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3 Guys Before The Game - WVU Football Rests - WVU Basketball Tips Off (Episode 751) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  Speaker 1: Welcome, welcome, and welcome. It is time for three guys
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  Speaker 1: before the game. Thanks so very much for being with us.
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  Speaker 1: This is episode number 751. WVU football rests. WVU basketball
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  Speaker 1: tips off. We'll get into those two topics plus a
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  Speaker 1: few other things. The gang is fully assembled. Hoppy is energetic.
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  Speaker 1: And ready to go.
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  Speaker 2: Morning is my prime time.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. It's 4.30 in the morning. Hoppy called us
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  Speaker 1: because he's got bread to bake later on.
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  Speaker 2: No, I just have things to do this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Dodex Rising, Senator, is also here. He was first one in. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he is.
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  Speaker 2: Ready to go. Good to go.
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  Speaker 1: I like how he gently nudges me on his text,
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  Speaker 1: like when he's here and he's waiting for me. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: we're down here. We can start whenever. I was going
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  Speaker 1: to give you the old classic. I thought it was 12.30,
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  Speaker 1: so I was going to give you that one. Here
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You know, this is some perfect, best I can remember
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  Speaker 3: in a long time, fall boating season presented by Lou Wendell.
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  Speaker 2: It's interesting.
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  Speaker 3: We're on a two-week run here that is like a wow.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe.
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  Speaker 2: It's interesting you would say that. But hang on to
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  Speaker 2: that thought for a part of obvious observation. How about that?
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  Speaker 1: Hang on to that. I wanted to piggyback on what
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  Speaker 1: you're going to say, but I'm not going to piggyback
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  Speaker 1: now because he's got something weather-related.
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  Speaker 3: Because, look, God forbid I would get into his obvious observations.
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  Speaker 3: God forbid. So I'll stop my thought on what I
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  Speaker 3: had there and hold what I was going to say
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  Speaker 3: because he's got something to say.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, got it.
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  Speaker 1: Because he would never, ever impugn upon your statistics.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: He'd never give some numbers that he— That he got.
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  Speaker 3: So scratch me talking about how beautiful the weather was.
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  Speaker 1: I certainly don't want to get into Brad's territory because
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  Speaker 1: he'll cover this in just a moment. But did you
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  Speaker 1: know that 13% of.
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  Speaker 3: That's a great point.
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  Speaker 1: I agree with you.
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  Speaker 3: Can you hold that thought? Because I'm going to talk
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  Speaker 3: about it here in a minute.
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  Speaker 2: Mine, mine, all mine.
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  Speaker 1: Get away, get away, get away.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, fair point all.
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  Speaker 1: No defense. The bell rang, and immediately Brad and I
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  Speaker 1: took you in the corner and just started popping you.
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  Speaker 2: I would tap out.
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  Speaker 1: No defense. All right, so this finally, after two months,
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  Speaker 1: is the first off week for the Mountaineers. Now, if
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  Speaker 1: Dana Holgerson was still the head coach, he would get
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  Speaker 1: really upset if you called it an off week. It's
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  Speaker 1: not an off week because we still practice. It's a
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  Speaker 1: bye week. So technically, it is a bye week.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they didn't practice as much. Yeah, they were there, though,
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  Speaker 2: the whole week. Well, but they had Sunday off. They
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  Speaker 2: had Monday off.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they pull back, and they do things. You've got
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  Speaker 1: to keep them. You've still got to keep them going.
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  Speaker 1: But you're right.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't throw the rhythm off, though. You've gone so long
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  Speaker 3: without this free weekend there on games.
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  Speaker 2: You're just like, we're OK game. Who's this week, this week, then? What?
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  Speaker 2: What do you mean there's no game?
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  Speaker 1: What happened?
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  Speaker 2: What do you mean there's no game? But the first,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we're eight in. Think about that. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: these eight games are just like.
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  Speaker 1: Won't happen again. Ever? Very rarely. Yeah. I think next week,
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  Speaker 1: next year, it'll come a lot quicker, the bye week.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, you want the bye week at a.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. You can't have it too early.
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  Speaker 2: You don't want it after nine games or eight games.
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  Speaker 1: You're right. I mean, you'd want it. I mean, technically,
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  Speaker 1: you'd love to have it after five. Yeah. What do
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  Speaker 1: you think, six? Four, five, six. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: There's so many variables. Like, I actually.
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  Speaker 3: I know this eight is a little bit long, but
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  Speaker 3: you got out of there with really not a ton
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  Speaker 3: of injuries, especially compared to last year. It didn't matter
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  Speaker 3: when the bye week was last year.
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  Speaker 1: Knock on wood. Yeah, hard. Knock on wood.
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  Speaker 3: No, because it's already passed. What I'm talking about is
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  Speaker 3: already passed. I'm talking about injuries that did not happen.
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  Speaker 3: So the way it got there, then you win the
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  Speaker 3: game before your bye week. It actually worked out pretty well.
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  Speaker 3: Now you come back with a little bit of rest
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  Speaker 3: and life for a stretch run.
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  Speaker 1: You've got some bounce.
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  Speaker 3: For an important stretch run coming. So I think you
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  Speaker 3: could back into the analysis. It's actually ended up in
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  Speaker 3: a pretty good spot.
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  Speaker 1: If you would have lost to Cincinnati, if Ben Cutter
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  Speaker 1: doesn't make the tackle on the punter or makes the
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  Speaker 1: punter kick the ball instead of the punter running for
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  Speaker 1: the first down, and if Ben Cutter doesn't recover the fumble, right,
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  Speaker 1: if Ben Cutter doesn't do those two things, the three
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  Speaker 1: of us, Mountaineer Nation and everyone inside the Pushkar Center
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  Speaker 1: would be miserable for two weeks, and we'd get ready
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  Speaker 1: to start the season again here next Saturday, and they'd
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  Speaker 1: be playing taps. It'd be done. It'd be done. You'd
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  Speaker 1: just be dragging. Instead, you'd go like, Hex Bells, we
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  Speaker 1: got five and three. We got five and three. We're
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  Speaker 1: talking about a possible bowl game. Going to get bowl eligible.
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  Speaker 1: Completely Ben Cutter.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: When's the statue going up?
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  Speaker 2: Well, hat tip, a FOGO, too.
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  Speaker 1: David FOGO. Yeah. A FOGO caused the FOGO. You can't say,
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  Speaker 1: we love Ben.
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  Speaker 3: You can't just go Ben without a FOGO because Ben
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  Speaker 3: doesn't get.
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  Speaker 2: His chance to fall on it without a FOGO.
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  Speaker 3: So credit to all of them.
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  Speaker 1: So statue of a FOGO, too?
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  Speaker 3: I think in terms of plays there, that one's right
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  Speaker 3: up there.
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  Speaker 1: And listen, I really don't mean like a full bronze
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  Speaker 1: statue of Ben Cutter, but based upon our sponsorships, they
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  Speaker 1: make one out of Tudor's Biscuits. And it's a temporary statue.
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  Speaker 1: It's like the sausage biscuits event because he said he
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  Speaker 1: could eat five.
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  Speaker 3: If he eats five, he probably gets a bronze statue.
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  Speaker 3: Probably gets the real thing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So the Mountaineers tomorrow, which is Saturday, will now
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  Speaker 1: get to watch their next opponent. And they got themselves
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of a– they got a big ball game.
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  Speaker 1: They got a big ball game. So Texas Tech loses,
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  Speaker 1: as everyone knows. If you're listening to this, you know.
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  Speaker 1: They lost to Cincinnati. Now they go back home, and
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  Speaker 1: they've been beating up here pretty good mentally, physically. Cody
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  Speaker 1: Campbell got all bummed out. He's mad. Everyone's mad. They're
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  Speaker 1: pointing fingers. And they got the Arizonas in there. And
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  Speaker 1: the Arizonas have that quarterback. His name is Noah Fafita.
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  Speaker 1: Bear down. He pretty good. He pretty good. So what
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  Speaker 1: do you want to happen when the Wildcats and the
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  Speaker 1: Red Raiders meet?
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you exactly.
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  Speaker 1: What's better for West Virginia? Is it better? that Texas
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  Speaker 1: Tech gets beat at home and then suddenly they've got
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  Speaker 1: two straight losses and everything seems to be in despair
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  Speaker 1: and wreck. Or would it be all right if Texas
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  Speaker 1: Tech gets the W and West Virginia can kind of
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  Speaker 1: go in there and say, okay, I think you don't
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  Speaker 1: want to play them desperate.
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  Speaker 2: I have a different take on that.
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  Speaker 1: Is it obvious, or do you want us to play
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  Speaker 1: your music now? I don't want to get in your
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  Speaker 1: area by any stretch of the imagination. I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to say anything that you want to say later.
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  Speaker 2: No, I want them to lose because I want their
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  Speaker 2: confidence to be further shaken.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, really?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I want them, Brad, to be full of doubt
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  Speaker 2: when West Virginia goes in.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. What do you want, Senator? I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I've got to see.
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  Speaker 3: They had some near misses earlier this year before that
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  Speaker 3: loss came. Still a lot of talent on that team.
