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3 Guys Before The Game - Texas Two Step (Episode 529) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  Shall we dance? It's time for the Texas two Step five and twenty eighth
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  edition of Three Guys Before the Game. That's what we're talking about. Texas
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  two Step DOUBLEVU men and women's basketball teams are both going to Texas this weekend
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  and they're playing two in the lone Star State West Virginia men take on the
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  Longhorn Saturday, the horn Frogs Monday, the women play the Baylor Bears Saturday,
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  lawyers. The thing that always surprised me about lawyers is they'll go like,
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  lawyer until you go into a lawyer's office. That's how you become a lawyer.
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  You learn how to do it. I think the same thing here,
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  right, no question? Yeah, like you think, or sometimes you don't
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  even have to go to school for it or learn any of it and just
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  kind of just start talking. That sometimes works well, kind of let the
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  kid out of the back there. I mean, I was just going to
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  say, do you think? I mean, Brad and I went to many,
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  many years of podcasting schools of how to do a podcast, and this
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  is the end result. Thank goodness, we did that. We took all
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  able to be here today without the extensive training that we've received. Thank you
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  to all of our professors who helped us down that road. So we're going
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  to Texas times two, two games each and important games for both the men
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  and the women. I think it's a huge, huge time in this Mountaineer
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  men's basketball season because number one, going on the road is difficult. The
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  Mountaineers haven't won on the road yet this season. And and here we are.
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  One week of February is in. It's a short month to begin with,
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  and you got to get something going here otherwise this thing could start to
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  trend downward. Quickly right now. They've done a great job of continuing to
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  have that readiness to ball and to play, and they don't quit and they
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  fight. You don't want to come to a point in this season where you
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  go, like, what are we doing this for? That's frightening. Don't
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  want to get there. You don't want to get there. You're halfway through
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  the season in the league, and that's why this is important. And you
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  just happen to be having to do that against the team you already beat once.
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  This is always a tough stretch for teams that are not NCAA tournament teams.
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  I think this final four or five weeks seasons almost over now. Listen,
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  this group is, as you just said, has given no indication that
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  that's in their DNA. So far, they've played and they've competed, so
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  hopefully that continues. This is a tough that We're gonna say that every game
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  from here on out. But this is a tough swing here with these two
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  road games, the Texas with the revenge game on their mind, as you
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  mentioned, and then tc TCU is going to be a difficult matchup. I'll
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  break that down coming up. But the things TCU does well are things that
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  West Virginia has had problems with correct right, so you'll know. You'll know
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  Saturday within the first two media timeouts, you'll know Saturday where you're gonna be.
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  It's going to take to the twelve minute mark of the first half and
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  you'll know. And by that I mean this, If West Virginia doesn't go
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  out there with an absolute fighters mentality to start that game, it's going to
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  be a long afternoon. If you don't see them aggressively going after rebounds,
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  at loose balls, defending, getting up inside of people, and just being
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  a gnat presence mean physical. If you don't see that, gonna have a
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  problem. You better bring it. I'm not saying that's the recipe that's gonna
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  get you to win, but if you don't have it, you got no
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  shot. And you said one thing in there, I think maybe above all
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  the others, it's on the defensive end. For both of these games.
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  West Virginia is going to have to show a little bit of fight on the
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  defensive end here or you might get run out. And these are tough gyms.
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  We've seen West Virginia just in the last couple of years go into each
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  of these buildings and look non competitive. West Virginia got blown up in Moody
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  last year by thirty four points. And that was a West Virginia team that
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  obviously made it to the NCAA tournament. Yes, you got beat by thirty
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  four last year. It's a different world. They play well there, and
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  I know some teams have had some success there, but when situations come up,
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  Texas will have this one on their head and you better be ready to
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  go from the opening tip. Well, it's happened at TCU too. When
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  was that was that last year? The year before Western you went in there
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  was a weeknight, if I'm not mistaken, gave up four thousand points in
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  the lane. I've had a couple of them there. You know, the
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  first several years we were in the league, we go to TCU and there
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  wasn't a big fear factor, right, and guy, you just you'd go
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  in there and you're gonna find a way to win. Put your feet up
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  on their press table during the game, you know, just kind of lounge
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  back, lean back in your seat, just kind of watch the game.
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  Yeah, that's changed, Jamie. Jamie's done a nice job. Jamie's had
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  a nice bounce back after his flirtation with U c l A. There was
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  a period of time where the lover was debating whether or not to accept him
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  back. And he's was able to bring it back to cajeal it again and
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  now they're often going again where I think, yeah, so I know we're
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  jumping around both opponents here. We're kind of viewing this as one where I
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  think he's done a nice job with them. Is you said it early from
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  early in the league, you'd go down there and there wasn't really necessarily a
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  fair factor. Okay, you're playing TCU, and that mean you win every
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  time, but you just go, okay, TCUs it. They've turned into
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  a good program and a good so now you're not surprised, Like you look
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  at TCU. They're thirtieth in the Ken Palm and you don't go, well,
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  how about the guy, well's TCU playing. They're thirtieth now in the
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  R right, you just expect them to be in that upper middle half now,
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  yeah, yeah, they've become very solid. Yeah, I'll go back
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  here. Is just to kind of give you a night. Here's why you
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  weren't afraid of TCU. West Virginia started playing them in thirteen they won two,
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  four, six, eight ten, won eleven straight. There you go,
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  they won the first eleven games. So you go to TC and you
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  go, okay, by sholmy arena. Okay, that's fine, we got
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  you. However, you know, West Virginia is still done well in this
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  series two four six. West Virginia's won four this last six. But last
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  year at Scholmeyer, actually it wasn't that. It wasn't that the game the
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  score was closed. But was that the game I'm remembering where you couldn't stop
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  a layup but you still kept it close? Is that what I'm thinking of?
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  It had to be wet beat got beat by four, seventy six to
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  seventy two. In the previous visit seventy seven, sixty seven got beat.
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  Then, yeah, there was, but there's been a couple. Oh here
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  it is, well that's five years ago. They beat West Virginia ninety eight
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  sixty seven. But that's been five years. That's been five years January of
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  twenty Maybe the you think it is like, you know what that is PTSS
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  post traumatic scoring syndrome. Okay, so I was half right. So last
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  year the score wasn't indicative of what that looked like Westerna lost by what four,
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  gave up fifty at the rim? That was it? Fifty points at
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  the rim. The games surrounding that, you gave up twenty six, twenty
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  seven, thirty three, thirty one, twenty five, twenty four, twenty
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  two, eighteen and twelve points at the rim, TCU had fifty forty four
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  off layups. Yeah, it's probably not good, which I'm going through that.
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  I'm sure that's going to be a season high last year. Yes,
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  okay, so that's what it was. So you somehow managed to keep it
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  close although they were just doing layup drills on you. Okay, all right,
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  So that's the big picture on the women's side. Really super interesting trip
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  for them as well. They're now twenty and two, they've won seven straight
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  games, and they go Baylor and then TCU. So like it's rug cut
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  in time right now. Baylor just got beat last night, that would be
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  when night, so they're coming home. Their situation is they need to get
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  back out there. The question on Baylor in West Virginia is okay, Baylor,
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  are you what you used to be with Kim Malkey? Probably not in
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  the question now West Virginia is okay, exactly how how good are you?
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  Can you finish in the top two or three of this league. It's going
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  to get harder. Their games are going to get harder progressively. Yes,
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  then they stay on the road. They got an off day Sunday Monday,
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  and they don't play until Tuesday against the TCUs So big two game trip for
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  them, big two game trip. Baylor's going to bring a little bit of
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  size. That's one thing you want to see out of this West Virginia team
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  is how do they match up when a team throws size out of me.
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  You haven't seen a lot of that so far. Texas was won. Texas
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  was really big at the guard position and the front line position. West Virginia
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  struggled in that game, but a lot of that really came down to them
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  just not hitting their threes. I don't know how much the size really affected
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  them, but that'll be one to keep an eye on here. Baylor's got
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  some kids six foot and up, six one and up that'll provide a challenge.
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  They're good at the rim. Baylor shoots sixty three percent. They like
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  to get the ball down in the paint, So this will be This will
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  be a fun one to watch and a great road test for a mountaineer team
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  that's playing with a ton of confidence and should right, they feel great about
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  themselves. These are free money games. Wow, absolutely right, Yeah,
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  these are free money games for them. Just gonna go in and with that
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  nothing to lose attitude and see how things roll out to us. That'll be
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  fun, that'll be interesting to watch. You ready to are ready to do
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  going to do it chronologically. Texas first, sure, let's dive in first
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  meeting West Virginia win. There were some things that West Virginia did extremely well
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  that they've got to look to repeat. Here's one. Held Texas to just
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  thirty eight percent of their points in the paint. That was about five percent
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  below the Horn season average. Remember that was coming off a game when West
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  Virginia had gotten blitzed at the basket, and so that was a big talking
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  point going to that game, is could you shut off the rim? Could
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  you shut off a team from taking it right at you? Texas is going
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  to want to go right at you. Can you stop it? Well they
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  did. Texas had just eighteen points at the rim, which is the fewest
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  allowed by West Virginia all season in Big twelve play. Did a nice shot
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  there, Texas. Now they shot it really efficiently ten of ten on shots
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  at the rim, which again are defined as shots within four and a half
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  feet of the basket. Ten of ten, But the volume wasn't there.
