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3 Guys Before The Game - Portal Gone Wild (Episode 603) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  Speaker 1: The music has begun, and so has Three Guys Before
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  Speaker 1: the Game. Hey, everybody, welcome in. It is time for
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  Speaker 1: another episode of Three Guys Before the Game. We struggled
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  Speaker 1: for a title, so we thought we would go with
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  Speaker 1: something that was edgy pretty much not true, but the
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  Speaker 1: heck with it Portal Gone Wild, Portal Gone Wild. Welcome in.
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  Speaker 1: Three Guys Before the Game with Hoppy Cerchival, Doctor Hoppykerchival
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  Speaker 1: CPA Group, providing value beyond numbers. All right, we have
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  Speaker 1: come together here early Monday morning to chat Mountaineer football.
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  Speaker 1: Mountaineer basketball. Wv's basketball team has completed the non conference
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  Speaker 1: portion of its schedule, sixty seven to forty six final
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  Speaker 1: over the visiting Lakers of Mercyhurst yesterday afternoon at the Coliseum,
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  Speaker 1: crowd of over ninety seven hundred on hand. We'll talk
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  Speaker 1: about that coming up. Also, the weekend was busy for
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  Speaker 1: Mountaineer football. No, they did not play in a game, right,
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  Speaker 1: both seasons over for them. They already played. But you
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  Speaker 1: have the transition with a capital T that is taking place.
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  Speaker 1: Players continue to enter their name or had entered their
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  Speaker 1: name up until closure into the portal, and now you've
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  Speaker 1: got players coming, You've got players leaving, you've got players
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  Speaker 1: coming in on visits this weekend at the West Virginia,
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  Speaker 1: and you've got former Mountaineer players going out and making visits.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll get into all of that, but first, congratulations
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  Speaker 1: again on the doctorate. Received a lot of a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people over the weekend when it was happening. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: I'm I'm here in the coliseum. Hoppey just got the doctor.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you guys are here at Ago we were there.
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  Speaker 1: You get a few of those invited. It would have
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  Speaker 1: been nice to get an invite on it. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: know if you could go.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't think you'd want to cut And it was awesome.
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  Speaker 2: It was a wonderful event. So it was really wonderful
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  Speaker 2: and I'm very appreciative, and it's very nice.
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  Speaker 1: You have dinner at the President's house the night before Friday,
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  Speaker 1: just steal any silverware on your way out.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, I never, you know, all my time here, I
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  Speaker 2: had never been to the Blainey House ever.
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  Speaker 1: Ever, Like you've never gotten the call like ever to say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: come here, I need to talk. No, and it.
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  Speaker 2: Ever, it never, never. So it was really wonderful, thanks
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  Speaker 2: to w V, thanks to President Gee. And it was
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  Speaker 2: my fellow honorees who received diplomas.
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  Speaker 1: It was nice.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't go to my own graduation, and I finally got.
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  Speaker 1: To a graduation. You can go to your own graduation.
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  Speaker 1: Did not, but you were at this one. You were
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  Speaker 1: the hat too, right, You that hat? You have to
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  Speaker 1: keep that.
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  Speaker 3: No, you have to turn that back in any three
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  Speaker 3: guys mentions while you're walking.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't get any three guys, but I did. I
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  Speaker 2: did spend some I spent some quality time with a
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  Speaker 2: lot of good people, spent some quality time with Rick pill.
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  Speaker 1: Sure, President president of the Board of Governors. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Attorney Marc Gezberg, big supporter of WV, hung out with them.
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  Speaker 1: But wait a second on that. Three guys think someone
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  Speaker 1: told me that when they introduced you, they mentioned that.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they did, Brett.
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  Speaker 2: It was in the it was in the bio, they
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  Speaker 2: mentioned it.
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  Speaker 1: Among his many many accomplishments is the I think I
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  Speaker 1: think the way he wrote it he was the founder,
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  Speaker 1: creator of three. That's not what they said.
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  Speaker 2: Received received a diploma along with Thomas Remac, Dawe Hubbard.
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  Speaker 1: Sure, yeah, those guys.
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  Speaker 2: No, it was no, because I wish I had.
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  Speaker 1: But just the way you were up on stage and
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  Speaker 1: they were in the they were in the cheap seats. No,
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  Speaker 1: it was.
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  Speaker 2: But it really was a nice ceremony. I'm very appreciative
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  Speaker 2: it was.
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  Speaker 1: It was nice, all right. Why did you bring a
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  Speaker 1: large book?
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  Speaker 3: Well, because because he's now has a director, large books.
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  Speaker 1: Everywhere he goes, every.
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  Speaker 3: Meeting, every show, dinner, when he goes to get coffee,
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  Speaker 3: just carries big books.
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  Speaker 2: And it makes it look like I'm doing something because
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  Speaker 2: Tony we the book is entitled book.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, that's the first time you've ever had a guy
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  Speaker 1: holding a big book. Composition of that shot next to
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  Speaker 1: a tutor's biscuit World cop. Look at the look at
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  Speaker 1: the shot, Brad. Color schemes match. Okay, you got basic economics.
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  Speaker 2: The the book is Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell, the respected
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  Speaker 2: economists and everybody. Now Brad is getting a lesson in
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  Speaker 2: college football in basic economics. Let me read you a
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  Speaker 2: couple of quick lines here. This is what Thomas Sowell said.
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  Speaker 2: Life does not ask what you want. It presents options. Options.
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  Speaker 2: Economics is one of the ways to try to make
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  Speaker 2: the most of these options. Okay, let me a second
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  Speaker 2: part to you real quick. In a market economy, those
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  Speaker 2: who get the direct benefit of an individual's work decide
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  Speaker 2: how much they are prepared to pay. So we are
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  Speaker 2: getting a lesson in market economics, and that is Brad.
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  Speaker 1: You.
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  Speaker 2: Let's say that you want to play at a particular
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  Speaker 2: school and you think you're worth X, and the school
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  Speaker 2: says no, I think you're worth why? And then you've
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  Speaker 2: got a decision to make, right Is it like? Okay,
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  Speaker 2: do I accept why? Or do I do I use
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  Speaker 2: my option and go see if I can do better
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  Speaker 2: someplace else? Or do I decide no you know, probably
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  Speaker 2: why is okay? And I'll do why or does or
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  Speaker 2: does the school decide, well, we can probably he really
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  Speaker 2: is vibe. We can probably come up with some more money.
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  Speaker 2: So this is what's happening. This is basic economics that's happening.
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  Speaker 2: And if you look at it in its purest form,
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  Speaker 2: has nothing to do with emotion, nothing to do with boy,
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  Speaker 2: he's a swell guy or or it has nothing to
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  Speaker 2: do with that. It has to do with with the
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  Speaker 2: school how much it is willing to pay and how
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  Speaker 2: much it can afford, and on the participant side, what
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  Speaker 2: they think they're worth and how those things match up.
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  Speaker 2: That's exactly what's going on. It's new to this, it's
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  Speaker 2: new to this business, which is what it is now,
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  Speaker 2: But that is what's taking place.
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  Speaker 3: Very well said, it's only kind of new to this business.
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  Speaker 3: We've been doing with coaches forever. Well, yes, this is
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  Speaker 3: how coaches and agents and ads have had to operate
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  Speaker 3: for how many years. It's just now into the player pool.
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  Speaker 3: And that's I think that's a great description. That's exactly
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  Speaker 3: what's happening. And listen, when there's change, there's going to
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  Speaker 3: be change across the entire program. It's not just a
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  Speaker 3: change of a head coach and a coaching staff in
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  Speaker 3: the university decided to make a change and that triggered
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  Speaker 3: change throughout this roster. So yeah, I think that's that's
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  Speaker 3: again extremely well said, and you do have to try
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  Speaker 3: and remove emotion from this because there's a couple ways
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  Speaker 3: to look at that. There's that from the player's side,
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  Speaker 3: what is their value and where can they get the
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  Speaker 3: most value, And they're going to explore that the same time.
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  Speaker 3: Rich Rodriguez in particular, and the rest of the coaching
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  Speaker 3: staff as it continues to be formed, is doing that
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  Speaker 3: same value proposition, where can we go out and replace
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  Speaker 3: somebody for maybe less money or a different position that
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  Speaker 3: we feel is more valuable than what is currently on roster.
