Latest / 3 Guys Before The Game / 3 Guys Before The Game - Mess In Texas (Episode 530)

Transcript

3 Guys Before The Game - Mess In Texas (Episode 530) · 3 Guys Before The Game

0:17
Tis that time. Music's on and that means it's showtime on. Three Guys
0:22
before the Game. Welcome in Everybody, Episode number five hundred and thirty.
0:27
The Senator is in. That's Brad Howe. The other guy, Well,
0:34
if you see him, good for you. He got no idea where he
0:37
went. I'm not even sure he might be on some kind of a it
0:42
got sabbatical, is that what they say. I think he's not here.
0:45
He was like weeks at a time, correct. I think that might be
0:48
a basting all right. A lot of people in education use those Three guys
0:52
before the game. The title of the show is mess in Texas. We'll
0:58
get into it. Three guys brought to us by Comac's Business Systems, keeping
1:02
West Virginia's business data safe, secure and efficient for twenty five years. They
1:07
are the people, the people that keep your it straight, You're networking clean,
1:15
keeping the viruses away from you. And when it comes to business equipment,
1:19
they have everything you need everything. Visit COMAXWV dot com. Three guys
1:27
brought to us by Gomart. Go for good times, go for Gomart,
1:32
and go get that rewards card which saves you money every time you go in
1:36
on your fuel and your food. Three guys brought to us by lou Wendell
1:41
Marine Sales in Saint Albans. They're the fun folks. All they do is
1:46
sell family fund Visit them at lou Wendelmarine at sales dot com and by the
1:56
Conley CPA group. Providing value beyond the They've got spreads on stats coming up.
2:04
I'll show you a picture of the trytoon bolt that they've got over there
2:07
at lou Wendel as well. That's kind of nice. Nice Valentine's dabium.
2:14
Yeah, all right, So we are in late night. West Virginia got
2:20
back after five this morning after a trip that was a goose egg. Lost
2:27
at Texas on Saturday, lost at TCU on Monday night. West Virginia giving
2:35
up a lot of points, gave up ninety four to Texas, gave up
2:42
eighty one against TCU, scored sixty five last night, scored fifty eight in
2:49
Austin. Didn't play Houston, but you could certainly say Houston, we got
2:53
a problem. All right, So where's it all going, what's happening?
2:57
Why is it happening. We'll get into all of that and then later on
3:00
textual healing and for those of you that are watching on the on the YouTube,
3:08
on the one YouTube, we got this massive package. Fortunately Brad brought
3:14
it down. I don't know if I was if I'd be able to carry
3:15
it down yet. A couple of people help you with that thing. Oh,
3:17
I had a fort had a Forklavy. It's like super heavy gift.
3:21
We'll get into that later in the program. All right, so let's begin
3:27
the breakdown of what has transpired with the Mountaineer basketball team. You head to
3:38
Texas and it was almost a carbon copy of last year's game. Last year,
3:46
West Virginia got beat by thirty four, and this year Texas scores the
3:53
exact same number of points that they did last year. They had ninety four.
4:00
Last year, the final was ninety four to sixty. This past Saturday,
4:03
it was ninety four to fifty eight. So the bad news is you
4:10
lost to Texas for the second straight year. The good news is you never
4:15
have to go there again unless you want to. Because that was it last
4:19
regular season meeting between the two. And we talk a lot about situational situations,
4:27
and for Texas, they were in desperate mode. They've lost three out
4:31
they had lost three out of four, and here comes West Virginia and they
4:35
look at him like fresh meat, like a piranha looks at the top of
4:42
the tank when they throw the food in and it just goes right. And
4:46
that's what happened to West Virginia. Dylan Desue of the Longhorns turned into a
4:53
combination of Michael Jordan, George Gervin, and Kareem Abdul Jabbar all in the
5:00
same package. Or to use the Texas Direct Texas analogy, was Kevin Durant.
5:04
Durant like big guy, stepped out, hit every shot nineteen points thirteen
5:08
minutes in the first half, game over, crazy number. Yes, so
5:12
that's that. And so then okay, now you go to TCU. They
5:16
had lost two in a row. They come home after losing to Iowa State
5:20
and got grinded by Iowa State because of Iowa State's defense. And they're in
5:26
desperate mode too. They need to get to the NCAA tournament. So West
5:30
Virginia played with them for about what half of a half, and then it
5:35
was on and same theme, West Virginia turning the ball over. I don't
5:43
think I've ever seen ever two games back to back where you shoot exactly fifty
5:51
percent from the floor in the first half and are down by twenty five at
5:58
Texas and down twelve against TCU. Like, that's hard to if you tried
6:04
to do that just mathematically, that's hard to do that fifty percent, You
6:10
made half of your attempts and your down double figures twice. So that's like
6:16
super base explanation of what transpired West Virginia with these turnovers fifteen against Texas,
6:28
nineteen last night. They're playing soft and this is a big boy league.
6:35
Every night you're going out there, you're pretty much playing against NCAA tournament teams
6:42
pretty much most of the time. And right now, no answer. All
6:46
right, that's my opening statement. That was too tony. Is Tony's obvious
6:50
observations? Yeah, Frankly, I don't know that we need to add a
6:55
whole lot to that. I mean, we're going to I'll give you some
6:56
context to both those games. But yeah, it's three areas and one it's
7:00
the it's just the overarching theme that we've been talking about and we said primarily
7:04
going into Texas. Greg and I talked about it last time on sports Line.
7:08
Two bad situational spots, but you better come out and punch back.
7:11
You knew you were gonna get punched. You knew they were coming off the
7:14
top rope at you. And if you stand there and let them hit you,
7:16
you're gonna be in trouble. And they did in both games. That's
7:19
one. Number Two, it's you said the turnovers have been a major problem.
7:24
The turnovers leading to points has been the real issue there. And then
7:27
three, just the lack of defense. You know, you can even go
7:30
back to the BYU game if you want. That's three straight games where West
7:32
Virginia just hasn't guarded anywhere at the level that it needs to guard. And
7:36
that showed up in what has been two blowout losses in a BYU game that
7:40
got away from you late. So yeah, two bad situations that West Virginia.
7:44
Two bad situational spots. But West Virginia did not respond to either situation
7:48
very well. It was concerning. And again this road malaise just continues.
7:53
That takes you to what do I have this right? Two and twenty two
7:57
over the last couple of seasons on the road. I believe that two wins
8:00
the last two seasons. So this isn't just a this year problem. That
8:03
has been an issue, but it certainly continued this season as you haven't been
8:07
able to win on the road yet. Doing some simple math here, just
8:09
looking at these two box scores, I hadn't put these two numbers together,
8:11
but in the two games, West Virginia was outscored in points off of turnovers
8:16
fifty five to thirteen. Fifty five to thirteen. Okay, just like a
8:22
base statement base thing here, how many times do we say, you don't
8:31
have to score every possession, but you at least have to get a shot
8:35
up to the rim. That is what keeps you in games. But when
8:41
you don't do that, you give yourself absolutely zero chance to win. How
8:46
many times in the last several years in this program did West Virginia shoot a
8:52
poorer percentage than the opposition, But because of possessing the ball, rebounding the
9:01
ball, they would take regularly more than double figure attempts than the opposition.
9:07
You take ten, twelve, fourteen to fifteen more shots in the game.
9:11
You can shoot poorer but still win because of that. Well, right now,
9:18
you take a look at it. Against TCU last night, West Virginia
9:24
took ten fewer shots. Texas took fifteen more shots. You took twenty five
9:31
fewer shots than the two teams on this tour of Texas. And there you
9:39
go, drill down even further. Take the Texas game first. That was
9:43
thirty one percent of Texas's points came off points off turnovers. Correct, you're
9:48
not gonna beat anybody, let alone a decent team like Texas. That would
9:52
have put them the twenty nine points off turnovers. If that finishes the year,
9:56
and that categorats in the ninety ninth percentile, I mean, you can't
9:58
do much better. Teams won don't do much better than what Texas did in
10:01
that particular game off West Virginia. And it was for both of these teams.
10:05
You get two teams and we talked about both of these things. Both
10:09
like to push in transition. Texas was really efficient number one in the Big
10:13
twelve in points per possession in transition. So now you're turning it over,
10:18
which leads to more transition points. So you're playing right into what they wanted
10:22
to do. You were then getting a TCU team that wanted to run.
10:26
We talked about their length to possession, we talked about their ability to get
10:28
out and transition. What did you do? You played right into their hands
10:31
with turnovers. So if you're trying to control pace, which you needed to
10:35
do against both of those teams, the absolute worst thing you can do is
10:39
turn it over. That allows them to get into their pace and play it
10:43
at their level, which you saw in both of those games. Yeah,
10:46
again, here's another base piece. We're down here to the last handful of
10:54
games. We've crossed the halfway point in league play, and West Virginia has
11:01
three more road games. We've got a two game trip coming up at Iowa
11:05
State, at Kansas State, and then you close the year with a single
11:07
game trip out to Cincinnati, and then you've got a handful of games here.