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  Speaker 3: I want to be in their head. People have thrown
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  Speaker 3: on him a little bit. Fafita may go in there
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  Speaker 3: and have some numbers.
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  Speaker 2: Remember, Brad, in this league, it means nobody's any good.
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  Speaker 3: However, it's only the SEC that has parity. No other
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  Speaker 3: leagues have parity.
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  Speaker 2: Every other league, nobody's good.
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  Speaker 1: SEC has the only league that has parity.
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  Speaker 3: Speaking of something weird while we're here.
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  Speaker 1: That'll be a first.
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  Speaker 3: Did you guys see what time BYU and Utah start
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  Speaker 3: next week? One of the marquee games of the Big
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  Speaker 3: 12 season, right, with two teams right near the top.
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  Speaker 3: Utah still undefeated, looking for a playoff spot. BYU with
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  Speaker 3: one of the premier wins across college football, beating Notre Dame.
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  Speaker 3: So it's a marquee matchup. If you needed further evidence,
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  Speaker 3: and I don't know why you would at this point,
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  Speaker 3: but if you needed further evidence that TV's making all
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  Speaker 3: decisions on everything and controls the whole thing, BYU and Utah.
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  Speaker 3: Pretty sure they're not in the Eastern time zone.
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  Speaker 2: Correct.
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  Speaker 1: No, they don't play in the East. No, they're not there.
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  Speaker 1: They're in the mountain.
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  Speaker 2: Game kicks at 10 a.m. local.
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  Speaker 1: Are you serious?
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  Speaker 3: How bummed out are you if you're those fan bases?
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  Speaker 1: 10 a.m.
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  Speaker 3: Local for a game of that magnitude. Now, again, from
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  Speaker 3: a TV perspective, absolutely. Dude sitting in the room there
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  Speaker 3: in Bristol or New York or wherever that's deciding, hey,
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  Speaker 3: how we line these games up because, God forbid, you
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't want the SEC.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: In a main time slot.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: So the noon Eastern slot is going to be a
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  Speaker 3: must see TV with this game. But if you're a
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  Speaker 3: local fan base and we talk about this all the time,
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  Speaker 3: the national versus what those two local fan bases, the
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  Speaker 3: people that are going to the game, their concerns are
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  Speaker 3: not factored into this whatsoever. And they're getting a 10 a.m.
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  Speaker 3: local start in Utah. Now again, you take the money,
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  Speaker 3: you take the TV money, right? And everybody takes the
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  Speaker 3: TV money and you need the TV money. But that
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  Speaker 3: was a wow to me. That's a wow start time.
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  Speaker 3: I would be bummed out if I was that What if.
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  Speaker 1: The network boys called the SEC offices and said, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to put Auburn, Alabama at 10 a.m.? You guys
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  Speaker 1: all good with that? Probably wouldn't go over real well, right?
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  Speaker 2: The call wouldn't even get through. Nobody would pick up.
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  Speaker 2: That's next week, but just didn't know if you guys
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  Speaker 2: had seen it or not.
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  Speaker 1: First I've heard of that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, me too.
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  Speaker 1: Did not know that. Very, very interesting. All right, Hoppy's ready.
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  Speaker 1: He's warming up his hands. It's time. I can't wait.
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  Speaker 2: You got anything left, or did we use everything? A
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  Speaker 2: lot of it was used, but that's okay. Because I
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  Speaker 2: stopped you in the middle of your homage to fall.
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  Speaker 1: Don't mention the weather. Okay, here we go.
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  Speaker 3: He's got thoughts that sound brand new, but they're things
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  Speaker 3: we already knew.
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  Speaker 2: He's got his hip bomb ready, heaven knows. Let's make
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  Speaker 2: it quick before.
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  Speaker 3: His bladder blows.
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  Speaker 1: It's Hoppy's Obvious Observations. Did you have to use the
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  Speaker 1: bathroom during the first half of the basketball game the
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  Speaker 1: other night? Is that why you were sitting on the
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  Speaker 1: front row for a quick, you get there about, what,
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  Speaker 1: six seconds? Was that one of the reasons you positioned
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  Speaker 1: yourself in the front row?
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  Speaker 2: I just, what I do now when I go to
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  Speaker 2: a game is I just, I take the seat that
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  Speaker 2: President Benson has offered me like a couple times until
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  Speaker 2: somebody comes and asks.
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  Speaker 1: Me to leave. Oh, so you sit in it even
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  Speaker 1: when he doesn't say, hey, the seat's available. You just
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  Speaker 1: go sit in it.
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  Speaker 2: I just go sit in it.
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  Speaker 1: That is a good veteran move, actually. That is a
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  Speaker 1: very veteran move. That's like just pretend you know what
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  Speaker 1: you're doing. Exactly. So he came then and just came
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  Speaker 1: down and sat with you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he sat with me. In his seats.
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  Speaker 1: In his seats.
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  Speaker 2: I was at the game, which I will mention.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, go ahead. Listen, why not say, hey, Brad, I'm
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: going to shut both of our microphones off. Cut the mics.
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  Speaker 1: Just go ahead. Don't say anything else until he's done.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: So because it's the bye week, I went back and
• 12:16
  Speaker 2: watched Rich's post-game press conference again after the after the
• 12:19
  Speaker 2: game to see what I could pick up. And again,
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  Speaker 2: the fact that they were off Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and short.
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  Speaker 2: So it is, it is a lighter week, which they
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  Speaker 2: needed because people were banged up and tired. So, and
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  Speaker 2: he said, get some guys healed and freshened up for
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  Speaker 2: the end of the season. So Brad, in that sense,
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  Speaker 2: it's helpful because you got this far without all those injuries.
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  Speaker 2: Now you do get a rest for the stretch run.
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  Speaker 2: You can comment by the way.
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  Speaker 1: We're having a boycott. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: And, So you would think, as a fan, you're like, well,
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  Speaker 2: this is just like a nothing week. But it's actually
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  Speaker 2: a huge week.
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  Speaker 1: Huge.
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  Speaker 2: Huge week. And Rich Rod has addressed that because this
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  Speaker 2: is a week where, and I'm sure it's an ongoing process,
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  Speaker 2: but the week that they're concentrating more on player retention.
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  Speaker 2: And you're not going to hear much about that unless
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  Speaker 2: they do retain certain players and then choose to announce that.
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  Speaker 2: But I thought it was interesting, again, that post-game press
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  Speaker 2: conference where he said, he said, we're working on deals
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  Speaker 2: to bring players back. On Mike Hawkins, quote, we're going
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  Speaker 2: to make sure he stays in Morgantown for the next
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  Speaker 2: two and a half years.
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  Speaker 1: Going to make sure he stays in Morgantown.
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  Speaker 2: And Tony, that is, to me, that's 1-1-A-1-B-1-C, right? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: how critical is that? And I don't know what the
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  Speaker 2: number's going to be, but don't you have to keep Hawkins?
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  Speaker 2: I certainly hope so.
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  Speaker 1: That would be objective number one, yes.
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  Speaker 2: And how bummed out are fans going to be? And look,
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  Speaker 2: West Virginia is going to make every effort to keep them.
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  Speaker 2: But there are limitations. And some schools don't have the
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  Speaker 2: same limitations. So how bummed out are you going to
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  Speaker 2: be if you don't retain them?
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  Speaker 3: We've talked about this for a long time. When this
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  Speaker 3: very first part of this started, we talked about this
• 14:00
  Speaker 3: is going to follow the arc of coaches. And we've
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  Speaker 3: gone through this how many different times with coaches over
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  Speaker 3: the years, including with Rich, where you have some success.
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  Speaker 3: And it immediately switches into, are you going to keep him?
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  Speaker 3: There's other people that are going to come offer. And
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  Speaker 3: that has now switched into, not that you won't get
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  Speaker 3: there with coaches.
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  Speaker 2: You will.
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  Speaker 3: But you'll get there with players. And you're there with
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  Speaker 3: players now. And it becomes a storyline and something you're
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  Speaker 3: certainly watching.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. To me, it's huge. It's the biggest non-on-field story
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  Speaker 2: that exists for this program right now. So we'll see
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  Speaker 2: what happens. Going back, and again, we're watching the press conference.
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  Speaker 2: And we did get plays from the defense in that game.
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  Speaker 2: and they did a lot different in that game rich
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  Speaker 2: rod talked about that a lot of it was new
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  Speaker 2: semi-new stuff that we were doing for the first time
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  Speaker 2: in the game in a game coverage wise and we
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  Speaker 2: challenged them we played a lot of man coverage more
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  Speaker 2: than we've played all year they got attacked a little
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  Speaker 2: bit we made some big plays so brad there were
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  Speaker 2: significant significant changes that were used in a.
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  Speaker 3: Game yeah and and there were also just guys made
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: plays too right so some of those changes are opponent
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: base that you felt you could implement against a tcu
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: team that maybe you couldn't have implemented against some others
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: yeah because the match right that's why matchup matters let's
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: go to basketball.
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: And i did go to practice this week that was
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: awesome and i awesome and i did sat with brad
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: and i did in the coach for a little while
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: and i did um did.
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: You distract the coach while he was trying to coach
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: the team you're sitting there having.
