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3 Guys Before The Game - WVU Hoops - Comeback Calamity (Episode 534) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  Hey, hey, welcome on in. It is time for three guys before
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  the game. And there's actually three guys. Oh mind, Like I've lost
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  such track of how often hope he's been on the show recently that I didn't
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  realize he only missed one episode since the last time we were on. It's
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  good to be right. Yeah, he was on for Coach Stevenson. That
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  was five thirty two. This is five thirty four. WVU hoops come back,
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  Calamity. So he was actually here two episodes ago. What I like
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  about it now is you have no idea if he's even coming on or not.
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  He just shut up today, wrote himself in the lineup card and was
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  here. I kind of like it. He did write himself in. We
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  bred and I were all ready to go. He walked in said, hey
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  man, I'm here. Can I come on? After a short debate,
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  short discussion, out of my earshot you guys, it was a one to
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  one vote and you were the tie breaking vote. Instead up going on,
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  all right, let them come in? All right, right, easier,
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  and later on in textual healing some information on Lou Wendel marine sales in Saint
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  Albans Oftentimes. I've been talking about the folks there and Sam, we've had
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  some unconfirmed reports about the James Bond Association relationship. Unconfirmed, might not be
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  unconfirmed anymore, now, may not be unconfirmed anymore. We'll get into that
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  since you've been gone. We had a good conver We had a great conversation
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  with lou Wendell's folks. Oh did you learned a lot about a half hour
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  on the phone with them. Yeah, here's you know what we came with
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  those beautiful pontoons, although that's a big part of it, try tunes not
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  and like they don't just sell the boats. They love about everyone there
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  got a boat. Oh really, Oh that's good. They're boaters. They
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  don't just have a boat. They're boaters. Yeah right, yeah, like
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  big difference exactly. So we'll talk about Lou Wendell coming up in a little
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  bit, all right. Sonar fish finders, fishinsh fish finder, live cam
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  to see the water conditions. Oh Man, and as I've been telling you
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  those which we get hours, like, shouldn't we get a comp one?
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  I mean, we didn't need to get one rapid. I don't think they
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  know a comp one just well, I don't know if they give them.
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  Yeah, that's wrapped with three guys. Okay, right out on cheat Lake.
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  Do the show from out on cheat Lake. Well, here's the thing.
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  If you're gonna go get one, Hoppy's first tongue click. If you're
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  gonna get one, do it quickly, because well, thank you. One
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  of the things that we learned when we were chatting with Mike over there was
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  that the selection of pontoons right now is at its peak. They don't make
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  those things like we make ice cream cones or like Rusty makes our coffee the
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  way. That's something go over and then they're sold out, right right,
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  he just goes in backs more out fair. Well, yeah, I went
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  over the to Rusties this morning. Take the edge sold out. Didn't have
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  any up on the wall. I can't keep it on the dog on shell
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  can't anyway. So the pontoon deal hoped. It takes about six months once
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  you order one to get them to get one. So it's like our beer
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  well yeah, But the point is, if you're gonna buy it because I'm
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  making trytoons, you can still get one of the pontons. You can get
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  one. The point is now is because the area is filled with their pontoons
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  for this season, So go and get and now's the time you wait to
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  get a good selection right now to say good selections there. Now it's time
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  to It's time to harvest your pontoon, is what I'm saying. The fruit
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  is ready to be picked at lou Wendell. More on that coming up in
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  just a little bit, all right. Since the last time we convened,
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  West Virginia played at Iowa State and they played at Kansas State. Last night,
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  WVU goes to overtime in what will go down as the most difficult to
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  digest loss so far and hopefully the most difficult to digest loss for the rest
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  of this season. Heartbreaking fashion. West Virginia trailed by as many as twenty
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  five points in the second half with thirteen thirty nine to go. Furious rally
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  by the Mountaineers, they are unable to finish after taking the lead, and
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  we will dissect that game coming up. Mountaineers are now off until Saturday,
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  and Texas Tech and TCU are the last two home games Cincinnata to close the
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  regular season a week from Saturday, and then it's tournament time for the Mountaineers.
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  Double TV's women's team in action this evening. We could take on Tuesday
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  afternoon, they take on Oklahoma State in Stillwater. They'll try to bounce back
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  from their heartbreak, ugh, gut punch loss for the women. You know,
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  you take the Baylor loss for the women, and you take Night's loss
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  for the WV you met. And there are times when you have a thought
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  that goes through your mind. He goes like, why why am I even?
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  Why why do I invest? Why do I Why do I put myself
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  through this for the rifle team? Can I just kind of just go like
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  make sugar cookies? Another title? Yes, Gark And when the gark sixteenth
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  conference title lined up, shot him Nationals coming up? Yeah, March March
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  nine through ten. Here at the Call Sham hosting. Do you have John
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  on? Did have John on last night? Sports Line? It was great
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  had him on my public affairs person you know, oh you did too?
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  Yeah, what do you do? Mostly sports? And well he listened to
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  sports Line then had him on, Oh, it's sloppy seconds for you stole
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  a guest idea m interesting, No, boy couldn't get him first. Interesting.
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  He and Stratford love talking to those guys. Yeah, because I don't
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  know if it's the accent. They just answer questions tremendously well. The answer
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  question. The accent is very nice. They answer questions, speak well,
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  they answer, they address they're just yeah, so what do you mean by
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  that? They answer question they don't like way. We have to watch the
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  film. You don't get that, you know, I mean they are they
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  are. They tend to be more candid sometimes than coaches of teams that are
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  our higher profile. However, I have to say I think that the two
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  coaches that are high profile now and West. There three coaches are very very
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  candid coaches. Might be in the golden age of interviewees for coaches right now,
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  agreed, Neil agreed. Josh Mark Kellogg. Yeah, I agree of
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  those of those, and then and then start adding and everybody nicky, nicky,
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  strats hamm and they just go right on the list. Well, I
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  think right now, Yeah, I think you're right. I think what you're
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  enjoying, Hoppy is the fact that when you have a John Hammond don or
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  Dan Stratford who you hired, I think you enjoy their candor because, if
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  I'm not mistaken, are you going down to Charleston of late and you're and
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  you're asking questions to politicians and you're probably you're probably hoping to get clean,
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  clear answers, and you don't get that, And so when you come into
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  the sports world, you go like, oh, this is so refreshing.
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  Could that be the case? It might be, it might contribute to it.
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  I just think that there are Look, I'm always on the lookout for
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  stories. Okay, I don't care if there's sports. I don't break it
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  down to say sports or news. I mean stories are stories or stories?
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  Right, what's happening with the rifle team now is a story. I mean
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  winning the conference, playing for the competing for the national championship, having the
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  NCAA tournament in Morgantown. That's a story. Yeah. Oh, I don't
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  disagree with you. Two quick notes on women's basketball before we move on,
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  because one of them relates to Mark Kellogg. Two quick shout outs. I
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  said this on Sports sign last night, So at the risk of repeating myself,
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  if you listened to Sports sign last night. A lot of credit to
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  Mark Kellogg. First and foremost, that game ends, that's a tough LOSSH
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  coaches a lot of times heads straight to the locker room. He did not.
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  Went straight over the tunnel. A bunch of little kids gathered. He
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  stopped and signed autographs. He was the last one to leave the floor,
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  went over, signed a bunch of autographs. I like that. That's good
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  awareness of the situation and what you're trying to build, even though in that
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  moment that had to be extremely difficult to do. And even more so than
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  that, A lot of credit to JJ Quinnerley. I was going to say
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  it. She had a very difficult last possession hop on the heels of a
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  career high scoring game. She had a wonderful game, and an uncharacteristic mistake
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  at the end of the game costs West Virginia game. Guess who was out
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  in the interview session and sat there, even though she was still emotional,
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  sat there and answered questions. Yeah, that's a lot of props for we
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  see athletes all the time that interview session and they're out the back door and
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  listen to an extent. I get it, but at times you got to
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  step up when you're the leader, and you got to answer the question,
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  and she did. That's a lot of credit to her for doing that.
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  I couldn't a trend as job. Yeah, I couldn't say that any better.
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  She doing that. That is not her comfort zone. Her comfort zone
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  is playing the game. And for her to do that and to go through
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  all of that, that was the win of the day. She'll won more
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  basketball game, he shall win a lot more basketball games. But her ability
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  to do that is saying going through life, stand up, stand up when
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  things don't necessarily go your way, and own it. Whew, that was
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  really really good. So we wish those guys the very best. Coming up,
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  all right, where shall we begin to dissect this frog? Well,
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  what we're doing last night? First? Wait, hoppies obvious observations. Well
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  I'll make it. I'll start with a confession is we're not priests. There
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  might be one listening. Early second half, in a moment of frustration,
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  I went to the series my wife and I are watching True Detective and turn
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  the game off. And then after True Detective that episode was over, I
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  checked my phone and said, what couldn't believe it? Could not believe it
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  so quickly texted Brad, what's been happening, got to get an update and
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  you know, and turned it back on a couple of things. One is
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  that in college in pros, I mean sometimes they can get it back.
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  In college, when you're down twenty five with you know, twelve thirteen minutes
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  to go, Brad, that game is over. That is, in a
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  team that is has a losing record, you do not see a team come
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  back from that. You just don't. I think that's part of it.
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  I think given where we are in this season here with just a couple of
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  games left, for a team that has struggled this season to stay in and
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  fight that, that showed me a lot. I know, listen, we'll
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  get the tweets in the text it's wins or loss. I understand that,
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  Yeah, but that showed me a little something at this point in the season
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  that that group was still engaged enough to get itself back into a game absolutely
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  with a massive lead. I mean, they weren't down twelve twenty five twenty.