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  Longhorns liked to take about one third of their shots at the rim. That's
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  above the national average, so right about forty six percent of their points come
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  in the paint, so watch the paint. Can West Virginia do a good
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  job again of holding them out of the paint, force them outside? And
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  if you remember last game, they only had two players make threes to sue
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  in Asmis. Now Asmis went banana especially late there to close that gap.
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  But that's it from the shooters, right, so I think you still want
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  to live with that. Don't make it easy on them, make them make
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  shots from the outside. The other thing West Virginia achieved, they made it
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  ugly. If you'll remember twenty two turnovers from Texas in the first meeting,
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  you would have liked to get some more points off those turnovers. You had
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  fifteen points off the turnovers. But remember what we liked about that, it
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  stalled out some possessions. So twenty two turnovers, that's where West Virginia has
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  to make some Hey, it's not a great turnover producing defense, but Texas
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  turns it over a lot. That's one of their deficiencies. You've got to
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  take advantage of that now on the flip side, So turnovers are going to
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  be important because on the flip side, you've got to watch Texas. They're
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  seventeenth nationally in turnover percentage, and they get sixteen points per game off of
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  that. I'll get back into this category and something coming up here in just
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  a minute. But watch turnovers. West Virginia needs them, and you have
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  to keep the ball from Texas from letting them get cranked up with the stoners
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  sting, especially at home, right, you don't want them stealing and running
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  on you at home. All right, here's the other part defensively, pick
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  and roll. You have to watch this. West Virginia gave up a season
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  high twenty eight points to the pick and roll ball handler in the first matchup
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  six twenty eight. In the first matchup twenty eight gave up twenty eight points
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  to the pick and roll man. It was a season high for Texas at
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  that point. Texas has had double figure points from the pick and roll ball
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  handler five times all season. That twenty eight, yeah, that twenty eight
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  was there. High. Okay, Iowa State went right at Texas on the
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  other side, or to excuse me, Texas killed Iowa State with the roll
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  man, not the pick and roll ball handler. They got twenty out of
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  the roll man. So you're gonna have to watch which of that works the
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  first time, it worked with Texas keeping the hands ball in the hands of
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  their ball handler. Does West Virginia adjust with that? Does Jesse Edwards being
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  back help your ability to stop the pick and roll ball handler? They're going
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  to want to do it a bunch on you. You didn't contain it the
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  first time, can you contain it this time? So that's a big point
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  of scoring. Yeah. If you go back and talk to Josh Eiler about
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  the Texas game, that was, as you said, they were coming off
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  of performances where they had not guarded well, and so they made some changes
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  to the defense and they decided they were going to gap everything. And he
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  continues to say that that was the best team defense that they played the entire
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  season. Well, that was also a surprise to Texas. Texas had not
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  seen West Virginia defend like that, had not prepared for that. So now
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  the two differences are going to be this one. Now they've seen it,
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  so now they're preparing for it. The second part is, as you just
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  said, Jesse Edwards wasn't available in that game. What kind of a difference
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  does he make to West Virginia's approach? Those are two unknowns that will go
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  a long way and figure out how this game flows. Just checking one other
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  thing here, well you seem a little I mean, you're really locked in
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  there. Did some number pop up that says, yeah, it's this one.
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  So let's talk catch and shoot jumpers guarded versus unguarded. The only time
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  all season Texas has been shut out with points from unguarded catch and shoots was
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  against West Virginia. That won't happen again. They got no points off that.
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  Yeah, that won't happen again. Only had one only got one unguarded
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  look the whole game last time. Mm hm, well maybe that's why Josh
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  says the defense was the best of the season. Yeah, that's pretty good.
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  I had forgotten that stat until looking at that. Okay, so just
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  keep an eye on that. Well, that was obviously a huge advantage for
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  West Virginia. Didn't get any points off open looks. Remember free throws.
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  In the first meeting, West Virginia was plus eleven points on plus twenty attempts.
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  Correct, it took forty one free throws against forty seven field goal attempts.
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  Did the Mountaineers an eighty seven percent free throw rate? That was the
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  ball game right there. Yeah, Texas took twenty one free throws to West
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  Virginia's forty one. West Virginia made twenty seven, So it was one of
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  those deals. And we've seen this happen both sides. For West Virginia this
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  year. In this particular day, they made more than the other team attempted
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  plus six. Yeah, if you're plus eleven points on plus twenty attempts,
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  that's a win. So the number we're looking for there if you want to,
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  because I'm sure everbody's sitting around at home with their iPhones out with the
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  calculator wanting to do math while they're watching games, or Texas instrument calculator.
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  Maybe you have one of those big ones with the tape ribbon on that.
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  If you want to do that, just print so then you can put the
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  tape out and keep it alongside you as each point in the game. If
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  you're watching for a number, watch forty three percent as a free throw rate,
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  So you'll take the free throw attempts divided by the field goal attempts gives
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  your free throw rate. If it's forty three percent above, West Virginia's won
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  those games. If it's below that, you haven't won a game. Pretty
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  clear line, Okay, So for words, get to the line. Gotta
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  get to the line so that while you're watching the game, if you want
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  to be the smartest guy in the room, when you're listening or watching the
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  game on Saturday, you can just kind of lean over to your boy and
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  just go like, this isn't trending. Well, let's say, what are
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  you talking about? Our free throw rates only sitting here at thirty six percent
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  needs to be above forty three? Too low? Or if you go like
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  this is going exactly where we needed to go, what do you mean,
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  Well, our free throw rate's forty nine point six percent right now, Well
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  we just needed forty three. We're fine, We're gonna win this game.
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  That's what you do. That's one. And then if they still question your
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  number acumen, come with this. Your assist rate needs to be right around.
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  You can take a fifty nine, but it's got to be sixty or
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  above. Assist rate number of assists divided by baskets made. That's where you
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  want to be. So in the first game, West Virginia had eleven assists
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  on how many twenty one fielders? What was that? That's low? That
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  is low so what what overcame that? So because you fought you point fifty
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  two, So you're a little bit low your points at the foul line.
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  Probably that's you were so good at the free throw line. But those are
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  the two numbers. To watch. You hit those numbers, you generally get
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  a win. All right. West Virginia outrebounded Texas the first time, and
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  a lot of that was this is where one of the games where the team
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  really started to rebound. Well, you had eleven from your two point guards,
• 23:33
  Crisa and no affair Con. In fact, fir Con was your was
• 23:36
  your leading offensive rebounder. Texas is good on the offensive glass, but not
• 23:41
  elite, so can you limit them a little bit? Very good, But
• 23:45
  we faced some teams in this league as as West Virginia. We've talked about
• 23:48
  teams in this league from a West Virginia perspective that have been elite, like
• 23:52
  top fifteen teams now in the glass, it was one of them. Yeah,
• 23:55
  TCU is going to be another one that's elite. That's not Texas,
• 23:59
  but they're still very good, so can you keep them off the offensive glass?
• 24:02
  They're just two hundred and fourteenth in defensive rebounding So can West Virginia get
• 24:07
  to the offensive glass number one? You had ten in the first meeting.
• 24:11
  Five came from Pat Sumnick. But here's the more important part. I keep
• 24:14
  saying this. It's not just the raw numbers of offensive rebounds that you give
• 24:18
  up or that you get, it's the points you get off of those.
• 24:21
  Because from a West Virginia perspective, you're always looking for ways to find points.
• 24:25
  Free throw line is one of them. Offensive rebounding can be a sneaky
• 24:29
  one. You can get out rebounded, but if you get a lot of
• 24:32
  second chance points off what you get rebound wise, you've got a shot.
• 24:37
  West Virginia only had ten second chance points off those ten offensive rebounds in the
• 24:41
  first meeting. Still got your win. But that's something to watch as well.
• 24:45
  How effective are they getting the ball and then put in back in?
• 24:48
  Okay, we talked about Texas from three point land A Smiths and Dessous are
• 24:53
  the only two to hit the three. Does that continue? They're thirty third
• 24:56
  nationally and three point percentage, So keep an eye on that all right.