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  Speaker 3: So there's all kinds of change and that happens, and
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  Speaker 3: that's part of why proponents of the transfer portal and
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  Speaker 3: nil payments wanted it available for players rather than having
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  Speaker 3: guys that were stuck on a roster when the coaching
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  Speaker 3: staff maybe didn't want them there and wanted to do
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  Speaker 3: their own thing. And I think that's what's being afforded
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  Speaker 3: to Rich Rodriguez right now, is Okay, you're new you
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  Speaker 3: want your own guys, then go get your own guys.
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  Speaker 3: Players are saying, you know what, I think I can
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  Speaker 3: go get some payment elsewhere, some benefit elsewhere. I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to go explore that. And that's why the portal has
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  Speaker 3: been the way it is. Now it's starting to turn
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  Speaker 3: a little bit too. When there's change, what happens first
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  Speaker 3: the exodus comes first. Then you start to see backfilling.
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  Speaker 3: We'll talk about a couple guys that have committed to
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  Speaker 3: West Virginia here in the last day or so, coming
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  Speaker 3: up here in just a bit.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So the portal will go up until this Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: the twenty eighth. It remains open. So I hope it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't impact anyone's Christmas, like you know, you get that, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: guess it's Christmas Eve, like you know, family's all coming
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  Speaker 1: in all of a sudden. Guess who just went in
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  Speaker 1: the portal.
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  Speaker 3: To your point, well, no, it's going to impact some
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  Speaker 3: Christmases because some people are signing for some big money places.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to have a nice Christmas here and elsewhere.
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  Speaker 1: Forget about dead Tanka truck. We brought it yourself, a
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  Speaker 1: Ford f one fifty. To your point, you're exactly right,
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  Speaker 1: I think, and we'll read some of the texts later
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  Speaker 1: on in the program. A lot of people are dealing
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  Speaker 1: with this emotionally, and I can completely understand it because
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  Speaker 1: I think a lot of people still have the mindset
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  Speaker 1: that a person comes to a university, they embrace the
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  Speaker 1: university and what the university is all about. And you
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  Speaker 1: play for Old State U and it's a great experience,
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  Speaker 1: and it's four years and you watch them grow, and
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  Speaker 1: people are really emotionally attached to that. Absolutely, that's one
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  Speaker 1: of the great values. And we've seen through college sports unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: and this is well, it is upsetting to people that
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  Speaker 1: day is over, that day is over. Okay, So to
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  Speaker 1: your point, Hoppy, these are straight business transactions from here
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  Speaker 1: on it And if a school wants to play in
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  Speaker 1: this world of the power for which West Virginia is
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  Speaker 1: a member of, whether you like it or not, that's
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  Speaker 1: what this is going to be. And it will turn
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  Speaker 1: and is turning off people, and there will be others
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  Speaker 1: that will continue to support it. But the reality of
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  Speaker 1: it is that the teams that are being assembled at
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  Speaker 1: the Power Forward level are now basically professional teams that
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  Speaker 1: represent and play for the brand of the school. That's
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  Speaker 1: what this is. These are pro teams football and basketball
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  Speaker 1: are going to be paid and you are representing the
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  Speaker 1: team that you're playing for is the school. That's how
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  Speaker 1: this thing is going to work. This is where we
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  Speaker 1: are right now. And yes, the crazy part of it
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  Speaker 1: is now is that you don't have the infrastructure and
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  Speaker 1: yet to give yourself a little bit more stability as
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  Speaker 1: far as roster management, because people can bolt. Unlike in
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  Speaker 1: the pros, at least you're signed to a three year
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  Speaker 1: content tracked or a five year deal. You know you've
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  Speaker 1: got them locked in at least they're not going to
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  Speaker 1: bounce somewhere else. But that doesn't exist right now, so
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  Speaker 1: it's a little bit more wild wild West. And as
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  Speaker 1: you know, as we've said, Brad, the market is still normalizing.
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  Speaker 1: Still really don't know people are over spending for players
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  Speaker 1: right now. Yes that maybe five years from now you'll
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  Speaker 1: look back out and go, like, my goodness. You remember
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  Speaker 1: back in the day. It's like the dot com bubble
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  Speaker 1: before it burst. So a lot of that's going on
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  Speaker 1: right now. This is this is where we are, and you.
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  Speaker 2: Might see if nobody has a model yet. And guys,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Brad, you might see, like the pro model WES,
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  Speaker 2: some of it will become more performance based or more
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  Speaker 2: long term. Those kinds of things will, but.
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  Speaker 3: I think we're a ways from that because until until
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  Speaker 3: the players are able to unionize, you're not going to
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  Speaker 3: get any of that because you'll just go to court
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  Speaker 3: and say hold on, that doesn't work. So that there's
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  Speaker 3: there's still some a lot of changes coming to college
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  Speaker 3: sports here, but it's a ways away. But the other
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  Speaker 3: things you got to remember too, that we go through
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  Speaker 3: this every year. The portal feels bad when you're a
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  Speaker 3: fan of a team and you're in the stage West
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  Speaker 3: Virginia's because you're only seeing guys leave and exit out,
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  Speaker 3: So it makes it feel as if it's working against you.
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  Speaker 3: When this starts to turn the other way and guys
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  Speaker 3: are starting to come in, it does provide some flexibility
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  Speaker 3: and for coaches that are going to come in and
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  Speaker 3: run different systems and want to do their own thing,
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  Speaker 3: it provides flexibility. And you know where you need to
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  Speaker 3: look for that. Just look over there to the coliseum
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  Speaker 3: and see how that has worked.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: You were able to totally remake a roster that didn't
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  Speaker 3: have a lot of success last year and has turned
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  Speaker 3: that into a team that started off pretty well. Right,
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  Speaker 3: you remade the roster completely pre portal, you would not
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  Speaker 3: have been able to do that. You would you would
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  Speaker 3: have had players on there that didn't necessarily fit what
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  Speaker 3: the new coach was trying to do. So sometimes that
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  Speaker 3: happens too. The flexibility is not all bad here. Now,
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  Speaker 3: does it provide an unstable environment early on? Absolutely it does.
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  Speaker 3: Is Rich going to have a heck of a lot
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  Speaker 3: of work to do. He may be in that forty
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  Speaker 3: to fifty range of players that he has to reacclimate
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  Speaker 3: to his system. That's just part of the deal. And
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  Speaker 3: that's what we said though, guys, as we were heading
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  Speaker 3: down the stretch and there was talk about changing coaches,
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  Speaker 3: this is what you have to be prepared for in
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  Speaker 3: college sports. If you're gonna make coaching changes, you need
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  Speaker 3: to expect the bulk of your roster to change over
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  Speaker 3: as well. That's where West Virginia sits today.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Let me I talked about the cold, dispassionate facts of
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  Speaker 2: basic economics. Now let me go to the other side,
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  Speaker 2: the emotional part. Because some of these players inning the
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  Speaker 2: portal for West Virginia, like Hudson I mean, Hudson Clement
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  Speaker 2: stands out because why because Huddy's a favorite right West
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  Speaker 2: Virginia kid, had a great state tournament, comes here, walks on,
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  Speaker 2: has a big game, gets a scholarship, was the leading
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  Speaker 2: receiver this year, and then has an exceptional game in
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  Speaker 2: the loss in a book, has an exceptional game. So
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  Speaker 2: he is a fan favorite, a favorite son, fan favorite,
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  Speaker 2: and he's in the portal. Good for him. That's the
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  Speaker 2: environment now that we are in. But that hurts. As
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  Speaker 2: a fan, that hurts. We love to see Howey stay
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  Speaker 2: here too, but all you want the best for him,
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  Speaker 2: But you love to see Hoddy Clement in a mountain
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  Speaker 2: new uniform. So that's the emotional part, no doubt.
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  Speaker 1: And what's going to happen here at WVU.
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  Speaker 2: I mean we got to know, we love his parents,
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  Speaker 2: his family, we got.
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  Speaker 1: To know him. Well. Yeah, not only we've lost our entertainment.