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: A chat fest what are you doing brad can speak
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: to that we just sat and conversed when it was
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: time to coach what do.
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: You do Ross is very adept at being in mid-conversation
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: and can immediately turn and call out something that's happened
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: on the floor.
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: He can do it from the first row of the stands.
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: It's kind of funny. You're just sitting there like you think.
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: He's not paying attention.
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: Like you're talking and you're going and all.
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: Of a sudden he.
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And it is because he has the ability. We're talking,
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: having a serious conversation. He's opining about something. I'm completely
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: dialed in. All of a sudden he blows the whistle
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: and deals with something going on. Like, I didn't even
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: know they were still practicing. You know, and he's... Anyway. And, Tony,
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: when you first see this team, and I saw it
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: in person for the first time this week at practice
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: and at the game, what stands out to me is
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: obviously the size.
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: I mean. Large human beings. 6'1, 6'10, 6'10.
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: You meant 7'1.
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: 7'1.
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, 7'1.
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: I mean, just.
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: Large human beings.
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: We need to measure Saini with his sneakers on. We
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: need to determine two things right now. 7'2 with sneakers. Okay, 7'2.
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: He's 7'1 plus in his measurement. So they rounded down 7'1.
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: He's 7'1 plus. I'd like to have that for the record.
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: Can we submit that to the record? So he's 7'2.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: Now here's the other piece of it I'd like to
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: get before the kid plays his first regular season game.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: Let's establish one thing. You know where I'm going with this, Brad? Pronunciation? Yes.
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: It's Saini, isn't it?
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: No. S-A, think of a phonetic. S-A-Y hyphen K-N-E-E. Saini.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: That's what I said.
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: Saini. Yes, Saini.
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: Hoppy's got it.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: Saini. Not Saini. Yes, Saini. That's going to become the great,
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: however many years he's here, it'll be this. It'll be Saini. No,
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: it's Saini. Saini.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: Well, you say, I listened to you. You said Saini.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: Some people say Saini.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: Why are you looking at Brad?
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: He has some moments.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: But to the point where, and Brad and I were
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: talking in the meeting prior to this. Because some people
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: say that. He wanted me to say who says it.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: It's Saney.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: Right now we're talking in the meeting before you got here, Tony,
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: that B-Lo comes on the court and they go, oh,
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: he's not the tallest guy. And he's 6'9. I mean,
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: so that to me is what stands out. And also,
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: and this was pointed out to me by Brad and
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: the coach, is that, you know, physiologically.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: Oh, here we go. This will be good.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: Physiologically, it is harder for a bigger person to run. Physiologically.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: The legs are longer and bigger. You have a bigger
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: human being. It just takes more energy. I looked this up.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: More energy for a big person to move.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: Makes sense. Yeah, sure.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: To move. It just does. And Saini, when he runs
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: the court, he just glides. He just glides. I mean,
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: you can just watch him. How about Mo Silla? And
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: same thing, just like gliding down the court, not like
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: getting a rebound, throwing it out, and like the last
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: guy lumbering down the court. You don't see that. That's
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: something worth noting.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: You're smiling.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: We enjoy your childlike fascination. We talk about that. We
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: get giddy over you getting excited. That's what we like.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: That's what we like. We're so happy. that we've been
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: a part of removing you from that world you lived
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: in for so many years, and now you're over on
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: the amusement park side. I am.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: It's like I'm seeing it for the first time.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Well, we've experienced joy. You've experienced joy for the first
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: time with us. You're seeing the fluidity of athleticism.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: Well, of certain individuals.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Isn't this so much better than House Bill 95-72-62 Task
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Force Committee meeting on the opposite?
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: Well, each has its appeal. But you like this better.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: Go ahead and say it.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: No, I like it differently.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: I like it differently. You may not know this, but
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: Miles Sadler is really good.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: Hey, listen. This might be a bye week for the team.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: It is not a bye week for him. He has
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: now told us the team is big.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: Saney can run.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: Silla can run.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: Sadler's good.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: And now some really laborious news.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: Sadler becomes this year's A.J. DeBonsa. Remember last year he
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: determined this.
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: BYU has this player.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Hey, guys, do you know this? DeBonsa, he's good.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: By the way, he had 19 the other night for Washington.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: He's going to be a player. But Sadler.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: So now you like Miles Sadler.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: I like Miles.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: Sadler because you're watching him, and again, opponent adjusted, and
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: he's out front, and all of a sudden he takes
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: off to the basket, leaves three guys behind him, and
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: gets to the hoop.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah. He got a chance.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: So I'm just telling you about Sadler.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: You think I should keep an eye on my notes
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: here so I should write down, watch Sadler?
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: Talk about Sadler next pregame? Talk about Sadler.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Has a chance. He's got a chance.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: One other thing, and I'll move on from this.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: Oh, no, this has been good. Keep going.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: Is that in thinking about it, because I did get
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: a chance to talk to the head ball coach during
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: practice the other day.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: We heard that.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: And watching him coach in practice, because in the game
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: you can't hear what he's saying. And the word I
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: came up with, Tony, is intentionality. Intentionality. Everything he does,
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: everything he says has a purpose, okay? And you say, well, yeah,
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: because a lot of coaches are intense. But intensity does
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: not necessarily equal intentionality. You can be intense and get
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: up in somebody's grill and yell and scream and stuff
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: like that, which a lot of coaches do. But what
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: are you accomplishing then? But if you have intentionality... There
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: is a purpose behind everything you do and say. And
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: that is what stands out about him. Whether he's talking
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: to them in a huddle, whether he's getting after them
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: because somebody did or did not do something, whether he's
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: talking to the managers about what they're supposed to do
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: with the team, there is intentionality. And I think that
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: is what separates him from a lot of coaches.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Agreed. I don't think people realize yet how good of
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: a coach he is, but I think they will.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: But I think that's his big key to success is
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: a purpose behind each thing that he does.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: Thinking about an outcome. Monday's game against Niagara, and I'll
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: leave that to Brad.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Sure you will.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: Okay, stop talking. Go to the next point.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: I'll just skip.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: No, we want to hear what you're going to say. No,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: I want to hear what you're going to say. Go ahead. Well,
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: they have come in with an international team. Yeah. It's hard, man.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: All five starters from five different countries. It's hard. Those
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: are hard jobs, man. Those are hard jobs.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: Tony, you mentioned Calvin Murphy as a former Niagara grader.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: He only averaged 33 before the three-point line.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: It was unbelievable. 33.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: On the legal front, NCAA says there have been 200
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: lawsuits filed since the June approval of.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: The age-based eligibility model. 200. 200.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: Which is, again, why you need the House after the
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: election to pass the college sports act.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Solid move by the NCAA all the way around of
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: how they wanted to implement the five for five. They
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: did a great job on that. Wonderful job on that.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: They just insert circus music.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: You want to know how crazy things are?
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: Tell me.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Ohio Governor Mike DeWine issued an executive order allowing Ohio
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: schools to disregard the eligibility restrictions. The NCAA responded by
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: suing the governor.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Why not?
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: So you have the NCAA suing the governor of a state.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're doing well. It's all going very, very well.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: And finally, you know sports guys pay attention to the weather.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: These last couple of weeks. These last couple of weeks.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, go ahead.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: Have been the best.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Unbelievable.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: Just unbelievable.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Go ahead, Hop. Finish it.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Well, I just would add to what Brad was going
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: to say.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but at least finish my thought for me.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: The reason we have such splendid colors in West Virginia,
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: and this fall's been unprecedented.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: Here comes El Nino.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: We have different kinds of hardwoods. We have different kinds
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: of hardwoods that have different pigments. And that's why. So
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: that's why you get the oranges, the reds, the yellows,
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: the purples, the browns, and they come at different times
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: at different elevations because of different temperatures and different hardwoods.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: And John Burroughs, the American naturalist, said, How beautifully leaves
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: grow old. How full of light and color are their
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: last days. And that's all I have.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: That's awesome. I do want to go on record. I've
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: been here for 43 years. This is the best stretch
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: of days. You guys are on it. I'm totally serious.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: Best stretch of days. Like the month of October, it
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: made me joyful.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: Joyful?