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  I had to go back and look, would that have been the biggest
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  comeback on the road. I know that Villanova, Jerry West in Philly,
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  they came back from a crazy number down. I'll try to check that here.
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  It might have been twenty five to twenty six at Nova second half came
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  back. I mean that was almost like the WU Louisville football game, you
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  know, with your things. Yeah, so I said on your show to
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  that you asked me about that? What that meant? Yeah, so you
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  were on his Showdow I was, yeah, it was thanks for the invite.
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  Interesting. I hadn't been on since November, so that was nice.
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  What the way I said it, Tony se if you agree to disagree with
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  this, I don't know what it means for the final couple of games here
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  in the first round of the Big twelve tournament, don't know. But what
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  it showed me again, it reinforced what we had thought from the beginning that
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  there was there's some individual talent on this team that given the chance to play
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  together in a normal situation, who knows what you would have done, but
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  it would have been better than the nine wins you have. Now I feel
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  comfortable saying that correct, and given where this team started, how far behind
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  the eight ball it began. Then add in the Kerk crease of suspension,
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  Then add in the raykwon craziness, then Ada and Jesse Edwards getting suspended.
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  This team never had to change getting hurt. Excuse me, never had a
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  chance from the beginning. Last night was another one of those examples. Even
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  in a loss, you would have been in better spot than we are now
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  had this group had a chance to work from the very beginning together. So
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  it almost made me one of those like, dang it, you know,
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  another dang it that you didn't get to see this group together. It really
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  is in a it's like brings into focus or clarifies or is illustrative tony of
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  this season, isn't it. I mean that's just like what it's been mm
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  hmm to microcosm. Yeah, I mean, what were you thinking as your
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  call? You're probably as you started to call that comeback, and he thought,
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  you know what the this thing? Well, I knew that they had
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  been challenged during halftime, so I was interested to see what their response was
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  going to be, and if you remember, the response was strong. Chrisa
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  hits the three from out front, they get another one and less than a
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  minute in case, Date takes the time out, going like guys, we're
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  not doing this and I just give them a tremendous amount of credit. So
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  how were they able to come back? Well, it comes to that old
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  wonderful adage. They made shots. Yeah, they shoot thirty three percent in
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  the opening half. You come out in the second half both Crisa and ray
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  kwon battle, get smoking hot, and you make shots and you've got a
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  chance. And so to me, I just wanted to so it was so
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  big, it was twenty five. I wanted to see just the whittle down
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  factor. Can you get it down to single digits. Once you get it
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  down to single digits, it's three possessions. Then you go, Okay,
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  now I want to see there, you know, the sphincter gets tightened over
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  on the other sideline. Yes, and they did, and it got real
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  tight. And we'll break it down into the specifics of it. I know
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  everyone wants to talk about fouls or lack thereof. We'll get into all of
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  that coming up on spreads on stats. But I was, you know,
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  again, to your point, we'll never know what this team could have would
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  have been. This will go down in mountaineer fandom into a category of what
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  would have happened if Major Harris didn't get hurt? What would have happened if
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  the basketball team actually had the roster that it was supposed to have. It's
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  into that, and there's probably several of those other ones that you always are
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  going to wonder about what ifs, And I think it goes into the category
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  there's only been a few of these, but it goes in the category of
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  the asbestos year in the coliseum of most weirdness happening around the basketball season.
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  Sure, right, that team, you knew at some point that the constant
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  travel of every game was going to wear them down. And this team,
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  you knew from the very beginning that the original challenge was so difficult it didn't
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  need any more on top of that, and it kept getting more challenges thrown
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  in front of it, more roadblocks. And I think that come back in
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  the second half it speaks for itself. But also coming off the second game
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  of a road trip, after you just played a tough Iowa State game where
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  they're in your grill the whole game, Tony, that's a tough road trip.
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  I mean yeah, I mean that's a tough drawl. And again I
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  came back from the Iowa State and you know, this is what you're twelve
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  that we've been in this league, and their fans are just like super good.
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  They're super good fans. They're Mountaineer fan esque and they do things almost
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  like in an organized, structured manner. When that thing got tight, they
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  all stand together like I don't know because I don't look behind me. Like
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  in Mountaineer games, if it's like super tight, does like the whole place
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  stand up. There's games when they all get up, But this is almost
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  this is almost like it's choreographed, like it's just like everyone like everyone stands
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  like all together at the same time. And it's as good of an environment
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  as you'll see. It's akin to Allen field House. It's akin to the
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  Colisseum when the Colisseum is really rocking and really good. It's right there.
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  But they're really really good fans. That energy kick those guys over the top
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  on that one, and it caused I mean, West Virginia had one of
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  their worst days in turnovers with twenty three and did clean that up against k
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  State, So yeah, like four X did they had six turnovers in forty
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  five minutes. Are you freaking kidding me? How do you do that?
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  How do you go from twenty three to six? Again? These are the
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  questions that just kind of continue to pop up. What one thing is I
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  would say that that you did clean it up, but also that Iowa State
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  defense, Brady, they get after you, man. That's I mean,
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  that's part of it. To be fair. It was a top five turnover
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  defense nationally in Iowa State, and it's a bottom twenty five defense in terms
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  of forcing turnovers in Kansas State. So that's part of it. Although the
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  credit comes and I'll get into more on this on spreads on stats, Kansas
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  State here took advantage of you with turnovers, yes, but they just they're
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  three forty eight nationally and enforcing it. So that's the other frustrating part is
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  that was a huge piece of the game as you had to control turnovers and
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  West Virginia did and still couldn't get the win. In case State made those
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  free throws down to stretch those were big. Took eighteen. West Virginia took
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  eighteen more shots. West Virginia took eighteen. Run over. Yeah, so
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  we're sitting there on Saturday going, you're getting so many more shots against you,
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  you got no chance to win. Well, here's the case, we
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  got eighteen more, but you shot it so poorly in the first half of
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  thirty three percent. You couldn't you couldn't overcome that where they shot k State
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  second half they got They shot thirty three percent after shooting fifty percent in the
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  first half. What's the difference. KSE State made six more field goals in
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  the first half when they were hot, including nine more threes. Don't worry,
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  We're we're getting heavily into that and Spreads on Stats that's coming. You're
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  ready to do it? Yeah, goat, let's get in there now.
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  You might as well go do it right now. Right, is that what
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  you're saying? Yes, all right, let's go do it right now.
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  So I checked the numbers. I'll just go right to the numbers. A
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  right, doctor, do the autopsy. Start K state first. Couple big
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  keys, hopy that we mentioned from the previews show first and foremost, you
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  had to cut off the rim. Okay, cut off the rim from K
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  state. They were nineteen of twenty one in the first meeting at the rim.
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  Shots at the rim, nineteen to twenty one, No wonder you lost.
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  The first one had to cut off the rim and force them to shoot
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  some threes. Get back to that in a minute. Nineteen of twenty one
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  in the first meeting just nine of twenty last night at the rim, very
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  good. Did exactly what you had to do. That's a winning formula against
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  that team. K State had just twenty six percent of their points in the
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  paint last night. They had been averaging forty five percent of its points over
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  the last five games. Did exactly what you wanted to do. Keep them
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  away from the rim, out of the paint, make them shoot threes.
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  Here's why, coming into the game, Hopy, we said, they love
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  to shoot threes eighty second at the time, they were top seventy five in
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  the country in three point attempt rate. Loved to shoot it, but they
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  didn't make many. They were a bottom forty, bottom sixty teen coming into
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  the game in three point percentage. So cut that rim off, cut the
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  paint off, make them go outside. And we said, if they can
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  make threes on you, you chip your cap because they do not shoot the
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  three well even though they like it. And lo and behold a first half
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  that was better than any half of basketball that program has had in ten years.
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  And I'm not exaggerating that best half of basketball in ten years in terms
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  of made three pointers. Are you freaking kidding me? They lined up made
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  fifty eight percent of their threes in the first half. Mad or a team
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  that can't make threes. Yeah, school records. The school record is sixteen
• 22:48
  that West Virginia has allowed in a game five times, including this year against
• 22:52
  pitt We're shooting thirty one percent from three at home. I know, made
• 22:56
  fifty eight percent in the first half. I'd say that well aware I watched
• 23:00
  them. I mean, that's just Brad, that's just you go in,
• 23:03
  you do what you're supposed to do based on what they are. You did
• 23:07
  exactly what you wanted to do. You know, they just get fluky and
• 23:10
  start throwing stuff up and it goes in. They even took more threes than
• 23:12
  usual. Fifty three percent of their shots were threes. I mean, that's
• 23:15
  a winning game plan. If you had just given me those numbers before the
• 23:18
  game, I would have said, West Virginia wins the game, right,
• 23:21
  that's exactly what you wanted to do. That's that's what makes that frustrated.
• 23:25
  You asked me the question in the macro. The micro is you did exactly
• 23:29
  what you wanted. You fixed what hurt you last time, forced them to
• 23:33
  do something that they're not good at, and they ended up being good at
• 23:36
  it. Last night. It's like a half, but the second half Water
• 23:37
  found its level. Three to twelve in the second half from three, it's
• 23:41
  twenty five percent. Like in football when you say we're going to stop the
• 23:44
  run if they can beat you pass and then tip your hat and sometimes it
• 23:47
  happens, and that's what correct, that's what happened. They were six of
• 23:52
  ten from three just from the left corner. Huh, six of ten from
• 23:57
  the left corner from three. Kansas State, West Virginia was four of six.
