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3 Guys Before The Game - Big 12 Basketball Tip Off (Episode 518) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  Welcome in, one and all. It is time for episode number five hundred
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  and eighteen five to one eight of this year program, which is called Three
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  Guys Before the Game, and it's well, it's it's that time. It's
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  Big twelve Hoops tip off time. Conference action begins this weekend. Fourteen members
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  of the Big Twelve Conference. The last seasons for oklahomer and the Texas Longhorns.
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  The first seasons for BYU Houston, UCF and Cincinnata. West Virginia opens
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  at Houston. They are to go back to the Christmas holiday season. They
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  are the Scrooge of the Big Twelve, stingy they'll let people score. We're
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  beyond the numbers. Bred has his spreads on stats. Hoppy apparently getting a
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  little jealous, he said, I want my own second, his own second,
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  correct record correct. He did not demand his own segment. He did,
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  however, demand to go first. He did demand, he said,
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  want go pull rank here going first. Yeah, I'm no, no,
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  no, no, no, don't feel bad about it. Don't feel bad
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  about it. That's fine. You're good. You go first, seniority.
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  I'll give you the floor first. That's fine. You don't have to know.
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  You don't have say anything. You don't have to justify it. You
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  don't have to say why. You just said you want to go first.
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  Very kind. You want to go first, you go first, only go
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  only because I have so little. Now you have stuff. You go first.
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  You ask to go first, you want to, you want a bat
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  lead off you, but you get the lead off spot. Thank you?
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  And also can I come back later because I have something else too? Sure?
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  You hoppy? This show is you whatever way you want to it's no.
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  Whatever way you want to do it is good. We're getting a little
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  misty eyed here with this legislative session starting to get underway. You won't be
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  with us all the time going down next week. Yeah, we don't have
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  We don't have Nate Adrian. He used to be your filling. He went
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  on for a long long time, the whole winter season. He used to
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  every basketball season. And he's out there. We gotta check in with him.
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  Yeah, I was just thinking then, have you like he left for
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  Italy like six years ago and we haven't talked to him. Well, the
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  season started a bit early in August. They did start early, and I
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  in his phone's kind of weird sometimes. I mean sometimes you can text him
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  and you get in sometimes. I don't know. Got an effort on that.
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  Yeah, we do need during the show right now, it's about seven
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  o'clock. Yeah, he'd be good, he'd be ready. He's probably got
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  a probably got a big more to Deela Sandwich going out there with the with
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  the little peronis or something like that. Might be adjusting the light on the
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  lemon trees, making sure that think some let's get your lemon trees. Yes,
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  yes, but then he left he left it there, left it,
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  he left bandon it set him out, set them out. Well, you
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  got a whole thing with customs when you're trying to bring stuff in, unless
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  you're Tony's buddies who just bring illegal stuff in all the time. Yeah,
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  you got a little bring lemons back in their customs is gonna get all over
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  the work. It works quite well, bring those figs on back and I
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  don't want any of that. I don't know why you would I don't want
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  any of that action. It's hard enough to get in and out of the
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  country. I mean, just lines, let me checking your don't start.
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  I didn't mean to get a soft track on that start now. He just
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  asked them, would you rather get busted for like a kilo of cocaine or
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  like you got a fig tree? I go, all right, fine,
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  I'm guilty. I don't want that either, or I don't have a kilo
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  of cocaine or a lemonry. That argument tried to get it like, yeah,
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  what would you rather have? Let me ask you this. I do
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  have a funny story about that. I wanted to ask you along those days
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  when you used to travel internationally, like Highland and things like that, and
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  that was drug time. Yeah, did you ever get nervous that someone was
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  gonna put something on you? Or did you because you they could they bust
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  you there? You were there, you wouldn't be here, Oh yeah,
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  you wouldn't be here. It'd be like remember whatever happened? Yeah right,
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  yeah, never didn't see him again. There were a lot of stories.
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  I have several stories kind of peripherally related to that. But I mean,
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  you were always nervous, right, right, I was backpacking, and you
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  think you were always checking your stuff like just kids. I'll tell you this.
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  I was on a bus one time and we were in Because this is
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  you should have just come with the I was on a bus in Peru.
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  It was in I spent any time in a Turkish prison. I think,
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  oh, it's going to be one of those four. I think it was
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  Ecuador. It's always a good line to start it with. Here's the name
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  of the episode. That's the name of the episode. I think name of
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  the episode should be. I think it was Ecuador. Go ahead, well,
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  And I was sitting there next to another young person who was from Ecuador.
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  Spoke a little English, so we're talking to Ecuadorian and every now and
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  then in some of these countries, I mean, there would just be a
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  roadblock and the police would get on and just start checking you and stuff.
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  So there was a roadblock and the police get on, and I mean it's
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  military police, guys with guns. They get on and they start just opening
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  your bag, looking and looking through it, looking through it, and they
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  start going through the guy next to me, your boy from Ecuador. No,
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  yeah, the guy and they pull out like a bag of pot.
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  Not good day. Yeah, haul him right off the bus. I thought,
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  I'm sitting next to this guy, right, you know, but they
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  left me alone. But hold hit. Yeah there's there was another one in
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  Thailand too, But never mind. I don't want to boy with these stories.
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  Those are pretty good stories. You saw some stuff. You saw some
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  pretty good stuff in Tyler. Give me the reader's digest of it. Like,
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  does anyone get hit, slap, cracked, beaten with a buckle?
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  No? Not? I mean well it was no, it was another.
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  Did it involve drugs? No, it involved an uprising. I mean there's
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  all an uprising of a militant group, and the police were checking very closely.
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  They don't take kindly to that stuff. We were left alone because we
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  were obviously not the militants, but others who might have been suspected were evaluated
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  and asked to leave the train. Yeah. I assume our merchandising team is
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  listening. I want to teach I was on a bus in Ecuador. Three
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  guys level on the sleeve. All right, let's get into this thing.
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  We recorded on Tuesday. Now it's Thursday, so not a whole ton has
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  transpired. But the transfer portal is closed and we'll just talk a skinny little
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  bit about that, and then Brad has spreads on stats coming up on Houston.
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  Hoppy has his new segment that will become a permanent feature on Three Guys
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  before the Game, and we'll get into that. Let me just do the
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  portal real quick. Last night on sports Line, Coach Hunter went through the
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  portal names D fourteen was the number. Ish. I think West Virginia came
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  out in really good, if not great shape out of the portal in comparison
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  to what it could have been and in comparison to what it had been in
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  the past. Now we've had yeah, exactly, it'll reopen again. We've
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  had we've had spring ball departures, and I'm sure schools will get anxious because
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  when you go through spring ball and you think we're totally good at at our
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  Russian, we're all good here at wide receiver, we're all good here at
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  this position, and then they come out of spring go we're not good.
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  Go get somebody. That's when you once again begin the infiltration of Rosteridge.
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  But for right now, yeah, like we said last week on the show,
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  would you wish that Tomawa duraja A would have stayed? Sure? Absolutely,
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  you wouldish you would have stayed rather having than not a couple those other
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  guys. But other than that, you give me the guys that stayed.
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  You give me Garrett Green, you give me Jaheem White, you give me
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  CJ. Donaldson, you give me Traylan Ray, all those linemen, all
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  those linemen, you give me all those cats. I'm good. Yeah.
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  So the Mike Lockheart and durage i A were the two because I think durga
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  A probably had an underrated season for most fans. I don't know how many
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  people realized he had five sacks, second on the team. But those are
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  two guys that played twenty snaps a piece twenty one I think for Drorge twenty
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  for Lockhart. So all due respect to that group, but that rotation was
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  so deep that you could play those guys, and that was by design.
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  They wanted to play them less, get more out of them as they got
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  later. I think you can go find a couple guys. I think the
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  expectations should be there that you can go out and get a couple of guys
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  to replace those two. Dura Jaia maybe even more so than Lockhart, because
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  it was an end with those five sacks. You already have Ti French from
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  Gardner Web. Can he step up and maybe replace that production? But I'm
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  with you. I think they came out in really good shape comparative to what
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  that what could have been given how young and productive this particular group of mountaineers
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  was. And they'll have kids come in this weekend on visits. Portal guys
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  will come in this weekend. School starts Monday, and the new enrollees come
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  in this weekend as well, And off we go again, so it never
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  ever stops. Next time we'll see him publicly, we'll be in springball coming
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  up in March, So off we go. All right, let's jump into
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  to West Virginia and the Houston Cougars. A couple of notes. Ken Pomeroy
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  is the dude that we closely follow college basketball closely follows his metrics. Oftentimes,
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  if you take a look at Ken Pom's predictions, that's basically the beginning
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  of the line for the people that put odds together on games. So you
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  go to the Ken Palm. He lists all three hundred and sixty two schools
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  he projects based upon his computer algorithm, what will happen? He predicts that
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  West Virginia will win four league games, he says, doubv will go four
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  and fourteen. The Big Twelve is far and away the best conference according to
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  his numbers, and it's not even close with the other leagues. Every team
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  in the Big Twelve in Ken Palm is in the top one hundred except WVU
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  ninety eight and up, including West Virginia's first opponent is Houston, They're one
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  in Ken Palm. West Virginia will play four of its first five opponents in
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  the conference that are currently in the top twenty five in the national rankings.
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  So it's a it's a heavy heavy lift to start league play for WVU when
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  you know pretty much half of your first half of the season is going to
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  be against ranked teams. But that's just what this league is. So with
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  that being said, we now introduce you to a new segment here on three
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  guys before the game. It's called Hoppies Corner. So it's called it's called
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  Hoppies, it's called Hoppy Corner. It's called Hoppies Corner already. Now,
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  ladies and gentlemen, here's Hoppy Kurchable. I named it who h oo.