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: It is. It is the best ever. It's great weather.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: It's great. This has been unprecedented. And I'm glad we
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: brought it up.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: I'm glad I brought it up because it wasn't going
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: to come up today.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: Brad had no idea the weather's been nice.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Thank God for you two or we would not have
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: got a good weather discussion in today. You guys have
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: saved the day.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: So, Brad, you may want to note the weather's good.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Well, I've been driving around the state this week.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: Yes, you have.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: A bunch of counties, and it has been a joy. Joy. Joy.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Because I'm zipping around the state, and I was on 79.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: I get on 77. I was on 50. I was
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: on 50 for a long time yesterday, Hop.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because of the accident.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, two hours and 20 minutes standing still. And the trees,
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: 50 is gorgeous right now, zipping through all those beautiful colors.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: But you're right. You know, to me, and I don't
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: know Burroughs the naturalist, but I did think that something
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: to what he was saying is like it's the tree's
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: way– of saying goodbye for the season. They do go
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: out in a flurry of brilliance. A blaze of glory, absolutely.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: The bad thing is, four weeks from now, it looks
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: like hell. With all those trees just completely bare. But,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: I mean, in order to get where you are, you've
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: got to, you know, just a cycle. I mean, they
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: call it the cycle of life.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: Circle of life.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Hoppy, well done. Thank you. Three guys brought to us
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: by the good folks at GoMart. Dare we say Halloween
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: without chocolate? That does not need to be the case.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: Big Candy has taken over, and right now you can
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: get rewards points by using the GoMart app. Rewards are brewing,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: and for the rest of this month, so a couple
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: of days, Hershey's standard size, two for $ 4, or Slim
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Jim Monsters for just $ 2. Visit GoMart and check it out.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: I did a lot of fueling. I bet you did.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: At the Go-Marts. I did a fueling at the Go-Marts
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: this week. I got off in the Flatwood exit, and
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: I went to the first one, Hoppy. I went to
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: the first, Brad. I went to the first Go-Mart, not
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: the second Go-Mart. Which one is it? The first one.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: Store one? Store one. On the right.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Left. Left. Poor buddy. Three guys also, we've been talking
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: about the super-duper weather. I also went by the St.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: Albans exit this week on my way up to Milton.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: And I did... Kind of tip my cap to Lewendl
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Marine Sales. Those guys got to be giddy. And it's
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: given people an opportunity to wait a little longer to
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: get their boat out. But as you do take your
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: boat out, the folks at Lewendl are a number one
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: when it comes to service. They've been doing it for
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: over 40 years. They can winterize your boat and a
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: whole lot more. So give them a check at LewendlMarineSales.com.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: If you've got a particular thing that you'd like discussed,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: give them a phone call. Lew will answer. Mike will answer.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: I don't know the other son's name. So there's Lou,
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: there's Mike, and there's one of the other sons. We
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: need to get a name. Can we get a name
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: on Lou's other son? Can we get that? That would
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: be kind of good. But they're the only Honda Marine
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: premium dealer in the entire state of West Virginia, and
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: they sell the Avalon pontoon boats manufactured 100% right here
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: in the United States. So don't think it's too early.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: You can take that boat out, get it serviced at louwendelmarinesales.com
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: or visit them in Virginia. St.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: Albans.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: All right. So as we said, we've got a, this
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: is kind of like a buffet of numbers.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: Gary and Michael.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: Gary and Michael. Is it Gary?
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: Gary.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: Is his son Gary?
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: Gary, I think so.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: Sounds like good. Sounds like Lou would have a son
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: named Gary. Okay. That sounds pretty good to me. All right,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: let's do this thing. It is time for Spreads on Stats.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: And since we don't talk before the show starts, I've
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: got no idea what Brad's got. So here we go. Weather.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Let's do the weather again. They give us percentages of rain.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: I can't talk about the weather, and you've already used it.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: Miles Sadler's really good, so we're basically done here.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Spreads on Stats is an analytical dive presented by Conley
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: CPA Group. They do provide value beyond numbers. Very good.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: What we like is the ability to outsource your accounting
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: through them. That takes a lot of stress off of you.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: They take care of the work. You can also outsource
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: your CFO services. So if you're a business, business owner,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: and you need some help in that world... They can
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: take care of it for you. And plus, besides doing
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: the number stuff, they're consultants. They'll give you the best
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: options of how to run certain parts of your business
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: so it saves you dollars. Conley CPA Group. So what
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: are you going to do?
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: Talk some numbers. We'll go through some things.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: That's good.
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: You know, the Wheeling exhibition the other night was fun.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: And I talked about how much I thought the game
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: down at Glenville was just a great overall experience, never.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: Mind just the game.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: The Wheeling was fantastic. was similar, but for different reasons.
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: And I thought it was neat. One, Chris Richardson does
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: a tremendous job with that program. We've talked about Wheeling.
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: So we played him last year. He, he does more
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: with less than certainly anybody in that league, but maybe
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: you might be able to go nationally hoppy for what
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: they've been able to do multiple times that schools had,
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: had been close to closing and they just keep coming
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: back and coming back. And he ends up working himself
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: into coach of the year last year and they've got
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: another good team yeah they did some things and I
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: know that the game the score didn't indicate that but
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: if you watch that closely they do some things that'll
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: that'll go well for them when they get in the
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: mountains pretty good stuff runs really good stuff and he's
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: got a bunch of guys that understand what he's doing
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: i mean much like glenville they've got some returnees so
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: it's interesting how the division one level is talking about
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: new rosters every year in division two which used to
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: have to do that every year has become a little
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: more stable.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: So that was interesting.
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: Two, I thought it was an awesome story to have
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: Quincy Pitsnagel in the Coliseum. Another Pitsnagel shooting threes at
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: 6'10 in the Coliseum.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: That was fun, guys.
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: And we hadn't seen Quincy since he was a baby
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: being carried out by Kevin on senior night. And so
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: he's out there shooting threes. And Tony and I talked
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: about on the broadcast, it is eerily similar. You do
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: not need to see Pitsnagel across the back of his
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: jersey to know that that's a Pitsnagel jump shot.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: The leg kick. Yeah.
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: Passed it well. So that kid is going to be
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: somebody to watch here. He's got a shot to be
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: a really good player.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: And his dad was there.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: Kevin was there. And the fruit doesn't fall far from
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: the tree. And also, what's interesting, too, about that, and
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: you're right, Brad, is that how many people who've been
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: around a little while came out and go, I can't
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: believe it. Pitsnagel's kid is playing. Wasn't Kevin just playing
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: here a little while ago? I mean, that tells you
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: how quickly time goes by. Yeah, and it was neat.
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: We talked to Kevin for a little bit afterwards. He
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: talked to how proud he was there to see Quincy
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: out there playing on that floor that was that was
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: just a neat story yes above and beyond the game.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: He said when i come to the coliseum i don't
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: ask for like good seats when i come he said
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: but for tonight he said i wanted to be close
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: and he goes about he was there behind the basket
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: and uh just thrilled for him i mean what a
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: career he had as a player and now uh here
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: he is as a principal And I said, did you
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: skip work today? He goes, no, dude. He said, and
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: he's in Virginia.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's in Winchester.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he said, no, man. He said, I worked till 3.30,
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: got in the car, and I just got here.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: And he got to drive back.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, drive back to school as a worker. Yeah. That's
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: what people do. That was fun.
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: So let's go on the floor for a minute. And
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: now that the exhibition season's over, let's talk about Wheeling
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: for a second. One of the numbers that stood out
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: to me in that game, only four offensive rebounds for Wheeling.
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: And that's a team that as we look at the,
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: the MEC stats at the end of the year, that'll
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: be a very good offensive rebounding team. That's one of
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: their core identities, and West Virginia just locked that out
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: and was able to control the glass, which you'd expect.
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: You did have a size advantage, although that's a bigger
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: Mountaineers conference team. They came in with a 6'11, and
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: they had Quincy at 6'10, had another 6'8, so they
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: had some size, but West Virginia controlled it. Let's talk
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: about Joson Sandin. First real action for him. He played
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: a little bit in the first half against Maryland, but
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: then went out with that injury.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: Man, did he have a hot start?
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: Scorching.
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: Came in off the bench, which was an interesting move there.
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: I wonder if that stays. Because Joson had been originally
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: against Maryland starting. You saw him come off the bench there,
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: and it gives you a couple things there. Seydou Traore
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: coming out and guarding the opposing team's point guard right
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: out of the gate to start the game is a
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: heck of a matchup situation for the opponent. Never mind
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: if it's Glenville, Wheeling, or Kansas. That's going to be
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: a challenge with Traore. And then it does give you
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: that instant offense energy and pop off the bench. As
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: you saw with Joson, there was no waiting around. There
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: was no running to get loose. That was get him
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: the ball.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: He's open. Let it fly.
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: Knocked down his first three. So it was good to
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: see him back in lineup. He finishes with 11 points,
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: five rebounds in 24 minutes. The other thing that we've known,
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: but now when you see it against another opponent, the
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: interchangeable parts at different positions in Joson and Seydoux, it's
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: remarkable how similar that skill set is. Seydoux's so talented.
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: on both ends, but defensively with that pressure. You take
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: him out and you bring Joson Sandin in that's basically
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: the same size as him that can also guard the
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: opposing team's point guard if you need it, or slide
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: to a wing, or they can hold up in the post.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: When you go down there.
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: Great versatility. Great versatility. That might be something we say
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: throughout this season. Versatility in a lot of different ways.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think Josan Sanen is the one player that
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: fans don't yet fully appreciate what they have because he
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: missed basically the first two games and played here just
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: against Wheeling. That is a guy that will have some
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: nights that will be the leader on the scoreboard.
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: What was nice too is that tape starts to filter
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: out there of the three threes right away is now
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: he gets identified as a sniper on the opposing team's reports,
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: which he should. I mean, that guy could be a
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: high 30s, low 40s percent three-point shooter. But now you'll
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: have people just flying at him, and he really has
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: the ability to put it on the deck, get to
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: the mid-range, or finish at the basket because of his size.
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: So that little baby scouting report there just really expands
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: the options that he's going to bring you. The aforementioned
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: Miles Sadler.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: Hoppy thinks he's good.