• 25:00
  Now, let's dive down in the weeds for a second. This hasn't been
• 25:03
  the weeds, No that's just that's superficial, over the top stuff. That's
• 25:07
  standard stuff. Okay, weed me. You want some hot spots on the
• 25:11
  floor. Oh, you don't like the hotspots. This has been working where
• 25:15
  we've been working short right corner. It was last week it was the short
• 25:22
  left corner, which was better for West Virginia. Although they didn't convert last
• 25:26
  week, they got the shots. So you're saying short right, So you're
• 25:29
  saying short baseline right. Teams shoot forty seven percent from Texas in that spot,
• 25:34
  and if you expand that out to the right corner three, teams are
• 25:38
  still shooting forty percent. Now, teams don't take a lot of shots from
• 25:41
  there, and as we've talked, that's not a great spot for West Virginia.
• 25:45
  Typically just seven percent of the shots have come seven percent of Western shots
• 25:52
  have come from those areas, and you're only shooting twenty four percent from the
• 25:56
  short corner and twenty five from corner three. Can I ask you a question
• 26:00
  that you may or may not know the answer to, off topic sort of?
• 26:04
  So you know the software cerebro, right, Yeah? I think Cerebro
• 26:11
  is the software where you can input the data as to what it is you're
• 26:15
  looking for what you're looking for. So what it is is teams can put
• 26:18
  in I'm looking for a player that shoots forty four percent or better from the
• 26:26
  deep right corner. Right, you can put that in there and it'll produce
• 26:30
  the database of players in college basketball that are doing that. But don't you
• 26:33
  think we're that this thing is going forward? Where if you're a school like
• 26:37
  a West Virginia this year, then you analyze all the opposing teams that you've
• 26:41
  played and you say, you know, there's a consistent theme that comes up
• 26:47
  that the weakness of defenses is found in this particular spot that you have a
• 26:52
  higher percentage to score. If you have someone that can score it from right
• 26:56
  here, then you go find that player that can do that. Isn't that
• 26:59
  where this is going? That's part of why I'm doing this? You mean
• 27:03
  you have an ulterior Mond's put it out there. Yeah, why couldn't you
• 27:06
  do that? Game by game? You could and are like coach Stevenson last
• 27:11
  year. You say, hey, coach Stevenson, hot spot's the deep right
• 27:15
  corner. He take care of that for you. Okay, So you may
• 27:18
  want to try and get Seth Wilson into the deep right corner here four of
• 27:22
  eight. Now, not a lot of chances from there, but you can
• 27:25
  get the right corner three. He's the one guy. So if you see
• 27:27
  Seth Wilson pull up from the right corner three, that would be why they
• 27:30
  identify that it's hot spot. You can hit it, run a set See
• 27:33
  if can get Seth open in the right corner, tell them let it fly.
• 27:37
  Okay, best spot. Oh, far left paint. I will describe
• 27:42
  it as so imagine the paint we're looking at the basket. Far left paint
• 27:48
  is the left hand side, and you're talking eight to fifteen feet from the
• 27:52
  backboard. We call that angle left. No we don't. We call it
• 27:55
  far left paint. Stay with me. That would be the far left paint
• 27:57
  zone. Teams are shooting fifty two percent against Texas from that spot outside of
• 28:03
  the lane to the left, not outside the lane, oh, in the
• 28:06
  lane. Yeah, that's why I said far left. Did you say eight
• 28:08
  to fifteen feet right up to the free throw line, so around the elbow
• 28:11
  and down and in elbow seven feet from the elbow down left side fifty two
• 28:18
  percent, National averages thirty nine percent. I don't see us taking many shots
• 28:21
  from there. West Virginia is shooting only thirty five percent from that spot.
• 28:25
  Maybe that's why it's below the national average. But West Virginia does like the
• 28:29
  right side. Let me ask him, we go back, except do we
• 28:32
  shoot it much from there? No, that's interesting because I did, like
• 28:36
  during the course of I don't see a lot of left side of the lane
• 28:40
  from fifteen down to eight on that left side lane being attempts. That's what
• 28:45
  I'm saying. That's a good spot against Texas. You want to work somebody
• 28:48
  there. Hold on, I'm going to give you exactly. I'd put rakon
• 28:52
  there. I'd put some stuff in there for Rake one. Oh you would,
• 28:56
  yeah, huh, hold on, keep talking, let's sell you something
• 29:00
  exactly. So he's going to come back here and say, well, I
• 29:03
  agree with you because he's shooting X from that spot. He's five of six
• 29:07
  from that spot. I'd take it. That's not what I was looking up
• 29:11
  here. But that's the that's the that's the payoff there to that spot.
• 29:15
  Again, those are small sample sizes, but that's a guy that gets to
• 29:18
  that spot. And what do we say last week, I'd like to see
• 29:21
  battle put it on the deck a little bit mooring. He's he's a laite
• 29:23
  getting the basket. Get to the basket. Don't just settle for a three.
• 29:26
  If it's there, take it, but get to the basket. So
• 29:30
  that's a that's an important spot. I think this stuff's in the weeds.
• 29:33
  Well I told you I was down in the weeds. You would you ask
• 29:36
  me how much? What's the percentage shots from that spot? Yeah, less
• 29:41
  than five percent, But you're a little bit above the national average. The
• 29:45
  average is four point two. It's west frand it takes four point six percent
• 29:48
  of its shots from there. That's wild. Think about that, dude.
• 29:52
  Why wouldn't there be more than five percent of your shots coming from that particular
• 29:56
  piece of the floor. Well, it's a super small niche I mean,
• 30:00
  think about what I'm saying. I'm if you want to take that whole eight
• 30:03
  to fifteen feet left and right of the lane and bring because left and right
• 30:07
  of the lane. How wide is the lane? Yeah? I get that,
• 30:08
  But my point is you're about nine percent of your shots come between the
• 30:14
  left and the right side. But even if you shot left elbow jumpers,
• 30:17
  even if you shot elbow jumpers, you'd think you'd get more than five percent
• 30:19
  of your shots are coming from the elbows. You'd think five percent of your
• 30:23
  shots are coming from the elbows. You think there should be more left sides
• 30:26
  four point nine percent right sides four. But would you think there would be
• 30:30
  more? It's fifteen foot jumper, not the game anymore. Twenty eight percent
• 30:36
  of your shots are coming from the corner. Threes aer straight on three point
• 30:40
  game. So watch Ray Kwon if he can get to that spot, get
• 30:45
  by the defender out at the three point line, pull up just inside the
• 30:48
  free throw line, right in that spot. Okay, not bad. Here's
• 30:52
  no reason to believe this. But if you had a shot chart when Jerry
• 30:56
  West played, I bet you he made at the elbows right. Yeah,
• 31:03
  but that's not I understand different. He wasn't distracted by the three I know.
• 31:07
  I'm just saying, I bet you he just scored a ton, probably
• 31:11
  right right in that range. All right. And the last one here,
• 31:12
  this is the last thing on Texas. The last one here where what they
• 31:17
  give up and what you shoot fairly well, lineup. There's one spot.
• 31:21
  Oh, this is good, left corner three. West Virginia shoots thirty nine
• 31:25
  percent Texas's opponents are shooting forty seven percent from that spot curs four of four
• 31:30
  from left corner threes. Yeah, I'd take that. Four or four works
• 31:37
  for me. Small sample size. They get a forty seven percent though from
• 31:41
  three Texas does left corners? Understand, I understand pretty specific. But that's
• 31:48
  a hot spot of real estate if you're if you're out there looking for threes,
• 31:52
  your corner threes are pretty common. Okay, what's that seth from the
• 32:00
  corner three curve from the left corner three curves more of a wing topic,
• 32:04
  sho, So maybe tough to get to those spots. All right, So
• 32:07
  there's Texas. I confuse you enough that I was all over the place.
• 32:12
  No, it didn't confuse me at all. I mean I wish I had
• 32:14
  a I wish I had brought brought a number two pencil and some loose leaf
• 32:17
  paper so I could have kind of written this stuff down so during the game
• 32:21
  on Saturday, I could make check marks, take a look at the shot
• 32:24
  chart while the game's going on, and make some observations on that. Probably
• 32:28
  should have wrote that down, you know, you know, you should offer
• 32:31
  a you should put a little thing out on social media, like before games
• 32:36
  Brad's Brad's checkpoints for Saturday's game. Here's what occasionally I do that well,
• 32:40
  No, I mean a'm more sophisticated, something built in a template, like
• 32:45
  my five keys to the game, like during the game today, number one,
• 32:50
  you know, assist ratio, free throw percentage, I mean all those
• 32:53
  kind of things, And I think i'd make a graphic. I wouldn't use
• 32:58
  your regular face, real life face. I'd make it kind of like something
• 33:01
  like like a like almost like an owl, like a really super smart like
• 33:06
  you know, school always has those owls that are like the whys the wise
• 33:08
  owl. You're like the wise owl. It's kind of what I would do,
• 33:15
  but you didn't ask, and you probably won't. But anyway, just
• 33:16
  a thought, thank you for the suggestion. You want to talk to TCU
• 33:22
  do them? Do we need more music or we just continue on the same
• 33:24
  thing I got plenty. I might as well hit that a little bit because
• 33:28
  the guy that used to make music for us, David Sab, doesn't do
• 33:32
  it for us anymore, so we might as well use us what he gave
• 33:35
  us. That's just three that's his three second sting. Go ahead, Okay,
• 33:40
  let's talk TCU here for a second. First time we've seen the Frogs.