11:13
I've thought all along since this team finally had all of its roster put
11:18
together, and I'm still holding out hope that one of these nights they play
11:24
in synchronosity, they play synchronized together, which probably as redundant. I hope
11:30
that they play synchronized. Yeah, you don't need to say together, because
11:33
that is that's what synchronized means, correct, I doubled it. I do
11:39
think I'm hoping that at least one night that everyone has one of those nights
11:46
where Jesse Edwards scores the ball inside and isn't put into a half nelson every
11:52
time he goes up for it. That Quin Slazinski makes shots, that Cresa
11:56
makes shots, distributes, doesn't turn it over. That Ray Kwan was on
12:01
a heater like he was in the first half last night. I don't know
12:03
if it's going to happen. I'd like to see it. I'd like to
12:07
see it at this point. I think that's about all you know from a
12:09
fans perspective that you would like just to hope to see that have a night.
12:13
Everyone has a night where you don't get flagrance against Jesse where you just
12:18
like everyone has one. Four guys. Just give me four guys that have
12:22
nights. I'm hoping that happens. I'm hoping that happens. But with that
12:28
being said, one thing that has become painfully obvious is that going forward,
12:37
and this is something that you know, you have no chance in this league
12:41
unless you are physical, both mentally physical and physically physical, if that makes
12:52
sense. There's nothing soft here. Last night, TCU, they just physically
13:00
imposed its collective will against West Virginia. Just physically impose their will, and
13:09
that is difficult to watch if you're a Mountaineer fan because of what West Virginia
13:16
used to be. We used to be that physical team, and this group
13:24
is never going to get there just because of who they are. They are
13:31
not able to play that style. It's like a recipe. You can have
13:39
a few scattered in your roster that are more skillfulnesse, but you have to
13:48
have at least some physical horses that go out there and just command respect.
13:56
And you don't have those right now. Well, and generally what comes with
13:58
that type of personality is defense. And if you're not going to play defense
14:03
at an elite level in this league, which a lot of teams do,
14:07
then you better be one of the three or four best offensive teams in America.
14:09
And I think that's where a disconnect has come in with this crew.
14:13
Some of that's the disjointedness of this roster. It hasn't had a chance to
14:18
gel offensively. Maybe it would have looked better offensively and been more consistent had
14:22
they been together all season, but missing, they're missing too many shots and
14:26
not elite offensively to be able to play the style of not guarding at a
14:31
really high level. You're getting caught at both ends of the floor right now,
14:35
and that shows up. Did it show up in the preseason or the
14:37
non conference portion, Sure, but you held out hope that when you got
14:41
your roster back together that wouldn't be the case. The Edwards injury puts you
14:45
behind in that area, but it really is showing up when you get against
14:48
these better teams. They're just taking advantage of you at the defensive end,
14:52
and some of that's running in transition. And again back to the TCU game,
14:54
and I'll this up with some numbers. You had a team in TCU
14:58
that just said, guess what we're going to do. We're going right to
15:01
the basket on you. And we talked about that game there last year that
15:03
even though it was close, they looked at that West Virginia defense and just
15:07
said, you're not stopping us. We're going right to the basket. They
15:09
did it again last night and that's what TCU does, but West Virginia wasn't
15:13
able to prevent them from getting to the rim. You ready to do your
15:16
thing? Are you sure? Yeah? You're not even gonna put the glasses
15:22
on. I will, You're gonna put them only? Yeah, it's numbers.
15:28
He jump into the analytics worship of the show. It is time for
15:39
spreads on stats brought to us by the Conley CPA Group. For the record,
15:45
the glasses have gone on. Conleys CPA Group provides value beyond the numbers.
15:50
What's that mean, you say, if you've never heard of the Conley
15:54
cp A group, Well, they are certified public accounts and so much more.
15:58
They provide accounting services to businesses all across West Virginia and into our surrounding
16:04
states. And they've been doing it since nineteen eighty five. They have stood
16:10
the test of time. They provide remote accounting services if that's your need for
16:15
your business. They can even provide remote CFO services chief financial officer so that
16:22
you don't have to have someone in the house. They can do all of
16:25
that and more. Great folks, if you need help when it comes to
16:29
your business affairs, taxation representation. In fact, Paul Revere, we use
16:38
these guys. What yeah, Conlee's CPA Group. I mean the official tax
16:47
tax client of Paul Revere. I mean they've been around a long time.
16:51
I'm not sure that long. Well, he was not happy with certain taxes.
16:55
Conley said, hang on, come on over here. We'll take care
16:56
of this for you. We'll figure out a way. Yeah, let's just
17:02
do a couple of Texas numbers. We kind of hit the highlights there and
17:04
there's no sense rehashing that, to be quite honest with you. But a
17:07
couple numbers that stood out that continue trends that we've seen all season, and
17:12
we talk about that defense. West Virginia gave up twenty four points off on
17:17
guarded shots to Texas. That was a season high for West Virginia's defense.
17:22
Here's the other thing. Again, I mentioned this a lot. Sometimes numbers
17:26
give you the path to victory and the way to get wins. Other times
17:29
they just back up what you saw with your own eyes. So twenty four
17:32
points off on guarded shots. Probably saw that, well, he didn't see
17:36
it because it was on Longhorn Network. So if you listen to your broadcast,
17:38
you might have heard you describing that that wasn't available at now what available?
17:44
Which is great when you pay for cable and ESPN Plus and the Big
17:47
twelve promotes all the games on ESPN Plus and go to ESPN Plus and you
17:49
can get the games and go to ESPN Plus you can watch the games.
17:52
I don't know if you knew this. You go to ESPN plus you can
17:53
get a lot of the games, not when it's on the Longhorn Network.
17:56
Bruce, Bruce Bowen, who want World Championships in the NBA, did color
18:03
and man, he had a nice sport coat on, like you can't get
18:06
the bow tie. He likes bow tie. Yeah, what he did,
18:07
and you can't get that off the rack. And I looked at it over
18:11
there and I said, there's one place in Morgantown and state of West Virginia
18:14
you and get a coat like that, tailored like that. Be fine looking.
18:17
Phil's over there at Daniels. But that was a long coat. I
18:21
mean he had a good look to it. He got some nic stuff to
18:22
By the way, remind me I had a meeting over at Fine Looking Phills.
18:25
We had a three guys meeting. You weren't invited. But talking about
18:27
Bowen? Huh talking about Bruce Bowen? No? Oh, no, new
18:32
three guys merch Oh, Okay, there's a popcorn delivery that was made cool
18:36
Valentine's da velvet. I went through about quarter ten of that. It was
18:38
really good. Yeah, I'll tell you about that right, go ahead,
18:40
Okay, So twenty four shots off, twenty four points off, on guarded
18:42
shots. Stop, what's that tell you? You weren't guarding. You're not
18:47
guarding. Yeah, you're not You're not guarding. You're not getting two people,
18:52
and they made you pay to sue in particular. Right, Sometimes we've
18:55
seen teams where they didn't hit those shots. They were unguarded. You didn't
18:59
do anything to make a miss. They just missed. Texas did not miss.
19:02
Here's the other part. This is what takes you from you're probably not
19:04
winning that game based off that number. But here's what took you from you're
19:07
not winning the game into a blowout situation. They also made Texas twenty one
19:12
points off guarded jump shots, so they were making shots whether you were regarding
19:18
them or not. That was also a season high giving up given up by
19:21
West Virginia. The transition points again, I mentioned Texas number one and the
19:26
big twelve in transition points per possession. They were efficient again, won that
19:30
battle seventeen to six. So just every number you're going to go through turned
19:34
out against you against Texas. Let's look at TCU for a second. Go
19:38
through a couple categories of things we talked about last week leading into this game.
19:42
Said number one, they like to push it in transition number one in
19:45
the league going into the game in transition possessions, going against a West Virginia
19:51
team that was last in transition defense in points per possession. Okay, TCU
19:57
tied for the most transition sessions that it's had in Big Twelve play. So
20:02
they did exactly what they wanted to do to you. TCU had its third
20:06
highest transition points in Big twelve play and the most since January twentieth against Iowa
20:11
State. So Number one key was you're going to have to close off their
20:15
transition game if you want to win. You're going to have to make that
20:18
into a game that fits your pace, which is slowing it down, not
20:21
let them run right out of the gate. You didn't do that. They
20:23
had season highs in that category. Not just okay, they had season highs.