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: Thinks he's really good. That was a really good observation.
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: It's remarkable. I'm going to say this probably every time
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: we review a game. The speed is breathtaking. When he
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: is coming, even at three quarters speed, and you're having
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: to stand flat footed and try and stay in front
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: of him, good luck. Good luck, number one, in doing that.
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: And number two, what that's going to create is you're
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: not going to be able to do that with one guy.
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: So you're going to have to pinch those gaps, which
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: immediately is going to open up things on the perimeter
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: for you. The ripple effects that he's going to be
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: able to create are going to be massive. And oh,
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: by the way, he had 15 points and six assists,
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: only two turnovers. So a three to one assist to
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: turnover ratio.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: That'll work.
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: 15, just out of the gate. I mean, he gets 15,
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: and you're like, yeah, Miles led 15. Just controls the game. So, again,
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: he's going to be fun to watch here as we
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: get going. B-Lo had a nice game, and it's a
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: game in which I think this is what you need
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: out of him. And I know it's opponent adjusted, and
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: he had the size advantage against Wheeling, but he finishes
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: with eight rebounds. And three assists. And I think that's
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: something to watch. We talked it on the game broadcast. Hoppy,
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: if you try and double Miles at the ball when
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: he comes across, which teams will do because there's teams
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: in this league that subscribe to that as their main
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: defensive theory. One, I think that's going to be hard
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: to do consistently. I think he'll make you get.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Out of that.
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: But while he's in that or late game situations or
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: late clock, when you go to a two-man game with
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: Miles and B-Lo there and clear the side, and you
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: double Miles, that short roll, like that just little baby roll,
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: and you get it to B-low, and his ability to
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: take it from there. You know, he's a near 70%
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: shooter from the left elbow last year right inside the lane. Well,
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: that's pretty tough to defend. So you better come up
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: on him. And if you do, as happened a couple
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: times the other night, then the pass down low to
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: some really athletic bigs with great size that can finish
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: at the rim, that's going to be a tremendous option.
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: And oh, by the way, If you collapse too far
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: and somehow take the big out of it, guess what's
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: now open? Joson, Finley, multiple guys standing on the wings
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: of the corner to shoot it. So again, versatility offensively,
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: but I think B-Low is going to help with a
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: lot of that.
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: Sadler probably wants some hockey assists because he's going to
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: get the ball to B-Low. B-Low will then dish it
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: for a back. So Sadler's from Canada. He'll probably ask
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: for a hockey assist. Can I get like half of
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: one on that or something like that?
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: Keontae Graybear is a guy we've been talking about since
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: this summer. to keep an eye on for the future.
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: Talk about guys you hope you can retain and bring back.
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: I would think Keontae would be a guy. Man, he
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: can score in bunches. Really skilled offensive player. Put up
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: 11 points in seven minutes, had two more threes. That
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: followed up nine points in just 14 minutes at Glenville.
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: So if I've done my math right, that's 23 points
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: in 21 minutes for Keontae.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: Graybear, who.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: That'd be a good career. Just keep that up.
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: Keontae can play.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: Nice kid. What a nice kid.
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: They all are. Let's talk bigs for a minute. The
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: aforementioned Saini, Amadou Saini, and Mo Silla. I thought Mo
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: started to show some of his athleticism the other night,
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: his ability to catch and finish around the rim, just
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: so smooth and so athletic. But if you combine those two,
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: if you think about those as one guy, as your five,
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: because you're rotating both in, you play them together rarely.
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: Sometimes you might get a few minutes with them, but
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: they're really coming in for each other. So it's what
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: do you get out of your five position? Just the
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: other night, 16 points, 12 rebounds, two steals in one
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: block and multiple altered shots. If I told you that
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: before the season that your five man returns that, you
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: take that every night. So that's a good way, I think,
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: to look at these guys is take them in tandem.
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: What are they going to be able to do together?
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: You're getting mid teen points and double figure rebounds out
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: of those. You'll take that all night. Saney, for a second,
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: 28 rebounds in 49 minutes played so far this year.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: Excuse me?
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: 28 rebounds in 49 minutes played. So I did a
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: little digging last night, yesterday. Arizona's Toby Iwaka led the
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: nation last year in offensive rebounding rate.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: He's a man.
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: Was the best in the country. And he averaged nine
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: rebounds per game. He averaged 0.43 rebounds per minute that
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: he was on the floor. Now, again, disclaimer when I
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: do stats. That's a full season at high-level competition. And
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: I'm going to give you Saney in just exhibition games
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: against two Division II teams. So I understand the difference
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: in competition. But Iwaka was 0.43 rebounds per minute lead
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: the country as an offensive rebounding rate. Saney through three exhibitions,
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: his first three games in college, 0.57 rebounds per minute played.
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: So point is, dude's rebounding at an elite level. And
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: I think that's probably something that continues.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: Two things on him. And you made the observation. If
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: you go back to last March, April, actually, when he
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: was playing at Bell Vista and they won the world's championship.
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: If you go back and watch those games, his body
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: has completely changed from what it looked like last year
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: to what it is now. He's growing. He's getting bigger.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: He's getting thicker. And it's by a lot. Yeah, it's
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: by a lot. Yeah. And the other thing is he
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: hasn't even been in the united states for a year
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: yet he got here last november he was in italy
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: uh before that and they have good weather in italy
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: too hoppy and uh so he hasn't even been here
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: yet a full year so you're watching a You know,
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: you plant those bulbs, Hoppy. You know, they put them
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: down in the ground in the winter, and then they
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: come out in the spring. You put them in on
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: the fall, I guess. That's what you're watching. You're watching
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: this guy. Every single game he plays, he's blossoming. And
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: the upside is going to be incredibly intriguing.
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: Just works.
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: That's the biggest difference.
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: Works hard all the time. When he's on the floor,
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: he's working hard. And defensively, you can still see these guys.
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: They're nowhere close to where they're going to be. They
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: are still figuring this thing out and rotation. So I
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: think this defense has a chance to really take a
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: step up. But if you've watched or listened to any
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: of the first three games, this offense is different. You've
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: got multiple guys here that can do things offensively. And
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: the last guy we'll talk about now, and again, we
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: could spend four hours going through the roster. Finley Bizjack
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: continues to impress me a lot. And it's not just
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: his ability to knock down open shots. It's just He
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: was so efficient the other night in the game. Didn't
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: force any shots. Five of eight from the floor. Added
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: another two three-pointers. Finishes with 14. But I think it
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: was on display last night. This happens every day in
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: practice when he steps on the floor. It's as competitive
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: as a guy as I've seen in a long, long time.
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: And he's not overtly– it doesn't come out. He doesn't
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: talk a lot. He's just quietly intense. He goes diving
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: into the second row of the seats the other night
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: in an exhibition game and didn't think twice about it.
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: was just playing, which we've seen him do in practice
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: how many times. So love his work ethic and what
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: he brings to this team in terms of competitive drive.
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: I know what you're saying, Brad, and what you've seen
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: so far just in exhibition is multiple guys. Last year,
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: we loved last year's team, but a lot of times
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: you had to say, okay, Honor's going to do it,
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: and later in the season, B-Lo's going to do it.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: Who else?
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: This team, you've got multiple guys, Tony.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: You have myriad substitution possibilities, and that makes it really
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: super fun for the coaches and the things that you
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: can do. Hey, guess what? They're going to need them
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: because this schedule is an absolute bear.
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: And it starts here soon.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: We're going in just a couple weeks.
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: It is on from when you get to Vegas, it's like,
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: here we go. Yeah.
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: The other thing it does with the depth, and I
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: think this is something that probably isn't discussed enough, when
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: you have to go to your second line, what happens
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: within the game? And I think this team gives you
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: a chance. I'm not sure there's much drop, if any.
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: Ross has said this, and I know sometimes coaches say
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: things and we go, oh, that's Coach.
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: Peake, okay.
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: I mean, he basically views this as having nine or
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: ten starters. There's just five that start the game and
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: there's five that come in next, but the five that
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: are coming in next could very easily be the five
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: that start the game for you. That's an incredible advantage.
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: There's going to be some nights in this league where
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: you're going to get some teams where that second group
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: comes in, and it's a heck of an advantage, and
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: you can really run a lead out.
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: And maybe it was because it was an exhibition game, but, man,
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: he was running a lot of guys in and out.
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: I think he's going to do it because he's got options.
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: I don't think this is a group where you're going
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: to get down to eight guys and play eight guys.
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: I don't either. I don't think he can because he's
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: got too many guys that he can go with, which
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: is fine because it's a long season. And stuff will happen.
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: So yeah, absolutely.
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: All right, quick Niagara preview, although Hoppy gave a nice
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: in-depth look at the Purple Eagles here before we started.
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: But I'll try to add a little bit to that.
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: I apologize for him.
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: So no starters back from a team last year that
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: was 8-22. Greg Paulus, their head coach.
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: We talked about him last podcast.
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: Mentioned him.
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: Played basketball at Duke.
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: Of course, then the natural career path went to quarterback
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: at Syracuse after he played at Duke. Beat him here,
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: didn't we?
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: Didn't we play them?
