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- 0:13Speaker 1: Well, the microphone's on, so I guess it's time to
- 0:17Speaker 1: start talking. Hi. Everybody, welcome in. It is Three Guys
- 0:19Speaker 1: Before the Game, episode number six hundred and seventy four.
- 0:23Speaker 1: It's kind of a double topic show crossover season. Right,
- 0:27Speaker 1: We've got Mountaineer football West Virginia final. Can you believe
- 0:30Speaker 1: this final road game of the regular season coming up?
- 0:34Speaker 1: Will preview the Mountaineer's date with the sun Devils of
- 0:38Speaker 1: Arizona State coming up. Also basketball backyard Brawl West Virginia.
- 0:47Speaker 1: Thanks for having us all lined up lined up, said
- 0:51Speaker 1: come here, come here, take another one? May I have another?
- 0:55Speaker 1: May I have another? May I have another?
- 0:57Speaker 2: It was so dominating of a performance I think thought
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- 1:07Speaker 1: Hit that button and he went pentagon phone on that
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- 2:18Speaker 1: here we go. It's Brad and myself. The other guy
- 2:23Speaker 1: don't know where he is, not sure, I don't know thinking.
- 2:28Speaker 1: We're thinking sometime next week if we don't see it,
- 2:31Speaker 1: see him, gonna do a silver alert. We're gonna put
- 2:34Speaker 1: out a silver alert on him. See if we can
- 2:36Speaker 1: find the dog O he'll reappear.
- 2:38Speaker 2: Come sometimes that happens with dogs.
- 2:40Speaker 1: Just excuse me.
- 2:41Speaker 2: Well, they wander off, but then pretty smart and they
- 2:45Speaker 2: eventually find their way back home. Takes a while sometimes,
- 2:48Speaker 2: but they eventually work their way back home. I think
- 2:51Speaker 2: that's what's happening with Kerchival. We're gonna rise out in
- 2:53Speaker 2: the wilderness. At some point he'll find his way and
- 2:56Speaker 2: wander backing onto the set.
- 2:58Speaker 1: Two things uncourtiable A talk to him yesterday, spoke to him,
- 3:05Speaker 1: spoke to him, didn't see him, so I don't know,
- 3:07Speaker 1: being held hostage, whatever the thing is, but is we're
- 3:11Speaker 1: gonna record Sunday.
- 3:12Speaker 2: Right Sunday morning.
- 3:13Speaker 1: Yeah, he's gonna join us, but not physically. He'll be here.
- 3:18Speaker 1: He'll be here via the via the old computer system
- 3:22Speaker 1: because he got busy, because he's busy, he'll be he'll
- 3:25Speaker 1: be at the Arizona State game.
- 3:27Speaker 2: Like we'll take him however we can get it.
- 3:29Speaker 1: So for those of you that are going to the
- 3:30Speaker 1: Arizona State game, if you see Hopey, get your picture
- 3:32Speaker 1: made with him, because he'll be at the Arizona State game.
- 3:36Speaker 1: All right, So we're gonna do football here first. As
- 3:38Speaker 1: West Virginia gets ready to take on the sun devils
- 3:42Speaker 1: of Arizona State. Super interesting matchup for a bunch of
- 3:46Speaker 1: different reasons. Obviously, West Virginia is playing his best football
- 3:50Speaker 1: of the season so far, and you got that on
- 3:54Speaker 1: your side. But but you've got to make the long
- 3:59Speaker 1: trip out there, and Arizona State has had extra time off.
- 4:05Speaker 1: They have not played since two weeks ago now, so
- 4:09Speaker 1: it'll be fourteen days for games between them. Their quarterback,
- 4:13Speaker 1: the regular Sam Levitt, as you probably know, out for
- 4:16Speaker 1: the season. However, his replacement, Jeff Simms, goes out there
- 4:20Speaker 1: in his first start after the Levit injury, and all
- 4:24Speaker 1: of a sudden, looks like a Heisman Trophy winner, right,
- 4:27Speaker 1: runs for two fitty throws for one to seventy runs
- 4:31Speaker 1: for two tds throws for another. And so you've got
- 4:34Speaker 1: an entirely different set of circumstances that you've got to
- 4:38Speaker 1: deal with. If you're West Virginia's defense in SIMS, how much,
- 4:42Speaker 1: if anything, do they change with an extra week to
- 4:45Speaker 1: get ready for West Virginia. Conversely, let's face it, even
- 4:50Speaker 1: though the Mountaineers have won two straight games, they're banged up, right.
- 4:56Speaker 1: I mean not that guys aren't going to play, but
- 4:59Speaker 1: they got guys. That is my guy. Dwight Wallace always
- 5:01Speaker 1: says he may have run, he may have run four
- 5:04Speaker 1: to four in August, but now it's like a four
- 5:06Speaker 1: to six. You just get banged, you get slower. So
- 5:09Speaker 1: West Virginia is going to go out there and you
- 5:11Speaker 1: just don't know. So you take your shot. You take
- 5:13Speaker 1: your swing. Eleven am. Start time there, one o'clock here.
- 5:17Speaker 1: Interesting game.
- 5:18Speaker 2: Well, I think you said it right. West Virginian playing
- 5:20Speaker 2: it's best ball right now. You stabilize that quarterback position,
- 5:23Speaker 2: which has been massive. Those offensive linemen continue to improve
- 5:26Speaker 2: and get better, and I'm interested to watch how they
- 5:29Speaker 2: now perform against what's a very talented Arizona State team. Albeit,
- 5:34Speaker 2: like you said, banged up, no Levitt is a major factor.
- 5:37Speaker 2: And you're right, Jeff Simms has played a lot of
- 5:39Speaker 2: college football. We'll talk about him the backup quarterback, because
- 5:41Speaker 2: I think there's some things that you can maybe hang
- 5:44Speaker 2: your hat on there if you're West Virginia defensively against Simms.
- 5:46Speaker 2: I'll get into that first.
- 5:47Speaker 1: More that's your first hint.
- 5:49Speaker 2: We'll get into it.
- 5:50Speaker 1: You hinted something there, you got something, we'll.
- 5:51Speaker 2: Talk about it. I also think that it's a well,
- 5:55Speaker 2: I don't need to think it is. It's a massive
- 5:58Speaker 2: benefit for Western and Jordan Tyson. It is out last night,
- 6:01Speaker 2: he's out on that injury report. That's the talented receiver
- 6:03Speaker 2: for Arizona State. That's one of the best football players
- 6:06Speaker 2: in the country, not just receivers, as Rich said earlier
- 6:09Speaker 2: this week. So that helps again, this is a talented
- 6:11Speaker 2: roster went to the playoffs last year in Arizona State.
- 6:13Speaker 2: But that's two significant injuries for them. Maybe counters a
- 6:17Speaker 2: little bit what West Virginia has been dealing with injury.
- 6:19Speaker 1: Was the reality of it is right, He's Dillingham, They're
- 6:23Speaker 1: head coach who I got. I don't know anything about
- 6:26Speaker 1: him other than everything I've ever seen hear him talk
- 6:29Speaker 1: just from Afar, like incredibly impressive, right, incredibly smart, love
- 6:35Speaker 1: the energy, he really gets it. And he's just farther
- 6:38Speaker 1: along in his program build than West Virginia. Right his
- 6:42Speaker 1: first year, you know, it was a struggle. Boom boom,
- 6:46Speaker 1: they get better real quick. So West Virginia is still
- 6:49Speaker 1: in the infancy of building that roster up. And I
- 6:51Speaker 1: told I talked to Rich this week and I said, like,
- 6:54Speaker 1: do you look at him and say like you know,
- 6:57Speaker 1: we can get there based on how other teams in
- 7:01Speaker 1: this league have done it. I guess, for example, Houston
- 7:04Speaker 1: from where they were go to where they are this year,
- 7:05Speaker 1: Arizona State where they were their first year. So yeah,
- 7:08Speaker 1: you can't.
- 7:09Speaker 2: I give him a lot of credit dolling him that
- 7:11Speaker 2: he inherited a dumpster fire. I mean, herm Edwards. I
- 7:14Speaker 2: don't know what those guys were doing out there for
- 7:15Speaker 2: a couple of years. There was other chaos inside.
- 7:17Speaker 1: That thing they run the Remember when they when they
- 7:19Speaker 1: gave COVID thing, Well, no, you remember what they were doing.
- 7:21Speaker 1: They were going to run a professional football program where
- 7:24Speaker 1: they hired them. They have a general manager. They were
- 7:26Speaker 1: gonna run pro football team and everything right on the ground.
- 7:28Speaker 1: They were going to show everybody into college ranks how
- 7:30Speaker 1: this thing works.
- 7:31Speaker 2: So Dillingham's turned around graduate of that program, so it
- 7:36Speaker 2: means a lot to him. They've turned it quickly. It's
- 7:38Speaker 2: amazing though, that program, that is one that you look
- 7:41Speaker 2: at from the outside and say, man, how how are
- 7:43Speaker 2: you not better? More consistently talent in the area, great location,
- 7:48Speaker 2: weather's tremendous. Maybe they've got their guy in Dillingham. Now
- 7:52Speaker 2: that can sustain some of that success. But that's a
- 7:54Speaker 2: just a campus in a school that you would think
- 7:57Speaker 2: would be consistently right there.
- 8:00Speaker 1: I was literally thinking about that this morning because just like,
- 8:03Speaker 1: let's just say, in the totality of football, like Arizona State,
- 8:08Speaker 1: and you can go all the way back like Frank Kush, Right,
- 8:11Speaker 1: you're gonna give us a Frank Cush. I go all
- 8:13Speaker 1: the way back to Frank Kush where they they they've blipped, right,
- 8:16Speaker 1: They've they've done some of this, but they've never had
- 8:19Speaker 1: long term sustained success. And I wonder, and I'll ask
- 8:22Speaker 1: people when I get there this weekend. Is it because
- 8:26Speaker 1: it's a professional market? Is it because it's a pro
- 8:29Speaker 1: market and you just again suffer from the things that
- 8:32Speaker 1: pro market teams like Houston and a lot of the
- 8:36Speaker 1: teams like you just get more distracted followers and you
- 8:39Speaker 1: do not have that fanaticism that makes a difference.
- 8:45Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, it might be. It might be, but some
- 8:47Speaker 2: of those came along kind of late though, Right. It's
- 8:49Speaker 2: like that, like Diamondbacks weren't one of the original teams.
- 8:52Speaker 2: Arizona Cardinal football team hasn't always been in Arizona, And
- 8:55Speaker 2: now they've got everything. I mean, I got all of it.
- 8:57Speaker 2: I know, and that might be the answer. But man,
- 8:59Speaker 2: that's beautiful area with a great campus with players. Stop
- 9:03Speaker 2: should be full stop right there. That should be enough
- 9:05Speaker 2: to be able to sustain success.
- 9:07Speaker 1: Well, this this staff and this coach, if he stays
- 9:11Speaker 1: and't got no reason to leave. Right, he's a grad.
- 9:13Speaker 1: He could probably stay and be happy as long as
- 9:15Speaker 1: they give him what he needs. That's what it's gonna
- 9:16Speaker 1: come down to. I mean, they could go. They could
- 9:20Speaker 1: they could become a upper they could become an upper
- 9:22Speaker 1: tier program in this league year and a year out.
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- 11:13Speaker 1: face it, basketball season is just starting, right. The nice
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- 11:33Speaker 2: Well, speaking of weather, it was beautiful for the Colorado
- 11:35Speaker 2: game last weekend. Stole one there. Gorgeous in November, gorgeous.
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- 11:43Speaker 2: That Yeah, that Farmer's Almanac going out of business though,
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- 11:47Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's been a hell of a run, like
- 11:49Speaker 1: four hundred.
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- 11:53Speaker 2: don't know how we're gonna know what the hell's coming weatherwise?
- 11:55Speaker 2: Now though, how do you know? I mean, everybody always
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- 12:03Speaker 1: It was a good run. Yeah, it was a good run. Hey,
- 12:06Speaker 1: what do you say we break down the numbers? Let's
- 12:08Speaker 1: do this thing. Let's I check your numbers.
- 12:11Speaker 2: We'll just go right to the numbers.
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- 12:17Speaker 1: the computer say about West Virginia and Arizona state time?
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- 13:11Speaker 2: We're starting with football, so I've got a lot of
- 13:14Speaker 2: basketball numbers. There's a lot of good numbers.
- 13:16Speaker 1: Yeah. I was up and wheeling this week for Salvation
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- 13:56Speaker 1: see him help run the NEC tournament. Does he announce
- 13:58Speaker 1: there the best? He's the best, all right? So give
- 14:01Speaker 1: me this. You're laying low on a number, you think
- 14:03Speaker 1: there's a way to get to SIMS.
- 14:04Speaker 2: Well, let's start with SIMS just to give you an
- 14:07Speaker 2: overview and some numbers just to pay attention to as
- 14:09Speaker 2: you're watching or listening in the game. You said it earlier.
- 14:12Speaker 2: Veteran dude. He's in a sixth year of college football,
- 14:15Speaker 2: matriculated at Georgia Tech. With the Ramblin rack. Here's been
- 14:18Speaker 2: a lot of places, was it Nebraska?
- 14:20Speaker 1: Raska time as well.