• 24:03
  Something must have been going on in the left corner. Ten of sixteen
• 24:06
  combined from the left baseline corner. It's close to the left corner. Three
• 24:08
  closer that one hurt. Perry six of eleven from three last night, fifty
• 24:15
  five percent. He's a thirty two percent shooter on the year, dude,
• 24:18
  and that includes the boost that he got last night. Forget about him.
• 24:22
  What about day day? Yeah, he's next three to five sixty percent shooter.
• 24:26
  He was twenty seven percent on the year. Oh, I know,
• 24:30
  that's what you just what what are you going to do? Did exactly what
• 24:34
  you want to do, it didn't come through. Let's talk turnovers for a
• 24:37
  second hopy I mentioned first game, seventeen to five points off turnover advantage in
• 24:41
  the first meeting for a team that doesn't turn you over, so protect the
• 24:45
  ball. West Virginia did just six turnovers on the day, twenty to eleven
• 24:51
  points off turnover advantage for West Virginia, a nearly three to one assist a
• 24:56
  turnover ratio for the Mountaineers, right where you want to be. Fifty seven
• 25:00
  percent assist percentage at the end of regulation when you came back and tied it
• 25:04
  to and you've heard me say it many times, the mark for assist rate
• 25:08
  fifty seven to fifty eight percent or above. West Virginia generally wins the game
• 25:12
  fifty seven percent the end of regulation. Couldn't bring it home. That's free
• 25:19
  throw rate didn't quite get there. And we'll get to the officials in a
• 25:23
  second, because I think you do need to talk about that. West Virginia
• 25:26
  has to be at forty four percent or higher on its free throw rate.
• 25:30
  It was just thirty four percent on the free throw rate, and then didn't
• 25:33
  shoot it well once you got to the line. You know, you think
• 25:37
  Jesse hits one of those late, you probably win. He hits two of
• 25:40
  those, that thing's over. You win the game in regulation. In case
• 25:44
  they made their case, they made their's on the other end. Season high
• 25:48
  from points off dribble jumpers last night for West Virginia. They had twenty points
• 25:52
  off that They'd had twenty three points in the last four games combined off dribble
• 25:56
  jumpers. Guys were making Shure twenty last night. Every way scored on guarded
• 26:00
  jumpers, you scored on unguarded jumpers. Did a great job. Most points
• 26:04
  off putbacks since you see game back on January thirty, first, second most
• 26:11
  all season on putbacks off offensive rebounds. You had seventeen total second chance points
• 26:18
  last night. Pretty good. Those are the big numbers. Yeah, those
• 26:26
  are not big numbers. I mean I got more. I just the three
• 26:29
  point shooting thing for them is what's really frustrating. You're you're right there fifty
• 26:34
  eight percent from three to the first half stunner. I mean, if you're
• 26:37
  Kansas State, you look at that game, going, wow, we dodged
• 26:41
  one there. I mean, they win all their what they're there, They
• 26:47
  went all their overtime games right like eight to zero over his seven and oh
• 26:51
  this year twelve and oh in the last two years under Tang. Yeah,
• 26:55
  totally historic. But also I mean they know they're not a good three point
• 26:59
  shooting so he's gonna like, oh geez. And then they done. And
• 27:02
  then you're right, teams get tight when the team comes back from that much
• 27:06
  down and then they goes to overtime like, oh oh, so they dodge
• 27:10
  the bullet there too. I mean they dodged the bullet that would have been
• 27:12
  that would have been a historic loss for them. Yes, had they lost
• 27:18
  that game, people the case eight people today would be going what in the
• 27:22
  world you're up twenty five? Yeah, and they were on it. They
• 27:25
  were on a big slide. Now they've turned around on one two straight,
• 27:26
  got BYU first and then able to hang on last night and that one tough
• 27:30
  one. How about this one and again you can pull apart pieces, but
• 27:33
  check this one out. You're up seventy nine, seventy five, right,
• 27:38
  yeah, sixty two seconds to go. They come down. Arthur Kalooma shoots
• 27:47
  an airball three yep McNair. Their center weak side rebound, lays it up
• 27:52
  and in get the ball. You're up four inside of a minute now to
• 27:59
  go in the game. That it's seventy nine, seventy seven. You get
• 28:02
  the rebound there. They probably got a foul, you know. Yeah,
• 28:04
  that was such a bad shot and so badly off that it ends up into
• 28:07
  a good play. That's like a kid's basketball that happened against my daughter's team
• 28:11
  this weekend. Kids shot of three so far out. Had no business shooting
• 28:17
  three. It was so far off. It falls in the middle of the
• 28:18
  lane. Defense isn't even ready for it to fall there. Kid picks up,
• 28:22
  lays in. That's what that shot was last night. Ten assist assist
• 28:25
  ye turns into a good play and assist free throw shooting. You just didn't
• 28:30
  make enough. You had your chance twenty four seconds to go. West Virginia
• 28:36
  up two. You go to the line for two, you make one,
• 28:41
  you're up three. That's a possession. You make two. You got a
• 28:45
  hell of a chance, and you came up empty with both of those free
• 28:48
  throws. They come back down. Tyler Perry, who's a ninety percent free
• 28:52
  throw shooter, knocks him down. Then you had the whole situation with Cresa
• 29:00
  going up for the three. Massive contact, he gets knocked down. Nothing
• 29:04
  foul. It was a foul. They didn't call a foul. They didn't
• 29:07
  call a foul. That's exactly what you do as the offensive player is to
• 29:11
  get your defender up in the air and out of position. And the defender
• 29:15
  was rewarded for being out of position and initiating the contact. And I'm sure
• 29:19
  the explanation was they're going to say Kerr went into him. It's been called
• 29:23
  that way for fifty years. That's a foul. The defender was not straight
• 29:26
  up. The defender was leaping forward into Kurr. That's a foul. That
• 29:30
  is a miscall. And let it listen, I know, because we're gonna
• 29:34
  get him right complaining whining about officials. Here's my stance on this, guys.
• 29:38
  I'm gonna say it again. You can talk about the officiating in an
• 29:42
  adult and logical manner, especially at the major college level. Right. I'm
• 29:48
  not for the berating of officials. The screaming at the officials happens at all
• 29:51
  levels of sports, Saint and youth basketball, SAT Middle School saw last night
• 29:53
  in the next Pistons game. I don't condone that that's a hard job to
• 29:57
  officiate. At the same same time, it is ridiculous to say when you
• 30:02
  can't talk about it this should have made more You should have made more free
• 30:03
  throws. If you're West Virginia, yep, should have made another three,
• 30:07
  yep, should have guarded one more three in the first half. Maybe yep,
• 30:10
  all true. You know, it's also true, that's a foul.
• 30:14
  That's also true. You can't have a conversation about this game and not discuss
• 30:18
  that play. The defenders leaping forward made contact. You can't have a no
• 30:22
  call on that. You just can't well, ray kuon battle going to the
• 30:25
  basket and going up and getting absolutely clubbed. You can't just say, ah,
• 30:29
  well I shouldn't been shun there was contact that affected the shot. How's
• 30:33
  that not called? And why can't I say that should be called without being
• 30:38
  said you're whining about the officials. Well, there's a lot of reasons why
• 30:41
  you lose games, Hoppy. Sometimes it's because of miss calls. Well,
• 30:45
  I think your point is well taken because you're not sitting there saying, ah,
• 30:48
  the officials cost him the game. You're saying that that was a part
• 30:52
  of the game that is worthy of discussion. Sure, which is which it
• 30:56
  is. It's quite frankly, it's not debatable that was a factor in the
• 31:00
  game along with other factors, along with Kansas State being great from three in
• 31:04
  the first half, along with West Virginia not making enough free throws, along
• 31:08
  with add two more things in there. Those and those are two calls in
• 31:14
  particular that were not correct A factor, not the factor, A fact a
• 31:18
  factor. All of it can be true, yes can't. All of it
• 31:21
  can be true, and it is true. All of it can be true,
• 31:22
  and it is true. And you know, Josh mentioned this during the
• 31:29
  postgame conversation, and that is you know, you're not going to get any
• 31:33
  call West Virginia. I knew, We knew, and we may have said
• 31:36
  this on the program, either we've said it on the program or we say
• 31:38
  it when we're not on the program. Like West Virginia is not getting any
• 31:42
  benefit of the calls this season because introim coach and Case State on the bubble
• 31:51
  and they're going to give See. I lost my mind at the end of
• 31:53
  regulation when Jesse Edwards went up and I think there should have been a foul
• 31:57
  call there as well. He got hated and you know, I asked someone
• 32:02
  who'd watched the tape and I says, five, goes well, I mean
• 32:06
  they could have and I said let me ask you a question. Would they
• 32:07
  have called that? That's sixteen twenty four to go in the first half anyway?
• 32:10
  Like, yeah, and I went then called the freaking foul. I'm
• 32:15
  going to call it. Call it. But I agree with all of with
• 32:22
  both of you, because I know I get I get criticism and Evan and
• 32:28
  Iowa loves to jack me and say that I never that. I say,
• 32:31
  West Virginia gets all the calls and through the year as well. The fact
• 32:35
  is West Virginia's taken more free throws than any other Big twelve school in the
• 32:37
  last ten plus years. Okay, that's a fact, But I don't say
• 32:42
  that officials don't impact. They do. And last night, yes they did.