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  Speaker 3: I was going to say, Rich isn't the only one
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  Speaker 3: trying to replace a receiver right here, We've got to
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  Speaker 3: replace entertainment.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, where do you go find a guy
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  Speaker 1: that can just play all night long? That's really really
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  Speaker 1: good for very song and his family. So yeah, this
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  Speaker 1: is a great time. We're on the we befriended the family.
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  Speaker 1: The family is great. But again this is business. Remove heart,
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  Speaker 1: insert business model. The thing about West Virginia is in
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  Speaker 1: this midst the portal closes this Saturday, twenty eight, then
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  Speaker 1: it reopens on April sixteen for ten days. Those ten
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  Speaker 1: days potentially could be the most important ten days for
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  Speaker 1: West Virginia. And here is why. So Rich is going
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  Speaker 1: to start off season conditioning here now pretty soon, right,
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  Speaker 1: it'll happen really really quick, and you get ready for spring,
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  Speaker 1: and then you have spring. There will be those that
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  Speaker 1: stay right now that at the end of that will
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  Speaker 1: want to depart. There will be those who will stay
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  Speaker 1: right now that Rich will want to depart. And then
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  Speaker 1: these four months up until April, you have a lot
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  Speaker 1: of eyes on other teams and their players, and there's conversations,
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  Speaker 1: maybe secondary or tertiary conversations.
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  Speaker 2: Contact is made and you just.
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  Speaker 1: Say, hey, by the way, I know Hoppy is at State.
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  Speaker 1: You we would have a position him form and you
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  Speaker 1: have a better idea then and so you might get
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  Speaker 1: a kid or five or six, you know later after
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  Speaker 1: they go through springball, that you bring in because now
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  Speaker 1: you really know what you need and what you think
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  Speaker 1: of what you have. Yes, so that could be all
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  Speaker 1: so very important.
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  Speaker 2: And also you might, again because it's economics, maybe you
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  Speaker 2: have to pay more for somebody because you need to
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  Speaker 2: fill a position, or maybe you get a bargain, like
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  Speaker 2: somebody that just isn't going to get paid somewhere it
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  Speaker 2: paid very much and you think, boy, this actually we
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  Speaker 2: like this guy and he can fill a slot and
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  Speaker 2: the guy will do better and you get get a deal.
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  Speaker 1: Well.
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  Speaker 3: Also the other thing guys to remember, if we're talking
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  Speaker 3: about being cold and dispassionate here with what.
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  Speaker 1: The market we can take, that we can do that.
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  Speaker 3: You're in year one and if you're rich, you're trying
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  Speaker 3: to do two things. One, you've got to fill the
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  Speaker 3: roster as well as get guys that can produce. So
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  Speaker 3: you were going to make some evaluation mistakes in year one,
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  Speaker 3: I would think, probably more so than as you move forward.
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  Speaker 3: The lack of contract from past the first year enable
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  Speaker 3: you to fix those mistakes going into year two. So
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  Speaker 3: that's going to happen too. You might be through a
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• 17:00
  Speaker 1: It's all Thatt of Colorado, right.
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: And the second ye, so sixty some guys the first
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: year that came back the second year another fifty or
• 17:07
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• 17:08
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: They remade that roster completely over the course of two seasons,
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: so that happens as well.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I get it. I get both sides. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: with revenue sharing starting for the very first time, and
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• 17:30
  Speaker 2: It's it's an adjustment because it is happening. It's happening rapidly.
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: I mean it feels slow because we've been talking about
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: it forever, but it's really happening very rapidly when you
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: consider how long college football's been around, so everybody is
• 17:42
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• 17:43
  Speaker 1: And keep in mind that this is so much in
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: a state of change. I mean there's lawsuits that are
• 17:49
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  Speaker 3: Saw it last week with Juco being ruled that it
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  Speaker 3: there's there's current players on rosters, there's guys coming in
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: that changes how long you've got a guy.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I talked to someone yesterday within the program and
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• 19:18
  Speaker 3: from South Alabama, played six hundred and sixty two snaps
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: last season. The aforementioned Colorado Buffalo is one of the
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  Speaker 3: teams that reportedly offered to mister Scruggs second best defensive
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• 19:35
  Speaker 3: an immediate need on this team? I mean it's turned
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: into all I get it. All positions are an immediate need.
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  Speaker 3: has to up its production. And that could have been
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  Speaker 3: put a tweet out that he'd loved to stay here
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  Speaker 3: in Morgantown. He played for Jacksonville State Hop and we
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  Speaker 3: did that game the other day on radio. He really
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: jumped out on screen. He was a guy that was
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: pretty impressive. So We'll see if Fred Davis follows rich
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: Rod here as well. On the offensive side of the ball.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: Eastern Michigan wide receiver or In Singleton has said he
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: is coming. This is one of the all time great nicknames.
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  Speaker 3: You're gonna like this was it. Man Man Singleton, Man
• 20:20
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  Speaker 1: It's a dog farmer Farmer left, Yeah.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: Dada Farmer headed to UCF incomes man Man Singleton in
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: his spot. He's a five to nine slot played ninety
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: percent of his snaps in the slot. Originally from Florida,
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: had the third best offensive grade last year for Eastern Michigan,
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: had the second best receiving grade and the best for
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: a wide receiver on that team. Sixty five catches, six
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: hundred and thirty nine yards, two touchdowns, Second team All MAC.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: He's a guy. We just mentioned that JUCO thing. He
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: entered the portal thinking at one year of eligibility left.
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: Maybe he's got another one. He played a year at
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: Hutchinson Community College, so maybe he's available for a second year.
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: But man Man Singleton is in as a slot receiver
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: for West Virginia. So there's a couple additions here. Over
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: the last twelve or fourteen hours so you can start.
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  Speaker 2: Working on that for your calls.
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• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Coaching staff starting to be formalized. And one name that's
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: not going to be coming to West Virginia is Rick Trickett,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: the Mountaineer offensive line coach from days gone by, had
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: been at Jacksonville State with Rich and he is going
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: to stay at Jacksonville State. Clint trick At, the former
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Mountaineer quarterback, has been hired as the offensive coordinator at
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Jacksonville State.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: So father and son.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Father and son, he coordinates and Rick is going to
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: do the offensive line. In fact, I'll have Rick on
• 21:48
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• 21:52
  Speaker 1: good just to get him on, Brad. It's always good
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: to hear tricks good. Absolutely, absolutely, So that's coming together.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: The report is nothing official yet, but Blaine Stewart will
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: be retained on staff and will continue to work on
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: the offensive side of the ball. Other than that, you're
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: hearing names, but nothing yet. You had Rich on your
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: show and he said he kind of wanted to make
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: it more of a presentation. Yeah he did.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: He didn't throw many bones on that. He just said
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: he wanted to roll out the name so that each
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: one got some love and that each one was an
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: individual story. So he didn't give me any names. But
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: I don't know you would. I mean, that's great. If
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: Blaine Stewart's going to stay, maybe Rashid will stay, maybe
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: Mike Mike Joseph has done a tremendous job with the
• 22:37
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• 22:41
  Speaker 2: think I asked him about tricket. But now we know
• 22:42
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• 22:44
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  Speaker 2: Can I'm make an obvious what's your stats gonna be? Basketball?
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Brad? Yeah, we're gonna do some basketball next.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: Okay, here's my obvious observation about basketball. A very solid
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: non conference schedule. I mean, you take nine and two
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: all day low point, the pitloss high point obviously when
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: you guys were into Bahamas. I mean that was so
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  Speaker 2: you take that all day. Second obvious observation is, of course,
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  Speaker 2: Devrees continued, Tucker continues to not play, and you can't
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  Speaker 2: imagine that he'll be back. And then Amani Hansbury getting
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: an ankle early in that game yesterday, Tony and maybe
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: I came out in the boot. Maybe he'll be fine.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: But one of the things, Brad, that you've talked about
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: a lot is that Darren DeVries runs good stuff, right,
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: runs good stuff. What happens when two of your best
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  Speaker 2: players are not available? What does that do to your stuff?