- 14:22Speaker 2: He's closing in on one thousand dropbacks in his career,
- 14:25Speaker 2: seven hundred and seventy seven pass attempts, nearly one thousand
- 14:29Speaker 2: dropbacks there. But here's some things to watch. He has
- 14:33Speaker 2: the second lowest yards per attempt average of any quarterback
- 14:37Speaker 2: in the Big Twelve with at least seventy pass attempts,
- 14:41Speaker 2: so it's something to watch. Defensively, he's been a very
- 14:43Speaker 2: effective runner throwing it. There hasn't been much downfield with
- 14:47Speaker 2: him yet, just four point nine very low yards per attempt,
- 14:51Speaker 2: so keep an eye on those. He does just have
- 14:55Speaker 2: one big time throw in those seventy three pass attempts,
- 14:59Speaker 2: which may make sense given that yards per attempt. If
- 15:02Speaker 2: you're not throwing the ball down the field very often,
- 15:04Speaker 2: you're not going to have a lot of Betts big
- 15:07Speaker 2: time throw there to agbreviated that for you, two turnover
- 15:10Speaker 2: worthy plays in those seventy three pass attempts over the
- 15:14Speaker 2: four games that he's played. To give you some comparison
- 15:17Speaker 2: with just the one big time throw, Sam Levitt had
- 15:20Speaker 2: eighteen big time throws in just seven games. More of
- 15:23Speaker 2: a big play type of quarterback. So they're trying to
- 15:25Speaker 2: manage Sims a little bit more. So they are turning
- 15:28Speaker 2: him loose offensively. Again. I like that just on the
- 15:31Speaker 2: surface for West Virginia's defense. In his career, through all
- 15:35Speaker 2: those different stops, Sims twenty five big time throws, forty
- 15:40Speaker 2: six turnover worthy plays, almost won the wrong way.
- 15:44Speaker 1: What is it?
- 15:45Speaker 2: Twenty five big time throws, forty six turnover worthy plays.
- 15:49Speaker 1: Well, he's saying turnover pro his whole career, So he'll
- 15:52Speaker 1: give it to you. He is turnover prone. I'll keep
- 15:55Speaker 1: going for his career. He'll rush it, carried it, I
- 15:59Speaker 1: believe thirty.
- 16:00Speaker 2: Times in their last game twenty nine, Yeah, fifteen rushing
- 16:04Speaker 2: touchdowns in six seasons. However, thirty fumbles in that time.
- 16:13Speaker 1: Run that thing in fifteen rushing touchdowns, thirty fumbles, he
- 16:17Speaker 1: has a two to one fumble to rushing touchdown ratio.
- 16:22Speaker 2: That's probably that's not where you want to be. So again,
- 16:25Speaker 2: potential pick, potential fumbles. West Virginia's defense has been good
- 16:30Speaker 2: when we have seen these underlying numbers for guys, this
- 16:33Speaker 2: has turned out to be turnover worthy type of games
- 16:36Speaker 2: for West Virginia. If that continues, you feel pretty good
- 16:39Speaker 2: about the mountaineers chances to steal one out in the desert.
- 16:42Speaker 2: Last game we mentioned those twenty nine thirty carries, two
- 16:45Speaker 2: hundred and twenty three yards on the ground, two touchdowns,
- 16:47Speaker 2: was very good. Did have two fumbles in that game
- 16:50Speaker 2: against Iowa State, had a long run of eighty eight.
- 16:53Speaker 2: Part of what outed that total he took off in
- 16:55Speaker 2: big Plagia, which I'll get to right now because that
- 16:59Speaker 2: leads to one of these for this game, and it's
- 17:01Speaker 2: going to be watching Sims. Given the fact they carried,
- 17:03Speaker 2: they let him carry the ball that many times, that
- 17:06Speaker 2: tells you where they are offensively. They're going to ride
- 17:09Speaker 2: him as long as they can there can you force
- 17:11Speaker 2: the ball out of his hands a couple times, that's
- 17:14Speaker 2: gonna be one of the keys. Limit the Arizona State
- 17:16Speaker 2: rushing attack. Sun Devil rushing offense is eighteenth nationally in
- 17:20Speaker 2: EPA per rush, so they've been very good in that
- 17:23Speaker 2: expected points added per rush, but they're getting a West
- 17:27Speaker 2: Virginia defense that is twenty sixth nationally in that category.
- 17:31Speaker 2: This Westernradion defense now starting to pile some some pretty
- 17:34Speaker 2: impressive numbers here in the back half of this season.
- 17:36Speaker 2: Watch out for big plays. Just mentioned the sims eighty
- 17:39Speaker 2: eight yard run. Arizona State eighty seventh percentile in rush
- 17:45Speaker 2: explosive percentage. So if you'll remember just last week, this
- 17:49Speaker 2: was one of the keys against Colorado. Colorado was even
- 17:52Speaker 2: better than that in rush explosive percentage, and West Virginia
- 17:55Speaker 2: held them to zero explosive rush plays. Can you stack
- 17:59Speaker 2: another really good rushing defense performance on top of what
- 18:02Speaker 2: you did last week?
- 18:03Speaker 1: Very interesting numbers?
- 18:05Speaker 2: Watch the early downs. West Virginia has been very good
- 18:09Speaker 2: on first and second down, forty first in EPA on
- 18:12Speaker 2: early downs. If that holds, you've got it at forces
- 18:15Speaker 2: in Arizona State team that wants to run it into
- 18:18Speaker 2: some third and longs now you have a chance to
- 18:20Speaker 2: get after Sims. Here comes the potential turnover worthy plays
- 18:24Speaker 2: in those situations. Arizona State just one hundred and sixth
- 18:28Speaker 2: nationally out of what's one hundred and thirty four seen
- 18:31Speaker 2: this year, so one o six out of one thirty
- 18:33Speaker 2: four when it comes to average yards to go per
- 18:36Speaker 2: third down seven and a half. So if you can
- 18:38Speaker 2: limit the sun devils early, make Sims have to throw
- 18:41Speaker 2: it on third down minus Jordan Tyson at receiver. Again,
- 18:45Speaker 2: you like the scenario in that situation.
- 18:47Speaker 1: Those are all good numbers. You did as they say
- 18:51Speaker 1: you did good there.
- 18:52Speaker 2: I like that matchup. I mean that's again you never
- 18:54Speaker 2: know if those numbers are going to hold. But we're
- 18:56Speaker 2: deep into the season now. Some of this stuff is
- 18:58Speaker 2: what it is a zon State. It's a little tough
- 19:01Speaker 2: to read because they're missing some parts. No Levitt, no Tyson.
- 19:05Speaker 2: That changes what they look like. But I think you
- 19:07Speaker 2: know what they want to do with Sims, so limiting
- 19:10Speaker 2: that running attack, stopping them on first and second down
- 19:12Speaker 2: goes a long way to get in a win.
- 19:14Speaker 1: So it would seem as though if you're the staff
- 19:16Speaker 1: at Arizona State and you've got Sims coming off this
- 19:19Speaker 1: massive running performance. Okay, let's do that again, right, and
- 19:23Speaker 1: so let's not put the ball in Harm's way. If
- 19:25Speaker 1: they also and they see the same numbers, if they
- 19:28Speaker 1: know he could be turnover prone when he puts the
- 19:31Speaker 1: ball into the air, why do we do anything else
- 19:33Speaker 1: except pound it against West Virginia. Make the game shorter.
- 19:36Speaker 1: Pound it, pound it, pound it, run the football. That's
- 19:39Speaker 1: what you would think that they're going to do, no.
- 19:41Speaker 2: Question, because then you turn around on the other side,
- 19:43Speaker 2: and if you're them, you're looking at West Virginia's offense
- 19:45Speaker 2: that has struggled to find some consistency al be it
- 19:49Speaker 2: better late in these last two games. But you would say, okay,
- 19:52Speaker 2: go ahead, offense, you go try and beat us. We're
- 19:53Speaker 2: gonna play some defense, which leads me to key number two,
- 19:56Speaker 2: and we'll leave it here. I think the run game's
- 19:58Speaker 2: just massive in this game one was we just said
- 20:00Speaker 2: limit Arizona State. But on the West Virginia side that
- 20:03Speaker 2: continues to be the primary key with Rich Rodriguez, run it,
- 20:06Speaker 2: then you can throw it. Arizona State's defense one hundred
- 20:10Speaker 2: and tenth nationally EPA per rush, So you should be
- 20:14Speaker 2: able to have some success against them ninety fourth nationally
- 20:18Speaker 2: in opponent's success rate on the ground indicates that you
- 20:21Speaker 2: may be able to run it on them. If that
- 20:24Speaker 2: offensive line has another good game, if it can stack
- 20:26Speaker 2: a third good game, maybe you can run it here
- 20:29Speaker 2: a little bit. It's important for this offense to run,
- 20:32Speaker 2: as we've said, that opens up everything else. But it
- 20:35Speaker 2: also may have a little extra importance against the Sun Devils.
- 20:38Speaker 2: They come into this game. Their defense does thirty fourth
- 20:41Speaker 2: nationally and EPA per pass, so they've been a very
- 20:44Speaker 2: good pass defense. But teams have been able to run.
- 20:47Speaker 2: So I won't go any deeper than that. Just have
- 20:49Speaker 2: the ability to run it on them. Limit Arizona States,
- 20:52Speaker 2: run and you might be righting this game for a
- 20:54Speaker 2: chance to walk out of there with a win.
- 20:55Speaker 1: Perhaps a few more design runs for the quarterback. Rich
- 20:59Speaker 1: has been kind of care and not running Scottie Fox
- 21:02Speaker 1: as much as he normally would run a quarterback because
- 21:04Speaker 1: of the lack of depth. But now you do at
- 21:06Speaker 1: least have Khalil Wilkins back, you have Max Brown back.
- 21:10Speaker 1: At least you got a couple guys now that if
- 21:12Speaker 1: you let Fox go a little bit, if it's there,
- 21:15Speaker 1: maybe he runs it a little bit.
- 21:16Speaker 2: Yeah, and you're getting late in the season right too,
- 21:18Speaker 2: So that adds to that as well. Let me give
- 21:20Speaker 2: you one other number to watch when West Virginia's on defense,
- 21:23Speaker 2: if we can get the sun Devils into that third
- 21:25Speaker 2: and long. Levitt when he played, was under pressure on
- 21:28Speaker 2: thirty percent of his dropbacks. That was the fifth most
- 21:31Speaker 2: in the Big twelve. Simms has a completion percentage of
- 21:36Speaker 2: just thirty eight percent. Win under pressure. So again that
- 21:40Speaker 2: all links together. Slow the run, especially early, force them
- 21:43Speaker 2: into obvious passing downs, then crank it up, as we
- 21:46Speaker 2: saw West Virginia do each of the last two weeks
- 21:48Speaker 2: in particular. That's always a key to this West Virginia defense.
- 21:51Speaker 2: When they're getting home to the quarterback and delivering some hits.
- 21:54Speaker 2: It has turned out well for them. Pitt Houston, Colorado,
- 21:58Speaker 2: right in the wins you've gotten after the quarterback. This
- 22:01Speaker 2: offensive line looks like it may allow some pressure and
- 22:04Speaker 2: sim certainly struggles when you get to him.
- 22:06Speaker 1: Yeah, that's good stuff. That's good stuff. Let's face it, folks,
- 22:10Speaker 1: you're down to your last two games of the regular season,
- 22:13Speaker 1: and if you're Zach ally right, you're gonna push all
- 22:17Speaker 1: your chips.
- 22:17Speaker 2: Just let you go.
- 22:18Speaker 1: Here you go, man, I'm pushing everything in. Let's go,
- 22:21Speaker 1: let's get after it. Let's cause havoc, let's cause chaos.
- 22:24Speaker 1: But you've got nothing to lose, Jamori Robinson. You're down
- 22:28Speaker 1: to two games, right, You've blipped just a teeny little
- 22:32Speaker 1: bit this season. You're shown a couple of things. Let's
- 22:35Speaker 1: go ten years back and go, man, let's go. Nothing
- 22:38Speaker 1: to wait on now, So go take a chance.
- 22:40Speaker 2: You're going against a team that's a preseason favorite in
- 22:43Speaker 2: this league. You're on the road against them, they're off
- 22:45Speaker 2: the bye week, as you mentioned, playing with house money
- 22:47Speaker 2: here a little bit, go after go get them.
- 22:49Speaker 1: Yeah, that weather's gonna be a little bit unusual there.
- 22:53Speaker 1: You're talking about potentially some rain a system coming through there.
- 22:59Speaker 1: I'm off for it. I mean, I think like a
- 23:01Speaker 1: downpour would be like perfect. Anything that would make them
- 23:03Speaker 1: seem out of their norm be good. Ball gets a
- 23:07Speaker 1: little slippery there. It's a little slippery for that what
- 23:10Speaker 1: I'm saying. Yeah, Yeah, it's a whole new era. We'll
- 23:13Speaker 1: see what happens.
- 23:14Speaker 2: What's the run game? Watch early downs.
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- 24:29Speaker 1: All right last night and super early here. We had
- 24:33Speaker 1: to record early because I gotta go catch an airplane.
- 24:39Speaker 1: Last night inside the Hope Coliseum. Final numbers home team
- 24:45Speaker 1: seventy one, visitors forty nine. In the one hundred and
- 24:49Speaker 1: ninety second Backyard Brawl.