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: We beat him in football. Mm-hmm. And we beat him
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: in basketball when he was at the Dukes in the
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: NCAA tournament.
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: Eight of 13 scholarship players for them are international, so
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: he has gone that route. As Hoppy said, the five
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: starters against Syracuse in their exhibition represented five different countries.
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: The U.S., France, Italy, Argentina, and Canada.
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: So it's when they travel, it's make sure you have
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: all your gear and your passports.
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: They're right there on the border of Canada anyway. Just
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: right over the bridge.
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: Last season's style, which doesn't matter a lick because it's
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: a brand new team, took a lot of spot-up shots,
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: and they gave up a lot of shots at the rim.
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: So we'll see if that holds or not. They were
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: in a game with Syracuse there for a while. Had
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: it to within seven at the half. So we'll see.
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: You don't know what Syracuse is yet, though, either. Correct. Yeah, correct.
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: He's from up there. Greg Paulus is from Syracuse. Went
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: to CBA, Christian Brothers Academy up there in Syracuse. And
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: played there. We just saw that. Played it.
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: He played quarterback there. Yeah.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: That's his home. I'm just saying that's his home area. Okay.
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: So, starts Monday.
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: For real. Niagara factoid? Sure.
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: John Bielan got his master's at Niagara. Oh. But he
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: coached at Canisius. Coached at Canisius. Got his master's at Niagara.
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: First I've heard of that.
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: In education.
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: Did not know he got the Niagara degree.
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: They did.
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: Niagara only had three offensive rebounds against Syracuse. So that's
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: one where you should go in and control that glass.
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: Did you look at it?
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: They're not tall, are they?
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: No, that's pretty standard mid-major, 6'8.
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: They're the biggest guy.
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: And Syracuse worked them in the paint, 36-18 points in
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: paint advantage.
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: So should be doable inside as well.
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: Tip off at Hope Coliseum, 7 o'clock. And we had
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: the debut of the new seating arrangements inside Hope Coliseum
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: for the exhibition game against Wheeling, but I would imagine
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: There'll be more people there Monday night. And I want
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: to continue to see this new student section and see
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: how that evolves.
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what do you think of that? I heard you
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: talking about it.
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: Well, I enjoy the inflatable Mountaineer thing. Did you see
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: those behind the back? What do they call those? I mean,
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: you used to be in marketing. What are those?
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: Well, they're similar to, you know, a lot of car
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: dealers have them. No, car dealers love those. The gangly
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: arms that just wave and.
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: The wind blows up them.
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: The air blows up them.
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: Is that called a car dealer mascot or what do
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: they call those?
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: I don't know that they get credit for the.
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: The invention. Look that one up.
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: Got it.
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: See what they call those floaty things. But there's they're
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: made out of they're designed to look like the Mountaineer.
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: And they're behind the baskets that the visitors will shoot
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: on in the second half. So I think that could
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: become kind of fun. Right.
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: There were a lot of wavy things behind the basket.
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: A lot of things moving.
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: Which is good. I like that. You can call it
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: a tube man, an air dancer, or sky dancer. I
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: like tube man. Inflatable tube man.
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: Air dancer is probably a more appropriate term.
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: I would think so. The way we use it. Wacky.
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: More of an air dancer.
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: If you watch Family Guy, which I do, but brings
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: down my intelligence. It's Wacky Waving Inflatable.
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: Arm Flailing Tube Man. The arm flailing is the.
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: Did this have arms on it, though, or was it
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: just a vertical?
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: No, no, it had stuff.
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: It had the arms? Stuff was flailing out of it?
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: It had tentacles. It was coming out.
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: Tony, I think you should go with that. Wacky Waving
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man.
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: Too much. Air Dancer's a good one. Air Dancer. Three
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: guys brought to us by Jan Dills, attorney at law.
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: I don't like that.
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: Veterans Appreciation is coming up next Thursday, November 5. And
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: the folks at Jan Dills, once again, Veterans Day, once again,
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: Jan Dills will be hosting a spaghetti dinner, a Veterans
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: Appreciation Dinner, and it is free to veterans. It's at
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: the Knights of Columbus in Parkersburg, and veterans eat for free,
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: $ 5 for non-veterans, and 100% of all the proceeds go
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: to the Operation Transportation Program, which gives free bus passes
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: to veterans in Parkersburg, Charleston, and in Huntington. So, If
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: you're in the Wood County, Jackson County area and beyond,
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: this coming Thursday starts. It goes 4.30 until 6.30 at
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: the Knights of Columbus, and it is to honor veterans,
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: veterans appreciation spaghetti dinner.
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: Tony, correction on my part. Obviously, Veterans Day is November 11th.
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: 11th hour, 11th day.
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but they're going to celebrate on the 5th, correct?
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: Three guys also. I also have, oh, I'll get the
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: correction coming up here. Like three shows ago, I made
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: a mis- Made a bad miss. I'll correct that here.
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: Three guys also brought to us by Tudor's Biscuit World.
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: I said while I was driving this week around the state,
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: a lot of Tudors. I mean, they are prevalent. And
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: I got close enough to a couple. They do have
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: some signage out there talking about the protein bowls and
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: some billboards out there as well. So we're kind of
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: right in the midst of this thing. And we want
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: to encourage you, if you're a Tudor's person or not,
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: here's a way to do it without... The biscuit. You've
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: got the sausage protein bowl, the bacon protein bowl, and,
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: of course, the veggie protein bowl. Fluffy eggs. Fill it up.
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: And it is absolutely delish. And it's good for you.
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: A lot of protein. People love protein. Protein's the big thing.
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: So check it out. Or you could just get the
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: standard biscuit, the cat head biscuits, at Tudor's on weekends
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: coming here. And so I don't know why you wouldn't
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: want to grab a couple of those. So check it
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: out at Tudor's Biscuit World. Start your day the three
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: guys way. With a Tudor's biscuit.
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: One more quick note.
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: WV Women rolled last night their exhibition against Frostburg State.
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: They opened the season Tuesday. Had some balanced efforts last night.
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: Five and double figures. Alexis Bortis, Nyla Wilson. Zaza Walton.
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: 12 points, nine rebounds, four steals, four assists.
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: That's a good 9.
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: That's covering it. Skyler Forbes, 8.6 rebounds, 3 steals, 20
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: steals on the game for the WVU women.
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: Chia Cook was 16. That's their M.O.
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: Frostburg struggled with the Mountaineer pressure. They had 33 turnovers.
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: West Virginia won the game by 70. 111-41. They'll open
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: up their regular season on Tuesday. Also, last night, on
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: the Dick Dulesk soccer pitch, the fighting Dan Stratfords, the
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: world champion Mountaineer men's soccer team, sent back the Coastal
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: Carolinas by a final result of 2-0.
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: Ooh, that's big.
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: That is massive because it sets the table for West
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: Virginia to win the Sun Belt World's Championship based on
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: a couple of different things, potentially could become co-champions after
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: tonight's games are over based upon a James Madison loss,
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: and a Marshall loss. But if that doesn't happen, next Tuesday,
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: the Fighting Stratfords are going to go into Harrisonburg. They
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: beat the Dukes. They win the World's Championship. Nice. Which
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: would get you home field for the Sunbelt postseason soccer tournament.
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: That'd be excellent.
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: So, yeah. Good luck to them. It'd be awesome. So
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: that's what's going on there. Congratulations to those guys. Are
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: you guys ready to do some healing?
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: Now, Hoppy, you had expressed a– do you have somewhere
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: to go? You had given us– Yeah, go– you're all right.
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: We're okay. You're sure?
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I'm fine.
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: Fighting Neil Brown is one of those.
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I saw that.
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: Jaheim White had 1,000 yards.
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: I think. 193.
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: And the– I think he is the first back in
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: the country to get to 1,000 yards, though.
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: He crossed that barrier last night.
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: Is that right? I believe that's right. Mean Green, they're
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: 4-0 in their league. Yeah.
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: It became bowl eligible last night.
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So shout out to those fellas. Got several different
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: Mountaineers on that roster. Time now for Textual Healing. It's
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: your opportunity to contribute to the show. Text the question
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: or comment, 304-404-4083, 304-404-4083. It's brought to us by the
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• 51:37
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• 51:55
  Speaker 1: to schedule an appointment. All right, let's jump in. And
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: here we go. Some touches back to last week's football game,
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: plus some other things. Texter says, incredibly impressed with the
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: Mountaineers after the game Saturday. I shared with Cam Cook
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: that my seventh grader, Jackson, is a running back. And
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: he took a few minutes to give him some advice.
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: Look at that. Post game, there's Cam Cook in the
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: tunnel at TCU telling that young man. how to never
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: go down on the ground even though they hit you.
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: Then he said, same with Ben Cutter, who stopped to
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: speak with my ninth grader, Andrew, how to succeed at linebacker.
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: He even went as far to review some of his
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: film just a few moments out of their day, but
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: it created a memory my boys will never forget.
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: That's awesome.
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: He said the head ball coach was always as great.
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: There's Rich Rod. Now, he's happy. He just won the game. Now,
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: they just won the game. So Rich got that game.
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: So he got all them little kids in there. Rich
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: was happy.