• 32:47
  And last night so did West Virginia because despite the fact that there were
• 32:52
  missed calls, you still had the ball in your hand to win the game
• 32:58
  and you didn't do it. You have to win the game. You have
• 33:02
  to do something, you have to step through and do something that gets you
• 33:07
  the win. Okay, here's the other thing, though, Yeah you do,
• 33:12
  and when you don't, we say Jesse should have made a free thrower
• 33:16
  too, right, We say Jesse Edwards should have made it. We say
• 33:20
  ray Kwan would have been nice. We would have made that three at the
• 33:22
  end of game. We say that. Do we say that the officials should
• 33:24
  have made the call last night in the NBA game? Did you see the
• 33:28
  finish in the NIXT game? Did I mention it? Ago stunner? You
• 33:34
  were missed attention and they went after the game, so we screwed it up
• 33:37
  and it led to a Knicks win. Part of the game. Should the
• 33:40
  Knicks have just made a basket earlier in the game and you wouldn't have had
• 33:43
  that matter? Yeah, you can say both of those things. I know,
• 33:49
  I don't disagree with you. That's part of the game. It always
• 33:52
  has been part of the game. I always will be part of the game.
• 33:54
  You have to play through that. Despite that, despite that, you
• 33:59
  have to play through. But that's the only way that they do. Everybody
• 34:00
  does. Everybody does play through that. You don't always get the win,
• 34:05
  but everybody nobody stops playing. Curtain stopped playing. Josh didn't pull the team
• 34:09
  off the floor and said, well we're not playing now that they do keep
• 34:13
  playing, but officials keep officiating through it, and you got you. They
• 34:16
  got to get it right, too many They've got to make call. They've
• 34:20
  got to get it right as well, and they do a lot. I'm
• 34:24
  not saying. I'm not saying every call is wrong. My point just remains,
• 34:30
  if it's a foul, it's a foul. Call the foul. When
• 34:32
  it's a foul, that's it. That's it. Call it. I don't
• 34:42
  care if Josh is an interim. I don't care what the situation is called
• 34:45
  foul. That was up in the air. He was out of position.
• 34:47
  That's exactly what you're taught offensively. That's exactly that's a textbook offensive play.
• 34:52
  I don't care the cur was in it. The defender was not coming straight
• 34:55
  up and down. If the defender straight up and down and you dive into
• 34:58
  them, okay, fine, we have that discussion. When the defender is
• 35:00
  moving forward and out of position, you rewarded for that. He was out
• 35:06
  of position, all right? Hundh, No, you're not. I think
• 35:13
  it was well said. I think we're in agreement. Don't disagree. There's
• 35:20
  there is a significant difference between quote unquote complaining about the officials quote unquote West
• 35:25
  Virginia never gets the calls and saying, here was a non call that affected
• 35:30
  the game. A significant difference in that. Do you ever get to the
• 35:35
  point where the NBA does the final two minute recap of the officiating another issue
• 35:39
  or report, They'll say, in the final two minutes of the game,
• 35:43
  this is what we had, we had this, this this, this was
• 35:45
  missed, this was right, this was missed, this was right. You'll
• 35:47
  never get that, I don't think in college basketball, but you should.
• 35:52
  You think, yeah, but it's too it's too it moves too quickly.
• 35:58
  There's no uniformity, there's no NBA. They're all NBA officials, and these
• 36:01
  guys worked last night. They could be anywhere tonight, different place, but
• 36:05
  you should have, I think for them. Of the fans perspective, fans
• 36:07
  would like to know Kip Kissinger did not make that call on the CREASA lean
• 36:14
  not lean foul right. He was adamant, was right in front of me.
• 36:17
  He was adamant. In his explanation to Josh as to why he did
• 36:22
  not call it, I don't know, but I mean he was adamant.
• 36:24
  He was like, this is why, because this this this like in their
• 36:29
  rule book, like I didn't call it because of this. Now, whether
• 36:30
  that's the accurate assessment and making that call properly. I don't know, yeah,
• 36:38
  and he can think that because he's in the moment. Of course he
• 36:40
  didn't call it, and of course he's got to just to know. I'd
• 36:44
  like to know independently though, like a supervisor of officials who isn't currently working
• 36:51
  for the Big twelve to come in and go like, no, the gene
• 36:53
  sterotaur, like I'd like to know the gene sterotor, Like no, actually
• 36:59
  that should have been And because you know, he broke the plane of verticality,
• 37:02
  he leaned over into da da da da da da da. I'd like
• 37:05
  to hear an explanation called all the time like that, I understand, but
• 37:08
  fans would love to learn from that and go like this is why this isn't
• 37:12
  why this if and listen, there's a larger thing at work too. I
• 37:15
  mean they need more officials. First of all, they need more guys so
• 37:20
  you're not tired and doing a thousand games a season. That's part of it
• 37:22
  too. But as you watch all the way down the different levels, and
• 37:27
  I get that's that's why leagues continue to not put officials out more, more
• 37:34
  out in front, because you're inviting more of the fringe lunatic behavior quite frankly,
• 37:39
  I told you, I've just I've been through this in youth basketball here
• 37:42
  in the last couple of months and watched at middle schools. People are absolutely
• 37:45
  outrageous what they do behavior towards officials. That's not what this is. This
• 37:50
  is a different deal. So I get why people say enough officials, hop
• 37:53
  there's no officials. That's a crisis. That's going to be a continuing crisis
• 37:57
  in youth sports. There's not enough officials, and it's because of the berating.
• 38:00
  So I understand that, and that's not what That's not what this is.
• 38:04
  This is what I'm trying to do is have a discussion about that part
• 38:07
  of the game dispassionately, just like we do about guys missing shots and what
• 38:12
  are the numbers? Tell you those things are all factors. But I know
• 38:15
  there's a larger, larger thing at play here where the behavior towards officials continues
• 38:22
  to get worse and worse each year, which is leading to a shortage,
• 38:25
  which is leading to guys being overworked throughout the season. There's no way these
• 38:30
  guys can't be tired, Tony, They're tired. There's no way they can't
• 38:32
  be performance, And you fix that by having more officials that you can mix
• 38:37
  in, and that's hard to find more officials because of the behavior of fans.
• 38:40
  I get it. I get how it's all interconnected. Done all right,
• 38:46
  now, done, pretty good, ranton. I think we should do
• 38:51
  a cleansing breath kind of like meditation things. M yeah, one of those.
• 38:58
  All right, when you say we do this, can we do this?
• 39:02
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  shaving creams. We should do Christmas ornament. Probably a little early on that
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  one. That's pretty good. Yeah, thank you. But Tony just shoots
• 39:59
  from the hip. He'll expect everybody to do it. I just made what
• 40:00
  I thought was a reasonable suggestion, and Tony just showed a bunch of runway
• 40:04
  there to get that done. Now he'll make the same He'll make the same
• 40:07
  suggestion around the first of December. That's right, We'll get an ornament and
• 40:09
  then he'll take your credit, So mark the tape there, Austin Ley.
• 40:14
  Yeah all right, So, uh what are you doing if you lost track?
• 40:21
  You lost focus over there? I mean you're tired too, right,
• 40:23
  I mean no, I mean I'm just trying to get through the thing,
• 40:27
  trying to figure stuff out on the fly. I mean, I don't know
• 40:30
  why I need to be attacked for a guy that comes in once every six
• 40:32
  shows. Brad and I may have had a little chemistry developed without you here
• 40:37
  and all of a sudden, third wheel making a little sound over there.
• 40:40
  I mean, if you'd like to switch seats at any point, come in
• 40:44
  here and take this chair. Abbott Costello and no Texter from last Friday.
• 40:53
  You know, last Friday was a big, huge cell fall down as the
• 40:57
  country right textas, So it might be a good idea to revert back to
• 41:00
  one of these the Kerchival party Line three longs, two shorts. It was
• 41:06
  up and operating. Yeah, they didn't have any sell problems there back in
• 41:08
  the days of party line so much tree branch fell on the line and out
• 41:12
  for two weeks. So isn't that Yeah, Senator Texter wants to know why
• 41:16
  can't we do a T shirt that says unconfirmed. We should on episode eight,
• 41:22
  Hune we could probably do that, just says unconfirmed? Is that mine?
• 41:27
  Yeah? Yours textor Hey, fellas. I know this rumor about Lou
• 41:32
  Wendell supplying the James Bond franchise with pontoon boats has been unconfirmed for a long
• 41:38
  time, but I stumbled across this photo on the interwebs and thought i'd send
• 41:42
  it your way. Well, there it is. I don't know which film
• 41:45
  this is from, but it looks like Daniel Craig is James Bond sitting in
• 41:49
  an Avalon try tune model straight off the Lou Wendel lot. I'm not sure
• 41:52
  who the lady is, she's tiny. Anyway, let's consider this one confirmed.
• 41:57
  Derek in Oregon, So there you go. Can you put that back
• 42:01
  up again, Austin? There you go, So Bond in the pontoon from
• 42:07
  Lou Wendell. So I knew that you kept staying unconfirmed unconfirmed all the time.
• 42:12
  I mean, you know that Lou Wendell's had a thirty nine year relationship
• 42:15
  with the Avalon folks and make those up in Michigan, one hundred percent manufacturer
• 42:19
  in the United States, and right now they got that dandy. Could you
• 42:22
  put that special up that Trytoon that they've got going around right now at lou
• 42:28
  Wendel there it is, man, that bad boy is a bad boy.
• 42:32
  By trytoon, you mean it has three he's got three tunes three pontoons.
• 42:37
  Correct, We called toon in the business. Hopey call those tunes. Is
• 42:40
  that what you took from the conversation? He called them tunes? That's beautiful.