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: Harder to run good stuff, harder to run good stuff.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: So it's not just about that player not being there,
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: which has a huge impact, but as Darren Devrees said
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: after the game, candily, it affects what you can run.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: The playbook, Brad gets smaller.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, because your rotations are different than what you're used to.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: You're playing guys that aren't used to playing that significant
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: of minutes and their understanding of what you're trying to
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: do is different than that.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Guys have gone.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: Out and it is interesting he does, man, I've said
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: this before. It's not like he installs his offense and
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: that's your offense all season. That thing is constantly changing
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  Speaker 3: and fluid, and they had a couple packages in yesterday.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: Won't go deep in the weeds on this, but mercy
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  Speaker 3: Hurst defends differently with rotations than most teams do. It's
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  Speaker 3: what leads them to some success. So Darren had some
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  Speaker 3: counters to those adjustments that mercy Hearst was going to
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  Speaker 3: make that ended up in a couple easy basket yesterday.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: So it is fun to watch them when there's all
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: that different offense and sets being put in.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: And one of the concerns going into the season was
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: was about depth, correct. I mean that was a big one.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: It was a big one, and Devreese themselves didn't after game.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: If you're trying to run something and four guys know
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• 26:36
  Speaker 1: One doesn't, it's a problem. Yeah.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: So just that's that ends my obvious observation.
• 26:41
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  Speaker 1: the numbers. West Virginia victorious yesterday, sixty seven forty six
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  Speaker 1: over the Mercyhurst Lakers. They call them the Lakers because
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  Speaker 1: they're located at Erie, Pennsylvania, big lake, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: water and making the transition. In fact, it's a great lake.
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  Speaker 1: It's a it is a great great lake. Jeff Lewis
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  Speaker 1: a former mountaineer offensive lineman, strength coach. Early two thousands. Mercyhurst, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: good to see him.
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  Speaker 3: Played for Rich Hoppy in the early two thousands.
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  Speaker 1: Ran into Rich in the motel yesterday, did you no?
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  Speaker 1: He did? Lewis did in the motel. Yeah, in the motel. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: in the motel. So it's good to see him. And
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: they're transitioning from Peasac Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Division two
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: to Northeast Conference Division one, and West Virginia knocked them
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  Speaker 1: off sixty seven to forty six. Mountaineers led comfortably at
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  Speaker 1: halftime and then took care of business in the second
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  Speaker 1: half of play. Brad, as you into the numbers, what
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  Speaker 1: did we see or what did you see that we
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  Speaker 1: didn't know when it was happening.
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  Speaker 3: So we'll do a little bit this on the fly,
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  Speaker 3: because you're right, still number, still maturing, Hoppy and still
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: overnight as they're coming together. Here a couple overall notes
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: as non conference comes to an end, West Virginia sitting
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: thirty third in the net rankings today, So you drop
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: a little bit with the win over Mercy or she
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: wred twenty ninth. But how about that for this group
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: where it was with all of these new players, new
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: coaching staff. We just talked about football and transition, and
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: this team comes out and has itself positioned in the
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: top thirty five in the country after eleven games, one two,
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: nine wins. As you mentioned, matches last year's season win total,
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: you just matched last year's total in the non conference
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: portion of the season.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Pretty good start. Yeah, it could have been ten and one.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, don't get greedy. It's a great start. That's
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: a great start.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: It's a great start. But I'm just saying that Louisville
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: game was right there for the ten. Yeah.
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: Now you don't know what would have happened in the
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: third game, but you would have liked your chances.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: But you never know who.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: We are getting greedy, so you take it them two
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: out of three.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: There ohing, dude, I'm with you, all right, Hope.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: You mentioned yesterday that, as Darren talked about afterwards, sometimes
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  Speaker 3: when your when your lineups have to change, guys have
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: to come in, your offense can bog a little bit.
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: You know, it didn't bog. Defense. Defense. You know what
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: should work all the time, defense defense. How about this
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: for a number Mercy Hurst yesterday was held so only
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: had forty six points held to point seven to three.
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: Points per possession.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: Kah good, pray you said that wrong. You said seven
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: point three points mean.
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: Point point three, seven to three, so less than three
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: quarters of a point per possession for mercy Hurst. So
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: some context hoped for you. If that were the season
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: average for mercy Hurst, that'd be dead last in the
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: NCAA three hundred and sixty fourth. So and it's one
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: game sample. That's how good West Virginia's defense was yesterday.
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: And we talked about it throughout the game. The ball
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: pressure is what did that? Whether that was Sincere Harris
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: out front, whether that was kJ ten or out front.
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: Mercy Hurst had such a hard time getting into it
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: set and it was a very deliberate offense. It takes
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  Speaker 3: it runs good stuff as well, takes a while to
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: go through their offense. They weren't getting started till twenty
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: nineteen eighteen on the shot clock. Made it really difficult
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: for that team to score. So a lot of credit
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: to West Virginia's defense yesterday. Talk about some individual performances,
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: and I think you have to start with Toby o'connie.
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: How about his game Tony thirteen points, twelve rebounds for
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: Toby yesterday, so he was back.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: We saw a four.
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: Game stretch with Toby through Atlantis and then back to
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: Georgetown when he was really good. He was getting himself
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: in the lane, getting offensive rebounds, getting put backs, grabbing
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: defensive rebounds. He returned to that form yesterday. He was outstanding.
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: That's the Toby you're going to need moving forward as
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: you get into Big twelve play. He a superior athlete
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: hop so you're going to need him to be inside
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: on the glass helping West Virginia rebound.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: I thought he was great yesterday. He was well focused.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: I saw him when I was walking out a shoot around.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: I was a little concerned. What reason, Well, it was
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: getaway right. All kids went home after the game from
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: the coliseum is left right from there, and he had
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: his car plugged in. It drives an electrical vehicle, and
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: he was, you gotta go all the way back home.
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: Right Orange, New Jersey.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And so I mean he had that baby. He
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: had the charger in there going like, plus it's cold, I.
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: Get in credit. That was good attention to detail to
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: have it ahead of time, not come out and go,
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: my gosh, my car's notch.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: No, No, he had he was on it that cold
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: like he gets up to Cumberland going over that hill.
• 32:27
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• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Well he was really good.
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: How about Eduardo Andre in the middle, Hope. You mentioned
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: Amani Hansbury going out eighteen seconds into the game. That
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: meant Eduardo was going to have to play some more minutes,
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: and quite frankly, his size inside was probably the second
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: biggest difference in the game, beyond the defensive ball pressure.
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: He altered shots block shots scored yesterday six of six
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: from the field gave you fourteen points six rebounds. Also
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: playing a big role yesterday, Harris Elizaevich came in and
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: really gave you some great minutes four points.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: He was two of two, so.
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: You were eight of eight out of your five position
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: yesterday he had. Harris had five rebounds and two assists.
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: How about you get five assists from your five right,
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: Both of those guys did a great job of kickouts,
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: throw it inside, and Harris had a couple of nice
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: offensive moves there which led to double teams having to
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: come over when he caught the ball and he kicked
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: out for some baskets so I thought Harris was really
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: good as well. And of course you can't mention individual
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: performances on this team without mentioning our guy. Jake Hoer
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: just does what he does. Hopy continues to come in,
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: doesn't get a lot of shots, doesn't get a lot
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: of warm up time. The first couple of offensive possessions,
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: West Virginia was running its motion, Jake wasn't necessarily available
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: for an open look. I think the defense cracking down.
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: They see Hour come in the game, They're going to
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: be all over him, as Mercy Hurst was. So Jake
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: pulled an NBA move, just took matters into his own hands, skies, elevates, well, I.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: Don't know how he can jump down. He was up.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: There was Toby o'connie s his hand almost hit the neck,
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: it was. He was way up.
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: Elevates up, grabs the rebound, and it just takes off himself,
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: just as I'll handle everybody, get out of the way,
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: I'll handle this. Takes it right up the floor, pulls
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: up from about twenty five bang Knox is three in
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: a blistering seven of his last eight from three for
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: Jake Hour, which, honest to god, that's remarkable. For a
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: guy comes in, he's been sitting on the bench for
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: two hours, and he comes in, he's seven of his
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: last eight.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: People really got to start criticizing Darren for not giving
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: Jake just opportunities. Just set him up at mid court
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: and just let him fire.
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: I do think there's some Jake hour playing time coming
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: in Big twelve play.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: We said this before.