- 24:52Speaker 2: Forty nine, Fortes held a Division One team to forty
- 24:56Speaker 2: nine points in a rivalry game. Hello below fitty.
- 25:00Speaker 1: Yeah, so West Virginia's four and oh and now I
- 25:05Speaker 1: think what I was kind of thinking all along is this.
- 25:12Speaker 1: We talked about Ross Hodge's defense, and that is his
- 25:15Speaker 1: absolute foundation. That's the first thing he puts down when
- 25:18Speaker 1: he plays ball, right, did it from his junior college days,
- 25:21Speaker 1: and did it at North Texas before that Arkansas State
- 25:24Speaker 1: when he was with with Grant mccaslyn, and then they
- 25:28Speaker 1: came to North Texas and they did the same thing.
- 25:30Speaker 1: And it's going to be defense, right, And so the
- 25:32Speaker 1: first three games they defended, but you just kind of go, well,
- 25:36Speaker 1: they're defending, but those teams are teams that they're supposed
- 25:38Speaker 1: to beat. Last night, the history of it is this,
- 25:42Speaker 1: think about this, that's the first time Ross Hodge has
- 25:46Speaker 1: coached a Power for a team against another Power four team, right, right.
- 25:50Speaker 1: He's coached Power four teams before, but not with a
- 25:52Speaker 1: Power for roster. And last night was the beginning of
- 25:57Speaker 1: what you're going to see defensively. Not that they're going
- 26:00Speaker 1: to hold teams to forty nine points every night, but
- 26:02Speaker 1: you can see that is the first thing that they do.
- 26:06Speaker 1: And guess what, it causes problems. And it causes problems
- 26:10Speaker 1: because the majority of teams don't guard, and so when
- 26:14Speaker 1: you have an outlier of a team that guards, i e.
- 26:16Speaker 1: Houston or some of the elite teams in the country,
- 26:19Speaker 1: it's a it's a world of difference for an offense
- 26:22Speaker 1: where they're going like, wait a seconds, what exactly is this?
- 26:25Speaker 1: We don't get this in practice. This is not how
- 26:27Speaker 1: it feels. It just takes you out of your game.
- 26:30Speaker 2: It makes you uncomfortable for a long stretch of the
- 26:33Speaker 2: whole game. You're uncomfortable.
- 26:34Speaker 1: How many times did the shot clock go into single
- 26:37Speaker 1: digits last night? And at that point Pitt you could
- 26:41Speaker 1: tell still had no concept of where that shot was
- 26:44Speaker 1: coming from. So that was the first time that I
- 26:47Speaker 1: think everyone saw what this defense will look like going forward.
- 26:52Speaker 1: That's one thing. Also the other thing is I think
- 26:56Speaker 1: that for the first time, folks that were there great
- 27:00Speaker 1: out obviously, and those that were watching, they saw Ross
- 27:04Speaker 1: Hodge like in action, and by that I mean like
- 27:08Speaker 1: he is wired in, he is playing the possessions possession
- 27:15Speaker 1: by possession, he is animated, he is down a couple times,
- 27:19Speaker 1: looked back over his shoulder people behind the Mountaineer bencher.
- 27:23Speaker 1: He encouraged them, let's go, let's make this thing special.
- 27:26Speaker 1: So like he's in, He's totally in. And so I
- 27:30Speaker 1: think last night was the first time people truly saw
- 27:34Speaker 1: what Hodge's basketball program will look like while he's here.
- 27:39Speaker 2: Agree, And I also to add to that, I thought it, boy,
- 27:43Speaker 2: it came together nicely, didn't it. You're ramped up and
- 27:46Speaker 2: you had that group that listen. You weren't exactly sure
- 27:49Speaker 2: how West Virginia's players were going to respond in that environment.
- 27:52Speaker 2: They hadn't been through that either. They looked like a
- 27:54Speaker 2: veteran team that had been playing in that environment for
- 27:57Speaker 2: four years. And that's led by your point guard Jasper Floyd,
- 28:00Speaker 2: about as cool as they come. We'll get into him specifically,
- 28:02Speaker 2: but I thought that all came together. You said that
- 28:04Speaker 2: right about the defense. It was really good. And it's
- 28:07Speaker 2: not just the physical abilities that those players bring on defense,
- 28:12Speaker 2: and it's not just about the mental toughness it takes
- 28:15Speaker 2: to guard like that for an entire game. But it
- 28:17Speaker 2: does just it takes your soul from the other team,
- 28:21Speaker 2: and it does that doubly. And this is what we
- 28:23Speaker 2: thought going into this game. It does that doubly to
- 28:26Speaker 2: a team that doesn't want to play that way with you.
- 28:29Speaker 2: For a team that wants to go or gets antsy
- 28:31Speaker 2: or gets impatient, you've got big problems against West Virginia,
- 28:35Speaker 2: especially when the Mountaineers get the lead. And that's going
- 28:38Speaker 2: to be something we'll watch all year. If this team
- 28:40Speaker 2: has the lead going into the final ten minutes in particular, man,
- 28:43Speaker 2: they make it tough because they just slow that thing
- 28:46Speaker 2: down and milk your per possession and you start to
- 28:49Speaker 2: get doubly amped up. One you're uncomfortable, and two you
- 28:53Speaker 2: see the clock ticking down and you know you've got
- 28:56Speaker 2: to get shots, and it is sometimes hard to get shots.
- 28:58Speaker 2: I thought Western's defense, but the help side of the
- 29:01Speaker 2: West Virginia defense was tremendous on ball, very good. They
- 29:05Speaker 2: were pinching that lane. They were covering perimeter shooters pit late.
- 29:09Speaker 2: I'll go back and watch it when I watch it
- 29:11Speaker 2: a second time. The number of bad or hurried shots
- 29:14Speaker 2: that Panther offense took in the final six minutes of
- 29:17Speaker 2: the game, it was almost every one of them. They
- 29:20Speaker 2: got frustrated. Then that spilled over into their behavior. Two technicals.
- 29:24Speaker 2: Jeff Capel got another one. They just came totally undone
- 29:27Speaker 2: and a lot of that was because of playing West
- 29:30Speaker 2: Virginian getting frustrated over a full forty minutes.
- 29:32Speaker 1: It's not entirely dissimilar to what Rich Rodriguez's plan is
- 29:37Speaker 1: when he plays games right in the sense that once
- 29:39Speaker 1: he has a lead, now he's going to choke you out. Now,
- 29:43Speaker 1: we really haven't seen that here yet with Rich did
- 29:46Speaker 1: it a little bit against Houston. But once he gets
- 29:49Speaker 1: the lead, and those stats show that like he can
- 29:52Speaker 1: make a game go miserably long for the opposing team,
- 29:56Speaker 1: he pounds him at the end. Very similar to this.
- 29:58Speaker 1: As you said, once West Virginia he gets three to
- 30:00Speaker 1: four possession lead, they make the other team really pay.
- 30:04Speaker 1: What happens, as you say, they get antsy, They want
- 30:06Speaker 1: that ball back slip through a crack. All of a sudden,
- 30:08Speaker 1: you get an easy, easy basket on a cut boom,
- 30:11Speaker 1: and now that thing's even grown out, even bigger. So
- 30:13Speaker 1: that's his plan. So that's exactly how he wants to
- 30:16Speaker 1: play that out. And to your point, we really had
- 30:19Speaker 1: no idea how West Virginia's players would respond to the
- 30:23Speaker 1: building being full for the first time. Did they play
- 30:26Speaker 1: out of character? Do they try too hard? Do they
- 30:28Speaker 1: try too much? I thought it was also important that
- 30:31Speaker 1: they got off to a quick, good start, and then
- 30:33Speaker 1: Pitt scores and they go up right, they take their
- 30:36Speaker 1: biggest lead. Was it seven? Was Pitt's biggest lead? Was
- 30:42Speaker 1: Pitt's biggest lead was seven seven? Eight to one to go?
- 30:46Speaker 1: It was twenty one to fourteen Pit and then West
- 30:48Speaker 1: Virginia turned it again, and the entire game went around
- 30:52Speaker 1: so many different guys that you have to praise, and
- 30:57Speaker 1: one of those guys is Harlan Obioha again wonderful story.
- 31:02Speaker 1: Lost a tremendous amount of weight since coming here. Footwork,
- 31:07Speaker 1: footwork like fred Astare, footwork like freda Stare. Look it up.
- 31:11Speaker 1: Big guy can move, look it up. But I mean
- 31:13Speaker 1: his footwork is really good. He goes eight of nine
- 31:15Speaker 1: from the field, three of four at the line, a
- 31:19Speaker 1: half a dozen rebounds, and a couple of assists in
- 31:22Speaker 1: the crazy number. And Ros's pointed this out post game.
- 31:25Speaker 1: The big boy went thirty one minutes. His career average
- 31:28Speaker 1: is about twenty three minutes. Why because he's been so
- 31:32Speaker 1: big that he can't play for these long, long periods
- 31:36Speaker 1: of time. He went thirty one minutes. He's two hundred
- 31:38Speaker 1: and seventy pounds, and so Jason the strength coach Mantinez.
- 31:44Speaker 1: Coach Martinez been a fantastic job, but not only dropping
- 31:47Speaker 1: the weight, but cardiovascular whise.
- 31:51Speaker 2: He's ready to go well, and yes he did, and
- 31:53Speaker 2: credit Harlan. That takes an incredible anybody's tried to drop
- 31:56Speaker 2: a few pounds. That's an incredible amount of discipline that
- 31:59Speaker 2: it took him to get himself in shape and then
- 32:01Speaker 2: play like he has. He has been outstanding. As you said,
- 32:04Speaker 2: that's not just been a guy. If you've got a
- 32:06Speaker 2: seven footer that contributes to you, you're thrilled. This is
- 32:09Speaker 2: a guy that's dominating Tony. And I thought his performance
- 32:12Speaker 2: was especially noteworthy from this standpoint, He's been really good
- 32:15Speaker 2: through three games. West Nians dominated inside, dominated, the paint
- 32:18Speaker 2: to be expected. Nobody had anybody physically that could match Harlan.
- 32:22Speaker 2: Last night was the first time they tried to roll
- 32:24Speaker 2: Pitt did a couple different near seven footers in against him,
- 32:27Speaker 2: So you thought, Okay, what's Pitt going to do here?
- 32:30Speaker 2: They have the size and athleticism to match West Virginian side,
- 32:33Speaker 2: and they just simply did not. Harlan dominated them. And
- 32:36Speaker 2: listen to these season stats now for him. I know
- 32:39Speaker 2: it's early, it's only four games. My man, sixteen of
- 32:42Speaker 2: twenty from the field. He's shooting eighty percent from the
- 32:45Speaker 2: field right now, and you mentioned it last night, eight
- 32:47Speaker 2: of nine, so that wasn't just in the first three games.
- 32:50Speaker 2: He is top thirteen percent nationally of all players that
- 32:54Speaker 2: are rated, which is twenty three hundred and sixty some players.
- 32:57Speaker 2: He is top thirteen percent in all offensive rating. That's
- 33:01Speaker 2: not what you thought you were getting with Harlan when
- 33:03Speaker 2: you signed him. That's an anchor in the middle of
- 33:05Speaker 2: that defense. That's a guy that can help you rebound.
- 33:08Speaker 2: That's a guy that can get you a couple buckets.
- 33:10Speaker 2: Guys thirteenth now top thirteen percent nationally. How about this?
- 33:14Speaker 2: People were worried about the rebounding early, and we said,
- 33:16Speaker 2: just hold on here, this team's going to be all
- 33:18Speaker 2: right on the glass. First game was an aberration. Harlan
- 33:21Speaker 2: has now moved in to the top eleven percent in
- 33:25Speaker 2: defensive rebounding rate for an individual player, top eleven percent.
- 33:29Speaker 2: They were dominant on the glass last night. I'll get
- 33:31Speaker 2: to that in the numbers here in just a second. So, yeah,
- 33:33Speaker 2: Harlan's one of the guys you have to call out, no.
- 33:35Speaker 1: Question, handling the ball six turnovers in a rivalry game.
- 33:41Speaker 1: Six turnovers. That's a fantastic number.
- 33:44Speaker 2: You know.
- 33:44Speaker 1: The other thing I like about this team, and I
- 33:47Speaker 1: mentioned this last night, Number one, the full roster still
- 33:49Speaker 1: hasn't played a game yet. We're getting like really close.
- 33:52Speaker 1: I mean, it's very conceivable, but by the time a
- 33:55Speaker 1: week from now happens in West Virginia's in South Carolina
- 33:59Speaker 1: that you could very well have the full roster for
- 34:02Speaker 1: the first time. That's going to be really intriguing. You've
- 34:07Speaker 1: got Chance More who will be eligible to play against Clemson,
- 34:13Speaker 1: and then you've got Jackson Fields, the Troy transfer, who
- 34:17Speaker 1: is like really super close coming back from a wrist injury. Like,
- 34:21Speaker 1: think about what that does now size wise, those are
- 34:26Speaker 1: two bigs. Fields will come in he can back up
- 34:29Speaker 1: Obioha and More is going to be the large, strong
- 34:33Speaker 1: wing that they don't have right now that can absolutely
- 34:37Speaker 1: be a great rebounder. And when watching in practice, he's
- 34:41Speaker 1: a big that can put the ball on the floor
- 34:43Speaker 1: from the wing and when he goes to the basket
- 34:45Speaker 1: and going to the basket, I'm coming and a totally
- 34:48Speaker 1: different type of player than West Virginia currently has right now.