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  Hoppy's obvious observations So here's who uh I mean, talk about a way to
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  start conference play by going to your already just trying to get your identity squared
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  away, by going to Houston and playing the Houston Cougars undefeated. I was
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  looking at some of their stats. They have, brad, They've been at
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  the Sweet They've gotten to the Sweet sixteen or better each of the last four
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  years. They've lost fourteen games total, fourteen fourteen home games. They've lost
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  fourteen home games over the last seven seasons. Okay, they're win at home.
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  They got a fairly new facility there. They got it going. They
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  got a big crowd, it's a big deal. And to have a game
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  there. They averaged four losses a year. They're giving up forty nine points
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  a game. So I go on, I mean they have this is I
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  I don't know what weakness they have. They really think they have it going
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  there. They had the other day attending the game. Caleb Holt, who's
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  Caleb Holt, number two recruit in the country visiting there. They just got
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  it going. They got it going, and they're looking forward to anybody coming
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  in there. It doesn't matter who it is, like, come on in,
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  come on, come on, I was on in. I was doing
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  my notes last night on these dudes. They got a guy on their team,
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  I forget off the top of my head. He's at like his career
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  record at home, he's like fifty. It's either fifty three and two or
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  fifty two and three in his career. Now, obviously the level of competition
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  is going to go up for them, but they have it set. Kelvin
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  Samson is a very good coach, and he is well schooled in the new
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  environment of player acquisition, right, he has a new environment. He's actually
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  there's a West Virginia connection to Kelvin Samson. West Virginia does not go to
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  the Final four if it wasn't for Kelvin Samson. Because Kelvin Samson got in
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  trouble at Indiana Indiana which allowed Devin Ebanks to come to West Virginia. And
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  I think think you could probably make a strong case that if they don't have
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  Devin Ebanks, they don't go to the Final four. So shout out to
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  Kelvin Sampson, thank you for making what would they He did something heinous there,
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  like made too many phone calls, impermissible phone, permissible phone. But
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  here's but here's the phone call out in trouble. This is at impermissible times.
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  It was a dead period. Can't make a call to the young man,
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  but he has had nineteen sixty two. He can't make a phone call
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  to the young man. Don't call Hoppy. Don't call Hoppy. Would be
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  three shorts and two longs. What do you need? I need a six
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  eight long? It was about when it was and he got nailed for that.
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  He has had a fascinating arc because he was having great success. He
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  was at Oklahoma having success. Then he got the Indiana job. Then he
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  got caught calling recruits. But where he got in recruits calling recruits. Where
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  he really got in trouble was according to the UNCUAA that he was not truthful
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  about calling recruits. They bust your butty. They busted him. And so
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  then he got five years, five years away and was really kind. He
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  have a five year show call. He had a five year show cause.
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  Whole five year show case college basketball. The NCAA. I did not realize
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  he had a five year show cause, and he kind of disappeared with the
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  NBA. Was with two teams the NBA and was an assistant at Houston when
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  the Houston job opened up, and then wanted to stay in Houston. Took
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  the Houston job. And you know, in Houston also had an interesting arc.
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  You know, they had the great years under guy Guy v I Slam
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  a Jama guy. And before that the Elvin Hayes era who's now the color
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  co saw that that blew my mind, Brad Elvin Hayes so and they'd kind
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  of like fallen by the wayside, and then he has brought them back.
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  He's brought back the glory days of Houston basketball. So it's an interesting arc
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  for the coach and for Houston basketball. What very good this. I was
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  just making sure are you done? Was that your second? You got more?
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  I got a little bit more, But no, no, you got
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  to go with it. Happ year on a roll. Bryant. I'm old
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  enough to remember the Game of the Century in Astrondam Astronom nineteen sixty eight,
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  fifty seven thousand people there, UCLA with then Leu alse Cinder had won forty
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  seven games in a row. They go in, Houston beats them, Elvin
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  Hayes makes two free throws at the end, and Houston wins the Game of
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  the Century. But then Ucla got even in the NCAA tournament beat him in
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  the semifinals. But at the time, Brad, when nothing was on,
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  when the games weren't on television, that was like a pay per view or
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  something. It was a gigantic some contend, and you can look this up
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  on the internets. Some contend that game was the seminal moment for college basketball
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  to become ubiquitous on television. That was the one they said, this product
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  can be viewed, people want this. That one game it was and it
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  was a huge story at the time. And uh yeah, so Tony,
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  it's a good point. And then you know later with if I slamm a
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  Jama and Clyde Rexler and Elijah wh called young Michael Young a pretty good team.
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  I just Larry me Shaw and then Reid Getty's yeah, read Getty's a
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  good one. Coach Coach Lewis just passed away a few years ago. But
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  I guess he had a going there. He had a going. He coached
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  there for thirty years. Yeah, you know, fifty six to seventies.
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  No, that's fifty six to eighties. No, something like that. You
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  know. James Dickey, who was West Virginia's senior advisor formerly coached at Houston.
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  Yes, yeah, so did Tom Penders. I think Texas he was
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  at UT. I thought Pender's at UT. But a lot of people you
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  go back to the national championship at NC State one on the h on the
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  airwall, A lot of people I forgot this totally critical. Houston took the
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  air out of the ball after they got the lead and just became then they
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  didn't play what they are because if you remember that final four on Saturday when
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  they won the national semifinal, they beat Louisville to the point where like if
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  Denny Crumb had a towel, he would have thrown it on the floor,
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  just like stop it right here. Just ran them off the floor. That's
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  what they did. Well, that's what they did well, Tony. Tom
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  Penders coached there from two thousand and four to twenty ten. How about that
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  was his last job. I didn't realize. Sad job. He's right.
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  How about this one a chem olaj one. When he goes for his recruiting
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  visit, someone calls and says, we got this dude. He's looking around
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  for a place to play. Arrived at the Houston campus in a cab excuse
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  me. Showed up on campus for his visit in a cab. That's how
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  he got there. He did pretty good when he got there. James just
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  told me, I mean good pick up. Yeah, Clyde drex would coached
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  there a couple of years. Yeah, it didn't go all did well?
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  It didn't go yeah, nineteen and thirty nine. Yeah, see what happened
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  there was before COVID. Clyde thought you could be a coach using remote He
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  wanted to be a remote worker. He didn't show up. I'm glad he
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  didn't last long, though, Go ahead and keep your legacy. Attackt just
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  move on. Just scrub those two years from the jeez. Here's what I'm
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  hoping. I'm hoping Calvin Sampson doesn't have a revenge in mind. I hope
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  he doesn't have a revenge in from what game. Well you say, and
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  you said, well, wait a second, now, West Virginia has never
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  played Houston before. I submit to you. December the twenty second, two
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  thousand and five, Oklahoma City Forde Center. Yeah, he's the coach at
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  Oklahoma. This is obviously way before West Virginia was a big twelve thought and
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  the world champion Mountaineers go in seventeen thousand and five twenty two. John B.
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  Line's the Coach. He starts that night, JD. Cos Mike Gansey,
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  Franklin Young, Johanna's Hairbear, and Kevin Pittsnaggle and Darris Nichols Pat Beeline,
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  Rob Summers come off the bench. West Virginia runs its stuff like they
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  was like one of those nights that the symphony, that every performer in the
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  symphony was hitting every note, and Oklahoma did not know whether to wind its
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  watch or comb its hair. West Virginia beat him ninety two to sixty eight.
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  Wow, beat him. We're leading by seven at halftime, outscored him
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  by seventeen in the second half. And it was a fest. Who hitch
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  shots? Let me see who hitch shots? Let me see here. It's
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  like everybody four in double figures. Kevin Pittsnagle gets twenty five on eight of
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  eleven, three of five from three man. Johanna's hair Bear had a night.
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  He goes nine to thirteen from the field, had five assists a couple
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  of rebounds. Frank Young gets fourteen five of seven from the field. Ganzy
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  gets fifteen on six of seven. How efficient were those guys from the field
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  one of one from three and JD was just JD consistent and plugged along.
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  How'd Pat and Frank d there or Pat and Darris coming off the bench?
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  Pat give you three threes? So no, d Nice only had five points.
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  He must have been I don't know what it was up, but he
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  didn't start. He had five points on two of four from the field.
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  He yeah, no, he had one assist, no turnovers. Pat Beeline
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  had four assists, no turnovers, and had had six with one three pointer
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  and three file shots. West Virginia went thirty two of forty eight, which
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  is sixteen to twenty four, which is eight of twelve, which is four
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  of six, which is two of three, which is sixty six percent.
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  Shooting sixty six percent. You'll win some games doing that. Oklahoma went four
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  of eighteen from three. Yeah, it's if you're Oklahoma, you just like,
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  Okay, fine, move on. Yeah, So we ran them off.
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  So I just hope Calvin isn't still bumming over that. A lot of
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  games since then, Tony, Yeah, there has. We've had some great
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  games with Oklahoma, the the the game in Charleston, Blake Blake, Griffin,
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  Blake Griffin. How about the Buddy Hill Big twelve Tournament. We had
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  some games against those dudes. That's been good. But he'll just he'll jumped
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  on the table, Yeah, prematurely. And how about the Javon Carter Trey
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  Young? When Trey Young was a friend. He came in here and Johnson
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  almost an show you something, how many points you scoring? And I'm gonna
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• 24:02
  mean, can you get can you get fitty? It's can you get fitty?