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: There's some spots where you put him in and truly
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: the other team's gonna have to go all right, we
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: got to go out and guard, yes, because you leave
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: him open. And again, I think the biggest benefit to
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: Jake and this team is he is able to come in.
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: He's on the floor for thirty five seconds, that shot
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: goes up. All right, here we go.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: No, there are so there are spots where you can
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: you can absolutely take advantage one hundred percent. They have
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: to honor him because he can. He can pull it
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: twenty five feet in it. I mean he can go
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: Oh so, yeah, you're exactly right. There will be some
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: spots situations they can put him in. There.
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: Is he one of the emerging crowd favorites?
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: Oh no, there's no emerging. He's emerged there, he's emerged. Yeah,
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: he's emerged, hemerged.
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: Threw his headband or gave his headband away and went
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: back to the head band yesterday. Gave that away after
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: the game. Camdon Quinland, one of our big P one
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: listeners there got the headband, receiving a picture of that yesterday.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: Nice. Yeah, sounds good. I didn't know he went headband.
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: He alternates, which I was surprised to see yesterday because
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: he hadn't gone with it and he'd been blistering hot.
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: Doesn't matter head band, no headband, still make shots.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: So he was good. Good performance yesterday by the fellas. Oh,
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: by the way, Javon small so good.
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: We just don't even mention him in individual performances anymore,
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: No need to nineteen point seven assists, he probably could
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: have had thirty if he wanted. He just again controlled
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: the game, did whatever he wanted nineteen seven.
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: Didn't mention him, didn't even know because it's expected now, right.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: I don't want to get over my skis, Okay, but
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: but but I probably will. Okay, Brad, think about past
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: West Virginia guards who have has had the ability basically
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: to control the game the way that he does.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: Well, we I mean, you go way way back. I
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: think we mentioned before, like Greg Jones, I mean you
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: gotta go way back for him, but the others Juan could.
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: Juwan controlled games, but it was different. His was like
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: controlled because he was so darn fast, right, he was
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: just blistering Speedvan. I mean, Javon just does everything. You
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: haven't asked a point guard just just I'm trying to
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: think of. You didn't ask Juwan to score at the
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: rate Javon does and in the manner in which Javan
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: does right, Juwan was more penetration get to the basket
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: in transition, beach down the floor. He was elite at
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: getting to the basket. Javon goes to the basket as well,
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: but he also can hit the mid range. You also
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: asked him to hear threes. You also ask him to
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: control the game in a pick and roll, which is
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: a lot more prevalent than it's ever been there. That's
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: a hard one. I don't know that anybody pops right
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: away when I.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: Say controls the game, it's like he literally he's playing
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: with everything. He's playing with his guys waiting for them
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: to open, distributing, He's playing with opposing defenders like I'm
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: setting you up. I'm setting you up. I can get
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: whatever I want when I want to get it. That is,
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: he's like he's at a graduation Yeah, he's at a
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: graduate school level of control. He's at a graduate school level. Now.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: Is he is athletic as Deuce? No, he's not as
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: athletic as Deuce. But I'm just saying he's a seasoned
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: guy that's played a ton of basketball and he just
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: has this comfort and control right now with what he's playing.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: There's no panic he's playing think, he's not even thinking.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: He's just playing.
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: Who is the pick and roll with? In the game
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: that I mentioned, how he held the ball hop he
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: held the ball out front on the pick and he
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: was waiting for the role, but he took like two
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: extra dribbles on the roll to hold the hedge defender
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: and allow the role guy to get a little bit deeper,
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: distributed it to him for the for the bucket. So
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: that's kind of your point to controlling what is happening.
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: The other time, he had that ball out front and
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: he kept probing his defender. Three different times, he kept
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: probing trying to get the defender up and the defender
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: the first two times was it biting did it a
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: third time defender goes up, There goes Javon right by him.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: Just the patience is tremendous.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: Or over on the sideline, he draws a three point.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: He gets three file shots because he gets that defender
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: to reach across as soon as he sees the arms coming.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: As he rips him, threw goes up for the shots.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: Three shots.
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: Here's here's one number hop to go back to the
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: original point of lineup. Changes affect your offensive cohesiveness and
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: how you operate. We had talked before about god guarded
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: versus unguarded catch and shoots, and West Virginia is just
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: so good each game in getting itself unguarded catch and
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: shoot jumpers, and a lot of that's just because of
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: the ball movement, the high IQ of all these players
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: of recognizing they might have a good shot, but there's
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: a better shot over there, so I'm going to pass it.
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: But here's something that's happened in the last couple of games.
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: Each of the last two games, West Virginia has had
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: more guarded catch and shoot jumpers than they have unguarded.
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: That's significant because that hadn't happened. They hadn't had more
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: guarded shots in a game since November eighth against UMass
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: and it's happened in each of the last two games.
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: So as we get into Big twelve play here, that's
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: something you're going to have to watch, is the ability
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: for Big twelve teams to come out and guard and
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: have more able defenders on the floor at one time
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: is going to be a challenge for.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: This offense wall.
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: But now you're getting ready for a Bahamas the rest
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: of the season, literally the rest of the season.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, exactly what it is. Every night, you're gonna
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: play twenty games in the Bahamas, but actually you're going
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: to be in the Big twelve.
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: Well, what's going to be I did this last game.
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: I told you guys this. You went from in the
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: four game stretch from the Bahamas through Georgetown. If you
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: go the Ken Palm rankings, those are teams ranked between
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: six and sixty six. Georgetown sixty six, which they should
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: be higher. They're off to two to zero in the
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: Big East. So six to sixty six. You're now going
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: to go into a twenty game stretch where you go
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: as high as number four right now and you go
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: as low as Kansas State is ninety. Oklahoma State is
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: one oh four. That's it, and that's one game each
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: with both of those. Everybody else is between four and seventy.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: Five right now.
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: Eight, So you're going to go eight one oh four,
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: twenty four, seventy seven to four to five. Rest up,
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: you got to go to the Kansas. So you've got
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: three top eights in your next six games.
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: Hello, so here goes. Yeah, Oh, take your swings, walk in,
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: limp on back, Yeah, take a shot.
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: Moni's ankle being okay is a major factor.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: Huge.
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: I mean probably okay, he is afterwards.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: I think it was one of those deals where literally,
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: if he had yesterday, they probably could have said that.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: But you had the you had the athletics trainer, Randy
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: Metter come in. He gives you that coach conversation whisper
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: you know what those are, Brad, Right Like, Randy comes
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: in while games being played, and the trainer comes in
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: and he kind of coach gives you the no no.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: God basically said, if you had to use them, you
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: could probably use them. If you don't need to, then
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't do that. And so that's he'll be fine. Okay,
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: he'll be fine. Three guys. Before the game is brought
• 41:52
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• 41:54
  Speaker 3: Says, Well, I've got a lot more, but yeah, let's
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: you have a lot. I mean, we can go for hours.
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: We'll just it's a good synopsis.
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: So what we just saw tough loss by the women's
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: team was up sixteen with three minutes to go in
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: the third arch.
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: So that's that's that's unusual for them.
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: Yes, but other teams get to play too. You're away
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: from home and you think you got it in the bag,
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: and Colorado's got size, and it sounds like their size
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: hurt West Virginia and then West Virginia just didn't shoot.
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: It well and Colorado did down the stretch, I think
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: eight of eight, eight of nine.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: End of the game, West Virginia went cold. That's tough, man, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: It's really good. Went fast too, Texter. Hey, three guys,
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  Speaker 1: it's good. I didn't even get any. You got Mountaineer Munch,
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  Speaker 1: I got some. I never got any. I haven't gotten
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  Speaker 1: any Connection three oh four. I haven't seen that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well we're not doing that. Okay, Hey, three guys.
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: I thought that Hudson Clement would be a mountaineer for
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: life and a player that rich Rod would love. If
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: he's leaving, not only will we lose a great kid
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: and a player, but the food court will have to
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: find new entertainment. It's a sad day to be a mountaineer.
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, Texas says. I understand these kids transferring out.
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: I get it. They have to do what they think
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: is best for them. But it hurt me a little
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: bit when I saw Hudson leave that kids that that's
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: a kid. I thought could flourish in the new scheme,
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: but he has to do what he thinks his best.