- 34:53Speaker 2: He'll go right straight at the rack on you, but
- 34:55Speaker 2: can also hit threes if you leave him open. I
- 34:58Speaker 2: am excited to watch what his ability to drive the
- 35:01Speaker 2: ball does to the perimeter shooting. I think when he
- 35:04Speaker 2: plays in conjunction with Trey, it's going to open up
- 35:07Speaker 2: some better open looks for Tracon as somebody has to
- 35:10Speaker 2: decide you're going to try and stay one on one
- 35:12Speaker 2: with More as he's going to trying to put you
- 35:14Speaker 2: inside the rim with the ball, or you're going to
- 35:16Speaker 2: drop off. Opens up some potential wing shooters for some guys,
- 35:20Speaker 2: and Jackson just adds another big body and that's where
- 35:23Speaker 2: that roster starts to round itself out now because now
- 35:26Speaker 2: you can go to Jackson Fields and DJ Thomas. When
- 35:29Speaker 2: you need to sub on that front line, and you
- 35:31Speaker 2: talk about a guy who's talking about some other individual performances,
- 35:34Speaker 2: you talk about a guy in his first year at
- 35:35Speaker 2: college basketball, in his first rivalry game. That's DJ Thomas.
- 35:39Speaker 2: And he came out early in that game, and I
- 35:41Speaker 2: thought did two things that really changed the face of
- 35:43Speaker 2: that game. One, hit those couple threes early, which he's
- 35:47Speaker 2: shown he's a capable shooter. That's not why he's on
- 35:50Speaker 2: this roster, but he's a good shooter and has made
- 35:52Speaker 2: himself even better in the short amount of time he's
- 35:54Speaker 2: been here. That was really the scoring that kept you
- 35:57Speaker 2: connected to hit. If that gets to double figures early,
- 36:01Speaker 2: you're going, oh, what's happening? And Dj was the one
- 36:03Speaker 2: guy that was making shots early that kept you within
- 36:06Speaker 2: striking distance. And then two, just physically, he went to
- 36:09Speaker 2: a different level last night than he had the first
- 36:11Speaker 2: three games. He just said, all right, that's what it's
- 36:13Speaker 2: gonna be. We're going to bang in here, and I've
- 36:14Speaker 2: got to go up and get rebounds against grown men. Fine,
- 36:17Speaker 2: I got you. Come on. So now, if you start
- 36:19Speaker 2: to bring him in as a as a secondary big
- 36:22Speaker 2: with Jackson Fields, that really fortifies that front line for
- 36:25Speaker 2: West Virginia.
- 36:25Speaker 1: We often say, no, we don't. I do. I often say,
- 36:28Speaker 1: if you're gonna be good in college sports, guess what
- 36:32Speaker 1: you're good right off the bat. DJ Thomas good right
- 36:36Speaker 1: off the bat for the reasons that you just said.
- 36:39Speaker 1: He had no trepidation whatsoever in his body language or
- 36:43Speaker 1: in his play. He played like a big man that
- 36:47Speaker 1: had been in doing this in a long time. And
- 36:50Speaker 1: he's he's just a baby, right He's the guy that
- 36:52Speaker 1: was six' seven in high school and now has grown
- 36:56Speaker 1: to six.' nine if you take a look, at him
- 36:58Speaker 1: you still you can see that he's gonna have this
- 37:00Speaker 1: like what's he looked like a year. From now just a,
- 37:04Speaker 1: very big strong guy And mentally ross, has said has
- 37:09Speaker 1: an unbelievable understanding of, the game wants to, be coached
- 37:13Speaker 1: and so that is a huge pickup. Right there, you
- 37:17Speaker 1: know like normally freshmen they're gonna get. Limited minutes they
- 37:20Speaker 1: look a little bit uncomfortable. Out There both Thomas And
- 37:25Speaker 1: emir jenkins like zero on the. Fear, scale right just
- 37:29Speaker 1: stick your face right in, the fan and you credit
- 37:33Speaker 1: the coaching staff because that's what they say that, they
- 37:36Speaker 1: want and they're only going to bring in guys that
- 37:38Speaker 1: are going to have. That ATTITUDE so i like it
- 37:40Speaker 1: from that regard that you had no nervousness from, those
- 37:44Speaker 1: guys they just go full in and that oftentimes leads
- 37:48Speaker 1: to very.
- 37:48Speaker 2: Positive careers speaking of, no nervousness let's Talk about jasper for,
- 37:52Speaker 2: a second because a couple things jumped, to Me and
- 37:54Speaker 2: i'll get into some of, his numbers which, Were tremendous
- 37:57Speaker 2: but you know that crowd give a lot of crewd
- 37:59Speaker 2: to the out. Last night they showed up on a
- 38:02Speaker 2: weird six o'clock, start time which is a little, BIT
- 38:05Speaker 2: difficult i realized to get from work wherever you're coming to.
- 38:07Speaker 2: Get there that building filled up, Really. Well tony the students.
- 38:10Speaker 2: Were outstanding that lower level student section packed and loud
- 38:14Speaker 2: early that we'll get into The sweet, caroline bit but
- 38:17Speaker 2: that was as loud.
- 38:18Speaker 1: As. Play oh they.
- 38:19Speaker 2: Brought it they, brought it and they didn't wait till
- 38:21Speaker 2: after the game to. Bring it let's Talk. About jasper
- 38:24Speaker 2: the ONE thing, I, noticed tonny he was walking, towards
- 38:25Speaker 2: us back towards the huddle during a timeout places. Going
- 38:28Speaker 2: Bananas west virginia was on, a run and you talk
- 38:31Speaker 2: about How Would west virginia's guys respond to. That environment
- 38:34Speaker 2: he's walking off, the FLOOR and i mean walking like
- 38:36Speaker 2: he was in. No hurry he was walking and he
- 38:39Speaker 2: had a smirk on his face and he was just given.
- 38:41Speaker 2: That nod there was not a single moment where he.
- 38:44Speaker 2: Was uncomfortable, last night he talked about controlling pace and
- 38:48Speaker 2: controlling that game and doing exactly what he was supposed.
- 38:51Speaker 2: To do That Was jasper floyd.
- 38:52Speaker 1: Last night and that's a great story because from an,
- 38:55Speaker 1: individual note here's a guy that had zero WITH a
- 38:59Speaker 1: z offer out of high school to play college basketball
- 39:03Speaker 1: and basically had to work his way into a. Junior
- 39:06Speaker 1: college he went to two different. Junior colleges then he
- 39:09Speaker 1: Goes to fairfield which Is, in connecticut played there and then,
- 39:14Speaker 1: has success Goes To north texas and then makes the
- 39:17Speaker 1: Jump From north Texas To west Virginia with. Ross's move
- 39:20Speaker 1: so you have a guy that literally started at ground
- 39:25Speaker 1: zero with, no offers and last night he's a tremendous
- 39:29Speaker 1: player on. The floor he gets you, thirteen points, five
- 39:32Speaker 1: boards seven assists in twenty. Nine minutes that's a.
- 39:36Speaker 2: Great story, three steals, Three steals how about this, for
- 39:39Speaker 2: him he Is now jasper top three percent of players
- 39:44Speaker 2: in college basketball in assistory at seven of them. Last
- 39:48Speaker 2: night as, you mentioned he's now two to one assist
- 39:50Speaker 2: to turnover ratio on, the air just exactly what you
- 39:52Speaker 2: want to see out of your. Point guard he's. Been
- 39:54Speaker 2: outstanding so, a great great first backyard brawl for him.
- 39:58Speaker 2: Last night the other impressive thing just on a. Macro
- 40:01Speaker 2: level and we can keep going on some of, these
- 40:03Speaker 2: guys and. We will but how about. Be Though, brennan
- 40:06Speaker 2: laurent coming off a week in the first three games
- 40:08Speaker 2: in which he averaged a double double and Really Carried
- 40:11Speaker 2: west virginia was its, best player gets limited last night
- 40:16Speaker 2: due to some early, foul trouble only played twenty, four
- 40:19Speaker 2: minutes finishes with. Six points and you still take out
- 40:22Speaker 2: pit in the manner in which you did with your
- 40:24Speaker 2: leading scorer only playing twenty. Four minutes and.
- 40:26Speaker 1: Here's another, encouraging sign so, to speak and that is.
- 40:30Speaker 1: Guess What west virginia still has not shot it well
- 40:34Speaker 1: from three. Point range, that's, coming right that. Is coming
- 40:38Speaker 1: last night they go seven of, twenty four that's twenty,
- 40:41Speaker 1: nine percent and they were three of nine from three
- 40:44Speaker 1: in the. Second half i'm just letting you know that
- 40:48Speaker 1: there's gonna be, a time and there will be times
- 40:50Speaker 1: this Season Where west virginia is going to have a
- 40:53Speaker 1: night where they're going to drain threes and that score
- 40:56Speaker 1: is going to go really. Really quick still hasn't, happened
- 40:59Speaker 1: yet and that's the. Good news the good news is
- 41:02Speaker 1: you're four and oh and you still haven't gotten hot,
- 41:04Speaker 1: hot yet and hopefully, that'll come and hopefully that'll come
- 41:09Speaker 1: next Weekend Because west virginia is going to obviously get.
- 41:13Speaker 1: Good competition They've got clemson them Potentially both Xavier, and
- 41:17Speaker 1: georgia so you're gonna get a little bit of a
- 41:20Speaker 1: good idea here.
- 41:20Speaker 2: Coming up let's get into some of these other numbers
- 41:23Speaker 2: from the game that you mentioned the, TURNOVERS already i
- 41:25Speaker 2: said going into the game there were two, main keys well.
- 41:28Speaker 2: Three really one. Was turnovers you had to limit the
- 41:31Speaker 2: number of times you turned it. Over Offensively west virginia
- 41:34Speaker 2: did that, tremendously well just, six turnovers so that was
- 41:38Speaker 2: part of the reason you get. The win the other
- 41:40Speaker 2: thing we were, looking at if you kept pitt off the,
- 41:43Speaker 2: offensive glass you felt like you had a good chance
- 41:45Speaker 2: To win pitt had one offensive rebound in the, First.
- 41:49Speaker 2: Half tony one for a team that wants to crash
- 41:52Speaker 2: and wants to get physical and go get. The ball
- 41:54Speaker 2: they finished the game with zero second. Chance. Points zero we.
- 42:00Speaker 2: TALKED earlier i know some people were concerned after the
- 42:02Speaker 2: small sample size of just, one game heard a lot
- 42:04Speaker 2: about the rebounding and rebounding had to. Get better this.
- 42:07Speaker 2: Team would we knew that it would once it figured
- 42:09Speaker 2: out what it was doing where you needed. To be
- 42:11Speaker 2: that was a game last night where you won that
- 42:13Speaker 2: game on. The glass you just simply would not give.
- 42:16Speaker 2: Them anything zero's second, Chance, Points tony. That's unbelievable that number,
- 42:20Speaker 2: RIGHT there i could stop. Right there that's the one
- 42:23Speaker 2: that jumped out to me. The most the third key
- 42:25Speaker 2: was free, throw line and we talked a lot about this.
- 42:28Speaker 2: Both Ways west virginia had Been top they were twenty
- 42:31Speaker 2: first coming into the game in free throw, attempt rate
- 42:34Speaker 2: meaning how often they get to the free throw line
- 42:36Speaker 2: versus their shot attempts from. The field pitt was very good.
- 42:39Speaker 2: As well they were in the top. Thirty five which
- 42:41Speaker 2: of those would? Win out what would the style of officiating?
- 42:45Speaker 2: Be like that was answered pretty early, this crew for the,
- 42:48Speaker 2: most part outside of a couple, isolated examples let this.
- 42:51Speaker 2: Game go they let. Them play this was as physical
- 42:54Speaker 2: As a big twelve game was going, to Be And
- 42:56Speaker 2: west virginia rose to the challenge more So than. Pitt
- 42:59Speaker 2: did In This west virginia ends up plus twelve points
- 43:03Speaker 2: at the free, throw LINE and i know some of
- 43:05Speaker 2: that was Driven by pitt coming on done with all
- 43:07Speaker 2: the technical fouls they, were Getting But west virginia hung
- 43:10Speaker 2: around free throw line wise and then ultimately made a,
- 43:13Speaker 2: difference there going sixteen of twenty one seventy six percent from.
- 43:17Speaker 2: The line that was Led By honor huff nine of
- 43:20Speaker 2: twelve from the free. Throw line but the other part
- 43:23Speaker 2: might have been. More impressive ross preaches us all the
- 43:25Speaker 2: time defend, without Fouling And west virginia. Did it took
- 43:30Speaker 2: that top thirty five national free throw attempt rate team
- 43:33Speaker 2: In The pitt panthers held them to an eleven percent
- 43:36Speaker 2: free throw attempt rate that might be the lowest that
- 43:38Speaker 2: team gets. All season so just a great, example defend,
- 43:42Speaker 2: be physical, be tough but, don't foul, don't reach and
- 43:45Speaker 2: that paid off in a big Way For.