• 24:07
  That's a legitimate question, legitimate question. Pen didn't they haven't given up.
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  They haven't given up more than sixty six points in the game. Well,
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  need. They got it down. It's fun to watch. It was.
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  It was. It was a fun fun team to watch. Well, it's
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  usual glasses or just gonna okay, go ahead, it's not. Got a
• 26:00
  lot of stuff here ready, a couple things you've already said. Number one
• 26:03
  in the Ken Palm rankings is Houston. So this is interesting, guys because
• 26:07
  with this the transition of the Big Twelve this year and into next year,
• 26:11
  we're going to talk a lot about these programs that come into here. And
• 26:14
  we saw in football, and this is no surprise to anybody. When it's
• 26:17
  football related you come in, there's an adjustment period, and I think we
• 26:21
  saw that with all of the teams this year in the Big Twelve. They're
• 26:22
  not going to be an adjustment period of Houston basketball, by you quite frankly
• 26:26
  is having a really good year as well. So these teams are going to
• 26:30
  come right in and be ready to go. In fact, this Houston team
• 26:33
  as we sit here now has the third shortest odds to win the national championship
• 26:38
  Purdue Arizona Houston so number one and Ken Palm third shortest odds to win the
• 26:45
  national championship. They own the nation's longest win streak at thirteen so this is
• 26:51
  a legitimate team. Here's what jumped to me. A couple of things that
• 26:53
  really stood out on the defensive side. So number one in defensive efficiency,
• 26:57
  okay, but they're also number one nationally in effective field goal percentage opponent,
• 27:04
  effective field goal percentage, opponent, turnover percentage opponent, two point field goal
• 27:10
  percentage, block shot percentage, steal percentage ouch. So it's not like there.
• 27:15
  They're one in a couple of things and two and three in every category,
• 27:19
  and that's how you get your number one rate. They're one across the
• 27:22
  board. How many things did they just list right there? So you mentioned
• 27:26
  it, guys. Scoring will be the challenge here. They've only allowed two
• 27:30
  teams to score more than sixty five points and no team has scored sixty seven
• 27:34
  or more. So there's your target number, and what are they they average
• 27:38
  like sixty sixty eight. Yeah, they don't blow it up offense. Now
• 27:41
  we'll get to their offense in a second. Their defense is what concerns you.
• 27:45
  The two teams that have scored sixty six against them the high are where
• 27:49
  Utah and Texas A and m Utah is twenty six and Ken Palm A and
• 27:55
  M twenty third. So the two teams that have scored the most are really
• 27:57
  good teams in their own right. I'm gonna get to and here in a
• 28:00
  second, because I think they've provided a blueprint on how to go at this
• 28:03
  Houston team. But you've got to be able to execute that, which is
• 28:07
  a whole nother deal. Here's what else is interesting. Defensively they've played They
• 28:11
  have not played a single possession of zone all year. They're going to line
• 28:15
  up, line up mandom man, line up mandom man, and they're gonna
• 28:18
  push and grab and get super physical with you. So you've got to be
• 28:22
  able to handle the physicality that's coming, especially at home. They are elite
• 28:29
  defenders really and everything, but specifically against the pick and roll. So wat's
• 28:33
  that on Saturday. That's one of the offensive sets that West Virginia likes is
• 28:37
  the pick and roll. Houston's been very good about that. A few teams
• 28:41
  have been able to score points with cutters, so guys cutting into the lane
• 28:45
  for the pass and finish. West Virginia has been very good at this.
• 28:48
  In fact, when it comes to points per possession, this is West Virginia's
• 28:53
  best play type, just nudges out transition. So West Virginia's best points per
• 28:57
  possession is with cutters to the basket. But it's only the fifth most used
• 29:03
  play type, so they haven't used it a ton, but it's been effective
• 29:07
  when they've gone to it. So can you get some of those in this
• 29:10
  game? That is one thing that has worked to a smaller extent against this
• 29:12
  Houston team. Look for some cutting to the basket? Is that because the
• 29:15
  man where you beat a guy in, Yeah, you should have some space.
• 29:18
  If you can get by the guy and find a passing lane, there
• 29:21
  should be something available. Very good analysis by you, Thank you, Hoppy.
• 29:23
  Let's look at their offense zone segment. I'm not surprised. Let's look
• 29:26
  at their offense for a second. Because we focus so much on the defense,
• 29:30
  and rightfully so we forget offensively. They're also pretty good eighteenth in offensive
• 29:34
  efficiency nationally, so they can score when they need to. Here's this is
• 29:38
  going to be a trend in the Big twelve. They're really good on the
• 29:41
  offensive glass, number four nationally. So West Virgini's going to have to,
• 29:45
  just like you did against Ohio State, get on the defensive glass, keep
• 29:48
  Houston off. You need to handle their pick and roll. They are very
• 29:52
  good at that part of the game as well, so Westerring's going to have
• 29:56
  to defend that well. The closest game they have play the Cougars have played
• 30:00
  all year was against A and M. And I'm gonna reference A and M
• 30:02
  a couple of times. Houston only got one point from the pick and roll,
• 30:06
  their lowest output of the season. So can you get defensive rebounds?
• 30:10
  Can you slow their pick and roll? There's a couple of things to watch
• 30:12
  for West Virginia defensively. Their overall pace is not fast. In fact,
• 30:18
  they're in the bottom forty teams nationally in terms of pace or possessions per game.
• 30:22
  But how about this very effective when they push, they're gonna find their
• 30:25
  spots to beat you down the floor, top ten nationally in points per possession.
• 30:30
  When they decide to run, so you're gonna have to get back on
• 30:33
  them as well when they get the rebound. I'm stacking up a lot of
• 30:37
  things here, right, I mean, there's a lot of things to be
• 30:40
  in this game. West Virginia offensively has been pushing it a little bit more
• 30:45
  since the guards became eligible, So that'll be something to watch in this If
• 30:48
  you know you're gonna get guarded tightly and really physically on the offensive end,
• 30:53
  can you try and get out and run a little bit more and get some
• 30:56
  easy baskets because you're gonna look for ways to find point The traditional half court
• 31:00
  offense is going to be tough to score. Can you get out and transition
• 31:03
  and beat them down the floor? Right? Makes some sense? You want
• 31:07
  the challenge when it comes to that? Happy would you like the challenge when
• 31:11
  it comes to running against this Houston defense? Do they have a weak spot?
• 31:17
  Have you come across a week spot yet? I have? But it's
• 31:18
  not this in a lead. They are a lead in transition defense top one
• 31:22
  percent when it comes to appointed opponents points per possession when you run. So
• 31:29
  you look at that and think, all right, let's try and beat them
• 31:32
  down the floor. And they say well, we know you're gonna do that.
• 31:33
  We're gonna get back and you're not gonna get down the floor. So
• 31:37
  there's a challenge too. It also makes some sense because they're so good on
• 31:41
  the offensive glass. You can't have guys leaking out to try and get in
• 31:45
  transition because you need everybody on the defensive board. So those numbers make some
• 31:48
  sense right there. They catch twenty to you. They do catch twenty to
• 31:51
  you. All right, let's look at some keys. Here's what you've got
• 31:53
  to do if you're going to stay in this game and try and win it
• 31:56
  late. Write these down, Hopy I mentioned one of them. Limit their
• 31:59
  offensive reb West Virginia did this in the second half against Ohio State, and
• 32:02
  you saw what happened. You stayed in that game and had a chance to
• 32:06
  win it late. That's what you're trying to do here. The guards for
• 32:08
  West Virginia are going to have to get on the glass. Josiah Harris is
• 32:12
  going to have to play well on the glass. You've got to limit their
• 32:15
  chances offensively. Hope they're missing shots from the outside, just like Ohio State.
• 32:19
  Miss shots from the outside get the offensive rebound, so they get the
• 32:22
  defensive rebound, so they can't score. You've got to win the points at
• 32:27
  the free throw line. Baskets are going to be hard to come by,
• 32:30
  but Houston puts teams on the foul line. West Virginia is fifth nationally in
• 32:35
  free throw attempt rate, meaning they get to the line a lot. Okay,
• 32:37
  so that's where you've got to win the category. Here. You're going
• 32:40
  to get some fouls called. Now they're going to probably commit three times as
• 32:45
  many as they're going to get called on them. But when they call,
• 32:47
  and if you can get into a bonus, you've got to get to the
• 32:50
  line and be a big plus number, not just in attempts, but makes
• 32:53
  get to the line, make your free throws, and then number three,
• 32:58
  get on the offensive glass yourself hoppy. This is one of the few things
• 33:02
  that Houston is not elite at defensive rebounding. Okay, they're still pretty good,
• 33:07
  but they're not in the top one percent category. A and M.