• 33:44
  They like to score points. If you notice that, Yeah, sixteen
• 33:47
  wins for them on the season. In fourteen of those sixteen, they've scored
• 33:51
  seventy or more. We have somebody that had that rule of seventy one.
• 33:55
  Yeah, well don done up there in Northern Panhandle. Well, they like
• 33:59
  it. They've scored seventy or more. So if you do that math,
• 34:01
  eighty eight percent of its wins. West Virginia has scored seventy or more in
• 34:06
  just fifty percent of its wins. So you're going to have a little push
• 34:08
  and pull here with styles and what you want to do. TCU's going to
• 34:12
  want to run on you up and down. WVU doesn't do that. I
• 34:17
  was going to say, And there is number one of things that is not
• 34:21
  good in your matchup. TCU's top twenty and average possession length West Virginia's two
• 34:27
  hundred and thirty ninth, so meaning they don't hold the ball very long,
• 34:30
  they get their shots off. West Virginia is more deliberate. So right away
• 34:34
  you're going to notice a difference in style of place. Which style wins out.
• 34:42
  Okay, TCU leads the Big twelve in transition per possessions per game,
• 34:46
  which would make some sense part why they go so fast, like to get
• 34:50
  up and down the floor. Lead the league in transition possessions. West Virginia's
• 34:53
  eleventh, so they don't do that a lot. Backing up, that's stat
• 34:58
  again, here's what concerns you. TCU leads in transition possessions. West Virginia's
• 35:04
  last in the Big Twelve points per possession in transition defense. So you want
• 35:08
  to look for an early key. Josh will tell you on the on the
• 35:13
  Coaches Show, he will tell you, got to get back in defense,
• 35:15
  right, transition defense is gonna be important. We gotta get back. That's
• 35:17
  going to be number one. Catch and shoots. Both of these teams face
• 35:22
  guarded catch and shoots a lot. West Virginia leads the Big Twelve. It's
• 35:28
  not a category you want to lead it, but they lead in guarded catch
• 35:30
  and shoot jump shots. TCU's third, so they face a lot of these
• 35:35
  as well. Now TCU's been better at making them. They're fourth and the
• 35:40
  Big Twelve in points per possession on guarded catch and shoots. So which of
• 35:45
  those plays out today? Can West Virginia guard? TCU will TCU be able
• 35:51
  to guard West Virginia. Does that stay where both of them have to take
• 35:54
  a lot of guarded jump shots, and if so, if the numbers hold,
• 35:58
  TCU's been better at making those than West Virginia has, so we'll keep
• 36:01
  an eye on that. This was interesting. West Virginia's moved into second in
• 36:07
  the Big Twelve in points per possession on unguarded catch and shoots, so they're
• 36:15
  really heating up when they're left open. They're starting to knock down shots.
• 36:17
  Now. They get the fewest of those in the league, but they're second
• 36:22
  in points per possession, So that kind of ties into that assistraate too.
• 36:24
  If that ball's moving and that extra pass is being made and you can get
• 36:29
  some open looks. That's been a trend that's working positively for West Virginia.
• 36:32
  They've been hitting open jump shots, and it underscores the fact that they're not
• 36:39
  patient enough on offense and they don't make the extra pass. You make the
• 36:43
  extra pass, what do you have a better chance of getting an open look?
• 36:46
  Right? And they haven't done that. TCU likes to get to the
• 36:49
  rim, So just like we talked about Texas trying to shut that rim,
• 36:52
  off, you've got to do it against the frogs. Now. A lot
• 36:54
  of that comes from this transition. I'll talk about that here in second again,
• 36:59
  but that's part of why are getting so many shots at the rim.
• 37:00
  They average thirty eight percent of field goal attempts at the RIM. National average
• 37:05
  is thirty one, so they're seven percent above that. They shoot at sixty
• 37:08
  five percent on those shots, so they're good there as well. Watch the
• 37:12
  baselines with them. They're very good from the baseline. Left corner threes,
• 37:17
  left baseline twos, right baseline twos all above forty percent from the field,
• 37:22
  so they like that whole baseline area. Pay attention to that. Shooting zones.
• 37:28
  For West Virginia, left baseline two is back in play. Teams are
• 37:35
  shooting thirty nine percent against TCU paging Raykwon Battle Paging Raykwon Battle quin Stlazinski can
• 37:42
  shoot it from there as well. Left baseline two okay, okay, in
• 37:46
  the paint right side, remember we just talked about this Raykwon from eight to
• 37:52
  fifteen feet on the right hand side. That's a spot for West Virginia is
• 37:55
  a team that it shoots pretty well about forty six percent, which is right
• 37:59
  exit exactly what teams are shooting against TCU in that spot, so little mid
• 38:02
  range might be there in both of these upcoming games. Here's what you Here's
• 38:07
  here's a major key. West Virginia is going to have to protect the ball.
• 38:12
  So TCU is twenty ninth in opponent turnover percentage, they're twentieth nationally in
• 38:16
  steal percentage. So part of why they get so many transition opportunities are just
• 38:21
  stealing it. Yeah, they take it from me. So live ball turnovers
• 38:23
  you here. Coaches talk about that all the time. That'll kill you.
• 38:25
  So West Virginia has to protect it. Limit turnovers, which in turn will
• 38:30
  limit some of their transition points. You may have a chance to be around
• 38:32
  this game. If they're turning West Virginia over a bunch, especially with steels,
• 38:37
  look out, that could be a problem. Not done. Two more,
• 38:45
  Yeah, goo ahead. TCU doesn't put you on the free throw line
• 38:47
  much. That's not good. Twenty fourth in opponent free throw rate. Jamie's
• 38:53
  teams never follow. Didn't follow when he was that pitch. Why would they
• 38:59
  start? Can you get to the line on them? So watch that early
• 39:04
  as well. Can you keep them off the glass? Twenty second in offensive
• 39:07
  rebounding rate are the Frogs. So as we've talked a bunch West Virginia rebounding
• 39:10
  getting better, Edwards' is back to fortify that side of it. Can you
• 39:14
  keep them from getting second chance points? You also need to watch the pick
• 39:17
  and roll against them. They've had single digit points from the pick and roll
• 39:22
  ball handler in every one of their losses. So if you just had to
• 39:25
  pick a couple of keys defensively, it's get back on transition defense and it
• 39:31
  would be defend the pick and roll ball handler. If you can hold them
• 39:35
  to single digits, you've got a good chance to beat him. There's some
• 39:37
  defensive piece, all right. You want a non traditional thing to watch.
• 39:40
  I have not used this all year. Really list late in the season.
• 39:45
  You're gonna give us something you I'm trying to bring something new to you.
• 39:47
  We appreciate that. Go ahead watch after timeouts when TCU has the ball coming
• 39:57
  out of a timeout, right, atos are often called tony atu. TCU
• 40:01
  has scored single digit points after timeouts in only six games all season, with
• 40:09
  me single digit points in only six games all year coming out of a timeout.
• 40:14
  This speaks to Jamie's coaching acumen. He's getting points of timeouts. Of
• 40:19
  those six games, three of them have turned into losses. M hmmm.
• 40:24
  So if you see empty possessions coming out of timeouts and you want to be
• 40:28
  the smartest in the room, tell your friends that, hey, this is
• 40:30
  a good trend. They're not scoring coming out of timeouts. That bodes well
• 40:34
  for the Mountaineers. So the TCU one, just from a pure matchup standpoint,
• 40:38
  should concern you a little bit. They do a bunch of things that
• 40:40
  West Virginia struggled with this year, So that one you're going to have to
• 40:44
  reverse some trends. Texas. You just do a couple of the things and
• 40:49
  blueprint it. You already have the blueprint, You've alread done it once.
• 40:51
  Free throws are going to be a big one. How's that game being called?
