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3 Guys Before The Game - Road Trippin (Episode 607) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  Speaker 1: Let's do this thing. Hey, everybody, welcome in. It's time
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  Speaker 1: for three guys before the game. This is episode number
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  Speaker 1: six zero seven. It's titled Road Tripping West Virginia. About
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  Speaker 1: to go on the road for two Colorado for the
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  Speaker 1: first time in the Big twelve on Sunday and then
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  Speaker 1: at Houston next week on this program, a little preview
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  Speaker 1: and a look back to the last outing against the
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  Speaker 1: Arizona Wildcats. Plus WVU women, My goodness today roll at
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  Speaker 1: Texas Tech. We'll get into all of that, plus your
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  Speaker 1: value beyond numbers. All right, let's do it. Man. We're
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  Speaker 1: mourning people and it's early in the morning. Newspaper hasn't
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  Speaker 1: even been delivered yet. I mean, that's how early it is.
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  Speaker 1: The news has what All right, We're in West Virginia
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  Speaker 1: getting ready to leave on Saturday for a very rare
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  Speaker 1: I haven't an all kidding the side. I haven't confronted.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's the first Sunday ever regular season game
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  Speaker 1: in the Big twelve. We just don't play Sundays. No,
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  Speaker 1: can't be ever, can it. I don't remember one. I'll
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  Speaker 1: take a look at that, you know, Jumping Jack.
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  Speaker 2: He'll research.
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  Speaker 1: By the end of this sentence, we'll throw that out there.
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  Speaker 1: He's across the other side of the wall along with
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  Speaker 1: producer Jake. Now. Jack goes to collegeen Iowa. Jake went
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  Speaker 1: to college in Idaho. Some people get Iowa and Idaho confused,
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  Speaker 1: Like you get Richmond in West Virginia. You know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean? You get that kind of thing. Oh idahih.
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  Speaker 2: They just that's about trying to cover your tracks for
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  Speaker 2: a bad error on your part.
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  Speaker 1: I got screwed up. I thought I thought Jake went
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  Speaker 1: to Iowa, but he went to Idaho. Same thing, all right? So,
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  Speaker 1: with all due respect to both states great states. Aren't
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  Speaker 1: you going to spend some time this summer in Iowa? Hoppy? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Signed up by this week?
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  Speaker 1: Tell them what you're gonna do?
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  Speaker 3: Ragbry about registers annual Great Bike Ride across Iowa?
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  Speaker 1: Is what that stands for? All the way across, all
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  Speaker 1: the way.
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  Speaker 3: Across the bike across the state of Iowa.
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  Speaker 1: How many miles is that? That's a lot of miles.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna do it? Uh?
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  Speaker 2: My wife and I and couple of my college buddies.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Really.
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  Speaker 2: You start in the Missouri River and then you when
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  Speaker 2: you finish, if you do, you put your bike wheel
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  Speaker 2: in the Mississippi.
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  Speaker 3: Is Applington on the list where you go about Coach
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  Speaker 3: Devreese's house.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I tell you what, Brad, I'm gonna I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: be in constant contact with you during this during this
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  Speaker 2: trip assuming I make it, because they haven't released their
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  Speaker 2: route yet.
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  Speaker 1: Oh they changed the route.
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  Speaker 3: They changed about every year. I'm not sure that remember
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  Speaker 3: on it. I've been gone a long time. I know
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  Speaker 3: West Virginia geography a lot better than Iowa geography. I'll
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  Speaker 3: know about three places in Iowa. Well, i'll well, so
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  Speaker 3: I'll help you with the three that I know of.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, like when we get to West des Moines, you'll
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  Speaker 2: get it at Yeah, okay.
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  Speaker 1: This is awesome. So you go to train for this thing.
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  Speaker 1: Eighty miles a day? Is there an average per day?
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  Speaker 2: The least is probably forty and the most is probably
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  Speaker 2: sixty sixty some is.
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  Speaker 1: That flat out there? Bread it is?
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  Speaker 3: But he'll be shocked how not flat it is when
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  Speaker 3: they start riding.
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  Speaker 1: This is awesome. It will surprise you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I've That's what I've.
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  Speaker 3: Jake Gower's parents out there. We can connect you with
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  Speaker 3: them as well, hook up, probably stay the night. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: they're in the greater West boy In area as well.