• 33:10
  Here's that A and M Blueprint again played them to a four point game and
• 33:15
  then Aggie's got double figure points on putbacks. So the challenge with that though,
• 33:20
  Okay, so that's good. You can get to the challenges A and
• 33:22
  M's like a top five offensive rebounding team too, so they're very good at
• 33:25
  that. But that's one way to beat them. Get on the offensive glass
• 33:29
  and steal points at the free throw line. There are I mean, Brad,
• 33:34
  you have in your scouting. You have found ways to attack them,
• 33:38
  But then there's execution. Is West Virginia capable at this point of taking advantage
• 33:46
  of those avenues? It's a great question, and it's taking advantage of over
• 33:51
  forty minutes, right, You've got to do it the whole time. This
• 33:53
  this is listen. This is an uphill challenge, there's no question. But
• 33:57
  if you can follow that A and M blueprint, get them on the offensive
• 34:00
  glass, get some putbacks, keep them off the boards and hoping they're missing
• 34:05
  shots. You know they're good offensively. LJ. Cryer. We can talk
• 34:07
  about some of their individuals. They've got guys that can fill it from the
• 34:10
  outside. But so did Ohio State, Tony, Right, so did Ohio
• 34:14
  State? Are you going to zone them up a little bit? Will that
• 34:15
  zone be as effective when you go to it and can force some misshots and
• 34:20
  get some rebounds and keep this thing close. The advantage you have with them
• 34:22
  and again, you cannot minimize how difficult it's probably going to be to score
• 34:28
  on them. But they, as you just mentioned, Tony, they don't
• 34:30
  necessarily score in the nineties themselves, so they're keeping possessions down. So can
• 34:35
  you stay in it? If they're missing shots, that's what you want to
• 34:37
  do. Hop hang around, get some offensive rebounds, hit free throws.
• 34:42
  It's close late, maybe they get a little tight. You try and squeak
• 34:44
  one out. Here's I think that's a great formula. Here's a problem.
• 34:47
  And we know this from the days of Press Virginia. A good defense fouls
• 34:52
  you up in multiple ways. Right, it's hard and where's you down?
• 34:54
  Yeah, where's you down? Gets you out of sync? Just you know,
• 35:00
  said Brad. They call one of every three fouls you get. You're
• 35:01
  getting pushed, you're getting shoved, you getting physical. It just it it,
• 35:06
  It hits. It diminishes your ability to do all the other things you
• 35:09
  just talked about. Yeah, it does. And and mentally, guys,
• 35:13
  it takes a toll when you know you're going in playing to a team that's
• 35:15
  going to be physically grabbing and clutching and banging on you. And this was
• 35:19
  West Virginia's advantage for all those years, you mentally have to prepare for it
• 35:23
  differently. Therefore, by the middle of the first half, you're like,
• 35:27
  just give me some breathing room here, get off of me, right,
• 35:30
  You're just they're just always get off of me. Yep. So everything is
• 35:34
  a struggle. So this is gonna be a challenge. I'm interested to see
• 35:37
  how how West Virginia comes out in this one. Yeah, I think bells
• 35:42
  are going. You got a phone call interrupting, you interrupt form of oh
• 35:49
  yeah, I gotta leave, see you guys, Okay, see, Oh
• 35:52
  there's the there's good insights, good insights. The mental aspect of this is
• 35:58
  exactly what you're saying. The type of guys you need to go in and
• 36:02
  compete on the road against a team like this are the Tarik Phillip Javon,
• 36:10
  Carterduce McBride, those mindset guys, Nate Adrian exactly, Cam Thurman like,
• 36:20
  you have to have unflappable guys who will just continue to butt their head against
• 36:24
  your head for forty minutes. Yeah, I mean, the point is it's
• 36:30
  a mentality. This is a mentality thing power forward. So if you if
• 36:35
  you're squawky and you start complaining early on in this game, you go into
• 36:39
  the rep, He's like, forget it, You're done. You're dead meat.
• 36:43
  You are dead meat. You have to be have to go old school
• 36:47
  mark making, remember mark making from Temple totally emotionally, just all you do
• 36:52
  is just like you roll but in on those guys. If you're if you're
• 36:54
  whiny and complaining, it's going to be a long day for you. To
• 36:59
  crowds going to crowd's gonna a factor. They're gonna be on you. I
• 37:01
  talked to a coach today this morning on the way in, and not non
• 37:04
  West Virginia coach, but who's who's watched them a lot, and he just
• 37:07
  said this was his one line. He didn't need all those analytics. He
• 37:10
  just said, they've got grown bleep men. Yeah, they're going to get
• 37:15
  physical and try and push you. Yeah, how do you respond? You
• 37:17
  know? I read a story about Kelvin Samson when he was coaching the NBA,
• 37:21
  because he is a defensive minded guy. Obviously he's coaching in the NBA,
• 37:24
  and it was during a practice session. He was an assistant, of
• 37:27
  course, and the guy didn't fight through the through the screen and He said,
• 37:31
  you gotta fight through the screen, and you gotta fight through the screen.
• 37:35
  What are you doing? And the NBA player said, I am paid
• 37:38
  to rebound in block shots. I ain't fighting through no screen. But it
• 37:43
  was illustrative of what the NBA is and also the kind of coach he is,
• 37:46
  right, fight through the screen. He's old school, he's old school,
• 37:51
  tough guy. Yeah, and that's what this is. And a lot
• 37:53
  of the you know, a lot in this league is like that, right,
• 37:57
  Iowa State, They're going to be going to be physical. There's a
• 38:00
  ton of physical teams. Kansas is Kansas is deceivingly physical. Well, I'll
• 38:06
  give you. I'll give you a number here defensively. You ready for this?
• 38:08
  You mentioned all those the top one hundred teams in the Big twelve YEP,
• 38:13
  one, two, three, four, five. You've got five in
• 38:16
  the top fifteen adjusted defensive efficiency and most of our physical Which five are they?
• 38:22
  Oklahoma at fifteen, BYU at eight, Kansas at four. I always
• 38:30
  stayed at three in Houston at one. Those are all teams that are physical
• 38:34
  with you. Defensively. Not a nice scenario when you're going into league played
• 38:37
  last in the conference in scoring, right, but you go out, you
• 38:44
  battle, and you take it game by games. It's also a little different
• 38:47
  configuration for West Virginia that last in scoring was without your scores for a lot
• 38:52
  of that. So your whole course, your hope is that number starts to
• 38:57
  change and you can get into some games where like here's an example, Kerr
• 39:00
  is going to have to find some openings and hit some threes because I would
• 39:05
  think they run a couple guys at battle and if they've got to foul three
• 39:08
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• 39:10
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  mother Ship. Hey, this is why I want to ask you to do
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  this when you do go there. Yeah, if someone does come up to
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  you in there and say, hey, man, you're here, you're actually
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  you get your get your picture made with get your picture made well, and
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  I'd like you to for somebody who recognized me. I'll probably have to hang
• 41:20
  around for a couple of hours. Hey there, you know who I am.
• 41:24
  No, they'll come up tore and say, Tony, I listen to
• 41:29
  you all the time. Yeah. Look, I haven't had many hey hoppies
• 41:34
  lately. I think after forty years, it finally is starting to they think
• 41:37
  they can separate. I don't know, I don't know. Maybe now the
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  fact that you two appear together more frequently, maybe that's less than that.
• 41:45
  Yeah, because it used to be you would not see you, wouldn't see
• 41:49
  you in the same spot. I think people thought maybe it was the same
• 41:51
  person doing all that. I've told that story about that one guy that used
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  to come up where college were football games at Mountain your fieldies drive up from
• 41:59
  North Carolina will listen your show on Fridays and you'd always come up to me
• 42:01
  in the press box. I heard you yesterday. You're exactly right those lawmakers,
• 42:06
  and I'm gonna sten, do you what do you do? Do?
• 42:08
  You say no it and say thank you? Think hey, that's crazy time,
• 42:12
  isn't it? And then you say do you do you pull that one?
• 42:14
  Or you go like, I'm really do you embarrass them? No?
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  No, nope, No you should come back and I tell you what that
• 42:20
  house built to eighteen. You're gonna watch it, hey real quick. Before
• 42:22
  we move on to texts, can we talk women's basketball for a second.
• 42:27
  Oh? Sure you were there last night? Oh yeah, got a live
• 42:29
  in person scout last night for the entire game. They're good. Yeah,
• 42:34
  they're good. They're even better when you watch them extended period of time.
• 42:37
  Like they their defense is impressive. They get after sixteen steals last night,
• 42:43
  sixteen steals. Poor Cincinnat couldn't get the ball to coourse. We turn over.
• 42:45
  Cincinnati finished with twenty four, but they had like sixteen in the first
• 42:49
  half. Yeah, and so that's this is an amazing stat It's the twelfth
• 42:52
  time in thirteen games, West Virginia has forced twenty one turnovers or more.
• 42:57
  That is unbelievable. Twelve of thirteen times that's on and they just put they're
• 43:00
  they're like the old Press Virginia on the men's side. They just get after
• 43:04
  you and hands are constantly poking in there. And then no surprise here.
• 43:08
  They have some individuals that are really really good and not only just good basketball
• 43:13
  players, but also know their role. They passed the ball well, they
• 43:15
  shoot the ball well, they penetrate and kick. They they're a fun team.
• 43:20
  Now. I know their schedule gets a lot more difficult coming up,
• 43:22
  but they're they're gonna be fun to watch strap in. They play Saturday Saturday
• 43:24
  against number ten Texas. One of the stats we talked about the other night
• 43:30
  or on Tuesday, Jordan Harrison and JJ Quinnerley averaging nine and a half assist
• 43:34
  per game combined. Last night those two had eight assists, no turnovers combined.
• 43:39
  For your two biggest ball handlers, Kyle Watson all over the place,
• 43:44
  just poking and bad had I had the ball coach on my coffee clatch today,
• 43:46
  excuse me it had him on there, had him on there, and
• 43:52
  the first thing I said was you really screwed up because you you were going
• 43:54
  to get a pass this year. Now the expert bar, you know you've
• 44:00
  said the bar very high, but final four you must go. He thinks
• 44:04
  see things. They're pretty good. And it was an interesting comment. You
• 44:07
  know, Brad, you were at the game and after the game, the
• 44:08
  coach of Cincinnata said Katrina Meriwethers said, West Virginia has very quick hands and
• 44:15
  they're smart about touching you one time, but not to to pick up the
• 44:20
  foul. Yeah, you know, just so they're very good defensively and they
• 44:24
  kept that nucleus and like you guys have talked about, I mean, they
• 44:29
  have good chemistry, good character and they're they're rolling here, but they take
• 44:34
  each other. What's a crowd there Saturday? Yeah, you know, one
• 44:37
  last point on them. You know how in football now some of the one
• 44:42
  of the responses to the no huddle check with me. I want to see
• 44:45
  what defensive alignment you're in hops. We'll see this all the time. The
• 44:50
  you see it more in the pros is starting to come down to college.