20:27
Number two, we said they liked to get the ball to the rim.
20:30
They're going to attack the basket on you. They got more shots at
20:33
the rim than the national average. You've got to do something to close the
20:37
rim. Now, some of that transition in shots at the rim go hand
20:41
in hand. Fifty two percent of TCU shots in the first half were layups,
20:45
so right, away, you're in trouble. Half of their shots were
20:48
layups that ended forty five percent of their shots for the game were layups or
20:53
dunks forty five percent, nearly half. Quite frankly, it felt like more
20:56
than that if you would have told me it was seventy five percent. That's
21:00
what it felt like when you saw that game. But forty five percent.
21:03
So you didn't do a good job there. That's the second most points for
21:06
them at the rim in Big twelve play. So now you're behind. Now
21:08
they're doing the two things that they want to do, most run and get
21:12
to the basket. You've allowed them to do both of those. We told
21:15
you they were top twenty in steel percentage. They were top thirty overall in
21:19
opponent turnover percentage. They had ten steals against you. West Virginia had a
21:26
massively high twenty four percent turnover rate, turned it over on a quarter of
21:30
their possessions. That led to a twenty six to eight points off turnover advantage
21:34
for TCU. You can't do that, Just can't do that. We said
21:40
they were elite offensive rebounding, top twenty five nationally. You better get them
21:42
off the offensive glass. Nine for nine offensive rebounds for each team. But
21:48
this is why I've been telling you the last few weeks. You can't just
21:51
look at raw numbers, right, So normally you'd walk away, go okay,
21:53
you held your own. You got nine offensive rebounds. They got nine
21:56
offensive rebounds. TCU led fifteen to four and second chance points. They took
22:02
advantage of their nine rebounds. You did not, So fifteen points off nine
22:06
rebounds comes out to one point seven points per possession. The most efficient offense
22:11
in the country averages one point one points per possession. So they were ultra
22:15
efficient in the offensive glass. You didn't do anything to change their ability to
22:18
score off you getting offensive rebounds. We talked about both teams face a lot
22:25
of guarded catch and shoots. Which team if that held, which team would
22:30
be able to make some Now, again, this number doesn't mean as much
22:33
as the others because TCU had so much success at the basket. They had
22:37
twenty five catch and shoot jumpers, fifteen of them were guarded, ten on
22:42
guarded. They scored sixteen points on the guarded jump shots. That's the third
22:48
most in Big Twelve play for TCU, So they scored more than a point
22:52
per possession on guarded jump shots. They only had six points on their unguarded
22:56
shots. West Virginia had seventeen of those catch and shoot jumpers, twelve of
23:02
them were guarded, only five unguarded. Didn't do bad. Eighteen points off
23:07
your twelve guarded jump shots, five points off your five on guarded Here what
23:15
am I saying? We also said you were going to need to defend TCUs
23:18
pick and roll if you wanted to win the game. That was one of
23:21
the things that popped up in their formula for a loss. They had single
23:23
digit points from the ball handler in the pick and roll. In every one
23:29
of their losses. You didn't get there. They had double figures on you
23:32
from their ball handler. So every check mark that you needed to stop them
23:36
doing something in order to put yourself in a position to win. They not
23:38
only won the category, they won it pretty easily. And here's another sign
23:42
that offensively teams are doing what they want. In this Texas game, Texas
23:51
had assists on an astounding seventy seven percent of Texas's baskets came as a direct
24:00
cyst and last night, to look at last night, it was twenty divided
24:03
by thirty one sixty four percent and we've talked about that thresholds right about sixty
24:10
percent for West Virginia that would hold true that for other teams it stays pretty
24:14
much in that ballpark. Mmm h Yeah. That twenty assists per game Again,
24:18
if that held, if you averaged that throughout the season, you're in
24:22
the top seven percent nationally of assists. So they just were doing what they
24:26
wanted. Yeah, and real quick, Tony, that's the overarching theme here
24:33
of this weekend. But then also going back to West Virginia's wins, if
24:37
the other team's allowed to do what it wants to do, you're not going
24:40
to win games. You've got to take something away. And against Kansas and
24:45
against Texas the first time, and against Cincinnati you were able to do that.
24:48
You were able to make them have to try and beat you some other
24:51
way than what they want to do. These last two games they didn't.
24:55
Texas and TCU just said here's what we're going to do to you, and
24:56
you can't stop this. Yeah, I meanlosophy has always been that you have
25:02
to blow up, to use the basketball term, you have to blow up
25:06
what they're trying to run offensively and force them into changing their set. At
25:11
this point. West Virginia is not blowing up offensive sets and making the team
25:15
go to its secondary options in a set. They are being allowed to run
25:18
what they need to run. And as a result, here's a couple of
25:22
thoughts. Are you done with numbers for now? Yeah? Done? Two
25:26
things that hit me here, one of immediate note and one of future note.
25:33
And I'll do the future note as well as we get through this,
25:38
and we grind through this, and there's a month of the season left,
25:44
and I know this is not fun. This is just like, this is
25:47
not good because you're normally not here, You're normally not into this as bad
25:52
of a situation. But the future is this best Virginia will get back to
26:00
winning basketball games down the road. West Virginia will get back to winning basketball
26:04
games. And why how can you say that? Well? You will?
26:08
You will because you've got a couple of things. One, you have got
26:14
history on your side right through the years, regardless of the situation, conference
26:18
affiliation, whatever it's been, West Virginia. I'm talking big picture stuff here.
26:22
They win basketball games. This is a program that wins basketball agree,
26:26
So that's going to come back. You'll win the Other part of it is
26:30
you've got this, You've got a great foundation and base in what these fans
26:36
are doing. I saw tenants figures today where West Virginia's like fifth out of
26:40
the fourteen schools in the Big Twelve right now for home attendance going through what
26:45
it's going through. So that's that is attractive. That's attractive for various reasons,
26:52
For players, for coaches, that's attractive. And then the other thing
26:56
is like when I go out and I talk to other people that aren't involved
27:00
with West Virginia, we're out on the road that no Ren Baker, they
27:04
just go like, I mean, that dude is like so wired in basketball
27:10
wise, like that's his thing. Like if he had a hobby, it'd
27:14
be like basketball gossip, right, you know what I mean. It's just
27:18
like he's embedded in that and he knows what it takes and what it's going
27:25
to take. And then I do think that from an NIL perspective, West
27:30
Virginia will have enough or capable amount of dollars in this new world, whatever
27:37
that new world defines itself to be, that it will be able to get
27:42
personnel and to get players. I think all of those things are true.
27:45
So the immediate is this is not enjoyable for anyone involved. Players, coaches,
27:52
fans, get it all. But it will get better. It will
27:56
get better. History tells us that, right. The other part of it
28:00
is this more recent is that for the next month, you saw it last
28:07
night, you're getting no calls. And this is not to say they're out
28:15
to get West Virginia or it's an indictment against West Virginia, but it is
28:18
simply human nature that when especially when you're on the road, officials know your
28:27
situation, they know where you are in the standings, they know the tenuous
28:33
interim status of this coaching staff. You got no shot to get in anything.
28:41
If there's a fifty to fifty call and I know that's Jamie Dixon over
28:45
there or that's whoever benefit of the doubt and you're on the road, you
28:52
ain't getting it. I thought last night had nothing to do with the officiating.
28:59
However, the game's outcome wasn't decided by the officiating but mine. There
29:03
is some absolutely whack and hack that's going on out there that is just wow,
29:11
you're getting zero, so you got to play through it. The two
29:14
Jesse Edwards flagrants were like okay, bye by like by letter by letter of
29:22
the rule if you say there's contact with someone's face. But both of those
29:26
could have easily been basketball play. I'm surprised they weren't considered basket I don't
29:33
know how they weren't considered basketball player. So so I'm just saying, as
29:36
well, you got to eat that, and you get better get ready to
29:38
eat it. You're gonna get zero as far as any any benefit of the
29:42
call. And that's another reality I personally have to deal with that. I
29:48
personally have to just when it's like I just have to like put my put
29:52
my Jake brake on. You know what that is, right? You know
29:56
those cold trucks they put that air suppress you know that break you just can't.
30:04
I got to put my air suppression system on my Jake break because you
30:08
just want to scream. You're not going to get it. That's what it
30:12
is. Two observations. I've got a lot to say on your second observation,
30:17
but I will refrain, Well, do you think you get suspended until
30:21
a later time? You think you'll get suspended for conduct? I'm becoming of
30:25
a three guys host spend me. I mean, you never know, we
30:27
might have a league commissioner here, suspend me. But I'm just not going
30:30
to go into it right now. The first part I wholeheartedly agree with.
30:33
And you can sum up. You did it very eloquently there, I thought.