- 43:47Speaker 1: West virginia pitt attempted just six. Free throws they went four.
- 43:51Speaker 1: Of Six west virginia attempted. Twenty one they were sixteen of.
- 43:55Speaker 1: Twenty one and while that looks like what what in?
- 43:58Speaker 1: The world if that happened on the, other side you
- 44:00Speaker 1: know you'd look at that and. Be screaming but keep
- 44:02Speaker 1: in mind there were, three technicals which means that's, six
- 44:05Speaker 1: shots so that twenty one attempts would actually be. About,
- 44:09Speaker 1: fifteen nevertheless the point Is That west, virginia, stresses stresses stresses,
- 44:15Speaker 1: to guard but. Not foul so when we, say that
- 44:18Speaker 1: what's that? Exactly, mean well the indicator for an official
- 44:22Speaker 1: when it comes to, a foul more so than, anything
- 44:25Speaker 1: else is when a defensive player breaks the plane of
- 44:28Speaker 1: verticality and reaches over like that's the signal for them
- 44:33Speaker 1: when they're starting to. See, this well if you don't do,
- 44:36Speaker 1: that right and you maintain, your verticality but you use
- 44:40Speaker 1: your body. I e your legs and your waist and
- 44:43Speaker 1: that's how, you're guarding that can be really. Really good
- 44:46Speaker 1: And So west virginia at least last night did a
- 44:49Speaker 1: really good job of staying out of that. File trouble
- 44:52Speaker 1: and you HAD a, i mean you Had a final.
- 44:53Speaker 1: Four crew You Had, kip kissinger You Had, roger ayres
- 44:57Speaker 1: and You Had, marquise pettigrew and those are all the
- 45:00Speaker 1: highest level. Of OFFICIALS and i thought they called, it
- 45:04Speaker 1: well to be quite honest, with you because if you
- 45:06Speaker 1: go tiki tech in that game and you start blowing
- 45:09Speaker 1: that whistle on just, incidental contact then it just becomes an.
- 45:13Speaker 1: ABSOLUTE mess a total number of files called in the
- 45:16Speaker 1: game was twenty, six files including the. Technical FILES so
- 45:23Speaker 1: i thought it. Was good this was a. League game
- 45:25Speaker 1: it was like a.
- 45:25Speaker 2: League game let's talk turnovers again for. Another Second west virginia.
- 45:28Speaker 2: Came in the stat jumped out to ME as i
- 45:30Speaker 2: was doing my. Pregame Prep west virginia was eighty fifth
- 45:33Speaker 2: percentile in the frequency of getting live. Ball turnovers so you, figure,
- 45:38Speaker 2: That Right ross hodge defensive team going to create live
- 45:41Speaker 2: ball turnovers eighty fifth percentile, coming in but just thirtieth
- 45:44Speaker 2: percentile when it came to points per possession off. Those
- 45:48Speaker 2: turnovers so you were, getting them but weren't converting at
- 45:51Speaker 2: a rate that was equal to the frequency in which
- 45:55Speaker 2: you were. Getting them when that you just kept watching
- 45:58Speaker 2: that number because when that flips was going to be
- 46:00Speaker 2: a Game When west virginia was going to be hard.
- 46:02Speaker 2: To beat that came. Last Night. On Thursday west virginia
- 46:05Speaker 2: averaged nearly two points per possession off of live. Ball
- 46:10Speaker 2: turnovers so they got them and then they converted at the.
- 46:13Speaker 2: Other end that includes three of four from three coming
- 46:16Speaker 2: off a live. Ball turnover so you talk about something,
- 46:19Speaker 2: that's devastating and that's what coaches say all. The time
- 46:21Speaker 2: the one thing they worry about is not just turnovers
- 46:24Speaker 2: in and, of itself it's the live ball variety when
- 46:26Speaker 2: the other team gets. A Runout west virginia absolutely made
- 46:29Speaker 2: pit pay in that category. LAST night a couple other
- 46:33Speaker 2: notes JUST stats i thought you'd find interesting heading into.
- 46:37Speaker 2: THE game i Didn't think pitt would do a great
- 46:40Speaker 2: job and want To Guard west virginia for as long
- 46:43Speaker 2: as it would. Have to in each, shot clock you
- 46:45Speaker 2: could Just tell pitt was a team that wanted to
- 46:47Speaker 2: get out. And go they wanted the ball back in
- 46:49Speaker 2: their hands and they wanted to go the. Other way
- 46:50Speaker 2: that's a tough mindset when You're Playing west virginia because
- 46:53Speaker 2: you're going to grind that thing down and when it
- 46:55Speaker 2: gets to the final five seconds of, the clock people
- 46:58Speaker 2: start to. Get antsy you know who Does not Nobody
- 47:00Speaker 2: On west, virginia's Team Including. Jasper floyd, he's, like okay now.
- 47:03Speaker 2: There's five now we'll go to. Work Here west virginia
- 47:05Speaker 2: was really good in that area and it led to some.
- 47:08Speaker 2: Open shots that's the reason you do that is defense
- 47:11Speaker 2: will start to break down after all of that, time
- 47:13Speaker 2: guarding especially cumulatively over. The Game west virginia had seventeen
- 47:17Speaker 2: catch and shoot jumpers. Last night nine of those. Were
- 47:22Speaker 2: unguarded that's a season high. So far so that defense
- 47:25Speaker 2: started to break and the rotations didn't stay sound season
- 47:29Speaker 2: high and on guarded. Jump shots catch and shoots scored
- 47:32Speaker 2: twelve points off, of those also a. Season high so
- 47:35Speaker 2: that was a. Key factor wore. Them down they didn't
- 47:39Speaker 2: want to guard you for that, entire time led you
- 47:41Speaker 2: to some open. Shots inside we talked About That west
- 47:45Speaker 2: virginia's advantage over its first. Three opponents it was clear
- 47:48Speaker 2: last night the size and athleticism a pit was something
- 47:52Speaker 2: that was. A concern how would they Match Against west.
- 47:54Speaker 2: Virginia's biggs, Same Result west virginia was outstanding second most
- 47:58Speaker 2: points all season off. Of leftyps you had twenty six
- 48:01Speaker 2: and twenty four points in the first two game at.
- 48:04Speaker 2: The rim you had twenty four, versus pit so right
- 48:07Speaker 2: in line with what you've done. All season you. Dominated
- 48:10Speaker 2: inside couple other last notes and then we'll. Move on out,
- 48:14Speaker 2: Of Timeouts west virginia's been. Pretty good if you, Watch
- 48:18Speaker 2: eight ross can dial it up when he gets into.
- 48:20Speaker 2: A timeout, coming out you've generally got some pretty. Good
- 48:22Speaker 2: Shots west virginia fourteen points out of timeouts Yesterday against
- 48:26Speaker 2: pitt not a, season high but right in line with
- 48:29Speaker 2: your season highs. This year been very good coming out.
- 48:31Speaker 2: Of that the best spot on the Floor For west
- 48:34Speaker 2: virginia last night five of eleven from the top of the.
- 48:37Speaker 2: Key three that's forty six percent from. That location, it
- 48:41Speaker 2: also this is good when this match is twenty Percent
- 48:43Speaker 2: Of west virginia's shots the most of any spot on
- 48:46Speaker 2: the floor came from the top of the. Three key
- 48:48Speaker 2: so if your most frequent spot matches with it's your
- 48:51Speaker 2: best spot in terms of field, goal percentage that's probably
- 48:54Speaker 2: going to. End well it did.
- 48:55Speaker 1: Last, night also the start to the second half was absolutely.
- 48:59Speaker 1: Key Right west virginia has had some. Issues there both
- 49:02Speaker 1: go to the, exhibition game, Last Night west virginia is
- 49:06Speaker 1: up nine points at. The break they, come out run
- 49:09Speaker 1: a great play and get an open layup For, o
- 49:12Speaker 1: bioha and then the flurry. Took over pitt uses a
- 49:16Speaker 1: couple of timeouts very early to try to stop, the
- 49:18Speaker 1: bleeding but it's. Too late you take a look at
- 49:22Speaker 1: the total control in. This Game west virginia had the
- 49:25Speaker 1: lead for thirty one minutes and, Ten seconds pitt had
- 49:27Speaker 1: it for eight. To fifteen the game was tied for just,
- 49:31Speaker 1: thirteen seconds and there were four. Lead changes think. About
- 49:34Speaker 1: This west virginia ends up winning by. Twenty two could have.
- 49:37Speaker 1: Been worse mountaineers did not score in the last four
- 49:40Speaker 1: minutes and forty, three seconds so almost a quarter of
- 49:44Speaker 1: the second half they. Didn't score they ended the game
- 49:46Speaker 1: missing their last four shots and six of their, last
- 49:48Speaker 1: seven and still win seventy one to.
- 49:52Speaker 2: Forty nine couple other things. TO point i thought from a,
- 49:55Speaker 2: confident standpoint there was a moment in the game about
- 49:59Speaker 2: eleven minutes, To go pit closed. To ten they made.
- 50:02Speaker 2: Their run you knew you were gonna get a run Out.
- 50:04Speaker 2: Of pit they made It After west virginia jumped. On
- 50:06Speaker 2: top as you. Just outlined pitt closed that thing to
- 50:09Speaker 2: ten with about eleven minutes, to go and we commented, On,
- 50:12Speaker 2: air okay here's. The ballgame what happens do they continue
- 50:15Speaker 2: to push in now you're in a, street fight Or
- 50:18Speaker 2: Does west virginia bow up? And, respond well the latter
- 50:21Speaker 2: happened in. That game by the time he got to
- 50:23Speaker 2: the six thirty four mark on, The Clock west virginia
- 50:26Speaker 2: had balloon that lead back. To SEVENTEEN and i think
- 50:29Speaker 2: that was the Moment when, pitt said, all right. We're
- 50:31Speaker 2: Done west virginia answered, that call stood right back up
- 50:35Speaker 2: and pushed through and got. That win one last Note
- 50:38Speaker 2: because i'm gonna talk about this, all YEAR because i
- 50:39Speaker 2: think it's important To Mention west virginia because of the
- 50:42Speaker 2: pace at which, it plays its scoring average will be
- 50:46Speaker 2: near the bottom Of the big twelve. And nationally so
- 50:48Speaker 2: don't freak out when You See west virginia's fourteenth in
- 50:51Speaker 2: this league in points. Per game that doesn't matter for
- 50:54Speaker 2: this because the defensive points per game is going to.
- 50:56Speaker 2: Balance it So what ross, looks at and what you
- 50:59Speaker 2: want to look at here is how efficient are they?
- 51:01Speaker 2: Being offensively so points per game don't necessarily matter but
- 51:04Speaker 2: are you being efficient while playing, that style because if,
- 51:07Speaker 2: you are that's what leads. To Wins west virginia last
- 51:10Speaker 2: night one point one points per possession in. That, GAME
- 51:13Speaker 2: again i say this all. The time last year's national
- 51:16Speaker 2: leader was one point one at the end of, The
- 51:18Speaker 2: season so that was a top of the nation type
- 51:20Speaker 2: of offensive efficiency Performance From. West, virginia conversely you held
- 51:25Speaker 2: pit on the game and this. STEADILY dropped i was
- 51:28Speaker 2: watching it each, media timeout steadily dropped throughout. The game
- 51:31Speaker 2: started at one point four points, per possession which is,
- 51:34Speaker 2: blistering hot and plummeted all the way to point eight
- 51:38Speaker 2: zero by the end of. The, game again that would
- 51:40Speaker 2: be near the bottom of the. National rankings so one
- 51:43Speaker 2: of those stats that backs up what your. Eyes saw but,
- 51:45Speaker 2: efficiency wise both offensively, and defensively just a Plus From.
- 51:49Speaker 1: West virginia, all right summary from. The game we oftentimes
- 51:52Speaker 1: use this when things don't go Well For. West virginia
- 51:56Speaker 1: it's never as good as. It looks it's never as
- 51:59Speaker 1: bad as, it looks because it's somewhere in. The MIDDLE
- 52:01Speaker 1: and i think you could say the same thing about.
- 52:03Speaker 1: This Performance west virginia is not going to play with
- 52:07Speaker 1: that level of efficiency the rest of the. Way through
- 52:09Speaker 1: but you saw that they have the ability to put.
- 52:13Speaker 1: It together and now you still have a ton of work.
- 52:16Speaker 1: To accomplish but the nice thing is you've got. Positive
- 52:21Speaker 1: momentum you've got a. Good vibe guys are. Buying in everyone's.
- 52:25Speaker 1: Buying in and now you're going to get two more
- 52:27Speaker 1: players coming back with. The team you'll have your. Full
- 52:30Speaker 1: roster so just, moving onward, moving on.
- 52:34Speaker 2: AND again i, KEEP saying i set it all falling.
- 52:36Speaker 2: All somebody you've got some good shooters on, this team
- 52:39Speaker 2: and you just haven't seen those games where they get blistering.
- 52:42Speaker 2: High yet Tracey and eaglestaff's going to. SCORE guys i
- 52:44Speaker 2: mean that's coming as soon as he gets comfortable in
- 52:47Speaker 2: what this offense is asking him. To do trason's Gonna
- 52:50Speaker 2: shoot honors averaging almost three threes. Per game in every,
- 52:54Speaker 2: other situation we would, be going are You seeing honor
- 52:56Speaker 2: if it's three threes? Per, game instead, you're, Like well
- 52:58Speaker 2: honor hasn't even got. HOT yet, i mean my man
- 53:01Speaker 2: can turn it in. A hurry as, you've seen. That's
- 53:03Speaker 2: coming and then, you're right you're gonna add some more
- 53:05Speaker 2: guys back. In there so this is still a work.