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: Good luck to him whenever wherever he lands, will always.
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: Be Huddy Clement and Clement family fans great.
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. Pastor Holly from Elkview writes in three guys, hello,
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: we haven't done that. Well, he's the only reason I
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: did it because he put in parentheses. I missed Tony
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: saying this. I was wondering, do we have the same text?
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: I don't know where he is.
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but paid first page page one?
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: What happened? Oh here here, I took your first you
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: took page go ahead. I'll just listen. Didn't didn't you have? Just?
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: Didn't you get distribution in a pre show meeting?
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: I don't know what I happened.
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: I have last show's text.
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: I don't know if these are go ahead. I was wondering,
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: he's got him more good?
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: Do you have my comments from Saturday?
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: He's reading himself because he's got him more good.
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: The pastor writes, if I was ever I was wondering
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: if there has ever been an athletics director that has
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: shaped West Virginia athletics more than Ren Baker. Hiring both
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: football and basketball head coaches, women's basketball, volleyball, men's soccer,
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: perhaps even counting the change in the baseball program. He's
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: navigating nil conference realignment, the portal and revenue share. Personally,
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: I'm glad we will have Wren in charge. Back to
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: the question, have we ever had an ad that shaped
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: West Virginia Athletics more than Ren? Signed by pastor Holly
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: help you?
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: You know, that's a that's an interesting quest question. Two
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: things about that.
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: One is.
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: Actually I think you go back to Dick Martin. Frankly,
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: I know that there was some issues. There was the
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: most popular ad, but new stadium hired don.
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: Neland yeah that works.
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: I mean that worked. And as a side note, I
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: ran into Shane Lyons Saturday at the Coliseum. Daughter graduated
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: this week. I had a nice chat with him. How
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: are things at the Alabama? He's doing well.
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: Wren has absolutely inherited some some situations since he has arrived.
• 51:31
  Speaker 3: Yeahn's Wren's legacy is certainly will be on display here
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: with it with some serious heires ed passed along obviously
• 51:37
  Speaker 3: with some massive hires hired rich hired, b Line, hired Huggins.
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: That's pretty good.
• 51:42
  Speaker 3: You stack that up with about anybody that's it's been
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: in that position.
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: So Ed certainly point of clarification, Ren didn't hire Stratford, right,
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: Shane hied Stratford.
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: Shane, I think Shane hired Stratford.
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Shane hired Stratford. Or actually, let's get down to
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: the fact, Hoppy Well hired Stratford.
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I had influence in this department hiring.
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: Hey, two guys and the doctor. I had a question
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: for the senator and the doctor. What exactly do you
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: two do when you say you're calling Bowl games. I'm
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: curious because it might be something I'd be interested in
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: listening to. Hope all is well, Merry Christmas?
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: Right, Hoppy and I for of fifteen ish, I don't
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: even know what the number is. Fifteen sixteen games are
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: part of Bowl season radio, the national radio broadcasts of
• 52:29
  Speaker 3: those bulls. So Hoppy and I do pregame hosting duties
• 52:32
  Speaker 3: and halftime duties of those fifteen or sixteen or seventeen
• 52:36
  Speaker 3: or thirty five Bowl games. However many we have.
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: We have two today and they're produced. They're produced out
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: of Morgantown, so those guys go across town. Even though
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: you could use the studio. Well, I guess you couldn't
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: use the studio because there's things going on, but they
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: do them across town. And then the guys, So are
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: you guys putting the production in here?
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: The spots are all but done out of here. Yeah yeah, yeah,
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: so they're being produced in Morgantown, but they're coming. Like,
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: for example, what do you have today? What's your first
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: ball game today? Today?
• 53:02
  Speaker 3: First game Myrtle Beach Bowl at eleven am Eastern Monday,
• 53:06
  Speaker 3: and then that rolls into the famous Idaho Potato Bowl
• 53:09
  Speaker 3: at two thirty.
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: Episode's two two different games today.
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: Well, Saturday, we have like five or six games, and
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: Mike Parsons is executive producer. And I don't know how
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: we're doing that.
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: I think it's I think we do have it's five.
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: I think yeah, I have no idea how we're doing that.
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: I'm available. I'm not doing it. Are you? Would you
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: jump in there this Saturday? Yeah? Literally, I looked at
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: my calendar like I got nothing this week. I'm kind
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: of like I'm Jones in the way, you're almost on
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: your own. I'm not doing I'll come down there and
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: say halftime, that's what is I feel like it's the
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: NFL shows to just like cue the guys, just go,
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: we just go. Let's have great time talk football. Yeah,
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: speaking of Myrtle Beach. Congratulations to our own doc Hoppywood.
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: Take the picture. There you are, there's our boy. There's
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: our boy, Hoppy. Who's the other guy.
• 53:58
  Speaker 3: They framed that diploma for you there?
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, already framed.
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: Really yes, well that's a heck of a deal.
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: Already framed. It was really nice.
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: That's pretty cool.
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: So my comments, I said that I'm a radio talk
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: show host and you probably shouldn't put me in front
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: of a microphone.
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: Solid But I.
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: Said, I've been told to keep them my comments to
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: two minutes, and I'm one minute in. See, people appreciated that.
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: No one ever says what do I say, Tony?
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: No one ever says, geez, I wish you would have
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: spoke longer. Ever, I've already gone on that rant before
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: I'll do it again. What do you mean? Here's my rant.
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: If you ever put into a situation in public where
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: you're asked to speak, don't speak long. If they say
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: six minutes, it's six minutes, get your ass off the stage.
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: There's a reason people that go on and think. This
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: is the the worst thing you could ever see in
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: a situation when you get it. In a public speaking event,
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: someone walks to the podium and goes like, well, I
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: haven't written anything down here. You just go like, oh lord,
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: here it comes, and start your clock. Be thoughtful of
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: the other people. Just do what they tell you to do.
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: Get off. I'd literally start a timer when they say five,
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: I'm off. See you ain't got nothing else? I did
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: two good.
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: Now that doesn't apply to this program.
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: It's a podcast.
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: As we just go.
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: You turn her off whenever you want. Hey, three guys,
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep this short. I've been seeing a lot
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: of talk on message boards about the players transferring out
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: being soft or afraid of hard work. I think that
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: is nonsense and unfair to these guys. You don't get
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: to be a group of four a player by being
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: soft or afraid of hard work. It's disappointing to see
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: them leave, but they gave their best to West Virginia
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: while they were here, and in the circumstance we should
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: thank them and wish them well. Signed by Chad in Rochester.
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: I agree with you, Chad, agree with you. You can't
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: play this game if there is any softness uh in you?
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: So I totally agree. Now, there's different ways to skin
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: a cat, and Riches is at the at the end
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: point of being aggressive and it's a whole mindset. Now.
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: I was thinking about that when I saw that text,
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: like there's there's there's the military, right, but there's different
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: levels of the military. There's basic training and then there's
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: special Forces. You're still in the military, but the special
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: forces dudes do a little bit. You have a little
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: different headspace. I think you know Rich that he prides
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: himself on those guys being tough. He prides himself that
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: practice will be so hard that games will seem like
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: a relief.
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: So Devrees works. This guy's hard, right, bra.
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: Very, very hard. Texter says shortest day of the year
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: is technically in March when we set the clocks ahead
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: an hour and the day is twenty three hours, but
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: today marks the least amount of daylight or smallest gap
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: between sunrise and sunset winter solstice. That was probably the
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: twenty four second which is when, Yeah, that was twenty first,
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: twenty first.
• 57:22
  Speaker 3: There's a lot of sun out today.
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: We're good past the worst of it.
• 57:27
  Speaker 3: Here we go days are getting longer, Springfield is coming up.
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: Can't wait? We record on Monday. On Tuesdays at our
• 57:37
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• 57:41
  Speaker 1: what day that's right? So tomorrow is twenty four of December.
• 57:46
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• 57:50
  Speaker 1: you're traveling, stop at a Gomart Christmas, use your go
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• 57:56
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• 57:58
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• 57:59
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• 58:01
  Speaker 1: Thank you for checking. So go Maart text me in
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: the morning, see if I've had breakfast. Yeah. All I'm
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: saying is this, by the way, going back to that
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: beer thing in January, Yeah, go Mart will play a
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: major role, major role. You can use your Gomart rewards
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: card to get our beer. I'll tell you that much.