30:37
But you can really sum it up with one one word or two words.
30:41
People here? Care? Is that three words? People care? People
30:44
hear care. If you want to go three you go one where and just
30:45
say care. You can And I mean that from an administrative standpoint, from
30:51
a fan base standpoint, just the support that exists for the programs here.
30:56
When people care, that's what you're looking for. So, yeah, you're
31:00
you're going to get back to Winnie. You're gonna get back to Winny.
31:02
I'm hopeful down the stretch here for this staff and these players, there's some
31:07
moments like they got to experience with the Kansas game in particular. I hope
31:11
they're able to stand up and fight back on some of these. And if
31:15
it's just the home game, so be it. But you stand up and
31:18
you punch somebody right in the face that Waltz is into the coliseum that thinks
31:21
they're going to have a day and run you out of the gym, and
31:22
you step up and you punch them right in the nose to start, and
31:26
you win the game and everybody gets to celebrate. So I hope people keep
31:29
coming to those games, and I hope there's a moment where there's some country
31:32
roads that's being sung after the game because you just whack somebody that didn't think
31:36
they were gonna get whacked in here. If nothing else for this season,
31:37
give them a couple more moments, those players, staff and the fans some
31:41
moments here where you can kind of walk away and go, Okay, thank
31:44
you guys. Yeah, and you have a couple of opportunities right off the
31:47
top, right, UCF, they big boyed you in Orlando, and then
31:51
last night TCU. It's hard to play on the road. Ask Kansas last
31:56
night at Houston, Holy cow, right, I know they didn't have Dewan
32:00
Harris, but whoa. So that's what you gotta hope Kansas at Texas Tech.
32:07
I mean you said, you said Houston. I'm sorry, Yeah,
32:09
at Texas Tech, Texas Texas Drill, Yeah exactly. I mean Grant McCaslin
32:14
probably coach of the year. What do you think as we sit today,
32:16
Yeah, right, he's probably coach of the year, which also is a
32:21
pretty good indication of what I've been saying since this transfer portal opened. Never
32:24
at any time in college sports history, and you can complain about the way
32:28
it is all you want. Never have you been able to change fortunes faster
32:31
than you can change in today's day and age. It's not a guarantee that
32:35
things are going to change, but you have the ability to change your fortunes
32:38
more than you've ever had at any other time. Yeah, And that's the
32:40
unfortunate thing about West Virginia this year in that Josh did not have the ability
32:46
to put this thing together. Think about this, when raekwon Battle and no
32:52
Affair con were not eligible to play. They weren't practicing with the first team.
32:58
They were on the scout team. So it's not even like they were
33:00
playing with the guys that they eventually were going to play with. Then Jesse
33:02
gets hurt in that six weeks and so you just we'll never know. That'll
33:07
be one of the great unknowns. Okay, what if that'll that'll be on
33:10
the top five to ten all time great mountaineer if? What if? Sure?
33:16
What if Major Harris didn't get hurt in the Fiesta Bowl? Right,
33:21
one of those Yeah, you don't know because it was a It was a
33:23
disastrous situation from the very beginning, an impossible situation period, end of story.
33:30
Had you just had the coaching change, just stop right there, it
33:34
was impossible moving forward. The fact that that lineup kept getting tossed around never
33:38
even gave you a chance to see what you can compete with. Could you
33:42
get to a seven and eleven situation which could have been an NCAA tournament type
33:45
of situation. So never had a fair shot this season from the very beginning.
33:50
Three guys before the Game is brought to us by Lou Wendell Marine Sales
33:52
in Saint Albans, Jess. Time is coming for you and yours to hit
34:00
the water. It's coming up. Lou Wendel Marine Sales happens to be the
34:05
single number one best largest pontoon boat dealer in the state of West Virginia.
34:09
So if you are a pontoon enthusiast, this is the place where you have
34:14
to be. It's just like absolute gotta go, gotta talk, gotta see.
34:16
Those folks been in business forty plus years, located in Saint Albans and
34:22
their website available to you at Lou Wendelmarine at sales dot com. They carry
34:28
the Avalon boats, the manufactured by Avalon, which is one hundred percent made
34:32
here in the United States, and they've got some just sweet stuff and it
34:38
won't be long for boating. You can feel it. I mean, you
34:42
know, you can kind of get a feel every here and there a day
34:45
or so go by and get a little of sunshine that just makes you go
34:49
like, oh yeah, I mean last week you felt it. Oh yeah,
34:52
you're not right. Today it was gorgeous. It was cold as hell
34:53
by the way in Fort Worth, ridiculous disappointed You feel like I thought you'd
35:00
go down there and get a little a little warm. Uh, we're headed
35:02
back the other way. We're getting We're going back warm here next Yeah,
35:07
yeah, that's true. But anyway, lou Wendo Marine Sales check it out.
35:13
They've got just credible selection and have on Thursday, I'm want to tell
35:16
you about their new a new three guys special. There is, yeah,
35:20
Thursday, the debut of the new three Guys lou Wendell Marine Special. Visit
35:24
them at lou Wendo Marine Sales dot com. Got new business hours as well.
35:30
It would look good out on cheat Lenk Somersville, LNK. That could
35:34
be cheat right there. I don't know, you think that might be cheat?
35:37
Take that thing to deep crank. Oh yeah. It travels new hours
35:42
by the way, Monday through Friday eight thirty am to five Sundays one to
35:49
five, Sundays one to five. See boating season's coming. Can't be open
35:52
Sunday ramping it up? All right, We'll talk more about Blue Wendell.
35:57
They are the official pondtoon boat dealer the state away Virginia, and they also
36:00
offer and then not offer. They provide the James Bond movie series with the
36:05
pontoons. Whenever you see James Bond in a pontoon through the years, it's
36:08
a lout. Wendell unconfirmed, working on that confirmation on that. All right.
36:15
So with all of that being said, what do you say we do
36:19
and we need some textual healing? Yeah, goll like good time for us.
36:28
Textual healing is brought to us by Episode eight hundred dot com. That's
36:31
our website where you can take a look at our merchandise, which includes coffee,
36:39
Game Day Grind sold out of it. This weekend at Mountaineer Roasting,
36:44
they celebrated their three year anniversary shout out Rusty sold out of it again?
36:46
Uh huh other Land having some right now? Hope you know I went oversaw
36:51
already, Yes, I did. I need to put it in like an
36:52
ivy drip or something. I needed a shot. I needed a little something
36:58
take the edge of late night for the World Champion Mountaineers. Which is why
37:00
I thought you. I thought you'd pull your You've done this before. I
37:04
thought you'd double up, get one that you drink quickly on the in the
37:07
truck on the way here, and then have one on set. Surprised didn't
37:10
have time to make you got to do sports line tonight's doun I know,
37:13
didn't have time to make the coffee. Literally got out of bed, ran
37:16
downstairs, did the textual healing things, got up and said, I'm gone.
37:21
I know that you you swung into us. I thought you were just
37:22
going to get two to go. I thought you would have done that just
37:25
yeah. But he doesn't it for you. He doesn't brew game day grind
37:29
and you can do it in a bat. He just got it. Just
37:30
sit here. It was a late night for the World Champs. Not only
37:36
did you do you go through the loss, but the plane couldn't land.
37:40
No, I shouldn't say that plane could have landed in Bridgeport, but the
37:46
charter company flew us to Pittsburgh instead. Well, you also claiming weather,
37:57
Yeah we landed. You know what, the weather was dark? It was
38:00
it was dark. That was the weather. So that adds another thing.
38:04
Going to criticize the pilots as well as the officials. It's kind of on
38:07
everybody's ass today. Well, I do think you have to. I mean,
38:10
they got you down safely, yeah, they Yeah, that game did
38:13
start at eight pm Eastern too. I know, I know, I don't
38:15
know if you kept track of the Eastern time while you were in the Central
38:17
times I don't really look at it. Kind of threw you off a little
38:20
bit. Don't really look at it. Speaking of Central time zone women,
38:23
Big Game Tuesday, we're recording on Tuesday. Big Game tonight, get back
38:28
drill TCU. They get TCU turns it over a lot there. Women.
38:30
Women have been on the road so long. Mountaineer women are gonna be filing
38:36
for Texas residency. They got to Texas on Friday. They're going, let's
38:43
go, let's go. So they do play to night finally get home A
38:45
lot the line up, take it to tc E to night early. You
38:50
know, before Marcella got hired at West Virginia, he was a candidate for
38:53
the TCU job. Was that Stephen F. Austin surprised me and and didn't
39:00
happen for him there? They probably should have hired him. And I think
39:02
we'll respect for sure, And I wouldn't would not be surprised tonight. Wouldn't
39:08
that be surprised tonight? If if there might be a little a little three
39:15
three guys before the game, is that right? We'll show you a little
39:17
something here. Well, tc is going to turn it over. So if
39:23
they're if this is above the normal twenty five you get like twenty nine turnovers,
39:28
look out might be a forty point win. Yeah, I'll say this.