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  Speaker 2: I probably do.
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  Speaker 1: This is this is in July July. Okay, won't be
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  Speaker 1: any humidity, so you'll be yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Fine, ninety five degrees, the headwinds.
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  Speaker 1: Strapping Why don't you walk walk outside the day, capture
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  Speaker 1: the moment, and you can bring it back when you're
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  Speaker 1: going through Iowa.
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  Speaker 2: I'll send you picks.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you will, all right. Hoppy is excellent adventure
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  Speaker 1: coming up this July in Iowa. West Virginia falls to
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  Speaker 1: the Arizona Wildcats seventy five to fifty six at the Coliseum.
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  Speaker 1: So the Mountaineers now turn their sites toward two games
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  Speaker 1: coming up here on the road against Colorad and Houston.
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  Speaker 1: Will break down the Arizona game coming up in just
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. Rich Rodriguez continues to fill spots on
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  Speaker 1: his coaching staff and through the transfer portal with players,
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  Speaker 1: so that thing is filling up, and talked about this
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  Speaker 1: a little bit during the sports line. I haven't talked
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  Speaker 1: to Rich, but he's doing whether intentionally or non intentionally,
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  Speaker 1: he's doing a really nice job of getting this sprinkling
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  Speaker 1: on his staff of West Virginia guys who have been
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  Speaker 1: here during highest levels of success within the program. Chris
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  Speaker 1: Herring is gonna stay on. He'll be working special team side.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously captain on the eighty eight Fiesta Bowl team that
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  Speaker 1: played for the national title. You've got Noel Devine who
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  Speaker 1: had great success. You've got Jeff cass Steel, right, and
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  Speaker 1: then you've got like the guys that literally grew up
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  Speaker 1: in it. So you're gonna have Blaine Stewart, You're gonna
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  Speaker 1: have Jake cass Steele, he's gonna be joining onto the staff.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to have Rhett Rodriguez. Did I mention Noel, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: Noel Devine.
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  Speaker 3: So hold on, that's pretty wild with Blaine, Jake and
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  Speaker 3: Rhett who the last period of Western high level success.
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  Speaker 3: They were in the arcade room at the hotel. They
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  Speaker 3: were in the festival arcade room. You're playing right, You're right,
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  Speaker 3: you're absolutely I'm with you. I think that's great to
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  Speaker 3: have that connection. You say, Pat Kirkland Pat kirk and
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  Speaker 3: that was around So you're right. You have some guys
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  Speaker 3: that have been here when it looks like the best
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  Speaker 3: Western football, they know what it's supposed to know it's
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  Speaker 3: supposed to like or can look like.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Sure, So he continues to do that, and it's
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  Speaker 1: also quite fascinating, I think on the player acquisitions, and
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  Speaker 1: I truly call that the player acquisitions. And again, you
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  Speaker 1: could spend like a long time chatting with these guys Okay,
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  Speaker 1: walk us through what your mindset here is and putting
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  Speaker 1: this ross together, because you almost get the sense that
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  Speaker 1: right now they're they're bringing in guys that have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of experience and playing a lot of games. Quality
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  Speaker 1: guys may not be may not be the absolute all
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  Speaker 1: conference starter type guys, but they're they're filling, filling, filling,
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  Speaker 1: and then you're just kind of like waiting. They're waiting
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  Speaker 1: to go into the me dial. You know, you go
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  Speaker 1: in the grocery store, hopey, and sometimes like the specials
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  Speaker 1: are out front, you know, take you take advan, but
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  Speaker 1: you know the file at in the wagu is way
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  Speaker 1: in the back, and you're just kind of holding back
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  Speaker 1: here a little bit, going like I'm gonna go back
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  Speaker 1: there and at the end, when I figure out exactly
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  Speaker 1: what it is that I have and what I really
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  Speaker 1: truly need, then I'm gonna go to the market with
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  Speaker 1: my dollars and go all right, give me that. So
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  Speaker 1: you're saying the wagu Is give me the A one,
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  Speaker 1: like you're gonna, look, you're gonna tell me that term.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna find out what you need. Then you go
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  Speaker 1: A one. And this might be a frightening analogy. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I probably shouldn't use it as that, but I mean
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  Speaker 1: that's that's kind of what I think. They're just kind
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  Speaker 1: of like holding, waiting, evaluating, and then going like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: this is what we need to go get it. I think, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we'll see have any obvious observations.