• 42:45
  Help you to stay on top of the water. Hops. So the
• 42:46
  third one ride, yeah, you go above the water. And that one
• 42:52
  there is completely dynamic rate it up to twelve people, up to two hundred
• 42:58
  horse power. You put two hundred part of that thingn go forty two miles
• 43:00
  an hour. Put a one to fifty on that thing, you go thirty
• 43:04
  eight miles an hour. Pimped out. Here's my note. Here's my notes.
• 43:08
  Pimped out. Fuel tank built into the pond tuon and the motorwll more
• 43:13
  centered inside pontoon, more fuel capacity, got an end dash, fish finder,
• 43:17
  depth finder, GPS, stereo capability. I mean basically it is the
• 43:23
  cat's me out. Yeah, that's as they say. That's the Cadillacs.
• 43:28
  We'll see. So get in there, while the supply is great at Luwen.
• 43:30
  If you go to the website by the way, Louwndomrine sales dot com,
• 43:34
  you can take a look. They got a live camera of the river
• 43:37
  there and they're going to start dropping the pon tunes into the slips, which
• 43:44
  is kind of neat Texter. Can you revert back? Oh boy, whenever
• 43:50
  they say can you revert back, that always turns out to be a problem.
• 43:53
  Can you revert back to your radio DJ days and take a song request
• 44:00
  at the end of the show. I want to hear Hoppy's song, but
• 44:04
  I cannot remember on which show it played. A man gosted a local radio
• 44:09
  talk show. He means, this there's no intro, you can't talk over
• 44:15
  it, Hoppy Happy, this is all very peculiar for me. Yeah you
• 44:24
  got a story about me, and yeah, what's up with so? JD
• 44:29
  from the Southern Coalfield says I'd like to hear this song, but I can't
• 44:30
  remember, and he says the request goes like this, Hey, this one
• 44:35
  goes out to Hoppy, a special someone that I used to listen to regularly
• 44:38
  but is missing an action of later, Hoppy, come on back. He's
• 44:45
  got a good beat to it. It does. Yeah, him, I
• 44:58
  like it. I haven't heard that in a while. This should be your
• 45:00
  music on talk line. You know, I haven't thought about Jim. I
• 45:06
  don't know why. But by the way, David Saw produced this, He
• 45:12
  produced textual healing, he produced spreads on stats. I texted him today and
• 45:15
  I said, hey, dude, can you send me a copy of hoppy
• 45:19
  song? He comes back with, I'm sorry, who is this? I
• 45:22
  don't have this number in my h what on my contacts? He was being
• 45:27
  serious, He was yeah, because I blew him up pretty good. Fine,
• 45:34
  Oh, I got something for you when you have time, tell us
• 45:37
  when the show's over all right, here's the next one. Pat from Wheeling.
• 45:45
  Hello, My granddaughter was participating in a social studies fair and I ran
• 45:50
  across this poster in a local elementary school. It made me think of you,
• 45:52
  four guys. Look at Nate Adrian, look at Nate slam dunk your
• 45:57
  health with goals, with fruits andgitables. Every day there's old Nate got a
• 46:02
  pineapple and a basketball. That's weird. Yeah it is. I wonder if
• 46:09
  he Nate's eating much pineapple right now in Italy. Good question. He's out
• 46:14
  there playing. Yeah, a bunch of his boys, A bunch of his
• 46:16
  boys went over and saw him here in the last couple of weeks. Blaine
• 46:20
  Stewart went over. Yeah, that posse, you guys that all hung out
• 46:23
  together in high schooling over there, and she had every year, I think
• 46:30
  Ryan Neil and coming back. I see, huh heard that? What's that
• 46:32
  now, Ryan Nealon? Really that's coach's grandson. Yes, we're aware,
• 46:37
  Danny's kid. Yeah. Yeah, he was at McNeice as an assistant coach,
• 46:43
  and I was coming back here as a uh now I am titlist analyst
• 46:47
  as an offensive analyst for the staff. Was a pretty good player. Oh
• 46:52
  yeah, athletic, athletic, Yes, athletic as heck texter. Hello,
• 47:00
  longtime, Second time. I've included a photo from my solutions to the men
• 47:05
  and women's games starting at the very same time. I also threw in an
• 47:09
  extra screen for the baseball team, so he had man's basketball left, women's
• 47:14
  basketball upright, and he had the baseball game on a computer in front of
• 47:17
  him. Job Zach. He said, I'm also glad to learn that hop
• 47:22
  he's a huge race car guy like myself. We need to get some sheet
• 47:25
  metal to hang on his living room walls. Now you thank me? Yeah,
• 47:30
  thanks for all the entertainment. I listened to you while walking on my
• 47:34
  mail routes. Zach from Tyler County. I did watch the end of the
• 47:38
  Daytona five hundred, which was that didn't turn out really, I mean it
• 47:43
  was like a eighteen car wreck. I knows finished under caution, But first
• 47:49
  I thought that Blaney had won it, and then the dude on the inside
• 47:52
  won the earth they got on the outside wall won that thing. Texter three
• 47:57
  guys, Hello from Saint Albans TC. I'm a veteran banker that wore a
• 48:02
  code and a tie for years. But I scratched my head and wonder why
• 48:07
  it is still prevalent in network broadcasts. Your opinion thoughts pleased him from Saint
• 48:13
  Albans. It looks good. It looks I think it looks clean. I
• 48:19
  think it looks good. I think it looks professional. Yeah, professional is
• 48:21
  the biggest thing. Yeah, Hey guys, jumping Jack Carlson. You remember
• 48:27
  him, don't you? Hop kid that worked here this summer? Checking in
• 48:30
  from Mount Vernon, Iowa. I attended Saturday's game and ames with my academic
• 48:34
  advisor, just as Hallam. And on the way in we crushed some barbecue
• 48:38
  brisket pregame. Look at that picture there, great connecting with Tony before tip
• 48:44
  off too. So there they are there, that's that's his professor, academic
• 48:49
  advisor, and they yeah, there's Jack. There's Jack at the ball game.
• 48:52
  And then I came over and yeah, there's Jack. I I was
• 48:58
  fortunate enough to be able to get him better seats, so he was gonna
• 49:04
  sit up top across the way. Their second level got him in the first
• 49:07
  row behind the mountaineer bench. You know how that works. I mean at
• 49:09
  times they just like last minute, hey, they happened to have two,
• 49:14
  and Nate over at the ticket office was good enough to say, yeah,
• 49:16
  I got two here, and so he and his professor. I actually,
• 49:20
  I don't think that guy Justice Hallum. I think that he misidentified and called
• 49:24
  him his academic advisor. I think he's the president of the school. They're
• 49:28
  at Cornell Cole's. I think I'm not. I think it's unconfirmed, but
• 49:31
  I think, yeah, I think Justice runs the whole show. From what
• 49:34
  that's the field that I got. Really, Yeah, so he press Jack
• 49:37
  hanging with the president did unconfirmed. Did Jack like run the video board or
• 49:44
  anything for Iowa stay while he was there? Well, I told I told
• 49:47
  Justine I could have so Justice was an Iowa stake, Iowa state gred respect
• 49:53
  Yeah, Justice was. And so I said, I said, dude,
• 49:58
  how many of these Jack should have over at Cornell College? He goes none?
• 50:01
  He said he's a one and only And I said, yeah, we
• 50:05
  tried to get him to stay transfer portal. He goes no. Man,
• 50:07
  we got it. We got a half. There's one Jack. He's pretty
• 50:10
  good. Don't disagree. Yeah, uh, Texter, I'm all in for
• 50:15
  ramp popcorn. We love ramps. Will you here for that episode Hoppy?
• 50:20
  Yeah? I talked about potentially. You know, West Virginia is known for
• 50:22
  its ramps. Little beat might be a little strong, little niche. Yeah,
• 50:28
  yes, very niche, tony Brad and hopefully hoppy. Oh good day
• 50:31
  for you, Jr. He's here. I wanted to congratulate the women's tennis
• 50:36
  team highest ranking ever. Right now I'm in Puskovic men's swimming for being the
• 50:43
  first West Virginia swimmer ever to make a US Olympic team, and the rifle
• 50:45
  team for another GARK title. Keep up the good work. Love watching you
• 50:50
  guys on YouTube's JR from Cumberland. The fiftieth anniversary of women's basketball at WVU
• 51:02
  this past weekend had a tremendous turnout of former Mountaineers and they honored Kitty Blakemore
• 51:08
  and they did the official ceremony to designate Kitties Road there near the rec center.
• 51:15
  She was just Someone asked me, who's now in the department but hadn't
• 51:20
  been here previous? Like what was she like? This is what you just
• 51:23
  said? The best? Yes, she was just absolutely the best, and
• 51:30
  so great honor for Kitty and just fantastic Texter. Hello, gentlemen. My
• 51:36
  daughter and I attended the USA Gymnastics Winter Cup in Louisville Saturday and I saw
• 51:40
  this sign. I told her I need to take a picture of it for
• 51:45
  three guys and she said who like a recent contributor. My daughter is also
• 51:50
  a DOUBVU undergrad and graduate of Stetson Law School. Did you know that Stetson's
• 51:54
  undergrad and law schools are separate campuses, separated by one hundred and fifty miles.
• 52:00
  First, I've heard of that. Unaware of that, I didn't know
• 52:02
  that. Yeah, how do you say Louisville, Louisville. Yeah, Louisville,
• 52:07
  right, Well sometimes Louisville. Well, I got a long time ago.
• 52:16
  I got busted because I was saying Louisville. Yeah. I don't like
• 52:21
  because we shared the league with them, and at the time I was in
• 52:23
  the I tried to be respectful of how you say it, Louisville Louisville,
• 52:29
  Yeah, unlike Central Florida. Now you can Florida, well, not in
• 52:32
  the not in the league with them now, So I'll just say Louisville.