• 40:53
  If you're getting to the line to get a shot there? Yeah,
• 40:55
  I'd like to make an addendum to my earlier comment that was Virginia in the
• 41:00
  first twelve minutes against the first eight minutes, actually against Texas. You'll know,
• 41:07
  I'll also know before the ball even goes in the air, who the
• 41:10
  crew is, who the officials are. If it's not a good mix and
• 41:17
  here's what's going to happen. West Virginia is going to come out and they're
• 41:23
  going to be extremely energized and physical to start the Texas game. I'm almost
• 41:30
  positive I'll be stunned if they're not okay, they're gonna come out hot.
• 41:37
  If they get a bad whistle and it's a tiki tac call type of a
• 41:45
  game where they're calling everything, it's gonna be a it'll be a bad thing.
• 41:49
  In other words, you are going to bring the energy. You're going
• 41:51
  to try to bring the energy, but you might get yourself into trouble because
• 41:54
  you're going to might get yourself into foul trouble really quick in the game if
• 41:58
  the whistle isn't right. And I don't know what the whistle is going to
• 42:02
  do this weekend based on what happened in the Oklahoma State Houston game, because
• 42:12
  there was a blatant file that wasn't called that you probably saw by Brandon Garrison
• 42:17
  of Oklahoma State that led to Houston's coach Kelvin Sampson's head to lift from his
• 42:29
  shoulders about six inches. He goes out onto the floor and just lets him
• 42:36
  have it. You haven't seen a blow up like that in a while.
• 42:38
  You know, you know what it was like. You don't see in the
• 42:40
  bassetla. It was like a baseball manager wanting to get ejected at home plate,
• 42:45
  right right, and he can do that because he was up twenty.
• 42:46
  Yeah. But my point is, because that was such a reprehensible non call,
• 42:53
  does the supervisor in the next days that have passed let his crew oose
• 43:00
  No? All right, guys, it's gotten on a hand. We tried
• 43:04
  to let them play, but now it's becoming wrestling. These coaches are losing
• 43:07
  their mind. So now they wanted to call it, We're gonna call it.
• 43:13
  You might go back out Saturday and it might be tick tack. That
• 43:17
  won't play well for West Virginia. It's a tremendous point because go further.
• 43:22
  You've also in the last week and a half, two weeks had starting with
• 43:25
  Jerome Tang questioned an official supposedly saying something to a player and then digging in
• 43:30
  with fouls. Then you had Mac Rhodes, the Baylor ad took twenty five
• 43:35
  large on the chin, said I'll just take the twenty five K. Fine,
• 43:37
  here's what I think about the officiating. Said it after Scott Drew was
• 43:40
  ejected, and then you have the incident you talked about. The challenge for
• 43:45
  West Virginia in this game is you were at home and you won by only
• 43:49
  three, and you got to the line by far the highest free throw rate
• 43:52
  you've had all year. Can you win? If that's not happening, right,
• 43:55
  If you're not plus eleven points at the line, where's that difference in
• 43:59
  points coming from. So you've got to You've got to be able to make
• 44:01
  some threes. You've got to be able to get some putbacks. You've got
• 44:05
  to limit turnovers. They've got to be missing shots, because I'm doubtful you're
• 44:08
  gonna have a plus eleven advantage on the road over Texas at the free throw
• 44:13
  line. Correct, could be the opposite, might be, yeah, it
• 44:15
  could be the opposite. I as everyone knows if you're a regular listener,
• 44:20
  I have great marketing ideas and created the beer, the popcorn, the show,
• 44:29
  and I sent a note to the Baylor folks when they're ad got fined
• 44:37
  the twenty five thousand dollars. Made a suggestion to my guy JMO down there,
• 44:40
  John Morris, I don't think he brought it to the attention. I
• 44:44
  said which you guys should do your marketing. Folks, go find a pretty
• 44:49
  good regional sized optical company, like a spectrum Opter or you know, it's
• 44:52
  one of these national brands, whatever the heck they are down there. Right
• 44:55
  You say, okay, here's the deal. We're gonna do a campaign.
• 45:00
  You give us the twenty five grand to pay the fine. Okay, yeah,
• 45:05
  and then the optical company does a whole big promotion. They get the
• 45:09
  pr they say, we have paid. We have donated twenty five thousand dollars
• 45:14
  to Baylor to help whatever way they want, but we encourage them to offset
• 45:19
  the fine from the situation for the athletic director. And we are providing a
• 45:25
  special promotion that well, obviously the officials can't see straight. We want Baylor
• 45:35
  fans to see straight. Buy one, get another pair of glasses for fifty
• 45:38
  percent off because we're behind the Bears and we want everyone to see straight.
• 45:45
  I think it's a good deal. Did I ever tell you in college about
• 45:50
  the glorious three week period that existed one year? What I was taking a
• 45:54
  nap one day? You know what you're doing college. It's a nice afternoon
• 45:58
  now, so we don't have much to do. Just take a nap,
• 46:00
  and I had I had the local radio station on for whatever reason, and
• 46:04
  I'm listening, and so I wasn't quite sure as I woke up if this
• 46:07
  was a dream or did it actually happen. But I woke up and thought
• 46:12
  I heard a commercial for an all you can eat McDonald's on a Wednesday night
• 46:15
  from like five to seven. And I'm thinking, Oh, my gosh,
• 46:20
  I've been waiting for this my whole life. Oh you can eat McDonald's.
• 46:22
  Sure's awesome, right, So I rounded up a couple buddies Week one and
• 46:27
  headed over to the local McDonald's, and by god, it was all you
• 46:29
  can eat Adam McDonald Adam McDonald's. First I've heard of this. We went
• 46:32
  to town this sat Night. You couldn't get cookies was the only thing off
• 46:36
  the man. You couldn't leave with anything, only two rules. Everything else
• 46:38
  there rules ten big Max. Fine, you want to stay there all two
• 46:43
  hours? Fine? Couldn't get cookies or take it out. We absolutely went
• 46:45
  bananas, went back to campus. Didn't really tell a whole lot of people
• 46:50
  didn't want too much the word to get out. Second week went back caught
• 46:52
  on a little bit by Week three. Thing was done done. College kids
• 46:57
  were eating them out. So I tell you that story to say, I
• 47:00
  think that's a wonderful marketing idea. Yeah, you better go get the buy
• 47:02
  one, get one in in the first week because it would get shut down
• 47:05
  after that. You would do a long shelf life. Feel a limited time,
• 47:07
  Yeah, you can only do it for a week. Yeah, do
• 47:09
  you do a limited time? Pretty sure? The league would frown upon that.
• 47:13
  Who cares, you're you're not going to you're a member institution of the
• 47:15
  league. Yeah, but the schools doesn't have anything to do with it.
• 47:19
  The universe, the optical place does it all by itself. They said,
• 47:22
  Hey, by the way, don't know what Baylor's going to use it for.
• 47:24
  We just happened to give him twenty five grand and and then just do
• 47:28
  it yourself. Yeah, you wouldn't get very far. Oh, I think
• 47:31
  you would. It's a very creative idea. I think it would work.
• 47:35
  You don't have enough people out there with the intestinal fortitude to do that kind
• 47:40
  of stuff. I'd guarantee if somebody in West Virginia would do it, someone
• 47:45
  went in West Virginia would do something like that, and not me that in
• 47:47
  that realm, if we if they felt that something bad happened, they would
• 47:52
  take advantage of it. You'd have to be creative because you couldn't use the
• 47:55
  school's name or marks in that you'd be able to do it. Nowadays you'll
• 48:00
  be able to do that. Then see, once again, you've had a
• 48:02
  very creative idea that's light on the details. So that was right on your
• 48:07
  brand. Beer seems to be going well. Popcorn can't keep it on the
• 48:13
  shelf. Coffee are calling Guatemala, Ethiopia, and Columbia every day speaking of
• 48:19
  popcorn. All that went out right, and we got a lot of it.
• 48:21
  I've got some updates on it. I've got some updates on that coming
• 48:24
  up in just a little bit. Spreads on stats. Broad Coffee's going off.
• 48:28
  You haven't knownicue, I've got my Well, here's what's bumming me out.
• 48:30
  I've been sitting here twisting because I literally made I made our coffee today.
• 48:37
  I brought it in my thermos and I left it up stairs and I
• 48:43
  have not had I've had about this much coffee today. I brought it in
• 48:46
  because when I put the text together, I was gonna sit there and drink
• 48:50
  coffee, and I forgot so now I got a quandary. It's the afternoon.
• 48:53
  Now do you take it because you drink the coffee? Otherwise I'll be
• 48:57
  walking around my house doing summersaults at three in the morning. Yeah, clock's
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  up left paint jumper. You feel free to text me. I'll check them.