- 53:07Speaker 2: In progress there's a lot still, to go but there's
- 53:10Speaker 2: a lot of runway for this team to get better
- 53:12Speaker 2: as well as it's been.
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- 55:49Speaker 1: clemson friday and then we'll play Again. On sunday we've
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- 56:21Speaker 1: FAIR okay i think Here's the dealio though you, uh
- 56:25Speaker 1: yeah it's going to be, sold out but There are
- 56:28Speaker 1: there were like two hundred and. Fifty tickets now there's
- 56:31Speaker 1: about thirty about, thirty left so we encourage, You, To,
- 56:37Speaker 1: hey jake if you would put that graphic, Up again
- 56:41Speaker 1: so if you go To The Low Country alumni, chapters
- 56:44Speaker 1: website you can buy them there and it's only, ten
- 56:50Speaker 1: dollars so it's ten bucks to. Get there and then
- 56:52Speaker 1: they're going to have these, food specials the all you can,
- 56:54Speaker 1: eat Oysters which i'm kind of looking forward to, right
- 56:57Speaker 1: now like more than a week away already, going, like
- 57:00Speaker 1: yeah so Over At Lawrence's, seafood company we'd love to.
- 57:03Speaker 1: Have you we're gonna go noon. Until three we've, Got
- 57:06Speaker 1: music we've. Got games hoppy will. Be there we'll have
- 57:10Speaker 1: all three guys PLUS some wvu folks that we WILL
- 57:15Speaker 1: do q and. A's with, we'll interview might have a
- 57:17Speaker 1: game or Two like Catch, THE oyster i, don't know
- 57:21Speaker 1: do something. Like that great to be there At.
- 57:23Speaker 2: Fish world be. A, blast yeah look forward to.
- 57:25Speaker 1: Seeing you.
- 57:25Speaker 2: So what just a few, tickets left but some, still available.
- 57:28Speaker 1: Some still available in twenty ten bucks and it goes
- 57:30Speaker 1: to Supports The Low Country. Alumni chapter by, the WAY
- 57:34Speaker 1: as i, FIRST did i was the first guy that
- 57:36Speaker 1: broke that we were going to do this event on.
- 57:38Speaker 1: This program i'm gonna go ahead here The. Other, Charleston
- 57:42Speaker 1: yeah i've been talking about. This, too yes we're going
- 57:45Speaker 1: to Be, In Charleston west virginia on the first Weekend.
- 57:48Speaker 1: Of December west Virginia's Playing wake forest Inside The Charleston Coliseum.
- 57:55Speaker 1: Civic center whatever they call, it now and what do they?
- 57:58Speaker 2: CALL it i Think It's. Charleston, coliseum, yeah WHATEVER because
- 58:01Speaker 2: i was get in TROUBLE when i Call It.
- 58:02Speaker 1: Civic, center yeah the building across from the. Old, mall
- 58:06Speaker 1: anyway Uh So West Virginia. Wake forest we're going to
- 58:09Speaker 1: be there the Night before, DECEMBER five, i believe right
- 58:12Speaker 1: is the is the? Game? Day, no, oh Okay so,
- 58:15Speaker 1: December Okay so, December, five friday three guys is Going
- 58:20Speaker 1: to we're going to do. An, Event okay we're going
- 58:23Speaker 1: to do, an event.
- 58:24Speaker 2: And you stop there because that's really all the details
- 58:25Speaker 2: that are.
- 58:26Speaker 1: In place we're going to do. AN event i want
- 58:27Speaker 1: to invite you to. Join us all three of us will.
- 58:30Speaker 1: Be there now here's a little something. For you i'm
- 58:33Speaker 1: just kind of thinking. Out loud that week is national
- 58:37Speaker 1: signing date. In football two, days Earlier, on wednesday football
- 58:42Speaker 1: class will. Be signed it's going to be a. Big
- 58:45Speaker 1: Day so i'm kind of thinking outside the box a, little,
- 58:47Speaker 1: bit right people want to know who the recruits are.
- 58:51Speaker 1: Football wise It's a friday night before the, basketball, Game
- 58:54Speaker 1: right i'm, just saying be kind of nice if the
- 58:58Speaker 1: head football coach down there In The, capital city maybe
- 59:01Speaker 1: talks about that recruiting class with us On The Little
- 59:03Speaker 1: Three Guys. Live show.
- 59:04Speaker 2: Be awesome we'd love To. Have rich that's that's. Not
- 59:07Speaker 2: well i'm gonna reach a. NICE thought, i mean you
- 59:10Speaker 2: can go ahead and.
- 59:10Speaker 1: ASK him I think i'm wonta reach out. HE'S available
- 59:13Speaker 1: i want To think i'm gonna reach out to the
- 59:14Speaker 1: coach over there at the college, AND see i see
- 59:17Speaker 1: if he'll come down and maybe talk a little bit
- 59:19Speaker 1: about the, recruiting CLASS because i think people kind of
- 59:21Speaker 1: like to know who The. Future mountaineers would, Be wonderful
- 59:24Speaker 1: so that could be a little basketball. Football, combo sure
- 59:27Speaker 1: we'll talk About The wake, forest game talk.
- 59:28Speaker 2: About we don't Know if rich is going to be.
- 59:30Speaker 2: There yet that's simply something you'd like to. HAVE happened
- 59:32Speaker 2: i feel like To see rich.
- 59:34Speaker 1: JOIN us i feel good. About it you don't KNOW
- 59:36Speaker 1: that i feel good. About it Just remember i'm the
- 59:38Speaker 1: guy that first reported we were going to do a
- 59:40Speaker 1: live event At Fish. World lawrence's it's not Called, Fish.
- 59:44Speaker 1: World boy Lawrence's, In Charleston. South Carolina So oliver, straw's
- 59:53Speaker 1: people by, the way. Came through remember in the, last
- 59:57Speaker 1: episode we showed you, his uh his pseudo uncles that
- 1:00:02Speaker 1: were at, the game Both In English. Military guard they're
- 1:00:06Speaker 1: In the. English military they Had The English. Military guard they.
- 1:00:09Speaker 1: Left us there's had these are called. Bowler hats.
- 1:00:11Speaker 2: Bowler hats they wore. THOSE two.
- 1:00:16Speaker 1: I tell, YOU what i do? Like it you think
- 1:00:17Speaker 1: it looks. Pretty good it looks, pretty, good right.
- 1:00:20Speaker 2: Pull it down a little bit in. The front it
- 1:00:22Speaker 2: won't be a little bit in. The front you don't
- 1:00:23Speaker 2: want to tick. Back, there yeah so wear that Out To. Arizona,
- 1:00:29Speaker 2: State yeah i'll.
- 1:00:30Speaker 1: Put that ON if i could just get that on with.
- 1:00:32Speaker 1: My headphones so these dudes were really. They were they.
- 1:00:36Speaker 1: WERE fun i think their, spies too because they had
- 1:00:38Speaker 1: that military. STUFF on i think they were they were
- 1:00:41Speaker 1: Counterspies with oliver's dad who's. A spy and they Left
- 1:00:46Speaker 1: the one gentleman has, a, front right, you know these
- 1:00:50Speaker 1: guys always have fronts where they don't really they. Have
- 1:00:52Speaker 1: it they have a business in front of things like there.
- 1:00:54Speaker 1: So people, so anyway he owns a Pub. In grantham
- 1:01:00Speaker 1: It's Called nobody in It's The Executive. Drinkers club and
- 1:01:04Speaker 1: he gave me a gave me a card for The
- 1:01:07Speaker 1: Executive drinkers club. Draft only it's Good through april of,
- 1:01:11Speaker 1: twenty SIX so i got to get. Out There but
- 1:01:14Speaker 1: i'm In like i'm going to their. Pub sometime and
- 1:01:18Speaker 1: he brought us a bunch of. Other stuff We got.
- 1:01:19Speaker 1: Turkish coffee finally. Got that we have. Kangaroo jerky i'll
- 1:01:24Speaker 1: give That. To brad and they stole some chocolate off.
- 1:01:28Speaker 1: The airplane thank you For. FLYING swiss i mean.
- 1:01:30Speaker 2: They, missed no it DIDN'T bring i took him out of.
- 1:01:32Speaker 2: THE bag i didn't even give you a chance to.
- 1:01:33Speaker 2: Get him get him to. My girls the Had some
- 1:01:35Speaker 2: koala chocolate caramel Treats, from australia reported back that they.
- 1:01:40Speaker 1: Were, excellent yea not.
- 1:01:42Speaker 2: A surprise thank you To.
- 1:01:43Speaker 1: The. STRAWS texter i made the Trip From fayette County
- 1:01:46Speaker 1: to morgantown, this evening so that's last night to watch
- 1:01:49Speaker 1: the one hundred and ninety. Second brawl along, the way
- 1:01:52Speaker 1: we made a stop At the Gomart. In flatwoods the
- 1:01:55Speaker 1: one on the right to Please Played Marty's non traditional
- 1:02:01Speaker 1: went to The right yeah To Play Marty's mary spin
- 1:02:04Speaker 1: and grab some snacks for. The road i'm beyond Proud
- 1:02:07Speaker 1: Of coach hodge and the boys for the performance they
- 1:02:10Speaker 1: put together in the. Coliseum tonight it was truly a
- 1:02:13Speaker 1: great night to Be a mountaineer wherever you. May be
- 1:02:16Speaker 1: Listening To coach hodge during, the week clear he understood
- 1:02:19Speaker 1: how Much beating pitt means To the. Mountaineer faithful, in
- 1:02:22Speaker 1: fact dating back to his first Day in morgantown when
- 1:02:25Speaker 1: he took in the baseball, Backyard Brawl coach hodge has
- 1:02:28Speaker 1: been inundated With the mountaineer's Hatred. For pitt incredible scene
- 1:02:31Speaker 1: to see Him Sing country roads with the. Student section
- 1:02:34Speaker 1: now let's see the women's team Knock, off duke the
- 1:02:37Speaker 1: women's soccer team advance In the NCAA's and the football
- 1:02:40Speaker 1: team get a WIN over asu to cap off. The
- 1:02:42Speaker 1: week following a few, difficult years it's nice TO see
- 1:02:46Speaker 1: wv sports trending in the. RIGHT direction i can't wait
- 1:02:48Speaker 1: to see what the future holds. In Store Signed west
- 1:02:52Speaker 1: West From. Tailgate central so he went in There That
- 1:02:56Speaker 1: marty spins. Getting, popular yeah well. It should you could put,
- 1:03:00Speaker 1: That up so go Into a gomart. Right now they've
- 1:03:03Speaker 1: got The Play. Marty spin they're going to do this
- 1:03:06Speaker 1: through the month to almost to the End. Of december
- 1:03:09Speaker 1: you go, in there you get, your app you HIT
- 1:03:11Speaker 1: that qr code and then you spin, awesome prizes like really.
- 1:03:16Speaker 1: Good stuff all you have to do is go to
- 1:03:18Speaker 1: People like spin and Look at marty on that, graphic
- 1:03:20Speaker 1: there he's upside down in just. Absolute Elation So. Marty's spin.
- 1:03:25Speaker 1: Don't forget we're Recording early Friday morning Saturdays At Gomart's Triple.
- 1:03:30Speaker 1: Rewards points kind. Of nice by, The way, I'M right.
- 1:03:32Speaker 1: I am i have nailed. It now you're got just
- 1:03:35Speaker 1: enough of gas to get me. Through today i'll Roll in,
- 1:03:37Speaker 1: saturday morning keep the streak Alive At. Triple points did
- 1:03:40Speaker 1: You see Phil? From, gomart yeah we talked. To, him,
- 1:03:42Speaker 1: yeah yeah you sawn there. Last night they got a
- 1:03:45Speaker 1: brand new store opening Up. In beckley when's? That opening it? Pretty,
- 1:03:47Speaker 1: soon soon, really close, brand new brand New Hild. Roley, County, Yeah.
- 1:03:54Speaker 2: Beckley, BECKLEY yeah i got to make a visit.
- 1:03:56Speaker 1: Down, there yeah You think marty will probably.
- 1:03:58Speaker 2: Be there it's just one, store though it's not too
- 1:04:00Speaker 2: Like the world headquarters.
- 1:04:01Speaker 1: And flatlets this is just the one solo. Shot text,
- 1:04:04Speaker 1: he says he'll have those big kegs of water. In, there,
- 1:04:07Speaker 1: oh yeah you know it's a. Big, giant oh nowadays
- 1:04:10Speaker 1: they got Them all.
- 1:04:10Speaker 2: Connection three, oh four probably in.
- 1:04:12Speaker 1: The cooler surely will The giant Reechie, comes yep begs a.