• 58:21
  Speaker 3: Put that on there, which will be in the greatest
• 58:23
  Speaker 3: distribution of beer in the history of the world, any
• 58:27
  Speaker 3: beer ever in the history of the world. That's what
• 58:29
  Speaker 3: you're saying.
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: It will be ubiquitous.
• 58:32
  Speaker 3: Good word when triple points are win.
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: To Tuesdays through the end of the year, So a
• 58:38
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• 58:41
  Speaker 3: I think you can get your mega million's ticket there too,
• 58:43
  Speaker 3: can't you in that thing like at four point three billion,
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• 58:49
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• 58:50
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• 58:54
  Speaker 1: All of it? Really, at some point it becomes a hassle.
• 59:04
  Speaker 3: I would think, hey, by the way, quick shout out here,
• 59:06
  Speaker 3: because we're talking about go Mart and we got some treats.
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: Yesterday.
• 59:10
  Speaker 3: You got some M and ms. I think, oh, yeah,
• 59:13
  Speaker 3: I got some. Fred McPherson dropped off a big, big,
• 59:16
  Speaker 3: giant sleeve of recy peanut butter cups. Saw that, So
• 59:18
  Speaker 3: I can say if you didn't, weren't fortunate that Fred
• 59:21
  Speaker 3: handed out peanut butter cups.
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: So you can got a Bill Mart happy with some
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: of those. There's a gentleman that twice as basketball season
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: has already done this, he comes over my shoulder. He
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: just keeps moving and just drops a two pound bag
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: of peanut M and m's on the table. Oh really, yeah.
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: And you show great discipline.
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: Oh I don't need them during the year. No, I
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: couldn't do that. No, do not. Good job anyway, Thank you, Fred?
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: Thank you Scope, Senator Doctor Dean. Wait, when's that triple points?
• 59:47
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  Speaker 1: download the gomart app to get the rewards card, or
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  Speaker 1: just go to gomart dot com. With the talk about staff,
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: Rich Rod is going to retain a lot along with
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: all the portal discussion guys leaving recruiting of the portal,
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: one name we haven't heard much about is the football
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: GM Drew Fabianich. Is he still on the staff. Is
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: it known if rich Rod is leveraging the work he's done.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: Speaking of staff, with the reported seven and a half
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: million being made available for staff, what salaries does that cover?
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: On field coaches they recruit other on field coaches, strength, staff, gas, staff, administration,
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: Who does that money have to cover? Merry Christmas to
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: you and yours, Dougie and Winfield. Everything I mean staff
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: is staff, so it all goes under the football budget.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: And I think, you know, like Hop said, rich wants
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: to I think when he was on he said by
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: January one or two, he'd like to have the staff done.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: Sounds about he's he's got guys that he's conversating with
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: that are playing games this coming weekend, which is twenty
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: seven to twenty eight, So I think it all come together.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: I would say this that there's gonna be the strong
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: majority will depart that are currently on staff. There'll be
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: a handful that will be retained, but for the most part,
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: it's cycling through. I do think there's gonna be some
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: names that you remember from rich Rich's past that will
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: be coming back in Texter. Hey, three guys. Jake originally
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: from Preston County, currently live West Texas. Is it more
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: likely that Jake hour it's double digit threes this season
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: or Sincere Harris finishes with more threes than Jake by
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: the end of the.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 3: Year, Well, Jake, I think Jake's gonna get double digit threes.
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: I do think.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 3: Sincere's Sincere's day is coming. A couple more shots out
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 3: it yesterday that looked like a couple of those look
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 3: like they were gonna fall.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: He'll He'll get He'll get a couple here.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 3: Sincere I'll get just need some confidence. We've said before,
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 3: Sincere can shoot it ninety percent from the free throw life,
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 3: you don't get a couple of drop I agree.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: Charlie from mid Lothian Hoppy or should I say twice,
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: Doctor Kerchievell, I got my always a West Virginia connection
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: this past week when I went to see Rob Elsop's sister,
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: who's my optometrist for my annual checkup. We spent the
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: first ten minutes of the visit catching up on mountaineer sports.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: She indicated she was going to go to the Mercyhurst game.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: She played in the Pride of West Virginia, and she
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: was impressed when Tony. She met Tony when the two
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: of you had a chance while you were walking your
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: dogs and you were able to rap off the three
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: bowl games in which she participated in with the band
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: Merry Christmas.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: Guys, surprised you remember those?
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: Well, like I said, I can do that. I couldn't
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: tell you where I was last week. Oh okay, Tony,
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: we've gained three minutes of daylight. Yeay, only eighty seven
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: days until spring. Well that's coming quick. Has anyone impressed
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: upon Coach Devrees and comp the noise in the cacophony
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: of Alan Fieldhouse. I'd hate for them to be caught
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: unaware all of the pit game. I love the show.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: P one listener Nancy from Martinsburg. Oh, he knows well
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: aware he knows what he's gonna get into. I haven't
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: asked him of you would they ever go there? With Creighton.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 3: I've not asked him that.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: Texter, Merry Christmas. Three guys, Joe, Mock and Leander Texas.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: We're big in Texas, currently huge.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: As a P one listener, I hear all of the
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: fantastic content on the podcast, and I want all three
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: of you to know how much I appreciate the special
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: gifts each of you bring to each episode. To Hoppy,
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: congratulations on your upcoming retirement. I'll be retiring myself in
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five after thirty eight years in the insurance industry.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: I'll be taking notes on how you pull it off.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: You know, my sister's late father was in law was
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: Bos Johnson.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 2: One of the greats.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: As news director at wsa Z and Huntington for decades
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: press end of the NAB, he considered the dean of
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: TV news in West Virginia. Hoppy, your contributions to the state.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: I love stand right there with Boz. God bless you
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: for all you've done. By the way, April and I
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: actually enjoyed the Frisco Bowl, despite our historically dreadful defense.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: I was wrapping three guys at the game. As you
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: can see in the picture, there he is, there's Joe.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: We're in a three guys awesome Joe. Wel he's there
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: at Toyota. It looks like he was at Toyota Stadium.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: He outstanding. Thank you, Joe. Merry Christmas to you and
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: to April.
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 2: Tony Boz Johnson was one of the greats, one of
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: the one of the premier.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: Broadcast newspeople of all time in West Virginia. Absolutely, isn't
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: it interesting that you're the premiere radio guy and you
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: have a weird name. And Boz also had a unique
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: name Boz and Hoppy. It wasn't like Bob and Tom.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 2: It's anecdotal, not scientific accident.
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: Hey, you want to be real good, get a unique name,
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: Texter first time. I've been an avid listener since day one,
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: and when my wife surprised me with tickets to the
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: Mercyhurst game, I knew I wanted to try meet Tony
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: and Brad. I listened to every episode on my one
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: hour and forty minute commute to work. You guys didn't
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: disappoint Thank you both for being so approachable and getting
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: our pictures made with myself and daughter Miya. You're truly
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: a class act. On a way back to our seats,
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: I ran into none other than coach Rich rod Hey
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: and Rich Harry on their cake was a mountain near
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: victory things looking up in hoops and football. Truly excitement
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: in the air. I love the show. Keep up the
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  Speaker 1: great work. There they are, there's some pictures. There's Mia right,
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  Speaker 1: and then I think he did he say did he
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  Speaker 1: run into they were at a football game that was
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  Speaker 1: not last night? And then did he get his picture
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  Speaker 1: to it with Rich? Oh? Yeah, there's Rich Rich Rich inside. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: looks like Riches made it to the equipment room. He
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  Speaker 1: got regeared up a set. That's great.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was nice talking to Chris and Mia headed
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  Speaker 3: to the Air Force.
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  Speaker 1: In the air Force. Yeah, I still think he says
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  Speaker 1: we still need to give the Flatwood's Monster a little
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  Speaker 1: more airtime too, even though Brad doesn't want to. He
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  Speaker 1: started bringing up the Flatwood Monster. He's got people that
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  Speaker 1: know the Flatwood Monster. I think I had used to
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  Speaker 1: have dinner with the Flatwoods Monster or something like that, Denny,
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  Speaker 1: Is that what he was saying? Im ignoring you? Chris
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  Speaker 1: may Princeton, West Virginia, originally from Braxton County. There you go.