• 52:35
  Yeah, like you got to say in it. You gotta be careful.
• 52:39
  Of course. Nevada is not in the league yet, but one of these
• 52:42
  days they will be. You got to be careful there too. Yeah,
• 52:45
  Texas says eleven, not Nevada. No, No, it's Vada. Nevada.
• 52:53
  Eleven fouls called in the first eight minutes last night, typical Big twelve
• 52:58
  of fishing where they want to control game. Yeah, and the stuff came
• 53:01
  off the rails, didn't it? Texter Grayson and hilltop question for stats,
• 53:07
  is there any other college team with a lower scoring percentage from two feet in
• 53:09
  front of the rim? I don't I don't know. I'll tell you this.
• 53:15
  I have West Virginia within four and a half feet of the rim.
• 53:20
  What are they It's impressive sixty one percent national average sixty one point nine.
• 53:25
  There are less than one percent off right there the national average. So to
• 53:30
  answer your question, is there a collegiate team with the lower Probably yes,
• 53:32
  because they're right about the national average from inside of four and a half feet,
• 53:36
  which is considered at the rim. Express if you had that right there.
• 53:39
  Speaking of analytics, Speaking of analytics, yeah, our boy coach Spiker.
• 53:45
  I watched him last night over at Drexel. Yeah, he's on his
• 53:50
  way toward twenty wins. Should be picked up eighteenth last night. I think
• 53:52
  he likes the analytic beat. They beat the Blue Hens. Yeah, that's
• 53:57
  a rivalry. Drexel Delaware is a big right. He beat him pretty good.
• 54:00
  A ten lined up beat him ten. Slow start by the Dragons.
• 54:04
  They came back to down nine at one point. He's got Stony Brook next,
• 54:07
  he seemed. I was watching him that up and give you a good
• 54:10
  at the rim stat here and there. Who coach Spiker, Well, he's
• 54:15
  got a Mauri Williams in front of the ten. No, I'm just saying
• 54:17
  he'll get into a nice analytic discussion with you. Sometimes bring Duff one of
• 54:21
  his assistants in there. He can have a nice analytic breakdown with him.
• 54:23
  Wasn't tough upping toff up and wheeling was He's a stat guy, like an
• 54:29
  analytical genius, like rain Man Superman. Right. He heavily watches those stats.
• 54:32
  M h. He looks like a Duff. Spend time in staff meetings
• 54:36
  breaking down the numbers, hoping clean a lot of information out of this.
• 54:40
  Texter. Loved the grit showed by our guys against k State. Caught back
• 54:45
  up, proud to see that. Paul and Philly Texter. This team doesn't
• 54:50
  quit, but they shot themselves in the foot late. Gotta make free throws.
• 54:54
  You sure will be not sure where he will be next year, but
• 54:58
  coach Eiler should be a head coat coach somewhere. You do. I'm sorry,
• 55:01
  I'm sorry. Is the freaking script in front of you? Yeah it
• 55:07
  is. This team could have quit so many times this year, but they
• 55:10
  keep grinding. Signed by Periopolis, Phil Oh. Look now, there's a
• 55:15
  series of hashtags underneath the text, which means that's the end of the text.
• 55:20
  Would you like to go junior. You must have been a deal in
• 55:22
  elementary school. Huh, I'm out of practice. I haven't been. You
• 55:30
  got something to say, you can say, Well, I'm just gonna say
• 55:32
  again, h O. Let me say that obvious observations is that it takes
• 55:39
  a lot of gas to fight your way back, and it's hardbread what to
• 55:43
  have those legs and make those free throws. And there weren't a lot of
• 55:45
  substitutions late there, right, I mean those same guys. Yes, that's
• 55:50
  tough. You've done now? Huh? Yeah, yeah you should you know
• 55:59
  you shouldn't have broke. You should have just sat there. Texter says this
• 56:01
  season has been like a colonoscopy, but they forgot the anesthesia and the camera
• 56:06
  broke, so they're using the seventeenth century telescope instead. Who Yeah, that's
• 56:12
  harsh. I awake you, I'd awake yep uh p one James and Charleston
• 56:19
  heartbreaking loss. We have to acknowledge that Edwards is a liability late in the
• 56:22
  game, following him the same as a turnover. Also, why no timeout
• 56:27
  on the last possession? Got to question that coaching decision This season has been
• 56:30
  painful. There's always didn't have a timeout. I didn't think he did either.
• 56:36
  I don't know what last shot he was talking to talk about the last
• 56:38
  possession. There was no time out? Correct, regulation or that you're talking
• 56:43
  about overtime or you're talking about regulation. There wasn't in overtime, right,
• 56:45
  it was not I don't think. Yeah, that's what that was like regulation.
• 56:51
  They called the time out right because they came out of a timeout and
• 56:52
  ran that set, which led to the was it a Slazynski shot and then
• 56:57
  the follow up by Jesse that they didn't call the foul one? Am I
• 57:01
  correct? Ummm? I'm looking at the play by I'm looking at the case.
• 57:09
  State called time out at fifty one. West Virginia may have been out
• 57:15
  at that point they were, Yeah, they were out. They didn't have
• 57:16
  one, So he'll go play defense. Yeah yeah, uh, well that
• 57:22
  was fun. I'll let everyone else talk about the games. I'm more intrigued
• 57:25
  by Tony's story regarding saying stuff about a referee while he was standing right at
• 57:30
  the scorers table. It reminds me of Lou Panela wanting to scream at the
• 57:34
  umpire, but instead he just screamed at his own coach, saying all the
• 57:36
  stuff he wanted to say to the umpire, thinking the umpootn't NOTICE'M figured it
• 57:40
  out pretty quickly threw him out. That's my second favorite ejection. Bobby Valentine
• 57:45
  got tossed, went back in the dugout with a fake mustache, got tossed
• 57:49
  again when they spotted him. Fun fact. Pat Mahomes got the win for
• 57:54
  the game for the Mets. Love the show. It'd be the elder Pat
• 57:58
  Mahomes. Yeah, yeah, he said. The best screen in the entire
• 58:02
  game last night was Edwards against Crisa. We ran into each other. Now
• 58:07
  did you see the one on TV of Jojo Harris. I think that was
• 58:12
  Sumnick oh Flatt and Tyler Perry. But yeah, he took care of it.
• 58:17
  Yeah, Philip from Philippi just reaching out to say, I love how
• 58:22
  our boys continue to fight. It seems as they're starting to gel excited for
• 58:25
  all the for for next season's food court, he says, for the all
• 58:30
  season food court. Tried to announce. I think he announced it through basketball
• 58:35
  season even I thought he was getting ahead of the food court for the fall,
• 58:37
  just like hop he was trying to get ahead for the Christmas decoration.
• 58:42
  Jumped it a little early. I just had an idea. No such thing
• 58:45
  as a bad idea. I know that it was a pretty good idea.
• 58:49
  Hey, maybe you know what we could do? Maybe three guys can have
• 58:52
  a Christmas in July special? What do you think that's never been done?
• 58:57
  We get Dave on, We get Dave on that one. Maybe we could
• 59:00
  do a three guys Christmas in July. Okay, no more ideas on the
• 59:02
  show, because that's two that actually aren't bad. Stop now having a Kansas
• 59:08
  State like shooting first half? Hear it'll water level in the second. Hey,
• 59:15
  uh, I know, let's have you three guys socks. I'll embarrass
• 59:21
  myself here, but it won't be the first time nor the last. But
• 59:23
  what's the thing At Iowa State games, Brad, they put a student like
• 59:29
  they designate a student right before the game starts and they she winds this siren.
• 59:36
  Have you ever seen Yeah? I saw that. No, you've been
• 59:38
  You've been to about twelve times more Iowa State games in your life than I
• 59:42
  have. You live forty minutes away. When she's in the band, she's
• 59:45
  in the band and she's winding it's a designated student. I think, So
• 59:50
  is that a what type of siren. Is that that looks like a Is
• 59:53
  that a tornado? Is that a what? Is that like? An old
• 59:58
  school? Old school? It would be the it would be the it would
• 1:00:02
  be the pencil sharpener version of a siren. Because she's cranking it. It's
• 1:00:07
  cranking the heck out of it. It makes a great noise. I got
• 1:00:08
  a microphone like right on that thing and just lights that whole building up.
• 1:00:12
  I love it. I also can't wait for WVU. And I don't know
• 1:00:15
  how far away this is. And I shouldn't say it because anyone here,
• 1:00:21
  but you know, when the lights come off and on in the arenas,
• 1:00:22
  now, that's pretty cool. They you know what I mean? Nowadays that's
• 1:00:27
  they do a lot of them are doing that now. Uh DJ Monroe County.
• 1:00:34
  When we look back ten years from now, we'll be able to say
• 1:00:37
  this the transfer portal, the death of West Virginia's football and basketball programs.
• 1:00:43
  Maybe so. My biggest frustration is not getting to know and feel like we
• 1:00:47
  have a relationship with our players, because at the current rate, that's impossible.
• 1:00:52
  Instead of feeling like family, it feels like getting a player on a
• 1:00:54
  one year deal and then they're gone. I feel better about the football program,
• 1:01:00
  but the basketball program is sounding a serious alarm. Be blessed, DJ
• 1:01:05
  from Monroe County. There is no question that collegiate sports teams are in this
• 1:01:16
  massive period of transition, and yeah, it is all going to change,
• 1:01:20
  and it is all unfortunate. It'll be fine, Yeah it'll it'll be a
• 1:01:24
  new new. It'll be fine. Yeah, it'll it'll be a new new.