39:31
I think West Virginia wins, But I think it also might be stupid.
39:36
They might they might put the h they might put the proverbial high top
39:39
sneaker down on the throat and give him a little bit of the business.
39:42
Wouldn't I wouldn't argue that with you? All right? Go ahead? Uh?
39:47
Various texts of various topics shocking Tony in no particular order. Tony,
39:54
What's your favorite game to call. But football or basketball? Why Grant from
39:58
Parkersburg. They're absolute apples and oranges, totally different from one another. Basketball
40:06
is a game of great fluidity and rhythm, and it can be done,
40:15
you know, with one or two people. Football is a team broadcast,
40:20
spotters, statisticians, analysts, producers, sideline reporter. It's just a different
40:27
thing, and the flow of the game is much different. So I don't
40:30
have a favorite. They're both extremely fun, but they're both extremely different,
40:36
if that makes any kind of sense. I enjoy both. Texter constructive criticism.
40:43
Here comes a heater. The chocolate bits didn't melt on the popcorn,
40:50
but it's still very good. Signed by Stan. Are the supposed to melt?
40:54
So he's talking about the Valentine's popcorn? Yeah, those little meat chocolate
40:58
chips don't thin they're supposed to melt, are they? I think you raised
41:00
a good point, Stan, I don't necessarily. I think they may have
41:02
been added in for texture purposes to give you a crunch. Anyway, Hey,
41:09
three guys, this is Joe in Valentines, Virginia. My wife and
41:14
I are greatly enjoying the Valentines Velvet Delight. Here in Valentines. Great product,
41:17
looking forward to Tony's next surprise product announcement. Totally did I go on
41:23
record. I'm not gonna start, Texter. Going back a few of your
41:29
episodes regarding the pronunciation of Ohio, there are parts of southern West Virginia that
41:35
I recall growing up hearing about oh high no oh on the end just oh.
41:40
Hi had not heard that one. Keep up the great work hashtag HTB,
41:47
which means hang that banner. Philip from Philippy. Hey two and a
41:52
quarter, guys. I wonder if the Senator would evaluate that stat as a
41:57
winning podcast anyway. Keep it short, hurt a Texter reference Philip from Philippy.
42:02
So guys, a guy by who identified is himself as short Texter Philip
42:12
from Philippy. I feel like I qualify for P one listener status now.
42:15
I quickly called the wife and told her I have arrived. I love the
42:19
show. Signed by Philip and Philippy. Yes, you have Philip in so
42:21
many different ways, Texter. Having the men's and the women's teams traveling together
42:28
in basketball makes sense from an expense standpoint, but isn't one of the teams
42:32
going to get the short straw on schedule. If one game starts at seven
42:37
point thirty, it means the other game has to start at four or so.
42:39
During the week it's not a great slot. I guess on the weekend,
42:42
you could go early noon and six, but it will still impact the
42:45
crowd more than a standalone game. It feels like it's the opening act for
42:50
the main attraction. No, none of that's ever going to happen. They
42:52
don't care. They don't care about what the time of the games are.
42:54
They don't care about if West Virginia is playing at the same time as the
42:59
women. They don't care. Has nothing to do with it, unfortunately.
43:01
But that's the reality of it is. And to know the men's team would
43:05
never wait for the women, and the women aren't going to wait for the
43:07
men. Can't do it. You can do it in the Mountain West Mountain
43:10
East conference here right, Sometimes the women play in front of them. Is
43:14
that all the time? Yeah, makes sense when you don't have the planes,
43:17
trains and the automobiles, but it won't happen. Then you enter into
43:21
the whole TV thing. Too many logistics. He continues in terms of refereeing
43:28
youth sports and soccer league and Robinson Illinois. They have it figured out.
43:32
The parents very respectful to the referees in that league didn't hurt. The referees
43:38
were from the local medium security prison. That'll get her done. Final note,
43:45
Cam Thurman, coach youth basketball and Robinson Illinois. They ended each practice
43:50
with beat the hell out of pit. Thank you for the show. Thank
43:52
you Cam. More about Nick Saban's home location during this past episode of Listener,
44:00
texted that Nick was from Carolina. Since Nick retired, I've heard he
44:05
is from one Fairmont where he was born in Fairmont General Hospital, Two Monoga
44:09
where he went to high school, Three item Ay home of a famous item
44:14
A Black Diamonds where he played youth football for his dad. And four Carolina.
44:17
I believe his house and dad's filling station were located in an area known
44:22
as Helen's Run, which is a quarter mile down US nineteen from Worthington.
44:27
You take your pick, but he's still the most successful coach of all time.
44:31
You know that Helen's Run. Put run on the end of a name,
44:36
that's always pretty good. That's nice. You just put a run on
44:37
anything like, for example, eight where's he live? He lives down Brad's
44:43
run. That's a good one. Where's he at? He's down there?
44:47
Hoppy run. Just put run on the end of something that could be a
44:52
T shirt. Texter, I just saw the spring game date. Why is
45:00
it played in front of a few hundred fans when Laidley Field and Charleston would
45:05
have thousands there? Did the Greenbrier Spring game not teach anybody anything? Here's
45:12
an idea that's guaranteed to sell out with tickets at ten dollars per Marshall in
45:16
the morning, West Virginia in the afternoon. Well, that's signed by Ken
45:24
and Kentuck Ken. The game in Morgantown draws more than a few hundred fans,
45:30
it draws several thousand, And be quite honest with you, it's just
45:32
too big of an operation to move. And they use it for recruiting.
45:37
They have people on campus, they get recruits on campus. So lady doesn't
45:40
do anything, doesn't move any needles. Just ask Don Kneeling. He turned
45:45
the bus, He turned the buses around. You don't tell me. I
45:49
was standing parking lot waiting for him, taking shrapnel from everybody. It's not
45:52
a fun time. What do you mean that was not a fun day.
45:58
That is one of the old time greats. For those that don't know,
46:00
West Virginia was supposed to practice down there. They around the buses, they're
46:05
heading down the interstate and some of the advanced people got down there earlier.
46:09
They looked at the field and they went like, can't practice on this sings
46:13
like a rock. So word got back Donnie Inn gave it to turnaround.
46:21
That was a great PR. That was a great PR situation there. That
46:25
left a lot of people salty for a couple of years. You can laugh
46:31
now. It wasn't funny then. It was not funny. Yeah, even
46:35
less funny when you're standing in the parking lot. All right, hey guys,
46:42
here's your long text of the Remember last I instituted the one long text.
46:45
Yeah, last episode. This is it. Brian writes, loyal listener,
46:51
loved the show. Wanted to give you a heads up Saturday Baylor game.
46:53
We got a group of four hundred and fifty kids coming over from Landon's
46:58
Library Youth Basketball League and Garrett County, Maryland. One hundred and fifty kids
47:01
to play in our league, as well as the leagues in surrounding Preston and
47:05
Tucker Counties. Landon's Library was created in two thousand and six in memory of
47:09
Landon A Bowl, who passed away unexpectedly at age two while we were at
47:15
a WVU football game. His legacy has created numerous opportunities for the youth of
47:20
Garrett County. Dave, Shaun Butler, and John Flowers attended our annual fundraiser
47:24
this year and they were the hit of the party. The highlight for the
47:29
kids is always to come down to the floor after the game, shoot file
47:31
shots and catch a few autographs. If there's any chance you find celebrities could
47:37
stick around for a few autographs and picks after the game. The kids would
47:39
love it and it would raise your celebrity status in Garrett County at a new
47:44
level. Fully understand if you can't, but we wanted to extend the invitation.
47:47
Thanks in advance. And by the way, I am a CPA,
47:52
so thanks for all the CPA plugs throughout the season. We perform under pressure.
47:58
That's what we do. Hatched is a picture of our stack of tickets
48:01
and food vouchers for the kids there. They are bright w e's biggest group
48:06
of the year. Thanks for all you do. Signed by Brian ball awesome.
48:09
I'll be there. My man senator might be there as well. Curgieval
48:15
kurgievev ole. You might as well send out an APB. Don't know where
48:17
he is. Don't know where he is, Texter Rob from Ripley. You
48:27
know you attacked me, by the way when I went after the CPAs.
48:30
I think I have built an incredible relationship across the state with CPAs. They
48:36
know me, they respect me. Yeah, I think it's more about Conley.