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  Speaker 1: Last text. Good morning gentlemen. So happy to hear you
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  Speaker 1: received your point Settus. Yes, Brad, let me know if
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  Speaker 1: you're still is MIA. I can locate it through the
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  Speaker 1: tracking device on the flying WV. Just kidding, but I
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  Speaker 1: did want to get Now you did get your pointy.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks to you you found it. It is displayed proudly
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  Speaker 3: in our house. Thank You don't know, but.
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  Speaker 1: I did want to give you a quick history on
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: the Point Settus. About twenty years ago, I came across
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  Speaker 1: the post on social media from Mary's Greenhouse and Elkins.
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  Speaker 1: My father, Johnny Olashuck called and placed in order. He
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  Speaker 1: drove to Elkins from Weirdon Now picked him up. After
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  Speaker 1: his passing, I would order them and my niece, who
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: worked at Ruby, would make the drive to Elkins to
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  Speaker 1: pick them up. Now, for the last five years, I
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: meet Larry the owner in Morgantown when he makes his
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  Speaker 1: deliveries to town. Larry is a one man operation. He
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  Speaker 1: grows these points Settus, pots them, loads them in a
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  Speaker 1: delivery truck and delivers them all over the state. I
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: know how much you guys appreciate West Virginia businesses. Please
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  Speaker 1: send a shout out to Larry from Mary's Greenhouse and Elkins.
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  Speaker 1: Merry Christmas, three guys, Donna Owen Weird, Well done, Larry,
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  Speaker 1: Thanks Tom huh well, thank you that those are beautiful
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  Speaker 1: Point Settus and Mary's Greenhouse. No doubt, if you're in Elkins,
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  Speaker 1: you're near the four lane in Beverly. Everything revolves around
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: the four lane and Beverly got a business at the
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  Speaker 1: fore lane of Beverly. You'll find it, you'll get there.
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  Speaker 3: A one last shout out and a I've got a
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  Speaker 3: I've got something to come clean about. Oh well, screwed up?
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  Speaker 3: Excuse me what I screwed up?
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  Speaker 1: I like these when you screw up. Well.
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  Speaker 3: First of all, shout out to Brian Thornton, VP of
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 3: men's basketball for the Big Twelve Conference. Next to you,
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  Speaker 3: that sat right next to us there at the scores.
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  Speaker 3: Enjoyed talking to him, catching up with him. A total
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  Speaker 3: missed opportunity, Oh, total missed opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: Where did he go? Wartburg? No Xavier?
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  Speaker 3: He was a heck of a player at Xavier, played
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 3: professionally in Germany. He's then got into then coach, then
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  Speaker 3: got into administration. Was the commissioner of the Whack for
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 3: a while before joining the Big twelve.
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  Speaker 1: Yet great. I really enjoyed him. You going time zone,
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  Speaker 1: good basketball.
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  Speaker 3: Totally acted.
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  Speaker 1: Oh you, I totally acted. We got it.
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  Speaker 3: We had a Big twelve guy sitting six inches from him,
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  Speaker 3: all in bread. I had a great conversation with him,
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  Speaker 3: talked hoops, we'll see him. He could have just easily said, hey, Brian,
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 3: can he helps out with something here?
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  Speaker 1: We'll see him again. No, I've been doing better, haven't
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  Speaker 1: they better?
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  Speaker 3: It's been better. I don't know that it's been well.
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  Speaker 1: What you do.
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  Speaker 2: Hang in your defense, you you established a relationship, You
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 2: built the groundwork. You didn't want to look like blow
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  Speaker 2: him up, blow him up right there you were. You
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 2: would have so, Brad, next time you see him, he goes, hey, Brad,
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  Speaker 2: how are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: Good to see and then it will come up more organically. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: fair enough. I still think I should have brought it up.
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  Speaker 1: You know. It's also funny, hoppy, since the Brad's now
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: into this basketball thing, I'm helping them out a little bit.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: What do you mean so like before games starts, I'll go, like,
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  Speaker 1: see these officials I'll give I'll shut up a point
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: to them, I say, you see this one here, I said,
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: watch this. During the course of the game, he'll make
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: two calls at least they'll make you go turn your
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: head and looking at me like, what how good was
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: that last night? Yesterday? Do we have two? Told you?
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  Speaker 1: That is it?
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  Speaker 2: That's really that's like an added dimension of basketball, which
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 2: is different somewhat. I mean there's some of that in football,
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 2: but it's more so.
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  Speaker 3: Way so in basketball. I had been out of that
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 3: world for a number of years. We used to spend hours.
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  Speaker 1: Who's you got tonight? Whose inventials? What's our record? Now?
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  Speaker 1: He's got me back in.
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 3: Now I'm leaning over to him.
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: You know which ones, you know, which ones are still
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: a little bit green in the in the game will
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: get a little bit too big for them, and they'll
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: and they'll fold. You know, the ones that won't blow
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: their whistle, You know the ones that try to become
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: bigger than the game. You can just see it coming.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 2: Mountaineer Joe Mizzoula had a little issue with the official
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  Speaker 2: the other night.
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  Speaker 1: You haven't seen that very much.
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  Speaker 3: Haven't seen that as as player Joe Miszouli you haven't
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 3: seen that much as coaching. I'm not sure at all.
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  Speaker 3: As the Celtics head coach.
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  Speaker 1: He went old testament, that was that was old school Joe.
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: They saw someone thirty five.
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, somebody gonna pay for that.
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you'll have that. You know it was. It was
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: a loss. It was disappointing loss, big. I mean, it's
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: just I don't know. Maybe it's trying to do something
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: for their team. They hadn't seen that before. The nerves
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: have been getting a little raw in the NBA. Steve
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: Kerr last week on that uh they call a loose
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: ball file on guys just jumping on the ground trying
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: to get a ball. It was a bad call and
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: things are touchy playing, So what are you saying?
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 2: It was two bad calls in that game last night yesterday?
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: Just like, what where did that come from? What did
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 1: you do? All that overall fun? Didn't affect that? Oh yeah,
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: it didn't affect the game. That's what those are. Fine.
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 2: Now it gets but now now it's gonna get tight.
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gonna get it's gonna get real. That's fine,
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: that's fine. Just play the game. Let's go play. So
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: it's the twenty third so we have another we have
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: another production meeting. That's another production meeting. You guys good
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: for what Thursday, Friday and then we guys don't get situations.
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: Just play the music and we'll do it after. To
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: play the music people want to know.
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 3: Well that that's what I always say. Follow you will
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 3: just show up.
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  Speaker 2: I'm here, I'm here the whole time earlier week.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 3: No, he doesn't even know his schedule, so I gotta
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 3: keep track of his schedule too and mine. He doesn't
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 3: even know what he's got to do. That's why this
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 3: is gonna be a longer conversation.
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: Wrap it.
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  Speaker 3: Merry Christmas, everybody. Are we talkulated this week?
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  Speaker 1: Let me ask you this. Are we going to do
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: another one this week? We're efforting. I'm not sure. Unless
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: you guys got a bad week, Unless you guys got
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: them Japan Bowl, we can always do it. Guarantee we
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  Speaker 1: Did you see erin? By the way, you didn't see
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  Speaker 1: erin yesterday at the game? Aaron from Africa? Oh? No,
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: I did? Was he there? He was there? Once't say
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: you're a big time in it with people getting I
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: don't know what you were doing there, but it's great
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: to see Aeron.
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  Speaker 3: I was bummed out I didn't see her. Yeah, I
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 3: always liked to see him.
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  Speaker 1: He was there. I mean a guy. Guy drove all
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: the way from Africa to see you. Budapest Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: in there, Jack. Jack went backside as well. He's in
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  Speaker 1: on Christmas break. It's just a holiday season in all seriousness,
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  Speaker 1: have yourself a wonderful, enjoyable Christmas holiday season with your
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: family and your friends. We'll be back at some point,
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  Speaker 1: probably see it.