• 1:01:28
  Eric Stevenson was an okay transfer, right, I mean, I get
• 1:01:30
  it. But but what's the other side of that? You wish you had
• 1:01:34
  him more? Okay, I wish I had Will Grimore. Pat White was
• 1:01:37
  here four years, wish I had him more. Well, four is better
• 1:01:43
  than two points. It's not all awful. I didn't say it was,
• 1:01:47
  no, DJ did, so, don't get all defensive. You want to
• 1:01:50
  get defensive and fight, I'll fight with you. But I wasn't attacking you.
• 1:01:52
  I was saying you immediately bowed up. Yeah, I've been here in
• 1:01:57
  nine weeks. You immediately want to bow up. So if you want to
• 1:01:59
  go, we'll go. Yeah, rip his ass. I think now the
• 1:02:04
  votes too to nil. Hey, by the way, really glad you came
• 1:02:09
  come at me with that snarky attitude. Well, he's down that legislative session.
• 1:02:15
  That's how they all roll down there. So that's fine. I mean,
• 1:02:16
  I'm old foy. He wants to we can fight like cats and dogs.
• 1:02:20
  I mean, I'm not a post that you want to go. We'll
• 1:02:22
  go. You're taking here, your triggers pretty well, you started it.
• 1:02:24
  You're taking him to conference. He's taking he's taking you the conference committee in
• 1:02:30
  your mouth. Crossover day HB sixty two, sixty two sixty two head one.
• 1:02:37
  That's tomorrow crossover day, is it? Yeah? Nice crossover day reference,
• 1:02:44
  which is actually a big day. I understand that it is. I
• 1:02:49
  understand that it is. We wish them the best crossing over. Open your
• 1:02:54
  but don't open your presence. Tonight saw some interesting legislation going on there about
• 1:02:59
  travel teams and things. Yes, yes, that's hot. Yeah, don't
• 1:03:02
  start that's what What do you got on it? Well, that's a no.
• 1:03:07
  It's certainly a very important topic with what else is going on in our
• 1:03:10
  state. Travel team's really a big important deal, I hear you. Yeah,
• 1:03:15
  there's been avoid this session, so it's been filled by a lot of
• 1:03:17
  stuff like that. I mean, maybe fix the roads first, but I'm
• 1:03:20
  not a political guy, So I don't know what's travel ball is certainly probably
• 1:03:22
  a priority. Why don't we work on if we went through that still door
• 1:03:25
  right over there and go in that alley? Wy don't we work on that
• 1:03:28
  a little bit? Yeah? Yeah, I hear you, I hear you.
• 1:03:32
  One of the things we like, travel basketball same time as your high
• 1:03:35
  school basketball. Pardon me, we're gonna put travel ball at same time as
• 1:03:37
  your high school basketball. I mean, I don't know a lot about that
• 1:03:42
  issue, but what I do know about it, it seems like a very
• 1:03:45
  bad idea, do you think, Yeah? Yeah, I mean for I
• 1:03:53
  mean what you can see where the conflicts are gonna cut. First of all,
• 1:03:59
  how about load load management for the kid and the parents? Okay,
• 1:04:02
  now you're going to play on two teams. Number one. Number two is
• 1:04:06
  what what happens if there is a conflict, Not what happens if there is
• 1:04:10
  a conflicts, what happens when the conflict arises, Because there will be conflicts
• 1:04:15
  arise, even if they're not happening, that those those will be filled in
• 1:04:17
  immediately. There will be conflicts. And the third thing is is it broken?
• 1:04:23
  Is anybody again? You guys? Maybe? Well you sports is broken.
• 1:04:29
  Okay, but is it broken the point well, well, we gotta
• 1:04:30
  make sure this isn't that. In my opinion, this isn't the fix to
• 1:04:32
  make it unbroken. You know, they were, they changed it. They
• 1:04:36
  were part of the bill was going to say that the same coach could coach
• 1:04:42
  the travel team as the high school team at the same time at the same
• 1:04:47
  time, which meant a coach could theoretically be coaching the kids from the other
• 1:04:50
  team that they had to play. They did take that out, but still
• 1:04:56
  I don't I don't think that's going to make it through. But crossover days
• 1:05:00
  tomorrow here we're cheering for those kids. Keep an eye on it. So
• 1:05:04
  one of the things in all seriousness that we like to do and have done,
• 1:05:08
  been have to have the opportunity to do on Three Guys is to help
• 1:05:13
  various causes and use our brand to do that. And here is one that
• 1:05:19
  I've mentioned in the past, and here's a little bit more on this.
• 1:05:24
  So if you go to our website Episode eight Hunter dot com, you'll see
• 1:05:27
  Hope t shirts. So here is the long and the short of it is
• 1:05:30
  this, So when you hear someone has cancer, you oftentimes don't equate that
• 1:05:40
  to In West Virginia, less than eight percent of the people that our cancer
• 1:05:47
  survivors or dealing with cancer consume the daily recommended servings of fruits and vegetables.
• 1:05:54
  There's food scarcity for the cancer patient and oftentimes he or she's family. So
• 1:06:03
  in West Virginia there's a program called Mountains of Hope Land Grant Mission at WVU
• 1:06:11
  and in essence, this is all put together by wv's Cancer Institute and they
• 1:06:16
  launch Growing Hope, which is aimed at producing food and meals to cancer patients
• 1:06:23
  and their families. So we're going to get behind this and the goal is
• 1:06:26
  to bring together community organizations and cancer care facilities to take care of people that
• 1:06:30
  have food inequities among the patients. So Growing Hope started in twenty twenty two
• 1:06:38
  pilot project at Mary bab Randolph Cancer Center CAMC AT Cancer Center in Charleston as
• 1:06:43
  well, so close to us in Morgantown Homestead Farm Center Taylor County grows the
• 1:06:47
  fruits and vegetables on farm on a farm and they do that by giving opportunities
• 1:06:53
  for employment for individuals with disabilities. So since twenty twenty two, the Cancer
• 1:07:00
  Institute and Growing Hope have provided close to two hundred nutritious meals and produce grown
• 1:07:06
  for one hundred and forty three patients in their families thirty two different counties in
• 1:07:10
  West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania. So after the initial investment, it costs
• 1:07:15
  about thirty five hundred dollars a year to produce fresh produce and healthy meal kits
• 1:07:20
  to about one hundred families. That's really an inexpensive one hundred families can benefit
• 1:07:25
  from a thirty five hundred dollars deal. So I'm just telling you that I'm
• 1:07:28
  not selling you anything right now. I'm just telling you I'm going to come
• 1:07:30
  back to you later and We're going to do something to fund good their program
• 1:07:35
  and just say hey, let's do this, and their money goes to those
• 1:07:40
  folks, and folks that are dealing with all of that will have fresh nutritious
• 1:07:45
  food. And we'll do that very passionate people that are working on that program.
• 1:07:56
  When we look back, Okay, that's already already read that. I
• 1:08:00
  give you the West Virginia connection thing. Sure, So this is in the
• 1:08:03
  Washington Post couple of weeks ago, and I had this clip. Don't want
• 1:08:05
  to tell you guys, eighteen sixty four. March eighteen sixty four, there
• 1:08:12
  is a fight that occurs near beverly Ford, Virginia, and the fight is
• 1:08:16
  between Moses Robinette and John Alexander Okay and Robinette stabs Alexander. Robinette is convicted
• 1:08:27
  of attempted murder and he's incarcerated. He later gets a pardon from Abraham Lincoln.
• 1:08:32
  Robinette was President Biden's great great grandfather. So President Biden's great great grandfather
• 1:08:43
  was pardoned by Abraham Lincoln. And Robinette who received the pardon was from Grafton,
• 1:08:48
  West Virginia hotly Potatoes, which at the time was Grafton, Virginia eighteen
• 1:08:55
  sixty one. Eighteen sixty one was when he was working at the railroad there
• 1:08:57
  in Granted, I was going to say great train town. Yeah. So
• 1:09:00
  anyway, it's a big story in Washington Post. Lincoln pardons Biden's great great
• 1:09:05
  grandfather Grafton, West Virginia. Of course he was let Robinette name still around
• 1:09:10
  in the state of West Virginia, right, not near football player Greg Robinette,
• 1:09:14
  remember noseguard. So always a connection always DJ was was uh DJ.
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  Monroe County was bemoaning the fact that the world has changed in college sports.
• 1:09:27
  Right yeah, so I was walking, we were we stayed in Aggieville in
• 1:09:31
  Manhattan. We stayed in Aggieville. That's their main drag right now on campus.
• 1:09:35
  That's where we stayed. And then this these two signs. It why
• 1:09:40
  is it called that because they have the big sign up out there? What
• 1:09:42
  is that Agricultural School? Oh excuse me, Hey, Austin put up those
• 1:09:45
  k State signs. This is on their street signs and their main drag,
• 1:09:49
  wildcat nil katsanil dot com. They're just right there. There's another way you
• 1:09:57
  go down the streets. They're just like, we need you support. Go
• 1:10:00
  to the website, give us money for NIL. Kansas and Kansas State's football
• 1:10:05
  coaches, right yeah, are coming together doing a joint thing. Like two
• 1:10:12
  bitter rivals. They're coming together and they're gonna have like this media event or
• 1:10:17
  they're gonna have a public event to raise funds. The two coaches want to
• 1:10:21
  speak to both fan bases to tell them how important it is to support NIL.