48:40
CPA took the plunge and decided to bury the hatchet and join the program,
48:45
and that showed that it was a CPA friendly program, even though at
48:50
times you were not. I give them more credit than you quite frankly,
48:53
I think there's some fringe CPAs that run around each year that just get really
48:58
nervous around this time of the year. My point to them is like,
49:00
well, you know, it's tax season, gets to be tax season.
49:02
It's always take Why are you nervous? And I would say this to all
49:06
the CPAs that are stressing out right now, Hey, you know it always
49:10
gets done. God done. Last year, got done the last several years.
49:14
You'll get it done again. You're gonna be fine. Well, now,
49:15
you're giving motivational messages to him. So now we've gone from it's the
49:19
entire group of every CPA that panicked, to now you just qualified it with
49:23
a fringe group, to then providing motivational that could be used by all of
49:29
them. That could be used by all of them. But that was designated
49:30
for the nervous nellies out there. Well you were you were less than clear
49:35
about that in the initial diatride. We're all thank you to Conley's CPA group
49:38
for coming in and they're terrific accepting an olive branch that was not extended by
49:43
Tony. Robin Ripley writes, Hey, three guys, I was listening to
49:46
the episode with Drew Fabianic and I heard you mentioned something about light bed therapy.
49:53
Any idea where this type of therapy is offered? Done some research,
49:58
but I able to locate any clinics facilit in or around Parkersburg or Charleston.
50:02
Also, for the record, not only do I carry a handkerchief in my
50:06
pocket every day, I use it when needed. Also, I have land
50:09
two hundred unsurveyed acres in Jackson County, partially surrounded by the O'Brien Lake with
50:15
tree stands and food plots scattered throughout. Thank you, Robin Ripley. I
50:19
don't know, don't consider myself a light bed therapy expert. I know that
50:23
when West Virginia got the one that it was using, it was considered a
50:30
rarity, state of the art thing. That's through its partnership with WVU Medicine.
50:35
I don't know if they're around a lot. I can't direct you anywhere.
50:43
Texter midgame text, well, these are always good spreads. Is always
50:50
saying there will never be coaches who stick around for twenty years. Well,
50:53
coach Eiler's been here sixteen before. Bline, the hired coach, took one
50:57
look at the program and bolted after Huggins. The program is in shambles.
51:02
Did Josh isilet run? No, He's worked hard, hasn't blamed anyone else
51:07
with that kind of loyalty. He deserves to be our coach in the future.
51:09
Signed by Clyde from Fairmont High. Three guys, longtime, first time
51:15
I head of the Texas game. I made plans to meet up with a
51:19
friend to watch the game. This is a doozy, by the way,
51:22
I show up and see our world champion Mountaineers already on his television. I'm
51:27
confused seeing them in Morgantown thinking we were away, but I shrugged it off.
51:30
We sat talked while watching the Mountaineers win seventy six seventy three, celebrated
51:35
the victory before going our separate ways. It wasn't until I talked to my
51:38
dad later and said, great win today, huh, then I realized something
51:43
was utterly wrong. You can imagine his look of confusion to my overly chipper
51:49
mood. Turns out, my friend and I unknowingly spent the afternoon streaming the
51:53
entire January thirteenth Texas game instead. Oh well, the joy was fun while
51:59
it last. I did signed by Mike Mike and Martinsburg Mike, I'm going
52:05
to have to do something here that I really don't want to do. But
52:08
I haven't had a whole lot of sleep. Things are a little bit tense.
52:12
I kind of say things that I regret on these kind of shows because
52:15
I go to bed like in the morning. But dude, if you didn't
52:20
know the West Virginia Texas game was in Texas and you didn't realize that the
52:25
first one had already been played in Morgantown, I'm going to have to issue
52:30
you three game suspension. What Yeah, he's out for conduct unbecoming of am
52:37
outaineer fan. You at least have to know where the games are. I
52:42
mean, is that asking too much? Well, sometimes the streaming system it's
52:46
not easy to identify. They put those things up there. You can't tell
52:49
is it live. It's not the live. The descriptor that says live is
52:52
about in one and a half point font on there. I could see where
52:57
that would happen. Oh, I can't when you're sitting there in the big,
53:00
huge state of West Virginia's in the middle of the floor. If you
53:04
follow the world champion Mountaineers, you know they already won in Morgantown this year.
53:07
You know Jesse Edwards wasn't on the team last year. You know Kirk
53:12
cries it wasn't on the team last year. If you see those guys running
53:14
right and say this is this year's game, he's out. It's a three
53:17
game suspension, No negotia. Just watch he watched the Texas win here.
53:22
It wasn't like you watched last year's game. I understand it was this.
53:25
Yeah, less than a month ago. He's out three games. He also
53:29
said he went to a friend's house. He wasn't in charge of the remote,
53:30
but I'll tell you what his friends on his friends on the border line
53:34
to get some punishment too. Things happen. You know, I got buddies,
53:42
And when one of our buddies does something that's really stupid and makes a
53:46
stupid bet, like a stupid bet. When the decision, when it finally
53:52
comes to reality, you know what we do. We treble the damages,
53:57
times them extra punishment because you, dude, you made that bat that was
54:00
such a bad bat. You get treble damages on that. So he gets
54:05
three out for three. I'd appeal that, Mike no appeals. Well,
54:09
you're not the judge in Jerry, Yeah, I think I am. No,
54:13
who's the Judge's a panel? Oh, we're not doing that. He
54:16
didn't get a three games too many, damn too many, damn task force.
54:20
In this world, we don't need another committee appeal it. Tony's like
54:23
the NCAA right now, trying to hold on to making the rules. Don't
54:27
rules, Texter, He continues, Wait a second, now, whatever,
54:30
this is somebody else anyway, Hello, I've listened to the show since the
54:32
first episode. This is the first time I've texted Brad over under sixteen different
54:37
offensive players score a touchdown during the next Mountain Near football season. Thank you
54:42
love the show over. I think every player listed on the offensive side of
54:45
the ball scores a touchdown next year. I think our starting center next year
54:49
scores three times. Josh and Morgantown, I have landon Ravenswood, of course
54:53
you do. Justin from Princeton, New Jersey. I saw this beauty at
54:58
the local dollar. True, it's a Reces cupcake. What in the world
55:02
have you folks seen or tried this? Maybe Brad is devoured. I feel
55:06
gladly ship some your way in exchange for a four pack of canned hoppy bruise
55:10
go ears. I have not seen that. Let me ask you this.
55:14
What is going on at Recey's. Are they just like absolutely giving the go
55:19
I had to do anything, but apparently everywhere but where I am, I
55:22
never see this stuff. Yeah, but good for them. Will you branch
55:27
out product? Good marketing? Wow, I'd try that. Probably good Texter.
55:36
Hey, three or maybe two guys. Recently, there's been a decrease
55:39
in food conversation on my favorite podcast, So try this. Today is day
55:45
one of my carnivore diet. I'm eating nothing but meat and animal products.
55:52
Also, Tony, are you still doing intermittent fasting? You haven't mentioned anything
55:57
about it in months. Signed by not Brian and Berkeley Springs. My intermittent
56:02
fasting has evolved from eating absolutely zero until about two o'clock in the afternoon to
56:12
I might have a piece of fruit up before two o'clock, like a banana
56:19
or something apple. Other than that, yeah, I try not to eat
56:23
until about two o'clock. I got weird food schedule because of sports line.
56:28
I don't eat until about seven thirty eight o'clock at night, so I normally
56:32
go like two seven point thirty. Shut it down. Texter Scope spreads and
56:40
part time Hanky super spreader. For months, Scopes has opined on his version
56:46
of US railroad history, for which I have had to correct on many occasions.
56:52
While listening to episode five to nine, we now are subjected to his
56:55
version of the Paul Revere story. A young Scopes rushing through the streets of
57:00
Suburbia Buffalo shouting, the smelts are coming, The smelts are coming. How
57:05
many more US history lessons will Scopes injected himself into He's becoming the West Virginia's
57:10
version of Forrest Gump. Here's to the football season in a few months.
57:15
West Virginia's plus forty thousand next season is national champion. Might have to cross
57:22
the Kansas City border drop a few bucks on the old Golden Blue signed by
57:27
Mort and KC via Kinas City. Please play responsibly, I told Brad before
57:34
we started a record and I got here just shortly before that. That last
57:42
night, I had this tremendous outpouring of three guys listeners while I was in
57:51
Fort Worth. Juju, do do do? Do? Do? I just
57:54
want to go through these here. Okay, a lot of three guys people
57:58
on a road game. Huh road game. Let's bring up Bob and Josie
58:04
if you would. Austin So. That is Bob Strafus. That is his
58:07
granddaughter, Josie. She's a sophomore at TCU. Bob is a West Virginia
58:13
native from Moundsville and got his grad degree early seventies here and now makes his
58:21
home in Denton, Texas and has for nearly I mean he's plus forty years
58:25
down in Denton. Likes it they're in Denton. Huh yeah, nice man,
58:29
very nice man. Let's go to the young lady with the hat on
58:35
to the right and the dude in the blue Now that is Colton and Cassie.