- 1:04:16Speaker 1: Manhole cover My son WADE and i made the Trip
- 1:04:19Speaker 1: up friday for the, football game which turned into a
- 1:04:22Speaker 1: full weekend of Basketball. On sunday the excitement on his
- 1:04:25Speaker 1: face in this picture shows that we've got a young
- 1:04:28Speaker 1: mountaineer die hard grinning from ear. To ear if you
- 1:04:31Speaker 1: can tell look, At, this barrat appreciate you For getting
- 1:04:34Speaker 1: jaden's attention To sign. Wyatt's ball he was too shy
- 1:04:37Speaker 1: to ask. For, himself also thanks guys for taking time
- 1:04:40Speaker 1: to talk to him sign. His ball tony keeps asking
- 1:04:43Speaker 1: me his. Little boy EVERY time i see his. LITTLE kid, i,
- 1:04:46Speaker 1: say hey the kid comes up to me all, the
- 1:04:49Speaker 1: TIME and I say, he says do you? Remember ME
- 1:04:52Speaker 1: and i say, to, him yeah we'll we in. Jail
- 1:04:54Speaker 1: together and he keeps asking Me when tony went. To
- 1:04:58Speaker 1: jail saturday's hard edge on Full, display sunday relentless eff for.
- 1:05:04Speaker 1: Both sides lets say for Here goes Joey And. Princeton, texter,
- 1:05:08Speaker 1: oh heays good To See. Jillian, latt YEAH every wvu
- 1:05:11Speaker 1: fan after the last two games thinking about. A, bowl
- 1:05:16Speaker 1: yeah so you're telling me there is. A. Chance Yeah
- 1:05:20Speaker 1: west virginia would have to Beat Both arizona state And
- 1:05:24Speaker 1: The red Raiders Of. Texas tech but that would give.
- 1:05:27Speaker 1: You six that'd give, You. SIX texter i have six
- 1:05:33Speaker 1: friends That Are colorado, buffalo fans two Now In, north
- 1:05:36Speaker 1: carolina Two. And cincinnata two Still. In boulder the group
- 1:05:40Speaker 1: arranged the game tickets and hotel rooms. Invited ME so
- 1:05:43Speaker 1: i introduced them To The wonder Bar. In clarksburg you've been,
- 1:05:46Speaker 1: down there. Very good they Entered The wonder bar fully
- 1:05:50Speaker 1: dressed In their. COLORADO gear a patron at the bar
- 1:05:53Speaker 1: spots them buys them all. A drink i later found
- 1:05:57Speaker 1: out it was none Other Than david alvarez purchasing. The,
- 1:06:00Speaker 1: drinks Now, that's david the one that lives Here In.
- 1:06:03Speaker 1: Harrison county not the referee From The, Big Twelve. David
- 1:06:06Speaker 1: elvaez It's not david last night for, the game. The,
- 1:06:08Speaker 1: referee no, oh no this the. Real, one yes this
- 1:06:13Speaker 1: now That The, Wonder bar now That The wonder bar
- 1:06:16Speaker 1: is their most favorite restaurant in all of the world
- 1:06:19Speaker 1: because they got free drinks and started tipping the waitress
- 1:06:21Speaker 1: in two dollars bills every time she came by the
- 1:06:25Speaker 1: table during. The meal being the, curious GUY am, i
- 1:06:27Speaker 1: say what's up with the two? Dollar bills they tell
- 1:06:29Speaker 1: me so people. Will remember then then they give a two.
- 1:06:33Speaker 1: Dollars bill later they found out giving me a two
- 1:06:36Speaker 1: dollar bill was. A mistake Why Because west virginia blocked
- 1:06:39Speaker 1: the buffs punt and registered two points on. THE scoreboard
- 1:06:43Speaker 1: i remember the two dollar bill in. MY pocket i
- 1:06:45Speaker 1: pulled out the two dollar bill and waved it in
- 1:06:47Speaker 1: their faces to the dismay Of my, buffalo fans and
- 1:06:51Speaker 1: ALL the wv fans had a. BIG. LAUGH. W e
- 1:06:55Speaker 1: heasley class of. Seventy nine there was that two dollars bill.
- 1:06:59Speaker 1: Right there pretty. Good idea you don't see a lot. Of,
- 1:07:02Speaker 1: those nah you, don't na you, Don't. Uh texter it
- 1:07:08Speaker 1: may have been your reference in Your pig auction Episode
- 1:07:11Speaker 1: to Arnold the pig that caused me to realize when
- 1:07:13Speaker 1: your opening song is played at one point two, five
- 1:07:17Speaker 1: speed parts of it sound suspiciously similar to the opening
- 1:07:20Speaker 1: of the theme Song From. Green acres didn't know that
- 1:07:25Speaker 1: You Remember, green acres don't you you? DON'T remember i
- 1:07:28Speaker 1: know what. It is but one of the, Door Sisters Eddie,
- 1:07:31Speaker 1: albert arnold The pig arnold Used to arnold used to
- 1:07:34Speaker 1: sit in front of that Dog on he sit on
- 1:07:36Speaker 1: a chair and JUST watch tv all day at dog.
- 1:07:39Speaker 1: One pig he had. It, made yeah you ever heard
- 1:07:41Speaker 1: that theme Song, Green acres place, To Be, Green acres life,
- 1:07:44Speaker 1: from me Green, ache huh take your word. For it
- 1:07:49Speaker 1: this texter ALSO says I Miss hobby hobby's obvious observations
- 1:07:52Speaker 1: that We miss, hoppy too like a Canker sore Devin. And,
- 1:07:57Speaker 1: goshen hey, TWO guys i got. An observation the world
- 1:07:59Speaker 1: Champ In West virginia mountaineer footballers are two in Oh
- 1:08:02Speaker 1: since hoppy's been gone. Causation correlation if They lose saturday
- 1:08:07Speaker 1: With the hopper, and attendance then we'll have OUR answer
- 1:08:09Speaker 1: a Solid. Point Texter after rich And our mountaineers returned
- 1:08:15Speaker 1: from the desert with the, Upset win i've got a
- 1:08:17Speaker 1: wish and a question For The Texas tech game Twenty.
- 1:08:19Speaker 1: Nine november wish a nor'easter snowstorm and touchdown city and
- 1:08:24Speaker 1: questioned Odds on rich channeling His Inner dana holgerson BY
- 1:08:29Speaker 1: Inserting Jv taevan austin also known As, cam vaughn as
- 1:08:35Speaker 1: talback midway through the. First quarter, Thank, You Kevin, Charles Hey.
- 1:08:40Speaker 1: Tony Brad It's carson fox currently texting You, From, sedona
- 1:08:44Speaker 1: arizona with my younger brother Being In arizona. State grad
- 1:08:49Speaker 1: whenever they Joined The, big twelve my family said we're
- 1:08:51Speaker 1: going to go to the game whenever it's Played. In
- 1:08:53Speaker 1: tempe so this trip has literally been years in. The
- 1:08:56Speaker 1: making here's, my wife my one year old daughter and
- 1:08:59Speaker 1: me and in front of The famous chapel Of The.
- 1:09:02Speaker 1: HOLY cross i know we Fans Call west virginia almost
- 1:09:05Speaker 1: having let me, Tell you god was having fun the
- 1:09:07Speaker 1: day He made, sedona anyway hoping To find hoppy pregame to,
- 1:09:10Speaker 1: Say hello we'll try to bring home A w carson
- 1:09:13Speaker 1: is one of the. Great ONES yeah. I is that's a.
- 1:09:15Speaker 1: Great shot yeah that's. Pretty good. Pretty nice Tom And
- 1:09:19Speaker 1: wetzel County of European country roads. FOLLOW up i Think
- 1:09:22Speaker 1: country roads is more Popular in europe than In The.
- 1:09:25Speaker 1: UNITED states i Was in malta several, years ago and
- 1:09:29Speaker 1: every band in every night Club in Bar Used country
- 1:09:31Speaker 1: roads as their last song or encore one. Hundred percent
- 1:09:35Speaker 1: MOST people i met loved, the song but knew nothing about.
- 1:09:37Speaker 1: Our state curious how it. All started thank you for,
- 1:09:40Speaker 1: the podcast brings joy to your fans here On The ohio.
- 1:09:43Speaker 1: River again that's someone needs to do. A documentary i
- 1:09:47Speaker 1: don't have, the time but someone needs to do a
- 1:09:50Speaker 1: documentary On Why country roads became a. GLOBAL hit, i
- 1:09:55Speaker 1: mean You Take country Roads And happy BIRTHDAY and i
- 1:09:57Speaker 1: think they're running one two. Probably Fair, uh texter this Is.
- 1:10:03Speaker 1: For tony here it comes. A heater not only Was
- 1:10:06Speaker 1: The backyard brawl a, great Game but tony's pronunciation of
- 1:10:09Speaker 1: each player's name. Was fascinating how do you do that during?
- 1:10:12Speaker 1: A game, It's. Amazing tony if YOU could i have
- 1:10:13Speaker 1: a doctor's appointment, next week and when the doctor asked
- 1:10:16Speaker 1: What prescriptions, I'M taking i would love for you to
- 1:10:19Speaker 1: be there and give him. My list i'd love to hear.
- 1:10:21Speaker 1: You say and first Up From, myland pharmaceuticals it's twenty milligrams.
- 1:10:26Speaker 1: Of Listen Pri if pitt had, some Names Pop amadu, conte,
- 1:10:33Speaker 1: RIGHT yeah i yeah names The game the game going
- 1:10:38Speaker 1: international has Certainly, changed. ROSTERS right i mean you back
- 1:10:46Speaker 1: in the, old days, you know The Great west, virginia
- 1:10:50Speaker 1: teams you Had Like Bobby, Joe Smith jerry, West Right
- 1:10:55Speaker 1: willie akers like those are pretty. EASY names i mean
- 1:10:59Speaker 1: now you got last Night. From pitt you had A.
- 1:11:04Speaker 1: See elepra you Had, a papa a'ma. Do conte you
- 1:11:09Speaker 1: had a noius, and resitis which sounds like.
- 1:11:11Speaker 2: An, Infection, yeah papa i'maa. Do conte was that was fun.
- 1:11:14Speaker 2: TO say i like.
- 1:11:15Speaker 1: That, One yeah i'm gonna do conte rolls nicely as
- 1:11:17Speaker 1: it Rolls nicely Stephen. AND eleanor i don't want to
- 1:11:21Speaker 1: Pile on brad's research tools when. They're down what he
- 1:11:24Speaker 1: said Before, Last Saturday west virginia had not blocked a
- 1:11:27Speaker 1: punt since twenty fourteen off, THE dome I thought I.
- 1:11:30Speaker 1: Remembered cj donaldson blocking One at pitt in TWENTY two
- 1:11:33Speaker 1: us block and ONE Against nc state in nineteen and
- 1:11:37Speaker 1: blocking another and Scoring Against oak state seventeen in a
- 1:11:40Speaker 1: Monsoon at mylon PUSHGAR am, I right.
- 1:11:42Speaker 2: I think he? Is RIGHT so i looked, Into right
- 1:11:45Speaker 2: so what was twenty was the last time? That happened
- 1:11:47Speaker 2: in Twenty fourteen i'm sure it's going to be cool
- 1:11:50Speaker 2: to Say where i've, Got that but that's it was in. The,
- 1:11:52Speaker 2: notes yeah, that's right.
- 1:11:53Speaker 1: They released it in. The, notes yeah that. Postgame notes
- 1:11:55Speaker 1: so that was the. First block, but so what was.
- 1:11:57Speaker 2: The first time he'd scored off a? BLOCK punt, i
- 1:12:00Speaker 2: misspeak but he's saying there was One Against oklahomas state in.
- 1:12:03Speaker 2: TWENTY seventeen i looked.
- 1:12:05Speaker 1: It up.
- 1:12:05Speaker 2: There wasn't so it was the first time you'd scored
- 1:12:07Speaker 2: off a, block punt is what. IT was i just omitted.
- 1:12:09Speaker 1: That, PART yes i think that's what, It, WAS steve
- 1:12:13Speaker 1: i think it was scored. Off One now CJ's was
- 1:12:15Speaker 1: on the ROAD and i looked. UP oaks i looked
- 1:12:19Speaker 1: up blocks In Seventeen oklahoma state and did not show
- 1:12:22Speaker 1: that there was.
- 1:12:22Speaker 2: Any blocks maybe that's what, it was blocked where he
- 1:12:24Speaker 2: scored Points Off.
- 1:12:27Speaker 1: Texter tony in the HISTORY, of wvu no article of
- 1:12:33Speaker 1: clothing has caused more Discussion And bob huggins's infamous. Gold
- 1:12:39Speaker 1: suit so we have, to know did Fine looking phil
- 1:12:43Speaker 1: hook you up with just a gold sport coat or
- 1:12:46Speaker 1: did he go full gold suit? For you sure hoping
- 1:12:49Speaker 1: that it's a full suit love The pod Dug. And,
- 1:12:52Speaker 1: winfield no it's just. A blazer it's a. Nice one
- 1:12:56Speaker 1: it is a.
- 1:12:56Speaker 2: NICE one i know you get a little antsy about,
- 1:12:59Speaker 2: wearing THAT but i think that's a great look On.
- 1:13:01Speaker 1: Gold, rush, YEAH no i only use it For. Gold
- 1:13:03Speaker 1: rush it's perfect. For, THAT no i don't.
- 1:13:05Speaker 2: Have that you didn't go the pants?
- 1:13:06Speaker 1: WITH it. I couldn't i DON'T think i could pull.