• 1:10:25
  Really, yeah, that's interesting. That's kind of like, you know,
• 1:10:28
  big time rivals, but like, hey, we need in the state
• 1:10:30
  of Kansas we need to support our college athletics. Pretty Wild's that came out
• 1:10:35
  last week's pretty unheard of. Yeah, in a world where you're just feeding
• 1:10:43
  on whoever you can, right, So you go down to Charleston tonight.
• 1:10:47
  Today tonight, I got some things to do and I'll go down stopping the
• 1:10:51
  gomart Oh yeah, probably twice. Awesome if you would. I sent you
• 1:10:57
  the picture. I know you always do. I mean, you're good about
• 1:10:59
  that. We don't see it, but you're pretty good with the pictures.
• 1:11:02
  Talk to anybody. No, they don't recognize you. I know. I
• 1:11:09
  don't go in and go hey, it's Tony KAREDI yeah, I don't do
• 1:11:15
  that. Hey, real quick shout out. We mentioned at the end of
• 1:11:18
  last show Anthony Rizzo. We got a text that there was a package upstairs
• 1:11:24
  from Anthony rizzoge. We didn't know what it was a little more information.
• 1:11:32
  It was a ten Why did you hold this back until now? Of chocolate
• 1:11:36
  peanut butter? Oh my god? Why are we not still in the air?
• 1:11:39
  Yeah, but hey, watch what you say. This is a live
• 1:11:45
  We're still doing the show. Appropriate bring it up now with the Kansas State
• 1:11:49
  game instead of Rizzo's peanut butter walls. Although the peanut butter balls were elite.
• 1:11:54
  Do they tell those guys, well, here's that his mom makes those,
• 1:11:57
  right, but she only makes him in the winter. Apparently there's a
• 1:12:00
  chocolate consistency issue if you make them in the summer. Hues dealing with this.
• 1:12:04
  Does him in the winter? Boy? Were they get twenty four?
• 1:12:06
  I believe they were twenty four? Did not last the day? Really gone
• 1:12:11
  like eyes so full? Just do I get on him when he doesn't bring
• 1:12:14
  stuff back? I had no interest in waiting for you don't I had no
• 1:12:18
  interest. Sorry, I get Hoppy who the Buckeyes. We used to call
• 1:12:23
  him Buckeyes, but that was because then they'd have the They wouldn't cover him
• 1:12:27
  completely chocolate. They looked like an actual Buckeye. For these were completely covered.
• 1:12:30
  Yeah, Anthony Rizzo's mom, so you peanut butter, chocolate pan peanut
• 1:12:34
  butter. They were, they were, They were tremendous. Those are good
• 1:12:41
  And you can't I mean it's sorry, I mean and they and they specifically
• 1:12:44
  said they were for all three of us. They wanted to include you.
• 1:12:47
  Well, I also told Anthony, I mean sorry, he wasn't here.
• 1:12:50
  I don't know where he is. I don't know when he's coming back.
• 1:12:53
  I'm not waiting. We ate, we ate them for you, shared them
• 1:12:57
  all over the building, brought him up to the girls upstairs. I mean,
• 1:13:00
  I wasn't first carry I don't expect you to set him astute. Oh
• 1:13:03
  I'm a hoppy better No, I get no, no, you get nothing,
• 1:13:05
  and you don't like it. I couldn't wait. I mean, I
• 1:13:12
  get it. I definitely am getting a vibe from this show. Now.
• 1:13:15
  I'm thrilled your back. I for one, I'm glad you're back, Thank
• 1:13:17
  you, thank you a little bit. I just wanted to be honest with
• 1:13:19
  you that I ate your I appreciate your candor didn't wait for you, so
• 1:13:26
  I got definite cold shoulder from the far side over there. Listen, I'm
• 1:13:30
  glad. I'm glad you came back. Just like this is what you should
• 1:13:33
  play. You should walk into go Mart with a boombox and you just gouz.
• 1:13:38
  It just goes like this hoppy and then you just go, yeah,
• 1:13:43
  you know what you just you're gonna get like hello nine one one, yeah,
• 1:13:48
  yeah, there's I mean, you can talk to people that if they
• 1:13:51
  come up. He does to Joe at Dix over the weekend. He came
• 1:13:55
  up big listens, Yeah listen, they're still listening. He was very nice
• 1:13:59
  friend. I'm at the way I talked to everybody at the Legislature really lots
• 1:14:05
  of times on the air. I mean, I'll be sitting there and people
• 1:14:09
  come, are you in here? Oh? I know, so I talked
• 1:14:11
  to everybody. I'm not I am not as unfriendly as I'm playing. No
• 1:14:15
  tak you you shed that title by your performance at the food court last fall
• 1:14:20
  on the second court. You held court, and in fact, when the
• 1:14:24
  police finally had to ask you to leave, I thought it was a bit
• 1:14:27
  much. I think it was that a blue drink kind of loosened me up.
• 1:14:30
  Whatever that was. Oh yeah, that's when Chuck brought you. Yeah,
• 1:14:34
  Chuck brought me. Chuck Duka was over there from the wine bar making
• 1:14:39
  drinks. Right. Duka was there, had a couple of those blue ones,
• 1:14:42
  and he was like, I'm staying here, closing so early. You
• 1:14:48
  want to go somewhere else? Where's the next stop? Like college? Where
• 1:14:51
  are we going next? Chuck took him by that took him by the come
• 1:14:55
  on, let's get in here. Yeah, Thank goodness for Chuck yeah,
• 1:14:58
  Chuck, maybe on the next round out of the treats you will. The
• 1:15:01
  session is going to be over in next week. Okay, there you go
• 1:15:05
  next week. But we have but we got the two tournaments coming up.
• 1:15:09
  Yeah yeah, girls and heights, girls and boys, I mean three really
• 1:15:13
  Mountain East Conference coming up Mountain East. Yeah, I'm doing the boys boys
• 1:15:15
  tournament. Yeah, I'm doing at the end, I'm doing the boys.
• 1:15:19
  Are you coming in like coming into you say? Yeah, because I've got
• 1:15:21
  a well, I've got a nec so I can't do the girls. I'd
• 1:15:24
  love to do the girls. I've got got angineers aren't done. The girls
• 1:15:28
  are going on during the Mountain Girls tournament the same time next week. Yeah,
• 1:15:30
  okay, where's the MC wheeling? Wheeling for sure? Great tournament,
• 1:15:34
  Yeah, wonderful. How about this super six wonderful basketball moved to Charlestow?
• 1:15:38
  Yes it is, Yeah, first reported by you. Oh I screwed that
• 1:15:42
  up. You did not screw it up? I kind of did. You
• 1:15:45
  didn't that kind of did? No? You first reported it? No I
• 1:15:48
  did. I didn't wait a second. It's like my time out, time
• 1:15:55
  out. Okay, you said it's coming to Charleston, right, It was
• 1:15:59
  about eleven forty nine. By twelve oh two it was officially released. It
• 1:16:05
  was going to Charleston. So where did you screw up? Well, that's
• 1:16:09
  like saying that you. I'm trying to think of a good analogy. I
• 1:16:13
  can't because it had not been announced, and what I thought was being announced
• 1:16:17
  I was I was wrong about So it was kind of an awkward moment.
• 1:16:23
  I don't like being wrong like that. You weren't wrong. How were you
• 1:16:26
  wrong? If you said it right? Well, it was a correct information.
• 1:16:30
  You didn't say it was going to be in China, and all of
• 1:16:32
  a sudden they came out and said, oh no, actually, Hobby,
• 1:16:35
  it's gonna be in Charles's twenty twenty six. It's going to be invasion.
• 1:16:38
  I mean, so what did you screw up? I mean, you co
• 1:16:41
  selled the thing. I first reported that story. As I know, there's
• 1:16:45
  a there's a whole long It's not all I's getting into. It's not worth
• 1:16:48
  getting into. It's just I got I had a little bit of the cart
• 1:16:53
  before the horse on that. All right, I'm really glad you came.
• 1:17:00
  See you in July. See in July we're doing any more of these This
• 1:17:04
  might be the last Eric Stevenson's been here more night. We should we should
• 1:17:09
  just call it done. Was this? It is this the last one.
• 1:17:14
  Things are gonna get busy. Spring Ball's coming up pretty soon. That'll be
• 1:17:17
  great. I just want I want to get settled in. But then,
• 1:17:20
  well, you know that's wonderful. Did you just say that wonderful? How
• 1:17:24
  you just said that? He said, yeah, come here, I want
• 1:17:26
  to I want to settle in. And then what's he come back with?
• 1:17:29
  Like after that? Sessions over now? And hey that tell will be gone
• 1:17:32
  for a week, two weeks. We're gone for two East. We want
• 1:17:34
  you to settle Hoppy, we want you to stay. It's you that continues
• 1:17:39
  to break the dates A fair point. I mean Brad and I are here,
• 1:17:43
  that's a fair I mean we come wait, we're here. Brad texted
• 1:17:45
  me last night. We were texting back and forth and Brad says, I
• 1:17:47
  gotta go to three guys. And I thought you're going to eleven thirty last
• 1:17:50
  night. I thought you were going last night. Yeah, we're going last
• 1:17:54
  night. I didn't put the a m PM or Central or Eastern. Hopy
• 1:17:58
  was all confused. I was confused. I thought, now they're just like
• 1:18:00
  scheduling good at times, I can't just on purpose. Hey hop listen,
• 1:18:05
  Hey Hoppy listen. Yeah, we're gonna do We're gonna do our next show,
• 1:18:09
  Hoppy. Yeah at from ten oh six until about New Hope. You
• 1:18:13
  can make it. I'm getting the message. I get the drift. No,
• 1:18:17
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• 1:18:19
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