58:40
Now they're from Saint Mary's, West Virginia, Blue Devils, exactly,
58:45
very good and they live down there. Now. She is a former didn't
58:52
get the exact thing, but she won a beauty pageant of some sort here,
58:54
miss West Virginia teen or something like that, I think Colton said.
58:59
So it was great they live down there now see them? Yeah, I
59:01
believe they lived down there. That's a weird posture that I have. I'm
59:06
kind of like bent over, like they're holding me up. Yeah. Next
59:10
one, gentleman in the blue hoodie, that is Cody in Ravenswood. Yeah,
59:17
there he is Cody and Ravens would he was a little bummed out because
59:22
he wanted to do a thanks for having us drag his heel across the floor,
59:25
but unable to do that. And the next one, how about this
59:30
dude that came up to me at the game. He tapped me on his
59:35
shoulder. I like, that's Beanie Bishop. Beanie was there and he is
59:42
training in Frisco, Texas. Yeah sure, And great to see him.
59:46
He just stayed there. He was there for the Shrine Bowl. He's working
59:50
out, but he just stayed in the Shine Bowl was just a couple weeks
59:52
ago. Sure, Yeah, So happy to see him. Happy to see
59:57
Beanie. Everything's going well for him. Wearing his West Virginia shirt. Uh
1:00:00
huh. Also give me that bakery shot he carrying around a consensus all American
1:00:05
plaque or trophy or anything. Now, you'd never know. You'd never know
1:00:07
that. I mean, he's so that is that is a bakery in church?
1:00:12
There is? Thank you. It's a former church. Oh it is.
1:00:15
It's called the Blue Bonnet Bakery. And our guy Joe Mock sem me.
1:00:25
So it's a ninety year old bakery, current locations the former church that
1:00:31
was built one hundred years ago. Awesome job using the space was once a
1:00:36
sanctuary. And please share these with Brad so he won't feel deprived. I'll
1:00:40
be rooting for Kellogg's crew, a phrase I just invented in Fort Worth Tuesday
1:00:45
evening. Awesome. Yeah, so I had a lot of interaction with the
1:00:50
So the cookies are in my truck. They're there. Don't worry about it.
1:00:52
They're there. Oh, they actually made it back. Yeah, they're
1:00:54
here. You can have as many as you want. Excellent, Thank you,
1:00:58
Joe. Well that's a lot of people. It doesn't stop, it
1:01:02
doesn't stop. Thanks to everyone. Appreciate that, Uh texter. In response
1:01:08
to the texter who asked for the must listen to episodes of Three Guys,
1:01:14
who was just sway give me your best, this person says, I nominate
1:01:17
episode four sixty seven titled Three Guys Interview Three Guys one of my all time
1:01:22
favorites of some truly great stories from the Three Guys JD in the Southern Coalfields.
1:01:28
All right, there you go, p one, James and Charleston.
1:01:31
Way off topic, I'm sure, but I have a soccer question for Hoppy
1:01:36
concerning his hire coach Dan Stratford. His four year contract expired in January.
1:01:43
There's been no announcement of an extension a new deal. He certainly earned a
1:01:46
big bump. Any inside info? Can you inquire? Thank you, I
1:01:52
haven't heard anything. Go we can inquire. Have you got anything on that?
1:01:53
I do not know? Hoppy doesn't talk about when he renegotiates contracts.
1:02:00
Yeah, of course, with him, he'd probably just had like a five
1:02:01
dollars a restaurant gift card. No question was enough. Oh yeah, he'll
1:02:06
give you leg hair. Here's the thing. They'll get your free grub Hub
1:02:08
for a night. Oh really, you went to a final four. Okay,
1:02:12
I'll take that from five to ten dollars. Here you go enjoy.
1:02:16
Oh boy, Hoppy Kerchieval, he's a dandy. He is a dandy when
1:02:22
it comes to salary. Oo Hey, three guys, phil from Fairmont,
1:02:34
not Philippy. I just saw this at the Cracker Barrel in Fairmont. I
1:02:37
took a picture. My wife asked what I was doing. I told I
1:02:39
was going to send the message to three guys. She looked at me like
1:02:42
I grew a third eye. I said, Brad would love it. I
1:02:45
also got her the Valentine's popcorn. I'll let you know how that goes.
1:02:47
Go Mountaineers. So Breesy does a bunny too. Yeah, inside the bunny
1:02:52
there, that's solid, you think, I bet, I bet it's got
1:02:55
peanut butter in there. Solid peanut butter is like just like normal, like
1:02:59
the tunnels of peanut butter, or like a solid thing. You know what
1:03:06
I mean. If you went in there and did an autopsy on that thing.
1:03:08
Would it be solid or would there be just like little little trails of
1:03:13
peanut butter inside it. It's a good question. It's a fair question because
1:03:15
it looks like there's some detail on the chocolate bunny, so there might be
1:03:19
tunnels of peanut butter rather than just solid. I'd like someone to do this,
1:03:23
if you would go buy one of those, go get a reciprocating saw
1:03:29
and take that thing right, lay it flat, and then go right down
1:03:32
the middle of it horizontally and then roll it over. I'd like to see
1:03:37
what's inside that thing, and I of like you used to dissect the frog
1:03:38
in science class, exactly, Texter. I love the stats and keys to
1:03:45
the game. I'm wondering if given the same stats, what the player's keys
1:03:49
would look like. Would they match yours? Or the coaches might make for
1:03:52
an enlightening conversation. Sometimes coaches educators assume knowledge that the players are actually missing
1:04:00
self Discovery of the keys, guided by questions from the coaches is often more
1:04:04
beneficial than just telling them the keys, because it leads to ownership and internalization.
1:04:11
Food for thoughts, signed by an educator from Alpine Lake. Yeah,
1:04:15
I understand what you're getting. At there. Totally get what you're saying here.
1:04:21
Yeah, Brad and Tony Hoppies whereabouts unknown, says this Texter Monday sports
1:04:29
line. Brad read a text saying that the linesman at the Super Bowl was
1:04:32
Mark Peerlman, who played at Salem College in the mid nineteen seventies. One
1:04:35
of the officials. Yeah, but that. Another Salem, West Virginia connection
1:04:39
is that Colton mckibittz's football coach at Union Local High School was a Salem grad,
1:04:45
Bruce Stiles. Here you go, love the show, keep up the
1:04:47
good work. Coulton graded out pretty nicely from the game. Yeah, we
1:04:53
couldn't quite close it out, but he had a nice game. For those
1:04:58
of you that are watching, these two packages, we got three actually three
1:05:02
packages were here when we came in. The three guys Easter Bunny perhaps.
1:05:09
So this is to Brad Hoppy, three guys before the game. Oh,
1:05:13
this is to Brad Howe. This is you dog, Yeah, but it's
1:05:15
for all of us. I'll open that one if you want to go ahead.
1:05:19
All right, I'm moving over here. Yeah, this this is from
1:05:23
our guy Tommy Boy from Independence. He sent us stuff before. Go ahead
1:05:26
and open while I'm reading this, just open Go ahead and open. Grant
1:05:29
you access to open a package addressed to me. He wrote us A nice
1:05:32
card to here from Tommy. Tom Barber says, I want to say im
1:05:35
a hollow or thank you for continuing bringing laughter and joy while listening to your
1:05:40
great podcast. We appreciate y'all for taking our minds off the daily grind.
1:05:45
You guys always rock wrote some other nice stuff too, Tommy, thank you.
1:05:49
He also I saw him at the one of the recent games had a
1:05:56
thanks for having a shirt on how you met him? Well, I've met
1:05:58
him before. That's why I reckon. I him in the stands seats and
1:06:01
nice thanks for having us. It says, the sweetest pineapple in the world
1:06:05
has grown on Maui. And this is something peanut butter or pamp pina,
1:06:14
oh salt pineapple, saltwater taffy. Oh my, like this dude gets around
1:06:18
like you're a traveling man. Him and Ricky Nelson, thank you. That's
1:06:23
good. We'll pound that. Well, that looks really good. And I'll
1:06:29
tell you what this stuffing you put in here and make a mess and you
1:06:31
got bumper stickers and eat local. We're all we're strong. Supporters of pineapple
1:06:38
grown locally. We do not have saltwater. Can you talk a little bit
1:06:42
because this all dog on thing? Like what this thing? That? Be
1:06:45
careful when you move that way. I don't know what's in there. That
1:06:47
thing is heavy. I've had to move it three times. Be careful.