• 44:52
  Like the defense isn't getting set with four down linemen, three linebackers, and
• 44:55
  your corners are on the side with two safeties deep they're they're kind of mixing
• 44:59
  all over and there's guys walking and coming back out Tony. They went to
• 45:02
  the Western and went into this this two two to one press last night for
• 45:05
  a while. And you know, if you if I'm drawing that, if
• 45:07
  I'm pulling a Steve Dunlap here and drawing it out on the x's and o's,
• 45:10
  I put my two up front it's kind of the free throw line of
• 45:13
  the appar and then the other two back kind of near half court, and
• 45:15
  then one back in the back of the lane to protect West Virginia was like,
• 45:20
  I'm looking at that for a while, what what the heck kind of
• 45:22
  press are they in here? Because they had four defenders that were up kind
• 45:25
  of walking. Kyle Watson's like lurking around other places. Cincinnati's trying to bring
• 45:30
  four people up to inbound the bat like playing robber covery. It wasn't a
• 45:32
  man press, and they dropped into the two to two one, but it
• 45:36
  did not look two two to one when it was set up. It was
• 45:37
  really it was interesting and fun to watch them. Yeah, they're fun.
• 45:42
  They were good. I liked it, a good, good experience. You
• 45:44
  ready to do this thing? Yeah? What do you say you do this
• 45:46
  thing? Uh? Stop, that's a short version. I want me the
• 45:52
  long version do it? Oh yeah, who needs the short version? You
• 46:01
  got to listen to all this, mister fun for guys before the game.
• 46:07
  Textual healing is brought to us by episode eight hundred dot Com, where one
• 46:14
  of the three guys is ready to accept apologies for being attacked earlier this week,
• 46:21
  but now you're not getting it. So go ahead and make your announcement.
• 46:23
  But you're not getting an apology because you didn't have any do with this.
• 46:25
  What announcement? Well, I was attacked on the last episode when I
• 46:30
  said we should have Valentine's popcorn and I said, well, we'll have Valentine's
• 46:35
  popcorn, and he ripped me for saying, why do you say that you
• 46:37
  don't know if we're gonna have Valentine's popcorn. Then last episode, I showed
• 46:40
  you the master popcorn chefs over there at Mountaineer Popcorn and Shepherdstown were making some
• 46:46
  stuff up. And I've got I mean, I've got some great announcements right
• 46:52
  here. Are you ready for this? The name is still to be decided
• 46:55
  right now. In contention for the name will be Valentine's Velvet Delight, coming
• 47:00
  off of our great success with Mountaineer Munch. But Valentine's Velvet Delight, can
• 47:06
  we cut the picture? Chefs now preparing it. Let me tell you,
• 47:10
  let me tell you what you're looking at there. This is gonna be We're
• 47:15
  gonna go with strawberry and cream, cream strawberry and cream, strawberry hardshell with
• 47:21
  many mini marshmallows and a white chocolate drizzle. Now the chocolate drizzle isn't on
• 47:24
  it yet because they're still in developmental Snake the very early pictures in the Suss
• 47:29
  Jack Jack of you, there's the other. So that's what it's going to
• 47:30
  kind of look like. And the uh, chocolate and strawberries as you know,
• 47:37
  go together like right, it just just exactly right. So that's coming
• 47:43
  up and only get let me say, this is gonna launch for sale on
• 47:45
  Monday. But there's but wait, there's a limited time order. You can
• 47:49
  pre order from January eight to January twenty seven to ensured delivery. They're gonna
• 47:54
  make the corn on the twenty ninth and the thirtieth of January. It will
• 48:00
  be immediately be ship because we want to ensure the freshness, and all orders
• 48:05
  will ship February five and arrive no later than February nine. The detail in
• 48:09
  the logistics that I go through to make these things happen is certainly unprecedented.
• 48:16
  So you'll have it the weekend before Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day this year,
• 48:20
  as everyone knows, is on Wednesday, and you can buy that at episode
• 48:23
  eight hundred dot com starting on Monday. Here's well, let me just let
• 48:28
  me just say, okay, go ahead, let me just say this.
• 48:30
  Did you hear all the different things that just happened there? Yes, color,
• 48:34
  name, flavor profile, making it. I'm tired order episode eight hunter.
• 48:39
  All my man did was say, we just have a popcorn for Valentine.
• 48:42
  See, that's it. That's it. This is on Brad's behalf because
• 48:46
  Tony, it is great that the popcorn is going to be available. But
• 48:51
  the objection by Brad was you saying, you know what, you know what
• 48:55
  we ought to do. Why don't I ever get credit? I said,
• 49:00
  no, no, no, don't start. Don't be a mard. Don't
• 49:02
  you get credit for being a wonderful idea guy. I've always said that you
• 49:07
  are with ideas. Your execution is about a third percentile. I'm gonna go
• 49:12
  to my charte, Hoppy, there'd be red. If there was idea and
• 49:15
  execution, it would be all green on ideas, he'd be elite percentile right,
• 49:20
  and ideas execution would be all red. Now, like any good team,
• 49:24
  we have worked around limitations and have found great executors and it works in
• 49:30
  him. I think our Valun's credit, I think Our Valentine's Velvet Delight will
• 49:36
  be splendid. True brand white chocolate will be good. And by the way,
• 49:40
  yeah, and by the way, Mountaineer Munch because of the unbelievable success
• 49:45
  that it had, they're going to continue making that over there. The chocolate
• 49:47
  and peanut butter chocolate will continue Christmas, It'll continue, so you go on,
• 49:51
  yeah, that will still be available anyway. So thanks, very good.
• 49:52
  All right, let's go Happy New Year, Brad, Hoppy and Tony.
• 49:58
  I wanted to send you guys this picture taken on Saturday, December the
• 50:01
  thirtieth during our annual Oldashuk the Late John Family Christmas gathering. They had twenty
• 50:07
  five family members. Now I want you to take a look here. These
• 50:12
  are your Weirton p one listeners and joining a kerchievel while helping me prepare dinner.
• 50:15
  I'll listen to this, Tony, you can relate to this. Everyone
• 50:17
  had a hand in dinner preparation in the basement kitchen, always with an a,
• 50:22
  always with an apron, and always with a beverage. By the way,
• 50:27
  Bobby from Defiance, Ohia received the Golden Paar Award from Harry and Davids
• 50:31
  for being the newest family listener to three guys. So if you look,
• 50:35
  he's got the golden got the Golden Pear. Pictured left to right, Brian
• 50:38
  from Chandler Arizona, Donna O from Wharton, Bobby oh from Defiance, Matt
• 50:44
  from Pittsburgh, and Adam from Wharton. Love the show gives us five family
• 50:47
  members plenty of conversations via text every week ps efforting to get more family members
• 50:53
  listening. Donna Owen Whirton, thanks a, that's a great one. Wonderful
• 50:57
  They got kersavel basement kitchen kerchievel. Hold on, Donna, put the can
• 51:02
  in there because it's going to Smithsonian anymore. Okay, here we go Rob
• 51:07
  from New Jersey for last episode's conversation about rivals. So, who are West
• 51:13
  Virginia's rival? I go with Maryland or Marshall as number three rival behind Pitt
• 51:16
  and Tech. Virginiae. TCU is the closest Big Twelve rival a lot of
• 51:22
  close football games. Game Day has been there for at least one I hope
• 51:24
  Cincinnati becomes a great rival again. When I was in school during Pat White's
• 51:29
  air, they were always a tough opponent. Robin Jersey, I think it's
• 51:31
  probably Maryland, Texter. I listened to you guys while headed south on I
• 51:37
  seventy nine on two January, stopped at the Flatwoods Gomart Nari Aresi's boot to
• 51:44
  be found. No boots, no boots. I did pick up a pack
• 51:49
  of eggs, which are out already. Unpopular opinion, though I prefer the
• 51:53
  peanut butter to chocolate ratio of the standard cup. Oh and to Hoppy's point,
• 51:59
  I was a friend freshman for the Lowe's and Mos Show. Lots of
• 52:02
  joy and fond memories. Enjoy the talent on the floor. This year is
• 52:06
  still going to be a fun ride. Wayne in Clarksburg, Yeah, Texter.
• 52:12
  During your podcast Happy New Year to January, did I hear Tony say
• 52:15
  there would be a specific time to order the red popcorn in order to have
• 52:20
  it delivered by Valentine's Day. It reminds me that as a kid, I
• 52:23
  refer to a popular TV show in the nineteen fifties that featured a mass lawman
• 52:28
  as the long Ranger. I will admit that my hearing is not what it
• 52:30
  used to be, and if I'm mistaken, I apologize. Keema Sabi,
• 52:35
  Yeah, yeah, I did say Valentine's It was an attempt to be funny.
