:35
  thinking about the next question, right, No, no, no, no,
• 1:19:38
  you just can't be a road question thing. Yeah, and you have
• 1:19:41
  to be diplomatic if they say something that perhaps and the rare chance that could
• 1:19:45
  be incorrect, you have to be diplomatic when you say, actually, like
• 1:19:49
  where on three guys, we could just say, hey, that's a load
• 1:19:51
  of crap, bring that back where you brought it from. You probably would
• 1:19:55
  not say that. Yeah, right, I mean it's a different See,
• 1:19:57
  Brad, he's got it. That's why he's it's difficult to be Yeah,
• 1:20:00
  that's why he's so distant. He just doesn't know who to trust. That's
• 1:20:03
  the one. That's the one thing we've established on this episode. Is it
• 1:20:09
  working now, Hoppy, this is coming from wide orbit. I'll see audio
• 1:20:13
  is coming from the PC. Okay, we gotta get that. We're gonna
• 1:20:16
  figure that out. Did you know the show wasn't stream live? I did
• 1:20:20
  not know that. Yeah, we gotta get it fixed. All right,
• 1:20:27
  Well, time for me to blow into this brand new hanky. This is
• 1:20:30
  perfect. Allergy seasons coming with me. Shed my tears over our audio not
• 1:20:36
  working. It was a nice gesture. Get that done, get that engraved.
• 1:20:47
  You know, we all take turns on this program of using incorrected.
• 1:20:53
  It doesn't matter who, just it's gonna happen. I had Baylor and b
• 1:20:56
  Yu on my head. Poppies got engraving instead of a U instead of embroidering.
• 1:21:01
  Lord knows what the senator did wrong, but that was on today.
• 1:21:03
  I'm sure we sure he is. He's in his happy place tomorrow. Yeah,
• 1:21:11
  I think the biggest thing, the best thing you said here and subscribe
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• 1:21:23
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