- 1:13:08Speaker 1: THAT off i DON'T think i could pull off the pants.
- 1:13:10Speaker 1: Play perfect why would you think that's a? Nice what
- 1:13:13Speaker 1: what would you think you'd Get? From daniels that's the
- 1:13:15Speaker 1: only thing he has is like really. Nice stuff why
- 1:13:17Speaker 1: WOULD you i was a little surprised. BY that i
- 1:13:19Speaker 1: mean he's, Got this he's got whatever, you need, like
- 1:13:22Speaker 1: literally whatever. You need that tailor stuff's nice. There too
- 1:13:27Speaker 1: he got that tailor in. THE back I mean i
- 1:13:29Speaker 1: always like when you go in there and, Excuse me
- 1:13:32Speaker 1: ebo that's. His Name yeahs so he's in the back
- 1:13:35Speaker 1: and like phil. TAKES out i Like when philip Is
- 1:13:37Speaker 1: phil like you can tell when he's. Fired up he's got,
- 1:13:39Speaker 1: those pins pins in his in his uh in his
- 1:13:42Speaker 1: uh on his wristef on, his sleeve got all those
- 1:13:46Speaker 1: pins sticking in there all, the time just walks around.
- 1:13:47Speaker 1: With him he's got, the measures he's got the tape around.
- 1:13:50Speaker 1: His neck AND then I love i love me, some
- 1:13:53Speaker 1: chalk you like the, tailor chalk the, tailor chalk and
- 1:13:56Speaker 1: he just goes, like done, got it and. Those things
- 1:13:58Speaker 1: slip those off and we'll get those done. Right now.
- 1:14:01Speaker 1: That's it that's old. School nice Speaking.
- 1:14:03Speaker 2: Of phil couple things went in for My. Shift tuesday
- 1:14:07Speaker 2: got a Nice New Peter Mallar west virginia hoodie.
- 1:14:10Speaker 1: In there oh. They, do yeah.
- 1:14:12Speaker 2: He's great just bring stuff out every. Couple weeks we're
- 1:14:14Speaker 2: getting your holiday, shopping season some time to go a lot.
- 1:14:16Speaker 2: Of stuff SO while i was in there a few
- 1:14:18Speaker 2: weeks ago On my tuesday, work shift guy came In, from,
- 1:14:23Speaker 2: beckley specifically he drove Up from beckley had to get
- 1:14:26Speaker 2: a new suit where the New goal mart's going to
- 1:14:28Speaker 2: be sure wasn't, there yet so he didn't stop, at
- 1:14:30Speaker 2: that but stopped it a couple hours on the. Way up,
- 1:14:32Speaker 2: came in ASKED if i was working since It. WAS tuesday.
- 1:14:36Speaker 2: I was i was in the back doing some work at,
- 1:14:38Speaker 2: the Day so, phil, said yeah he's, Right HERE so
- 1:14:39Speaker 2: i came popping around. THE corner i think he was
- 1:14:41Speaker 2: a little bit SURPRISED that i was. Actually There But
- 1:14:43Speaker 2: Tuesday darren Butcher. From beckley but he wasn't just there To, Say.
- 1:14:46Speaker 2: Hi tony he brought a gift. Right here here's.
- 1:14:49Speaker 1: Your gift.
- 1:14:51Speaker 2: Honey honey he's a, bee keeper, makes honey makes. His
- 1:14:54Speaker 2: own he.
- 1:14:55Speaker 1: Does this did he have the whole? Hood on he.
- 1:14:57Speaker 2: Did, not well he's. Got it he did not wear
- 1:14:59Speaker 2: It Into, Daniels well phil was measuring him for a
- 1:15:02Speaker 2: suit and he gave us each. Some honey hoppies might
- 1:15:05Speaker 2: be bad by the time he gets back and, gets
- 1:15:07Speaker 2: it but yours is. Still good i've been using it,
- 1:15:10Speaker 2: every day mixing it in with, my coffee, little cinnamon
- 1:15:12Speaker 2: little honey in. My coffee. Very good.
- 1:15:14Speaker 1: That's real thank you.
- 1:15:15Speaker 2: Very much, Appreciate, That darren, Thank.
- 1:15:18Speaker 1: You Darren texter Logan. From lewisbourg definitely a great night
- 1:15:25Speaker 1: to be a mountaineer wherever you. May be it puts
- 1:15:27Speaker 1: a huge smile on. My face when We beat Pitt
- 1:15:28Speaker 1: in morgantown for both football and basketball and listen, TO
- 1:15:33Speaker 1: this i didn't figure. That out it was done on
- 1:15:36Speaker 1: the thirteenth day of the month Each game, September thirteenth november,
- 1:15:41Speaker 1: thirteenth coincidence, HE says i. Think not thanks for all.
- 1:15:45Speaker 1: You do Let's. Go texter shout out To the. Mountaineer
- 1:15:51Speaker 1: mascot my son in law And grandson beckham came Up
- 1:15:54Speaker 1: from florida for the Game last saturday and we saw
- 1:15:57Speaker 1: the mascot in the. Parking lot took a pa during the,
- 1:16:01Speaker 1: man walk he, walked over High fives beckham and says,
- 1:16:05Speaker 1: he said he. Remembers me papa made a fan, For
- 1:16:08Speaker 1: life Jeff. From sandyville look at that there, He, is
- 1:16:12Speaker 1: brian that kind. Of nice cade's one of the all Time.
- 1:16:16Speaker 1: Great mountaineers he's a, great dude one of the all time. Great.
- 1:16:19Speaker 1: Mountaineers TEXTER So dj thomas might be. Pretty good do
- 1:16:25Speaker 1: you think he might hit the four point per game?
- 1:16:27Speaker 1: Freshman metric you, remember, That right if you average four
- 1:16:31Speaker 1: or more as, a freshman you're going to. Be good,
- 1:16:34Speaker 1: SO yeah i think he's going to be nosing. Around.
- 1:16:36Speaker 1: There absolutely Chuck, and lumberport what. A? Game? Defense awesome
- 1:16:41Speaker 1: what can you say about? OUR offense i saw something
- 1:16:42Speaker 1: TONIGHT that i Don't believe i'd ever seen on. Our
- 1:16:45Speaker 1: side it was toward the end of the. First half
- 1:16:47Speaker 1: can't remember what our offense. Just did the fans, Very
- 1:16:51Speaker 1: loud our assistant coaches jumped up from their chairs in
- 1:16:55Speaker 1: the air and were high fiving. Each other that has
- 1:16:58Speaker 1: to make the players even and. Feel better. Very Animated, Staff, y,
- 1:17:04Speaker 1: yeah well all. Kidding aside this community within this, basketball
- 1:17:13Speaker 1: Program and i'm talking about everyone from the head coach
- 1:17:16Speaker 1: down to anyone that's involved in, the program whether, they're
- 1:17:20Speaker 1: students whether, they're staff whether. They're coaches like when, he
- 1:17:24Speaker 1: says this thing is gonna be a family and we're gonna,
- 1:17:27Speaker 1: be together like it's. For Real and hopey talked about
- 1:17:31Speaker 1: the one time where He's watching ross was brought the
- 1:17:33Speaker 1: team over there and he saw one of our guys
- 1:17:36Speaker 1: take a towel from one of the managers and he
- 1:17:38Speaker 1: thanked him, for it and, he pointed, he said do
- 1:17:40Speaker 1: you see that? Right there he said that dude's taking your,
- 1:17:42Speaker 1: Sweaty towel and, he said we're gonna, Be together we're,
- 1:17:46Speaker 1: gonna think and we're Gonna be and that's what he.
- 1:17:48Speaker 1: Is doing he is he is forging that.
- 1:17:52Speaker 2: High fiving fist bumping on on this group is heavy
- 1:17:55Speaker 2: part OF the dna, top one so you don't walk
- 1:17:58Speaker 2: by somebody and not its HIGH f i.
- 1:18:00Speaker 1: Or fistbump that's part of. The deal it was spreads.
- 1:18:02Speaker 1: On stats is that top one percent tile in. The Country,
- 1:18:04Speaker 1: fistbund yeah big part. Of it t Dub and barbersville.
- 1:18:09Speaker 1: FELL as i just Watched The world champs embarrassed their
- 1:18:11Speaker 1: opponent and The Brawl ross hodge defense causing one hundred
- 1:18:15Speaker 1: and four turnovers in the last, six minutes and those
- 1:18:17Speaker 1: three Technicals were pitt's only answer and slowing. The offense
- 1:18:21Speaker 1: wondering how many people watching at home saw the last
- 1:18:24Speaker 1: two seconds OF the tv coverage When coach hodge turned to,
- 1:18:27Speaker 1: the crown pumped the fist and yelled. Let's go that
- 1:18:30Speaker 1: kind of emotion will not only bring, in talent but
- 1:18:33Speaker 1: will also. Retain it it also brought to mind my
- 1:18:37Speaker 1: favorite Quote from hoppy all the way Back to, october seventeen,
- 1:18:41Speaker 1: episode twelve speaking of the Positivity of Baylor's Coach matt
- 1:18:46Speaker 1: ruhle and him digging in a pile of manure because
- 1:18:49Speaker 1: he thinks there's a. Pony underneath look to Me Like
- 1:18:52Speaker 1: jeff caple and his staff didn't even own a Shovel
- 1:18:55Speaker 1: and nardoozi has taken all. The spoons keep up the,
- 1:18:58Speaker 1: Great Work curtis jones for. A heisman let's, go mountaineers.
- 1:19:02Speaker 2: Get picked up. On that we started that. Last week
- 1:19:04Speaker 2: there's a great picture out there ON the i believe
- 1:19:06Speaker 2: IT'S on, Wv hoops Twitter or instagram Account Of. ROSS
- 1:19:10Speaker 2: dale I think dale. Got it Sparks of ross turning
- 1:19:14Speaker 2: towards the bench slash scores table and doing that fist bump.
- 1:19:18Speaker 2: And yelling it's a it's a.
- 1:19:19Speaker 1: NEAT picture i think he wants the fans to be.
- 1:19:22Speaker 1: FULLY engaged i think he would like not that, they're
- 1:19:26Speaker 1: Not but, i'm, saying like let's just. Say this the
- 1:19:30Speaker 1: ones that are, behind, us yeah a little bit. MORE
- 1:19:37Speaker 1: seasoned i probably not used to standing up a. WHOLE
- 1:19:41Speaker 1: lot i don't think he would be mad if those
- 1:19:44Speaker 1: folks behind us would stand and really get. IT going
- 1:19:49Speaker 1: i think he would love everyone up going Bananas When
- 1:19:54Speaker 1: west virginia's guarding, agree.
- 1:19:56Speaker 2: Right agree and it was it was pretty close. Last
- 1:19:58Speaker 2: night we're working. On that it got loud.
- 1:19:59Speaker 1: In there so what can you can you like hire
- 1:20:01Speaker 1: like a stand up person like to work the aisles like, hold,
- 1:20:04Speaker 1: up like.
- 1:20:05Speaker 2: Let's, go well coaches were helping with that. Last night got,
- 1:20:08Speaker 2: In there johnny got. In there he was doing a
- 1:20:10Speaker 2: great job coaching. Them up ross did that a couple. Times,
- 1:20:13Speaker 2: himself yeah it'll. Get, there okay early season, for everyone
- 1:20:16Speaker 2: get settled into. The, routine Yeah but i'll know the role.
- 1:20:19Speaker 2: Here soon.
- 1:20:20Speaker 1: All right, Well, listen uh we're gonna This is. Friday
- 1:20:24Speaker 1: early we're gonna be Back here. Sunday morning We'll Recap.
- 1:20:30Speaker 1: Arizona state that will lead us to a bye week For.
- 1:20:32Speaker 1: The mountaineers we'll talk a little Bit. About Lafayette west
- 1:20:36Speaker 1: virginia has Them, on monday And Then west virginia Will
- 1:20:39Speaker 1: leave Wednesday, For Charleston south Carolina Play. Friday sunday we've
- 1:20:44Speaker 1: got our alumni Event With Golden blue Enterprises, In Charleston
- 1:20:47Speaker 1: south Carolina At. Fish. World lawrence's lawrence's is the name of,
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- 1:20:58Speaker 1: go To The LOW country Wvu along. Night page it's
- 1:21:01Speaker 1: only ten bucks to get. In there but then they
- 1:21:02Speaker 1: had that thing with all you can eat oysters for thirty,
- 1:21:04Speaker 1: five BUCKS which I think i may take get that
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- 1:21:09Speaker 1: they can probably, bread those they could probably steam whatever way,
- 1:21:13Speaker 1: you want any way you.
- 1:21:14Speaker 2: Want, it yeah let's get let's see if we can.
- 1:21:16Speaker 1: Get this we'll probably get a few. Of those and
- 1:21:19Speaker 1: then The first Friday, of December When west virginia is
- 1:21:23Speaker 1: getting ready To Play, wake forest we're cooking up another
- 1:21:27Speaker 1: live event Down, In Charleston, West Virginia charlie west and
- 1:21:31Speaker 1: may have just talk a little, football recruiting may have
- 1:21:36Speaker 1: the headball coach with us down there, as well just kind.
- 1:21:39Speaker 2: Of speculating details to follow.
- 1:21:41Speaker 1: On, that yeah we'll. Do details episode eight hundred. Websites
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