• 52:40
  Sorry. Hey, guys, listening there though very good? Yeah,
• 52:45
  your ears are good. Texter, Hey, guys, the conversations around Tony's
• 52:49
  brilliant idea that someone else gets to execute on always makes me think of a
• 52:53
  core value from my work. Innovation is rewarded. Execution is worshiped. Here's
• 53:00
  a photo we need this. Here's a photo from the company culture guide For
• 53:04
  a deeper explanation. By the way, you can ask Mike Gansey about this,
• 53:07
  as this comes from the Cavalier's owner, signed Dave in Michigan. Yeah,
• 53:12
  innovation is rewarded, execution is worshiped. Good one, keep that in
• 53:15
  mind, good one. No, I totally with him on that, Texter,
• 53:20
  Mountaineer. Popcorn is indeed wonderful to be grown and harvested and popped in
• 53:25
  West Virginia. Did you know there's another popcorn farmer jumping Johnny Spangler's popcorn,
• 53:31
  grown, harvested, popped by the farmer himself, Lynde Side, West Virginia,
• 53:37
  Monroe County. Let's do a pop off. Thank you, Mary from
• 53:39
  Greenberg County. Here it is jumping Johnny's corn. I never knew that West
• 53:44
  Virginia was the popcorn capital world. That hell is hell with Orville Reddenbacher.
• 53:49
  Here we are Paul from Tampa, Happy belated New Year. After taking in
• 53:57
  the Rose Bowl last night. I couldn't help but think if Alabama had Zach
• 54:00
  Frasier, they'd be playing for a Natty. So glad he's a mountaineer to
• 54:04
  the end. We don't realize how blessed we are to have him. Watched
• 54:07
  him drag offenses down the field his whole career. Just ask Alabama fans already
• 54:12
  waiting for the twenty four opener, go ears Tony. Has anyone added up
• 54:17
  the number of players in the portal across America and how many were left out
• 54:22
  or had to drop down the level just to play. Just curious, there's
• 54:27
  the number that's out there it's an extraordinary number of people that don't get picked
• 54:30
  up. Really yes, oh absolutely huge number, huge number don't get picked
• 54:36
  up. Texter, I made these feel free to share. Signed by William
• 54:40
  from Fayettble, West Virginia. First time texting. Look at those hot got
• 54:45
  the Mothman next to the Mayo j Yeah, oh you can little Leahi.
• 54:51
  No, it is the next one, jumping Jack. There's another one there,
• 54:54
  Mothman and Mountaineers football. I mean, what more do you want?
• 54:58
  Yeah, Hoppy, you can do that with the AI. Oh that's the
• 55:00
  AI. Sure it probably started that way. Then you might have tweaked him
• 55:02
  with the Duke stuff on there. Well, i'll tell you what. Duke's
• 55:07
  getting some good blow out here, Texter. Jason from Palm City, Florida.
• 55:14
  Did you happen to see The Worldwide Leader published its top one hundred players
• 55:17
  of the twenty three season today? No Garrett Green and no Zach Fraser,
• 55:21
  No Beanie Bishop signed joke? How the hell do you not have Zach Fraser
• 55:27
  in the top one hundred? Right or consensus all Americ guy that was third
• 55:32
  best grade Amen quarterbacks Texter? Whatever? Yeah, you guys mentioned on your
• 55:37
  recent three guys, the Dukes, we'll do our own rankings. Go ahead.
• 55:44
  You recently mentioned the Duke's Mayo did a great job with the Bowl game
• 55:47
  and advertising. Their product attaches a series of sauces they offer, as well
• 55:52
  as time by Steven Roley, North Carolina. Did you know they did all
• 55:54
  those sauces, because they did some of those on the Yeah, the TV
• 55:57
  broadcasts there. I'm interested that I don't see the Holly Paano one there order
• 56:00
  that I haven't yet. It's on the effort. They don't have it at
• 56:05
  the Kroger efforting it's Kroger's. I think, what's that you said, Kroger?
• 56:09
  I think it's Kroger's, isn't it the Kroger's? Yeah, efforting Steven
• 56:14
  Morgantown. Hey, three, guys, I just want to say thank you
• 56:16
  for always being something consistent when it comes to Mountain your sports. We may
• 56:22
  have plenty of ups and downs as fans, but we can always count on
• 56:23
  you three to give us a consistent five minutes of West Virginia's sports talk before
• 56:28
  the show goes off the rails, and I love it. Keep it up,
• 56:31
  guys. Also, by the way, Tony, have you watched the
• 56:34
  show on Netflix called The Feast of the Seven Fishes. It was filmed in
• 56:37
  Fairmont and it was a pretty good low budget movie. Stay classy fellows,
• 56:42
  Stephen Morgantown. So absolutely have seen it, and I know it was low
• 56:47
  budget, but it was high quality. I think it's fantastic. Yeah,
• 56:52
  I've heard about Bob Toll. Yeah, Bob to know. They did a
• 56:53
  wonderful job. And I called Bob and I told him. I said,
• 56:57
  dude, that was that was awesome. If you haven't watched that, you
• 56:59
  really should. It's classic, really well done. Texter. This is big
• 57:04
  Z in Morgantown checking in. Let's talk about the good old days at Johnson
• 57:09
  Elementary School in Bridgeport nineteen ninety and five, where we mastered our multiplication tables.
• 57:15
  We embraced Native American culture. My name was great White Husky saying the
• 57:21
  fifty United States in alphabetical order, recited the forty two US presidents in order,
• 57:25
  rocked the snail Olympics, and dove into Ronald Dahl's The Witches rolled,
• 57:30
  Not Ronald, it was it Ronald No rolled, Yeah, rolled Rawlsdall you
• 57:35
  read that. We got a lot of those in the House children's book yeah,
• 57:37
  very good. Seriously, though, what's up with the state of American
• 57:40
  education these days? On a side note, any predictions on the percent chance
• 57:45
  that Dana lends a Power five offensive coordinator rolled into twenty four season, I
• 57:50
  don't know why you'd want one. Why would he do that? See ya,
• 57:53
  I don't see Dana doing that. Here's well, the University of Iowa
• 57:59
  has an opening. He's from Iowa. They have a bad offense. I
• 58:01
  think he and Kirk for Rentz would be a great marriage. You don't think
• 58:05
  that'd be similar philosophy, two peas in a pod. Well something, because
• 58:12
  Iowa the last two games of the season, Brad refused to score the football.
• 58:16
  Now, in defense of the Hawkeyes a little bit, they were they
• 58:20
  were. I know they didn't score when they were fully healthy very much,
• 58:24
  but they were. They were without their starting quarterbacks, starting receiver, running
• 58:28
  back. They were down. Like their top five offensive guys didn't score,
• 58:32
  didn't have guys won ten games, didn't score. That's pretty well that I
• 58:39
  would think. If your Dana, you just sit out for a year because
• 58:43
  you got I mean, you got money coming in from a cup of every
• 58:45
  direction, and then somebody will call him I mean he can. Look,
• 58:49
  that's not the issue. That's not the issue. That's not the issue.
• 58:52
  He's been a head coach a long time now, right, true that he
• 58:57
  was eight here and he was I've there for there. How old is he?
• 59:01
  Well that's not no, no, no, no, early fifteen.
• 59:05
  He's been a head coach. Do you want to do the offensive coordinator thing?
• 59:08
  Now? I don't. I don't be I brad, you following my
• 59:14
  vibe. Yeah, it's it's tough to go back and taking direction from someone
• 59:16
  when you've been the one giving direction for that long and you've got that much
• 59:21
  money sitting in the bank. So those are a couple of things it would
• 59:23
  have to be. I would think. I haven't talked to Dane about this.
• 59:27
  I would think it would have to be a pretty particular situation where he
• 59:31
  could get to do the things he wants to do without doing the laundry list
• 59:37
  of things he doesn't want to do. Would he be a good candidate to
• 59:39
  be a head coach or OC in the UFL, Well, he'd be great
• 59:45
  there, right, I mean he'd be great there. Doesn't have to deal
• 59:49
  with recruiting, doesn't have to deal with all the bs that you have to
• 59:52
  deal with nowadays, and he can I him up run some crazy plays.
• 59:55
  That might be it. Yeah, that's a good suggestion, Tony, that
• 59:59
  might be it for him. That's only if well, I mean, if
• 1:00:00
  he wants to. I still think he does. But I also think this,
• 1:00:04
  like the Bob Stoops thing, Well, I think I think the passing
• 1:00:07
  of Mike Leech really impacted him. I do, and I think he's very
• 1:00:12
  conscious of that as well. I think, you know, if he just
• 1:00:14
  wants to chill, but you're going to do you have to do something.
• 1:00:17
  You have to do something. Yeah, I mean he's a he's an elite
• 1:00:21
  level play caller, yeah, no question, and maybe the UFL or something
• 1:00:23
  like that. But I think he's worn down by the bs of what this
• 1:00:27
  has become. I really do. It's hard. I mean, this is
• 1:00:30
  a dot the I cross the T business. He's not a dot the I
• 1:00:34
  get attacked here for not being a dot the I crossed the T guy.
• 1:00:37
  The same thing. I have ideas. He has plays, but you know,
• 1:00:43
  like going down there your cell phone? Are you are you an elite
• 1:00:45
  level idea? Yeah? Yeah, you know. Yeah, he I mean
• 1:00:52
  he might be has a lot of ideas now he misses on a bunch too,
• 1:00:55
  but that happens well. But he comes generating a bunch of ideas.
• 1:00:59
  He comes in and under the philosophy, there's no such thing as a bad
• 1:01:00
  idea. Let's see it. I'll grant that. But I'll tell you what
• 1:01:06
  if you don't have Dave, oh we got nothing. There's no beer.
• 1:01:10
  There's no beer. If we don't have Dave, there's no beer, there's
• 1:01:15
  no gear. And all we are is in tears. That's what you know.