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  site and made purchases of aforementioned coffees, popcorns, and apparel items. Thank
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  you very very much. I'll get you an update on a popcorn coming up
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  here in just a couple of shakes if you're watching in Just by chance,
• 49:57
  Brad and I wore the The three guys merched today with the new what do
• 50:04
  you call this a secondary logo? Secondary level secondary logo, which I kind
• 50:07
  of like a lot, not that I don't like the first, but the
• 50:09
  secondary is kind of neat all Right, So you're signed by West Virginia Ston
• 50:14
  W. Houston. Yeah, that's fantastic. Had a good meeting with the
• 50:19
  folks w students and faculty last Friday. Noticed you weren't there previous engagement.
• 50:25
  Yeah, we had a good meeting with those folks. More stuff is coming.
• 50:30
  Excited to work with them, Texter. Three guys, My wife and
• 50:37
  I got our two little Valentine some Mountaineer munch, and some Valentines Velvet Delight.
• 50:43
  Our shipment just came in. This is Lucas and thea Kevin from Princeton.
• 50:49
  Look looking at him. Little children eating now that popcorn, Mountaineer munch,
• 50:53
  Valentine's velvet delights. They got both cuns. Oh sure yeah, look
• 50:58
  at that. It looked like they seemed to be happy. Awesome, you
• 51:00
  can be too, Texter. Thank you, Kevin. Okay. Regarding the
• 51:10
  statistic that Brad gave where the national basketball champion is almost always in the top
• 51:16
  twenty five in offensive and defensive efficiency, as West Virginia fell into that category
• 51:22
  in recent years, I'm curious if the team that lost to Steven F.
• 51:27
  Austin or the Deuce and Taz team that lost to Syracuse were top twenty five
• 51:32
  in both categories. Also, as a twenty six year old, I can
• 51:37
  confirm that many people my age do listen to old music. Personally, I
• 51:42
  have a lot of seventies and eighties rock music on my phone. I've been
• 51:45
  on a Steely dankick recently signed by Steven from the Waterfront Marriott. Now Steven
• 51:52
  doesn't live at the Waterfront Marriott, but we befriended Steven during a breakfast that
• 51:57
  we had back in the fall when we were breakfast scene with Sean McDonough.
• 52:01
  If you remember Brad, Steven was one of those young men I think this
• 52:07
  is him. Does that make sense? Stephen in a buddy We're having breakfast
• 52:15
  and said that it came over to Sean and talked with Sean because they were
• 52:17
  big hockey guys. And Sean picked up his breakfast tab. Yeah. Awful,
• 52:22
  nice to Sean, very nice, nice, fine young man. So
• 52:29
  here's the answer. In the year that West Virginia got beat by Steven F.
• 52:34
  Austin in the NCAA Tournament, west Virginia's offensive efficiency that year was number
• 52:38
  six. Its defensive efficiency was twenty seven, which put it right in the
• 52:45
  cross. Heres to be a legitimate national championship contender. The year that West
• 52:51
  Virginia got screwed when they got beat by Gonzaga in twenty seventeen, when they
• 52:58
  took the seventy one minute play review in the second half to allow Gonzaga not
• 53:04
  only to catch its breath, but to go back to campus and have massages.
• 53:08
  West Virginia was number four on defense and number twenty six on offense,
• 53:15
  again pointing it in position. The year that the deuced tas team lost to
• 53:22
  Syracuse, the COVID year that was in Indianapolis. In the NCAA. That
• 53:29
  year, West Virginia was twelve offense, seventy on defense. Hold at one
• 53:36
  correction, you have one thing reversed there. What was it? The Steven
• 53:38
  F. Austin one was defense is six to six in offense twenty seven?
• 53:44
  Okay, Yeah. One note about that when we were talking about this,
• 53:47
  Tony that both of those years, this almost bummed me out. I wish
• 53:52
  Stephen had not asked this question because I'm already still bummed about those two losses.
• 53:55
  When I saw those numbers, that backs up the belief we had as
• 54:00
  we watched those seas that was a legitimate national championship type of team from Wine
• 54:05
  because as you would have advanced in the tournament, those numbers would have continued
• 54:08
  to rise and you would have been in the area. Had you beaten Gonzaga,
• 54:13
  you're probably boomed. That puts you over the threshold and you're in the
• 54:15
  mix there to win it. Yeah, Texter, I just wanted to give
• 54:20
  you guys a heads up before you receive one thousand texts. Nick Saban is
• 54:25
  from Carolina, West Virginia. He attended school at Manonga. Carolina is one
• 54:30
  of four mining towns owned by the Watson family. Each town was named after
• 54:35
  one of his daughters, Carolina after Caroline, Ida, May Rachel and Annabelle.
• 54:42
  Annabel is now known as four States. There you go, Thank you,
• 54:47
  Gary and Tyler Texas Rights. It's week fourteen and the Lady Mountaineers just
• 54:53
  beat Baylor in their house and only moved up one spot to twenty two.
• 55:00
  Well, Baylor, although they drop five places, is still ranked four spots
• 55:04
  ahead of West Virginia. How does that work? I'm confused. I don't
• 55:12
  they didn't beat Baylor. They play Baylor on Saturday. I don't know.
• 55:15
  Well, I'm lost here, buddy, But I guess what he's saying is
• 55:22
  why why isn't West Virginia ranked higher? That's the question. I guess that's
• 55:25
  what he's saying. Yeah, the non conference schedule is what's holding West Virginia
• 55:30
  down. But they've got opportunity here, Texter. Computer colonoscopy is back,
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  baby, serious. Con I seriously considered texting you all earlier this week about
• 55:42
  asking about the computer colonoscoy. Yeah, it's returned. You don't get a
• 55:45
  colonoscopy every day. I mean everyone knows that there's a period of time,
• 55:47
  so we don't use it all the time. But if your business needs a
• 55:52
  computer colonoscopy, then you go to COMAXWV dot com and they will come in
• 55:57
  and run a complete checks to see whether or not your network and your computers
• 56:05
  are safe. Visit them at COMAXWV dot com. Tony, I love the
• 56:09
  high tech audio of three guys. I love the show Go outa here.
• 56:12
  I think he's referring to me using my phone last show to play the music.
• 56:15
  Oh that's pretty creative, fellas it is. Finally here, I ordered
• 56:22
  my game Day Grind at the worst possible time, right after the holidays,
• 56:27
  when the shelves well they went empty. Send an email to check status,
• 56:30
  and mister Dave replied within an hour and assured me my order was being processed
• 56:36
  and on the way. For a minute, I regretted not having Hoppy bring
• 56:38
  it to Charleston, since that's where my office is, but I figured the
• 56:42
  boys at Star City's post office could get it here just as fast and with
• 56:46
  fewer pee breaks. Appreciate you, gentlemen. All you do t dub and
• 56:51
  Barbersville. There it is so apparently go back to that. So when Dave
• 56:54
  sends those out, he writes on the side of the box, efforting Dave,
• 57:00
  so you know when it's coming, Texter. Great having Low's more back
• 57:06
  at the coliseum. We need to keep them coming back. Jimmy and Mount
• 57:09
  Leven. There's Low's Mountaineer Hall of Fame or the Great Mountaineers of All Time.
• 57:15
  He was their Saturday last week. Texter, Hello, thank you for
• 57:21
  correcting Brad on Old Crow Medicine show. Such a great band, guys.
• 57:24
  Thanks for the autograph and the Valentine Days crunch. I'm mad at this point
• 57:29
  because I left it at home instead of bringing it to my office today.
• 57:31
  I love the show, Big guy in Mullens, Texter. Hey, three
• 57:38
  guys, I don't think we've given as much respect as a community to the
• 57:43
  success the women's team has had this season. What is our women's job considered
• 57:49
  in relation to others? Should we be concerned with the high amount of success
• 57:52
  that we got a dawn two point zero from coach Kellogg and looked for our
• 57:58
  third coach in three years. I don't know what that means. He's worried
• 58:06
  that because of the success coach Kellogg's having that he will leave for another job
• 58:09
  like Don Plitzewhite did after one year. I think is what he's asking.
• 58:15
  Hopefully it's not the case. Hopefully that was a dawn thing. Nana,
• 58:19
  that's not a program thing. There's there's a lot of reasons to be here
• 58:23
  right now. Nil money availability for women's basketball is front and center. Play
• 58:30
  a great league. Yeah, I think things are going quite swimmingly. Don't
• 58:35
  lose sleep on that. One down is struggling there at Minnesota right now?
• 58:39
  Is that right? You followed that I haven't followed. Busy watching this women's
• 58:44
  team, Hey, three guys. Johnson City, Tennessee, is also mentioned
• 58:47
  in the modern day Bonnie and Clyde by Travis Tritt. Here you go,
• 58:52
  Johnson City, Tennessee. Bron cop Here, Hey there, Tony with a
• 58:57
  y hoppy and stats man. This is Phil from Fairmont, not Philippe.