• 52:58
  Speaker 3: Not surprised, those two. Cam Cook and Ben Cutter.
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's great. That's what you get with those guys.
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: Also helps to win.
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think that happens.
• 53:06
  Speaker 3: Texter, poll.
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: This is just a one-sentence thought. Over or under one
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: and a half more football wins? What now? This person
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: is asking. He said an over and under at one
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: and a half. More or less football wins before the
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: next four games are over? Will West Virginia win one
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: and a half more games?
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: Be great to be over. We've got some challenges coming.
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: I'm going to go over.
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Hi, three guys. The last two episodes were superb.
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: Among your best. Winning helps, I imagine. Plus, it had
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: been a long time since you had done a list.
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: One of our favorite parts of the show. I'm excited
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: to say that I am changing my name from Craig
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: in Oakmont to... Craig in Oakmont with Land in Mon County.
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: Country roads are truly taking me home. Finally, love the
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: show and like the fans. I'm concerned about the countdown
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: to episode 800. Please calm my fears that we have
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: more than 50 episodes to look forward to. Thank you,
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: Craig in Oakmont with Land in Mon County.
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: I need to talk to you about that.
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: Yes, we do. This is 51, 751. Now here comes
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: the next big thing. I have been mewling. I have
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: been mewling peanut butter fudge since Tuesday. Michael and Culloden.
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: To your credit, though, you brought it in.
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: There it is, man.
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: Mostly intact.
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: Mostly intact. Some damage, some road damage. Thank you very much,
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: Michael and Culloden. We tasted before the show started. This
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: maintains an unprecedented, superb peanut butter fudge that we just
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: sit here when we eat it and go like, oh
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: my gosh. It's unbelievable. So Michael and Clodin, I'm sure
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: you're not making it, but your wife is. Thank you
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: very much. And they went the extra mile. I arrived
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: at Milton Elementary School to read my book, and the
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: principal says, someone brought you, it's over there? And I
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: went like, yep, got it. Michael and Clodin with the
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: peanut butter fudge. So they infiltrated the school system this week.
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: Scheduled a drop-off.
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: So thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you a
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: thousand times. There it is. There's a picture of it. Oh, boy. Yeah, outstanding.
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: Michael and Kalo.
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: And by the way, you know what it is with fudge.
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: I mean, you could eat a ton. Really, you want
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: like a piece or two. So that could take care
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: of a whole team. That's the challenge, though, stopping at
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: a piece or two.
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: In episode 749, I made a mistake. I was talking
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: about that connection of North Central-born West Virginia coaches who
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: have won world championships in football, and I misspoke. And
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: I said John Robinson instead of John McKay. John McKay
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: is the Monongalia County native who was the former coach
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: at USC. I just said Robinson who also was a
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: USC coach, but I know who it is because I
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: grew up as a Buffalo Bills fan and I remember
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: watching John McKay coach at USC. So thank you very,
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: very much. He lived in Everettsville, Hoppe, and Fairmont before
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: graduating to Shinston in 1940. Look at that. There's his
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: card for like his yearbook, Brad. Yeah. There he was,
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: John McKay, as a youngster. And this gentleman says, my
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: father-in-law played football and basketball with Jack, and my mother
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: was a close friend of his younger sister, Punky, for
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: 70 years. Jack played at Purdue and Oregon State after
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: World War II, won national championships in 1962, 67, 72,
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: and 74, and that's his senior picture from the 1940
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: The Spartan. Thank you, Three Cities C.L. So that's fantastic.
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: And John McKay is also famously known when he was
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach when the reporter asked him
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: after a game, Coach, what did you think of your
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: team's execution? He said, I'm all in favor of it.
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: Texter says, the sponsor of the show was your first book.
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: I think it was said in Jess, but it was
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: said in one of the first few shows. So when
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: we started this thing. He said, I was promoting my
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: first book. Could be a trivia question with episode 800
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: coming up. Lee and Leroy, P.S., she shared with Tony
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: that she owns land in three counties. So there you go.
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: We'll have details, a couple of things. We'll have details
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: on how you can get this book that I've partnered
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: with GoMart on and how to order it coming up.
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: Just finalizing those details.
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: It's a wonderful read.
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: And also, next episode, Next week, either the first show
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: or the second show next week, we'll have details on
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: our Three Guys episode 800 Christmas catalog of what we'll
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: be selling for the Christmas season. And fortunately, as I
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: first reported, we will have a combination package that you
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: can buy together of Mountaineer Roasting Coffee and Ben Cutter's
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: Mom Cookies. But there will be a limited supply.
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: Details still to be worked out.
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: Of course. I told you. You guys jumped on me
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: for saying I went too early on it, and it happened.
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks to you.
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: Hey, three guys, Peyton and Lubbock. My wife and I
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: moved here a year and a half ago, amped up
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: to get to see the Mountaineers come to town. We're
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: going to the game with a bunch of friends, and
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: a buddy asked me, will I wear WVU or tech
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: gear for the game? I couldn't believe he would ask
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: such a thing. Say what? I told him these colors
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: don't run. And even though my wife works for the
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: university here, I will be draped head to toe in
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: the flying WV no matter time or place. Let's go Mountaineers.
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: And he also said, Labrisus is a must for dinner
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: and a fantastic steak. I've heard of that place. Three guys,
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: John in Nashville, always a West Virginia Ike Morris connection.
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: Tennessee women's basketball coach Kim Caldwell opened her media day
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: press conference last week with an emotional tribute to her
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: mentor and close personal friend Ike Morris. She said Ike
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: and his family took care of her since she was
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: a freshman in college at Glenville State. Kim closed her
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: thoughts by saying, without Ike Morris, I would not be
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: standing where I am today. So that's awesome. Text her,
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: hey guys, Jared from Glasgow, West Virginia of course, Happy
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: to celebrate a win here. All the positive comments. Love
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: the show. A lot of the text and chatter around
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: the game talk about the bend but don't break defense. However,
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: I know Rich doesn't like this type of defense because
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: it lessens the effect of his fast tempo style and
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: keeps his offense off the field. Could you please eloquently
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: explain to Mountain Nation how important three and outs are
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: in getting off the field is for this WVU team
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: to reach its full potential? Yeah. I mean, you just
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: simply do the math. So The premise of West Virginia
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: on offense is to run a very high number of plays.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: And in order to do that, the opposing team must
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: give you the ball. If they go on long drives,
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: then you have less of a chance because there's less
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: time to run plays. So in essence, that's why getting
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: three and outs are so key Because not only does
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: it allow you to run more plays, the more plays
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: you run, the defense that you're playing against gets more fatigued,
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: and that's the whole magic to Rich's offense. So that's
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: why it's so important to have that happen.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: By the way, that's often said, oh, it's a bend,
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: don't break defense. They would like to stop you every
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: time on three and out. They would not say, let's
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 2: just let them run down the field and we'll get
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: a stop at some point. I think the goal, Brad,
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: is to stop the other team.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: Agreed. Texter, these are two Ripken-esque streaks flying under the radar.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: One is Rich Rodriguez's streak of describing the opposing team's
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: defense as athletic and well-coached. The other is Brad Howe
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: concluding his spreads on stats by advising us that he
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: has many more stats, but he won't get into those.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 3: I do get lengthy at times, so I have to
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 3: cut it off. Although that streak ended today.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: I didn't give you that.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: You didn't say it. That's history.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: Poor timing on this text.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: Should have waited. Texter says, I wanted to say thank
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: you for recommending the Varsity app. Many of my fondest
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: memories growing up include listening to pre- and post-game shows
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: on a drive to and from Morgantown for every home
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: game and listening to you guys call football basketball before
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: all the games were televised. I'm now 44 years of age.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: I've complained about the TV commentators for as long as
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: I can remember, excluding your son, Andrew, of course.
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  Speaker 2: Of course.
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  Speaker 1: I have tried every method, app, and tool to get
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: the radio synced up. I heard you mention the varsity app.
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: I downloaded it, practiced the night before the Coastal Carolina
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: game watching Rutgers and UMass on a Friday, so I
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: was prepared for kickoff on Saturday. My wife referred to
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: my hope that this was going to work like an
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: eight-year-old hoping for a shiny red bike the night before Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: I'm happy to report that it worked like a charm.
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  Speaker 1: It's very easy to pause, unpause during the opening kick
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: to get it synced up. I'm finally able to listen...
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: To the call of our games and not some chumps
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: mispronounce our players' names and call us Western Virginia. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you don't want that. Thanks for the recommendation and being
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: the soundtrack to my childhood and game days moving forward.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: Drew from Ocala, Florida, by way of Moundsville. P.S. We'll
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: be attending the USF basketball game and would love to
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: bring you and Brad peanut M & Ms and Reese
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: cups as a thank you for how you represent our
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: great state. Let me know if you have any special requests. No,
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: that'd be fine. Thank you very much. Thank you, Drew.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: By the way, I had dinner in Charleston on Monday night.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: First time I ever ate at 1010 Bridge, Chef Paul
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: Smith's restaurant. And the chef was there, which is always
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: great to see. And we had an unbelievable, unbelievable meal.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: And it was fantastic. It was exactly what you would
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: hope for and what you would think. James Beard award-winning.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: He was great. Food was great. Service was great. They
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: knew it was you. Well, heck with that. Didn't know
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: it was me. Didn't matter. That place, I walked in
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: there and thought I was in a New York City restaurant.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: The buzz on a Monday night took me aback. And
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: the service was fantastic. A little bit different than 97%
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: of the other restaurants you go into where Eeyore serves you.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 3: You also had kind of a Chef Paul tour. Didn't
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 3: you do Bad Happy Burritos too down in Hurricane?