• 1:01:21
  You look, Tony, your point about what it is now? And
• 1:01:24
  I think Neil Brown, who we know better than these other coaches, are
• 1:01:28
  a great examples that he ends up the season and in the season he is
• 1:01:31
  spent. He is done. I mean he's cooked from everything that he Brad
• 1:01:37
  had to do. And then the day after they win the bowl game,
• 1:01:40
  they get home in two or three in the morning, and he was on
• 1:01:44
  a coffee certain coffee clatch the following morning, and he was guess what he
• 1:01:46
  was doing. It's working, Yeah, sure word, And I guarantee you.
• 1:01:52
  I shouldn't guarantee that Nick Saban was coaching in the office at seven o'clock
• 1:01:57
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• 1:02:51
  gentlemen. This is Fitty from upstate New York, originally from Fairmont with
• 1:02:57
  the cat out of the bag on Home Remedies. We were talking about home
• 1:03:00
  remedies list show. My mom used to rub vis vapor rub on our feet
• 1:03:05
  and cover them with socks to help stop our coughing at night. I've heard
• 1:03:08
  of it and it does work. Really yeah, it as far as yeah,
• 1:03:14
  as far as always a West Virginia connection. Over the Christmas holiday,
• 1:03:17
  I surprised the family with a trip to Quebec City. Let me tell you,
• 1:03:22
  gentlemen, it is absolutely an amazing city for the Christmas holiday. The
• 1:03:28
  first night there, we decided to eat at a swanky bistro that was renovated
• 1:03:31
  in a building from sixteen eighty. The only table five flights up by a
• 1:03:37
  group. Oh jeez, yeah, up by a group there for their work
• 1:03:42
  Christmas party. So they go up five floors. There's a group Christmas party.
• 1:03:45
  Guys that they don't know are there. The hostess said she'd hoped they
• 1:03:47
  wouldn't be too loud for us. We said, hey, no worry,
• 1:03:51
  We walk up the stairs. My daughter commented on how very hip this place
• 1:03:54
  was. Needless to say, the work party is about fifteen people, most
• 1:03:59
  of them were in a joyful condition after being there for over two hours.
• 1:04:03
  My son had worn his tavon Austin jersey. When he took off his coat
• 1:04:09
  to sit down, we heard a bellow from over the half wall that separated
• 1:04:15
  our table from that party, I noticed a fairly young, robust man with
• 1:04:18
  a flashing light Christmas sweater standing up. He had just finished a shot and
• 1:04:24
  slammed the glass down on the table and pointed at us with a smile.
• 1:04:28
  As he grabbed another shot and raised it to us, he shouted alais la
• 1:04:32
  la la la la. I think that's how you pronounce it. Healez la
• 1:04:36
  la la la la, and the rest of the party raised their drinks and
• 1:04:41
  looked over to us. My wife was not sure what was going on,
• 1:04:45
  but my daughter leaned in toward me with her one semester of French and said,
• 1:04:48
  I think he said go to the mountain. Well, that was close
• 1:04:54
  enough of a translation for me to know. The waitress later told us that
• 1:04:58
  he loved American football and he he used to watch WVU games on YouTube and
• 1:05:02
  love some Pat White. Yeah. Lastly, this is for Brad and new
• 1:05:08
  recy shape. They're making the peanuts now, Brad, Oh yeah, very
• 1:05:12
  good. If they don't look like peanuts when you open up, they're gonna
• 1:05:15
  get sued there then top so on. I eat those very good like those.
• 1:05:17
  Let me share a text that I got yesterday from a past Three Guys
• 1:05:25
  guest Charles Wesley Godwin. He texted me, he said, Tony, here's
• 1:05:32
  a West Virginia connection for you. I'm up in Saskatchewan, Canada right now
• 1:05:38
  to go ice fishing with rock lesnar Wwe. Huge WW guy, he says.
• 1:05:45
  Another guy that's coming on this trip is Larry Heck, an athletic trainer
• 1:05:50
  for the WWE. I'm hanging around town waiting to pick him up at the
• 1:05:55
  airport when he gets in, then we'll head to the Lake of Prairies.
• 1:06:00
  I don't know him. I haven't met him yet. Larry grew up in
• 1:06:04
  New Martinsville, West Virginia. Of course, of course he did. We
• 1:06:10
  put two and two together yesterday, So Charles Wesley Godwin ice fishing with a
• 1:06:15
  dude from Wetzel County and brock lesnar Perfect. I told Charles, I said,
• 1:06:24
  send me some pictures due because this ice fishing thing's pretty wild. Probably
• 1:06:27
  his mom probably lived across from Bill Stewart's. It'll be one of those.
• 1:06:30
  I was gonna ask him if he knew Johnny Mensor the Budweiser trailer over there.
• 1:06:34
  Sure right? Did you see? Uh? I just saw this gene
• 1:06:38
  CHIZI gun oh yeah, told he can take his skills. Hearting on the
• 1:06:44
  waist this next to Texter was upset with me. Maryland, defensive coordinator for
• 1:06:48
  this next Texter was upset with me, what did you do the last show?
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  Is it a CPA? No? He says this, No, he
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  says this. There ain't no G in Marlington. It's correct. Matt from
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  Dunmore, Avid Lister, third time Texter. During the Happy New Year episode,
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  Tony read a text from someone and pronounced Marlington with a G. Short
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  lesson meant in the best of fun. Marlington was named for Jacob Marlin,
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  one of the first English settlers to the area in seventeen forty nine. Marlington
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  is the county seat of Pocahontas. Search this one on the internet and check
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  out the history of this darn g. Come on, hoppy, Tony gave
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  you an easy one to correct. Great show fellows, always listening. It's
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  funny because I saw that, but I didn't. I didn't want to jump
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  to go Tony, it's marl you know. I never knew that. Yeah,
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  I never knew. In forty years, I always thought it was Marlington,
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  No G. Marlington Marlington. Yeah, well, I just it's another
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  way you're screwing me. I mean, I mean, I mean, you
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  know what, not embarrassing. I mean, yeah, no, no,
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  you're embarrassed now I'm embarrassed. Hoppy that Now you know what I would have
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  said. If you would have said, no, it's actually Marlinton, that's
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  not I would have know it is it it's Marlington, I would have probably
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  said that. It would have been worse. Can I tell you a pronunciation
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  story? Sure? So my first radio job I read on the air,
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  this was first radio job nuclear. Yeah. And then the story went on
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  like new killer nuclear Newca said like four or five times. And then afterward
• 1:08:32
  I got a phone call and I just answered the phone and this woman said,
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  Hoppy, sounds like a nice young man, but tell him the word
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  is nuclear. So I never forgot it was like, oh, how'd you
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  say it? Newcullar, I said, Nu Kuller like I said it wrong.
• 1:08:45
  It is nuclearke, I said Newculler, like George Bush said it a
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  million times. One clear. Two things on that one. Joe Harbear,
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  who we talked about early in the show. I'd always say, okay,
• 1:08:57
  say your name. He'd say Joe. He'd say Hairbear and I'd say Hairberry.
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  Say no, I'd say Hairbear and he'd say, no, it's hair
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  Bear, like like for twenty minutes, that's what I'm saying. No,
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  you're saying Hairbart, it's Hairbear. I say, whatever, whatever you spent,
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  every time you had to say his name, you call him over.
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  Like I've said this on this podcast before, but early on when I did
• 1:09:29
  radio news, it was a two man news operation. Hoppy did mornings and
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  I did the afternoons on w A j R. And I first, I
• 1:09:38
  had just gotten here and I was reading an afternoon newscast and we're in the
• 1:09:42
  Career building. The dominion post is downstairs, and I said something about Salem,
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  West Virginia. And I don't know how I said it. May have
• 1:09:50
  said Salem, probably may have said Salem, but norm I would think.
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  But anyway, Mickey Faferi, the legendary sports writer, that news line works,
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  that news line calling I pick it up now. I I mean,
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  I don't know, I don't know who anyone is. I'm just still like,
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  I don't know who Mickey for fair he is. And he was loud,
• 1:10:09
  yeah, and he would rip your ass. I don't know who you
• 1:10:13
  are, where are you come from? Sam Slam the Dean, and he
• 1:10:25
  became he became a very dear friend through the years. But I never forgot
• 1:10:30
  that that is see, but you learn, that's how you learned. I
• 1:10:40
  look back, man, there's so much stuff like you sent me to You
• 1:10:43
  sent me to cover a meeting in Blacksville very early on, and you go,
• 1:10:48
  yeah, go there, they're having this meeting of mind some sidons and
• 1:10:50
  I'm going subsides, what is that? Just get tape, Just get to
• 1:10:59
  go, get tape. Bring that morant that weighed about twelve pounds, had
• 1:11:02
  about nine batteries in that thing. Mind subsidencie And then you remember thinking when
• 1:11:08
  you were driving out to that thing, WHOA what am I doing? I
• 1:11:11
  went through Core Unincorporated? Yes, Core Unincorporated, Jerry Yes. And also
• 1:11:16
  this one Hoppy went on vacation shocker, stunning back in eighty four and Tony
• 1:11:23
  Boyle died Yes, former head of the UMWA Hoppy. Back in the day,
• 1:11:30
  there was no nowadays you transfer audio sound bites by email whatever you want
• 1:11:35
  to send them right back. Then you would do it over the phone line.
• 1:11:39
  You'd have a phone couple or a newsroom would have a sound bite.