• 59:00
  I'm ready for Texas. I got my kerchieveil and my outfit picked out.
• 59:05
  Only two ever made. Take a look at the picture of the Brett original
• 59:08
  signed by my son in law and me. We're both mountaineers through and through.
• 59:13
  I hope you got the image. Otherwise this makes no sense. Horns
• 59:15
  down, Yeah, get tighter on that image. What's that guy doing on
• 59:19
  that T shirt? Austin Oh, I see what he's doing on a fishing
• 59:24
  pole. That's not a fishing pole. Nope. Uh ps hoppy. I
• 59:30
  began undergrad in nineteen seventy four, just a lad from Mannington. I remember
• 59:34
  reading your articles in the DA good stuff. Thank you. Got a lot
• 59:39
  of positive comments about our last episode, the special one we snuck in there
• 59:44
  with Drew Fabianitch. Yeah, Texter says, I really like Drew Fabianitch.
• 59:49
  I think he's an amazing member of the staff. We're fortunate to have him.
• 59:52
  I wish you would have spoken about Will Greer why he thinks Will has
• 59:54
  not succeeded in the NFL. I was thrilled when he was picked up by
• 1:00:00
  Dallas, but playing behind Dak and Cooper was tough. He played so well
• 1:00:04
  the last game, received high marks from coach and Prescott, but he's just
• 1:00:07
  been bounced around since then. Now with Harbaugh going to charges, I expect
• 1:00:12
  there might be more changes in store, possibly another great WVU quarterback. I'd
• 1:00:16
  be interested to hear your thoughts. Drew was great. That's a that's a
• 1:00:21
  good point by Gary there. I would like to know that too. I'm
• 1:00:23
  I'm baffled given all the backup quarterbacks that have played in the NFL this year,
• 1:00:28
  in particular, that Will Greer can't get more run, especially given when
• 1:00:31
  he did in that final preseason game. You're telling me there's that many guys
• 1:00:35
  that are producing more than Will Greer. Come on, I agree, Gary.
• 1:00:39
  Yeah, there's some weekends there in the NFL as the season goes on,
• 1:00:44
  when those backups go out there. That's not a pretty picture. No,
• 1:00:46
  it's not. It's a hard position to play. It is not a
• 1:00:49
  whole lot of guys can do that. I was traveling back to Morgantown from
• 1:00:53
  attending recovery day at the Capitol yesterday and yesterday I really hope to see Hoppy,
• 1:00:59
  but never ran into him. So I stopped in Flatwoods with the full
• 1:01:02
  intention of visiting the Cathedral of Gomarts in Flatwoods, and I'm pumping my gas.
• 1:01:08
  I realized that I had accidentally driven up the hill and filled up at
• 1:01:14
  a competitor's location. Huh, that's this text is my meya Kulpa to Gomart
• 1:01:20
  with a promise to do better next time when I'm traveling down I seventy nine.
• 1:01:24
  Well, I mean, if you come into the confessional with the guilt
• 1:01:29
  that you did make the wrong call, and you can acknowledge that, I
• 1:01:32
  think they'd accept your apology right. But the next time you need to know
• 1:01:37
  that if you need to save on fuel and food, get that Gomart rewards
• 1:01:43
  card and they will take care of you and you might see Hoppy and you
• 1:01:49
  can get yourself a toasty cup of coffee. Texter three guys, two things.
• 1:01:55
  Number one did Drew Fabianich know that he was being accorded? Why?
• 1:02:04
  Number two? Tony talks a lot about smelt every time he does. I
• 1:02:08
  think about growing up in Niagara Falls, New York. We look forward to
• 1:02:13
  Uncle Dicky coming by with a full catch of smelt. Uncle Dicky worked for
• 1:02:16
  the Niagara Power Authority and the guys would put up nuts at the Upper Niagara
• 1:02:21
  River, right in front of the giant intake facility where water would be drawn
• 1:02:24
  and send downhill to the hydro power plants at the Lower Niagara. Mom would
• 1:02:29
  fry the smelt and we would feast on them. Wonderful, haven't had them
• 1:02:32
  since I was a kid in Niagara Falls. Thanks for the great shows and
• 1:02:37
  memories, Moe and Morgan County. Well, Mom will tell you something.
• 1:02:42
  The greatest success I ever had fishing was when the smelt were running right in
• 1:02:47
  the same river where you're talking about. It would just be springtime and the
• 1:02:53
  word would get out the smelt are running. The smelt a running, and
• 1:02:59
  we would go and it was un believable when I tell you this. So
• 1:03:07
  you have this pole about twenty feet fifteen feet long, a good metal pole,
• 1:03:15
  a big, massive net mesh heavy net, I mean big, I
• 1:03:22
  mean big, and you'd have a rope tied on the very end of the
• 1:03:25
  pole. You dip your net. You'd hold that net sideways. Another guy'd
• 1:03:30
  get off on an angle he'd bring the rope back in because there's gonna be
• 1:03:32
  too many fit. He'd bring them in there, and when they're running,
• 1:03:36
  that net would be completely filled. I'm not exaggerating. We would come home
• 1:03:42
  with three or four large, not kitchen garbage bags, but the big,
• 1:03:49
  big black garbage bag to the top filled with smelt. We were like apostles
• 1:04:00
  would and you do it at night. We'd bring those home and I'll never
• 1:04:03
  forget it. I brought that bag into our house and my mom and dad
• 1:04:08
  one like. So we go downstairs, scissors, cut the head, cut
• 1:04:13
  the tail, run the scissor up, put your finger in there, gut
• 1:04:16
  them out, and you fry them. Did you eat all those well?
• 1:04:20
  Yes? Hell yeah? How long did it take you to get through all
• 1:04:26
  of them? Know? You freeze them there? No? You do it
• 1:04:30
  be impossible. I mean you'd walk around and you look like orca you ate
• 1:04:34
  all those smelt? But now you know, Julie Latanzi, sure, sure,
• 1:04:43
  well, her mom makes me smelt every Christmas Eve to this day.
• 1:04:48
  Yeah, it's fantastic, wonderful to this day, Donna. She'll cook them
• 1:04:53
  up, so I guess you they go up Pittsburgh Christmas time December to get
• 1:04:58
  the smelt. She does them, fries them, brings them to me,
• 1:05:00
  so they don't use the big net. No, you can buy them by
• 1:05:04
  You can buy them that way in bad and frozen. And that's one of
• 1:05:09
  the seven fishes. When I do Feasts of the Seven Fishes, Don always
• 1:05:12
  gives me I know, yeah, you got one down. Yeah, those
• 1:05:16
  are unbelievable memories. Uh text or scope senator and semi retired Hopy. My
• 1:05:25
  order of popcorn Tony made, well, let me read this right, my
• 1:05:30
  order of the popcorn that Tony made showed up as good as advertised. Seeing
• 1:05:35
  the efforting in the box, I knew exactly what it was even before at
• 1:05:40
  the packaging label. The Valentine mix is good, but I prefer the Mountaineer
• 1:05:44
  Munch. Greg and Buchanan, Well, sure, I think you're right.
• 1:05:48
  I think both are super And it just depends on what your flavor profile is.
• 1:05:51
  If you like it a little bit sweeter, then you're gonna go with
• 1:05:54
  the Valentines. If you like it a little chocolate chocolate, it's tea er,
• 1:05:59
  then gotta go Munch. I told you, I think in the one
• 1:06:02
  of the great upsets. I think I liked. The Valentine's mix was my
• 1:06:06
  favorite. Ex too good and well documented. I'm a chocolate peanut butter guy.
• 1:06:11
  Yeah, obviously he's documented. Text with the special episode this week got
• 1:06:15
  me thinking, is any P one listener out there compile a list of must
• 1:06:19
  listen older episodes for new listeners? Do the two or three guys have any
• 1:06:25
  episodes they would highly recommend off of the top of their heads? Don Neelan,
• 1:06:33
  Bill Kerlavitch yep both both episodes. We did two with ker Lab,
• 1:06:38
  but we just we uh we batched them. We did one sit down,
• 1:06:42
  but we broke it into two shows. Those were great. I mean there's
• 1:06:45
  soho. Alexander was really good. I mean there were there were a ton.
• 1:06:48
  I mean it's kind of like which kid do you like more? Which
• 1:06:50
  your kids? You know? I thought that Texas Tech preview in twenty nineteen
• 1:06:55
  was a plus. Yeah, me too, Yeah, Coach kneel in collab.