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: I did. I did that Tuesday for lunch. And that
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: was great again. Totally different style. Totally did. More casual.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: Next time I go, I've got to go to Pauly's,
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: the Italian place, which is across from 1010 Bridge.
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: Pauly.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So anyway, the food is fantastic. I bring that
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: all up because Jumpin' Jack Carlson, former producer here, he
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: gave me a four-pack of Reese's cups to give to you.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: They didn't survive the trip.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: It's shocking.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: Just wanted to let you know. If you ever ask you, hey, Brad,
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: did you get those Reese cups I gave Tony? No.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 2: Brad is not surprised by that. Not even a little.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 2: Would have been surprised if they'd made it here. Exactly.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: Brought the fudge. One out of two ain't bad.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: So does that offset all the others?
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it does.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: The other 19 times when it hasn't arrived? That's going
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: to be his go-to for the next five years. Brought
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: the fudge. Brought the fudge. In 2026, I brought the fudge.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: What do you want from me? Texter says, doing some
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: weird Googling during timeouts of the wheeling game. Rabbit Hole
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: led me to the college basketball crown. Second round game
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: two years ago, Boise beats Butler 193. Butler's leading scorer
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: was Finley Bizjack with 30. Boise was led by their
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: sixth man, Javen Buchanan with 27. That's a good one.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: Perfect microcosm of where we are in college sports today.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: Does this qualify as there's always a West Virginia connection?
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 2: I think so.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: That's pretty good. That is wild. That's a very nice
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: piece done on your part there.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, good research.
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: Just found that interesting. Enjoy these last few days of
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: October before what feels like one of the busiest Novembers
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: I can remember. From a West Virginia perspective, not sure
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: if we'll even have time to receive our month-long reminder
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: of how short the days are getting and how Scope
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: saw it coming while it caught everyone else completely by surprise.
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: You haven't mentioned once that we change our clocks this weekend.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: This weekend, man, it all goes back. Yeah, this is
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: when it happens. Next Monday afternoon is really a bad
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: day for people in West Virginia when it's absolute pitch
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: black at 215. I mean, it'll be dark at 215
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: on Monday afternoon. Winter's here. Yeah, it's done. It's done.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 2: Thank goodness we had a great fall.
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: Yes. Brad, did you know we had a great October?
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 2: Weather-wise, you mean?
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: Some are saying it. First reported here. This person, post-wheeling
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: exhibition text, this team reminds me of what it was
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: like in the Mountaineers' golden era, and I believe Coach
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: Hodge is the man to get us there. Since last season,
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: watching Brennan Lorien, and I'm going to comment on this,
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: Since last season, watching Brendan Lorient reminds me of seeing
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: Dennis Kalichla out on the floor. I have to pause
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: right there. I don't know where you're getting that or
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: how you're getting it. Dennis Kalichla weighed like 275, and
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: he was a back-to-the-basket player. B-Lo is long, athletic, can
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: shoot it from the perimeter. That one... If you told
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: me Brennan Lorient and Kelvin Bowman, I'd be with you.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: But not the Istanbul. Different player. Anyway, as long as
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: Miles Sadler doesn't try to beat Ben Cutter's unofficial Tudor's
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: Biscuit record before a game, he should be all right.
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: We should be all right there. Super excited to hear
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: some Charles Wesley Godwin hardwood floors as the official program
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: anthem and can't wait to see what's happening in the
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: Big 12. Enjoy the weekend. Juan in Orlando. Hey, three guys,
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: if Hoppy isn't on the injured reserve list. With all
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: of the past weeks of talk about Wren and his
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: now famous dish, I thought it might be time to
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: honor his legend. I present to you the white sauce specialist.
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: There he is. Wren Baker, Wren Fredo via AI.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 2: Well done.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: He says, seriously, it's awesome to have Wren. Take care, fellas.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: Not Hoppy, Howe, or Hodge in High Point. This next
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: one was pretty wild. You know Wes from Tailgate Central, right? Sure.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: He comes to our tailgate. With the Mountaineers on the road,
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: I spent last weekend with my dad and his best
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: friend at their camp. Everyone's got a camp in West Virginia.
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: Everyone's got land. Everyone's got a cabin. Everyone's got anything.
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 2: Getting out there now.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: They're there. They're there. I spent the weekend outside their
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: camp in Huttonsville, Randolph County. The accommodation, somewhat primitive. No
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: cell service. No internet. No TV. No TV. Wasn't a problem.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: Instead of watching the TV, we sat around a campfire,
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: ate tailgate food, beer, beer, brats, sausage, sandwiches, jalapeno poppers,
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: and since we're playing the Texas team, armadillo eggs, and
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: listened to the game on a small portable radio as
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: seen in the attached pictures.
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 2: There they are, man.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: They just had an old school radio, got far. As always,
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: coverage was great. Made it home Sunday, watched a recording
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: of the game, and each play was exactly... as I
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: had pictured it in my mind. Everything except the horrendous
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: magenta goal line. But I digress. Did you see that
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: goal line? It's red at Texas, at TCU.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 2: Oh, it is.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: It's a red goal line. I'm surprised you saw it,
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: considering where you were sitting. Look at those guys. Look
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: at those guys.
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: That is, that is.
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: That's awesome. That is.
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: That's excellent.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: Tony's description of the David Afogo strip sack and ensuing
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: fumble recovery by Ben Cutter will go down as one
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: of the all-time greats. Calls. The ball's loose. The ball's loose.
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: I'm proud of the defense for stepping up when it
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: mattered most. Should we do a ball, the ball's loose T-shirt? Yes.
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 2: The ball's loose.
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: The ball's loose. Yeah. I'm elated that Ben could give
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: his mother the perfect birthday gift to seal the victory.
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to continued improvement from the defense after
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: the bye and this team making a run to end
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: the season. Also, I understand, Tony. You ran into Travis,
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: one of the other board members of Tailgate Central at
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: Bad Happy Burrito while on your book tour. There he is.
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: I met him at Bad Happy. Now, he is an
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: assistant prosecutor down there, which continues to blow my mind
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: because when Tailgate Central was in its prime, the guys
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: that lived there, they were most likely to be prosecuted.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: And now there's lawyers, there's judges, and there's prosecutors. All
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: of those guys became that, but they were going to
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: get prosecuted. Now they prosecute. Now they are the prosecutors.
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: It's good to get on that side of the wall.
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: So that's quite real. Yeah. Those are great. Those guys
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: are great. All right, so things are going to get busy. Basketball,
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: as we said, Monday. And women open up Tuesday. Plus,
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: we've got basketball next Friday. That's right. The Hatters of
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: Stetson will be coming in. And Mountaineer football will play
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: next Saturday, TBA time, as we record. We don't know
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: what time yet in Lubbock.
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 2: Hope it's not like either 10 a.m. or 11 p.m.
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 2: or something crazy.
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: Well, probably won't get the 10 a.m. window since BYU-Utah.
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's right.
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: So... Our recording for next week is going to be
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: Tuesday morning. We'll drop one. We'll have one for you
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: by noon on Tuesday because we'll recap the basketball game Monday.
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 2: With election results on Tuesday morning.
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: No, we won't. No, they vote Tuesday. We don't do politics.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: Then Thursday we'll be back for another morning taping, and
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: we'll have it out to you before noon previewing the
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: basketball game a little bit, and we'll preview the football game.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: Sounds right.
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 2: I'll be careful not to. I'll check with Brad beforehand.
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: I was going to ask you, what's the week after that?
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: I'm not even going to go there. What's the week
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: after that? We'll do it. We'll figure out what the
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: week is.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 2: We always do.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll figure out the week after that. Okay, and
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: also we'll debut the Christmas catalog for three guys. That'll
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: be next week at some point as well. But I'm
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: really happy that I instituted the Mountaineer Roasting Coffee and
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: the Ben Cutter's Mom's Cooking Package. That's going to be great.
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: We're doing the popcorn too? Just asking. Don't need to
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: be critical of me. It's been a nice weather October.
• 1:11:45
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• 1:11:52
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• 1:12:21
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• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: to 630. Parkersburg. Knights of Columbus. Veterans Spaghetti Dinner. Veterans
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: are free. Non-veterans, $ 5. All the money. It goes to
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: a very worthwhile cause. Spreads has been brought to us
• 1:12:39
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• 1:12:43
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  Speaker 1: for all Mountaineers, including you.
• 1:12:50
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• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: Don't have one, obviously. Special thank you to our producer, Mr.
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 2: Jake.
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: He got some of the fudge. He happy cat.
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 2: He liked it, too.
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: He liked it, too. Jake liked it, too. All right.
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: Have a wonderful weekend. We'll be back next week. See
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: you all. Enjoy the weather.