• 1:11:42
  You click a button and it would go down the phone line. So he
• 1:11:45
  had this exchange with all of these radio stations. This is before metro news,
• 1:11:48
  so there wasn't a news organization. Jim Forsyth, WWVA and Wheeling.
• 1:11:55
  He was as crazy as hoppy news guy, like if he I think he
• 1:12:01
  had an ivy drip of coffee, right, Hoppey. He was wired up.
• 1:12:05
  Yes, so I know nothing about anything about anything, right, I'm
• 1:12:11
  like New New and Tony Boyle dies and I pick up the news phone and
• 1:12:15
  I'm by myself, and he goes far sith Wheeling. Tony Boyle's dead,
• 1:12:20
  Tony Boyls dead, You got any sound? I'm never forget that. That's
• 1:12:27
  nineteen eighty four, Tony boils dead. You got sound? God, I'm
• 1:12:31
  glad those days are over. Oh he went. He was in Texas,
• 1:12:39
  He went big, big time San Antonio. W A. I he might
• 1:12:43
  be retired. I would imagine it would be by most people. Your age
• 1:12:46
  should be not you, though, we still want John evening Men jumping.
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  Jack's laughing over there. I don't know how much I have left Boy evening
• 1:13:12
  Men. King Rob from resting by the way of Bridgeport, WV women.
• 1:13:16
  Just beat Cincinnata, go to thirteen and oh filling a Texas upset. Next
• 1:13:23
  they beat Texas my little parade. What an amazing season for the football team.
• 1:13:29
  I've never been a fair Weather fan. We'll always cheer for the world
• 1:13:30
  champion Mountaineers. Big fan of coach Brown. Have had my moments, but
• 1:13:33
  he kept the locker room together, brought them closer this season. Next season
• 1:13:36
  will be his best yet and his biggest test yet. By the way,
• 1:13:41
  my grandmother lived in Northview, Clarksburg before she passed. I loved going to
• 1:13:45
  her house on Sundays for spaghetti dinner. The best homemade meatballs you could ever
• 1:13:48
  have. The breadcrumbs have to be wet, that's what makes them soft.
• 1:13:51
  He's absolutely right, right, Yeah, anyway, she had a basement kitchen.
• 1:13:58
  I did not know that. Yeah, we're all the hard work was
• 1:14:00
  done. As Tony noted, I can't imagine how many thousands of canned sauce
• 1:14:04
  and vegetables were produced out of that basement. And yes, there was a
• 1:14:08
  pencil sharpener on my grandfather's bench. If you didn't use a bed sheet to
• 1:14:13
  strain some tomatoes for sauce. You're not a real Italian if you would ever
• 1:14:17
  like to fourlongs and one short. Yeah. So what they would do is
• 1:14:23
  when they made sauce, they get all those tomatoes and then eventually they'd all
• 1:14:27
  end up in a sheet and they would squeeze and squeeze, and that sauce
• 1:14:30
  would drip through and that was their filter. Oh okay, get that sauce.
• 1:14:35
  Hold on, I'm free to the music. Can I give you one
• 1:14:38
  just nugget here? Yeah? That I find interesting. Hop you'll like this.
• 1:14:42
  We talk about the Bowls and how much we love the Bowls, and
• 1:14:45
  again, I know we're biased because we work a lot of balls, but
• 1:14:46
  we still bulls. I'm having the shakes this week. There's no bulls to
• 1:14:49
  watch right. This comes. This nugget comes from Joe Pompliano via Todd Furman,
• 1:14:56
  our guy in Vegas, Todd Furman, I'll put your glasses out there,
• 1:15:01
  add credibility to what you're about. So here's some numbers, and they
• 1:15:06
  point out Joe Pompeiana points out Arizona, Oklahoma and Carolina West Virginia, So
• 1:15:13
  not your playoff games right right in the middle of Bowl season. Points out
• 1:15:15
  those two games. Arizona, Oklahoma drew three point nine million. West Virginia
• 1:15:20
  drew three point eight million viewers. It's good outside of NFL content, Bowl
• 1:15:27
  games were the only sports content on television during that week to break one million
• 1:15:31
  average viewers, ahead of the Premier League, NBA, NHL, College Basketball,
• 1:15:39
  ESPN's First Take, WWE, and Sports Center. You wonder why those
• 1:15:44
  games are on? Yeah, there you go, there's your eyeballs. Well
• 1:15:46
  to your point, br I think about what you just said there. So
• 1:15:49
  why are those games on? Well, it's because it does numbers, But
• 1:15:55
  it also brings us back to why does this conference reshaping, an organization,
• 1:15:59
  reorganization keep going on? Because the television networks are dying for eyeballs. So
• 1:16:05
  they asked themselves the question what draws the most eyeballs? NFL and college football.
• 1:16:13
  Right, That's why they want to pay those top dollars. That's why
• 1:16:16
  it is, right, that's what it is. I think it's a great
• 1:16:19
  time of year, and we've said that many many times. And I forget
• 1:16:24
  which Bowl game it was, Brad, but it was Wyoming was playing somebody
• 1:16:27
  who they play, Yeah, and it was a great finish and I just
• 1:16:30
  got it on and my wife says, what are you watching that for?
• 1:16:31
  What do you care? I said, because it's a great game. It's
• 1:16:34
  a game. Something's gonna I mean, yes, right there you go,
• 1:16:40
  three point eight million views. Yeah, it's good. You know, that's
• 1:16:43
  good for West Virginia in trying to re establish a national brand, which you've
• 1:16:47
  been out of that discussion for a while now, so you re establish it.
• 1:16:50
  Sure? Can I ask you a news question? Yeah? So how
• 1:16:55
  big was that LG announcement yesterday for the state? I think it's gigantic.
• 1:17:00
  I can't understand it. Well, it's like I read the story twice and
• 1:17:06
  like explain it to me, like I'm a seventh grader, Okay, what's
• 1:17:11
  being made? I have struggled a little bit too to understand it. But
• 1:17:15
  West Virginia does not have much in the way of a knowledge based economy.
• 1:17:18
  That is, individuals or entities that are creating, using technology to create a
• 1:17:27
  right to create the next thing, whether it's the next thing in medicine,
• 1:17:30
  next things in medicine, the next things, and energy. There's innovation going
• 1:17:33
  on all the time. We're just not used to that in West Virginia.
• 1:17:35
  We don't do that right. We we've made things and we still do.
• 1:17:40
  Like New course too, You're gonna make things. This is part of the
• 1:17:43
  knowledge based economy in LG, which is a global company, is also has
• 1:17:49
  apparently an altruistic side to it that says, you know you can create.
• 1:17:54
  It wants to show that you can create in places other than Silicon Valley.
• 1:17:58
  So West Virginia was one of the states that was competing with other states to
• 1:18:00
  try to get this huge investment from LG to try to develop this economy.
• 1:18:09
  So there will be bright, young, bright men and women who will be
• 1:18:13
  attracted to West Virginia or will come from West Virginia who will try to then
• 1:18:17
  create invent that will then attract venture capital. Okay, so does that explain
• 1:18:26
  a little bit better? Yeah, it does a better job. I mean
• 1:18:28
  basically, what you're saying is technology will be created to produce some of the
• 1:18:34
  three guys items going forward for episode eight hundred, dot com that could be
• 1:18:40
  part of it. I tend to think what you got out of that bread
• 1:18:43
  we've been on the low tech side. Well, yeah, so basically we're
• 1:18:45
  out in front of LG because we're already working with the bright young students here
• 1:18:47
  at WVU to create some of our stuff. Ignite WUV. Sure that's us.
• 1:18:53
  Yeah, that's good. Let's say somebody says, what is there a
• 1:18:56
  better way to deliver this product? Absolutelyolute better way to quicker way to get
• 1:19:00
  the popcorn out, quicker way to get the beer out? That does?
• 1:19:04
  I get it? Okay, I get it. You did you did good.
• 1:19:08
  You did good. Don't forget the T shirts. What do you mean
• 1:19:12
  but T shirts? T shirtstell by the way, Episode eight hundred, we're
• 1:19:15
  all by chance, we're all wearing our Adida's gear today. Got the Adida's
• 1:19:18
  logo on it. Is that available on the website? Right? Yeah?
• 1:19:21
  Episode eight hundred dot com Some popcorn also there coffee due. We're back on
• 1:19:28
  Monday. We'll recap the Houston game, and then we got a game the
• 1:19:30
  next day against the Wildcats a K State. That'll be a big one.
• 1:19:34
  That'll be a big one. Special. Thank you my boy, Jumping Jack
• 1:19:39
  Carlson, who was with us all summer long. He's on Christmas break.
• 1:19:42
  He come came back in here. He just went right to work. Just
• 1:19:45
  shows up handles, it shows up four point oh gpa this past semester.
• 1:19:49
  And yeah, and broadcast served as a play by play an ounserund fifty two
• 1:19:55
  events, fifty two games out there on campus. Now you know he goes
• 1:20:00
  cool out there in Iowa. Yeah, trying to get him into the portal.
• 1:20:03
  He wouldn't bite. Now the portal's closed against so now he's got to
• 1:20:05
  go back. He's got to go back there again. Screwed that up?
• 1:20:09
  Yeah, get it, he won't do it. Were collected and come through.
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• 1:21:00
  wonderful weekend and we'll be back on Monday to recap and look ahead. It'll
• 1:21:04
  be a review, preview episode and hoppy. When when you go? When
• 1:21:10
  you go to Charles Tuesday? Tuesday afternoon. Oh so you'll be here for
• 1:21:13
  Monday mon awesome blossom. All right, we're out, be good, Thanks
• 1:21:15
  all, see you