• 1:07:08
  I mean there's so many. I mean, like I said, five
• 1:07:11
  hundred and twenty eight of these bad boys, and I know not all Manoah
• 1:07:14
  before he was drafted a draft I can't remember the order it was. That
• 1:07:16
  was exceptional, excellent. Uh, that was exceptional, so many of the
• 1:07:24
  Summer series. I don't think he can go wrong. How many times have
• 1:07:27
  we walked out of here going that was really good? Yeah? Yeah,
• 1:07:31
  I was just I'm sorry I don't have Those would be my two if you
• 1:07:34
  had to hold a gun to my ps. It sounds like Drew Fabianish could
• 1:07:38
  use a copy of Tony's book Where or Where where could we go? Traveling
• 1:07:43
  West Virginia high and low? He has not gotten out anywhere. He's working
• 1:07:45
  getting guys. Yeah, thanks Dean from Parsons now Fairmont a text for you,
• 1:07:53
  Brad? Does this qualify as a rugger? It does have the rubber
• 1:07:58
  buttons, maybe the ugliest ones we ever wore, signed by Steve not in
• 1:08:01
  Kale. I think, see, I think, And I don't know exactly
• 1:08:03
  what the texture was refroning to, but yeah, I think that's a rugger.
• 1:08:06
  Here comes another one, Brad, I still have my vintage WV rugger,
• 1:08:10
  probably at least twenty years old. We got two ruggers. Actually those
• 1:08:13
  are flipped around, but anyway, you get the point. Yeah, one's
• 1:08:15
  got the WV written. So the Pep band wore those ruggers? Yeah,
• 1:08:23
  I think that qualified. We'd probably have to ask fine looking Phil. So
• 1:08:26
  probably as those shirts haven't made a comeback, time for them to Phil can
• 1:08:30
  prankly tell us that there's like, yeah, the word is nine months from
• 1:08:34
  now, stripes, bold stripes are coming back. You gotta have a collar,
• 1:08:39
  collars, a different material than the shirt. Yeah, of course.
• 1:08:43
  Matt in Georgia, I'm listening to the episode with Coach Drew. Every time
• 1:08:47
  I hear him speak. I'm so impressed with his analysis and just confidence.
• 1:08:51
  And I don't think it's any secret about the amount of success the Mountaineers experience
• 1:08:56
  this year and going forward. I think he's a big key to that.
• 1:08:59
  What are your all thoughts on that part? Love the show is always keep
• 1:09:02
  up the good work. I think this success within a football program, when
• 1:09:08
  it's as big as that, everybody and he, I mean, he spewed
• 1:09:12
  the thanks to the whole Neil Shadon Brown, Mike, Joseph, you know,
• 1:09:17
  Jorge. So it's a it's a huge team thing. You can't move
• 1:09:21
  that big of an operation without everybody pushing and the other guys that he works
• 1:09:28
  closely with to help compile. Sure, it's huge, he said all that.
• 1:09:31
  By the way, I've included a photo for Brad that was in the
• 1:09:34
  Krogers the other day. I must saw a bucket of reseas and I first
• 1:09:39
  thought was, my goodness, they must have him in mind. Look at
• 1:09:41
  that. I know I had a couple of people send me that. Personally,
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  it's a lot of reis. Charlie from Mindlothian always enjoy watching Drew Fabian
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  to share his insight and candor. That was an outstanding higher by Neil Brown.
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  Next time he's on the podcast, suggest you consider tidling it fishing for
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  dudes and dogs Withdrew. Yeah, we'll run that up the flag pole.
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  Charlie, ps, would you tell Jay and mid Lothian. I'll be looking
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  for him at the gas pumps. Absolutely. Texter referees and umpires are certainly
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  becoming difficult to get for almost any game. They take far too much heat.
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  But if they all officiated like former WVU football player Darryl Miller, all
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  would be right in the world. He's everyone's favorite official. He works youth
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  baseball and basketball games in eastern Ohia and we could not be happier when we
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  see him, and it'll be calling our game. He calls all the kids
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  by name, congratulates them with enthusiasm and gives them helpful tips. He's seen
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  here in this photo with my son at bat awesome Amy in New Martinsville.
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  So there he goes, I love it. So Darryl Miller's working up there
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  in eastern Ohio working games. So for those that aren't familiar, he played
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  for the Mountaineer Football seventy eight through eighty two. He was originally from Philadelphia,
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  six three, two hundred and five pounder, and his career caught one
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  hundred and thirteen balls eighteen hundred yards, scored ten tds. Plus he has
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  some special teams plays as well. So thank you Darryl and Amy. That's
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  great. Yeah, hey, three guys, Robin Atlanta. Here, one
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  of the things I like best about listening to your show is that almost every
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  show something reminds me of growing up in Morgantown. Oh, by the way,
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  I've designated now new rule I put in. We get a lot of
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  long texts. I'll do one long text to show this is today's long text.
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  So Rob says the reference on this past Monday to North Elementary and the
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  talk of Tony berating the grade school basketball game officiating crew brought back a flood
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  of memories. I was part of the first set of students that attended North
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  Elementary. I was in the inaugural North Basketball League, and I remember our
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  team name was Larry Smith's Buick. One of the memories of playing is coach
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  Dan Martinelli, who used to coach his Sun's team without fail. I still
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  see him on every WV basketball game sitting at the Coliseum scores table. Yeah.
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  After my illustrious North basketball career, later interacted with Dan at Morgantown High
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  where he was a teacher. Now. The North Elementary mention also reminded me
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  of Sandy yackham Tony. I'm sure you knew Sandy, probably have a lot
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  of stories. Sandy, of course, the daughter of legendary WVU announcer Jack
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  Fleming, both of whom who have passed. My perspective of Sandy very different
• 1:12:47
  than the three of you guys, the new Sandy, because her daughter,
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  Aaron, was a classmate of mine all the way through Morgantown High and she
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  was my fifth and sixth grade art teacher. Yep, Sandy todd Art.
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  Aaron was one of the handful of kids at my five or six year old
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  birthday party. So we go way way back. So this is where this
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  gets really super interesting. North Elementary memory number two. In fifth grade,
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  I didn't care much for girls. I was shy. Plus I thought girls
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  had cooties or something awfully dreadful like that. Well, I obviously did not
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  know it at the time, but I met the love of my life and
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  my wife of thirty two years while I was attending North Elementary. I came
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  from the mean streets of Old Suncrest and she was from the bougie North Hills.
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  But alas fate brought us together at North Elementary. Not to get too
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  sapp before you fell us, but for the first date for my lovely wife.
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  And I was our senior prom at Morgantown High but our friendship traces back
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  to North Elementary. So he met his wife in the fifth grade. Pretty
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  wild. Yeah, one more story, and this relates to basketball officiating.
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  I think it's a toss up as to which is worse officiating youth basketball or
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  men's basketball. With youth, the parents frequently are a nightmare, as many
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  think that their kid's going to be bringing home some NBA checks. Plus you
• 1:14:14
  inevitably have a daddy coach whose kid is definitely gonna go pro. My freshman
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  or is sophomore year at West Virginia. Buddy of mine comes up to me
• 1:14:26
  referees men's games. He needed to fill in for the men's league. Well,
• 1:14:30
  I had refed youth hoops. I figure, how different could it be?
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  Well, the answer really different. Unbeknownst to me, the league that
• 1:14:38
  it was in was a tad bit rough, and the league commissioner had wanted
• 1:14:43
  to get it under control, so he asked US officials call this tight.
• 1:14:47
  Well, I was thrust into a game where one of the teams had a
• 1:14:50
  few former WVU basketball players on the team that wanted to make a name for
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  themselves. I won't bore you with all the details, but let's just say
• 1:15:00
  the technical that I called on former mountaineer Eric Semish did not go over real
• 1:15:03
  well, and I've never reft to read again Men's league anywhere as the hardest
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  twenty dollars I ever made. Wow, there's a full one there, last
• 1:15:15
  one. Tony brought up an interesting fact on sports Line that the men and
• 1:15:20
  women's teams were both in Texas at the same time. Have you ever heard
• 1:15:26
  of joint games in the future being a possibility with the expanded footprint, wouldn't
• 1:15:31
  doubleheaders make logistical sense? Last week BYU games were more of a logistical sense
• 1:15:38
  for the women to play in Morgantown this time and both teams to go to
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  pro vote next time. Travel expenses could be cut if the women and the
• 1:15:46
  men played in the same schedule. Just an idea. I love the show,
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  Robin Jersey. What you're saying makes sense, but there's so many other
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  different things that involve it. But yeah, yeah, you could make We
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  I might want to take the whole episode over again. Just start over,
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  Austin Reak. Let's just start over. So the coffee thing is this,
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  gosh dang it. Rusty over at Mountaineer Roasting Right celebrates his third anniversary
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  in business this weekend, and he's got special promotions and discounts on his coffees,
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  and our game day grind has become his number two seller of all the
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  They got coffee. Theyn't have coffee. Good coffee, really good coffee.
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  All right, we're out. Thanks so much for being with us.
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