1:06:51
Here also from Tommy Boy. Oh what do we got? This could be
1:06:59
real pine apples. This is kind of like the uh Harry and David pear,
1:07:03
Yeah, but real pineapples. Like from Malley. Here's a card gift
1:07:11
to three guys before the game crew gift from Tom Barber, also known as
1:07:15
Tommy Boy. I know how much you all love your pears, so I
1:07:19
thought the pineapples and taffy would be a great Valentine's treat. Thank you all
1:07:24
for making us feel great about your pine He sent us a case of pineapples.
1:07:29
First, it's a first. You said you'd like to have fruit.
1:07:32
You know what else I really like about this? You know, I love
1:07:35
this makes you nervous, like he illegally ship pine You can't just ship pineapples.
1:07:40
This is ranks up there with the fig tree. You can jen Hawaii.
1:07:43
It's in the United States. That's not like all your buddies that you
1:07:46
know, bringing a legal contramand back from Italy. We might have a problem,
1:07:53
and says perishables stored forty five degrees. Oh really the talk for a
1:08:00
second. I gotta go go to uten. Are you gonna open this right
1:08:02
here? They're actual pineapples in there by the way. Open one of those
1:08:08
bags of salt water taffy. You're gonna like this saltwater taffy is pineapple.
1:08:13
It's good. Oh, be careful, you think we can still eat it
1:08:19
that you should store at forty five degrees? Oh well, those are pineapples.
1:08:38
Tommy boy has done it again. First time we've ever received root beer
1:08:42
from him, first time we've ever received pineapple. Dude, we got freaking
1:08:46
pineapples. It's pretty nice, really nice. Be careful, awesome, Now
1:09:00
get old. You guys eat pineapples at your house? Pineapple? You got
1:09:02
one of them things? No, just on you. We do it,
1:09:05
doesn't know. You just go in there with a hack and whack. All
1:09:08
right, Thank you so much. Man. Words can't describe it. I
1:09:11
mean, you gave us those that root beer. Go we crushed that root
1:09:15
beer. That was unbelievable. Anyway, you crushed that root beer. Did
1:09:18
you not get any No, you drank it all. Forty boils had a
1:09:21
chance to get it. Yeah, well took down every one of them.
1:09:25
Texter, Hey, three guys, just thought i'd say something in referencing to
1:09:28
the spaghetti sandwich fiasco a couple of episodes back. I've been waiting for the
1:09:31
perfect time to tell you guys about this. After the eighteenth Mountaineer turnover.
1:09:35
There's never been a better moment. Small Italian restaurant in Clarksburg called the Caboose
1:09:41
right off Route fifty a mile down from the Wonder Bar. I know exactly
1:09:44
where it is. Eating there. They have a sandwich there that's called the
1:09:47
Spahogi. It's a hogi bum with meatballs and spaghetti inside of it. Nice
1:09:53
and it is. Look at that thing, Brad, and it is phenomenal.
1:09:57
The moment I heard that text, I knew I had to let the
1:09:59
texteror know that they are not not alone and alas that's a legitimate thing.
1:10:00
Very delicious, Highly recommend if you're ever in the area. Thanks for all
1:10:04
the laughs, you guys. Your guy Devin from Goshen, Oh, yeah,
1:10:08
we know, devn We look at that thing. Though, that is
1:10:10
the first time I've seen spaghetti. They got cheese inside that thing. Now
1:10:14
you can get me. You can get a sausage HOGI at the Caboose.
1:10:17
That's tremendous, tremendous. I take down either one of those. Yeah,
1:10:21
look great. Text by the way, while you're driving around getting all this
1:10:28
food, and you gotta go down to Root fifty, down there and down
1:10:30
Root fifty, Clarksburg. Stop at the Gomart. Tis the season for Gomarty.
1:10:35
You need fuel, you need windshield wipe or fluid, and you need
1:10:39
yourself a fly rod slim Jim. That's right, a fly rod slim Jim.
1:10:44
You can bring it out. It's got a perfect whip on it.
1:10:46
When you fly rod, got that pork rines anything you need food, fuel,
1:10:53
get that rewards card to Gomart and you save money every time you go
1:10:57
in. Esteemed Triumvirate your next door neighbor. Checking in with an Ohio story.
1:11:03
Years ago, I was acquainted with a middle school teacher who worked in
1:11:08
Ohio. One Monday, a student whose family had attended the Buckeye game was
1:11:12
telling about it. But the story ended with the boy admitting that he was
1:11:15
puzzled why the band formed the big O during the game. That also puzzled
1:11:23
the teacher. What letter should they have formed? The teacher asked a little
1:11:28
student and he said an A. And the teacher said why an A?
1:11:33
And he said for Ahiah. Sometimes you just have to be grateful for your
1:11:39
neighbors. One last thing. Last night the game against TSU, first time,
1:11:45
I felt that the effort wasn't there. I worry we are on the
1:11:48
verge of unraveling. What's a concern Texter As the unofficial West ambassador of West
1:11:59
Virginia Athletic and Fort Worth. I had to find the father son combo that
1:12:02
did the game last night. Absolute pleasure talking with Andrew about the upcoming baseball
1:12:09
season and meeting tc oh. We just showed this was Cody win or lose.
1:12:12
Makes me feel connected with home Cody and Fort Worth Via Ravens would yeah,
1:12:17
there he is, Oh, there's Andrew. Hey, three guys Greg
1:12:26
in Morgantown. I saw the Senator walking into Daniels this morning and I yelled
1:12:30
at him from my car. That reminded me I needed some coffee beans,
1:12:34
so I went and picked these up out there at Mount New Roasting The show
1:12:38
perfect. Yeh, thanks great. I didn't know it was Greg when he
1:12:41
drove Viben. Somebody did slow down wave honk. Well, I'm glad you
1:12:45
got those shifts this morning. You work this morning, worked my shift,
1:12:48
tireless, tireless. Okay, So that's it. We're out of trouble.
1:12:53
Maybe who knows? So what we what have we accomplished? You're talking about
1:12:57
in her basketball and I've issued my first ever three guys suspension, which is
1:13:00
being appealed. I'd like to for our listeners out there, you tell me,
1:13:05
seriously, I would seriously like to know. Do you think that warrants
1:13:11
a three game suspension If a Mountaineer watched a taped version of Texas West Virginia
1:13:17
and didn't realize that the game on Saturday was in Austin, and he watched
1:13:21
the one from January. I think it's grounds, but I'd be interested to
1:13:26
see what you think. Give him credit admitted a game had already happened,
1:13:30
you know what, probably much more enjoyable. You know, if there's going
1:13:35
to be any clemency in my punishment, that may be it that the fact
1:13:41
that he fell on the sword and admitted that he could have gone around just
1:13:45
never tell anyone about that that might give him might I might pull it back,
1:13:49
might suspend it, might suspend the sentence as predicting. It's like the
1:13:56
NCAA. Challenged with actual information, you back down. No, it's pity,
1:14:00
it's no information. It's just may provide an information. You back down.
1:14:04
Hello, NCAA. Thanks to Austin Wright for our production here today.
1:14:13
Special thank you to Tommy Boy for sending us live pineapples. How many he
1:14:17
said he toured the facility there where this stuff was produce. I don't know.
1:14:21
That's pretty good. I'll tell you what my boy gets around now.
1:14:26
He does he might want to work himself into a sponsorship house down in Myrtle
1:14:29
Beach. Oh that's him. Yeah, he's offered it up multiple times to
1:14:32
us. Oh okay. Three guys brought to us by Comac's Business Systems,
1:14:38
keeping West Virginia's business data safe, secure and efficient for twenty five years.
1:14:44
They have you covered remote IT services. They'll do a complete computer colonoscopy within
1:14:49
your business to let you know where you're safe and where you're not. Three
1:14:55
guys brought to us by Gomart. Go for good times, Go for Gomart.
1:15:00
Are we you going to do anything in Myrtle Beach this summer. Well,
1:15:02
let's talk about it. We probably are booking? Are we booking dates
1:15:05
now for the summer? Probably should be. Probably, I mean it's running
1:15:09
out of time. Three guys brought to us by Lou Wendell Marine Sales in
1:15:13
St. Albans. They know spring and summer is coming. It's time to
1:15:15
put you into a pontoon. Visit Lou Wendellmarne Sales dot com, the premier
1:15:20
pontoon boat dealer in the state. And three guys spreads on stats brought to
1:15:26
us by the comly CPA group, providing value beyond the numbers. On Thursday,
1:15:31
we'll return with a preview of West Virginia and the Baylor Bears. That'll
1:15:38
do it for us. Three guys before the game, over and out.