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  Speaker 2: I do. You guys had said repeatedly getting into the big,
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  Speaker 2: this big twelve schedule, that oh, watch out because this
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  Speaker 2: schedule is brutal and it's coming. And then pretty early
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  Speaker 2: on in an Arizona game, whether you guys were when
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  Speaker 2: you guys were broadcasting or watching on TV, you could say, oh,
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  Speaker 2: it's coming, It's coming right now, you know. Coach Devreese
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  Speaker 2: had talked about Brad that West Virginia was able to
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  Speaker 2: offensively and defensively dictate in games and control how the
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  Speaker 2: game was executed. And in the Arizona game, that's what
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  Speaker 2: Arizona did. Arizona dictated offensively and defensively that entire game,
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  Speaker 2: and when West Virginia would make a little run, then
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  Speaker 2: Arizona would respond. I thought it was if we have it,
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  Speaker 2: we have an interest in West Virginia obviously, but if
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  Speaker 2: you're just watching a game, you look at that and
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  Speaker 2: who Arizona executed at a high level Number one. Number
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  Speaker 2: two is that you know, small gets seventeen a little
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  Speaker 2: bit belows average. But then you look for somebody else,
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  Speaker 2: who else is going to step up and get double
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  Speaker 2: digit points, and you really didn't see anybody be able
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  Speaker 2: to do that against Arizona. Third point is that Arizona
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  Speaker 2: is obviously very good. Those guards brad were matchup problems,
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  Speaker 2: Lewis and Bradley, and they overshadowed love and you concerned
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  Speaker 2: about love. They over sad in love. I mean six
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  Speaker 2: two six ' four, big guys that can hit shots,
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  Speaker 2: take you off the dribble. That was a problem all
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  Speaker 2: night for West Virginia. So they're really they're really good.
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  Speaker 2: Created matchup problems. You know, West Virginia does ten points
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  Speaker 2: off the bench, Arizona thirty four points off the bench. Lewis, Now,
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  Speaker 2: Lewis could be a starter, but Lewis comes off the
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  Speaker 2: bench as twenty one points. The guy from Estonia, he
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  Speaker 2: comes off the bench, didn't play against West Virginia the
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  Speaker 2: first time. He has like seven rebounds or six rebounds
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  Speaker 2: or something, so he's a factor.
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  Speaker 1: He hurt the rim wants to Yeah, he did them.
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  Speaker 2: And also just finally the crowd, good crowd considering the weather,
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  Speaker 2: solid crowd consuing the weather. So just those points, those
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  Speaker 2: are my obvious points. Well done, thank you, well done,
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  Speaker 2: rather obvious and right spot out.
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  Speaker 3: I thought that was the first time, really all year,
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  Speaker 3: a team that had better size than West Virginia was
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  Speaker 3: able to use its size against West Virginia. I can't
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  Speaker 3: remember another time where we walked out of there and
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  Speaker 3: say West Virginia was didn't have the ability to match inside.
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  Speaker 3: And I thought that happened, and that wasn't just from
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  Speaker 3: a matchup on traditional bigs. I thought the guards, Hobpy,
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  Speaker 3: I agree with you, the guards were difficult to handle.
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  Speaker 3: That was the best job I've seen a team do
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  Speaker 3: against West Virginia with screens out top, and that really
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  Speaker 3: triggered everything for Arizona. West Virginia was getting hung up
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  Speaker 3: more on top than I'd seen it all year, And
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  Speaker 3: some of that, as Darren talked about afterwards, was probably
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  Speaker 3: a West Virginia side of things. They just didn't seem
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  Speaker 3: to have the same intensity that they'd had in other games,
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  Speaker 3: which happens over the course of a thirty two game season.
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  Speaker 3: But Arizona was setting some really good picks, which was
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  Speaker 3: bring those guards around the edge, and instead of stopping
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  Speaker 3: and settling for threes, those guards were getting inside. That
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  Speaker 3: was creating some defensive rotational issues that then they were
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  Speaker 3: feeding in lower So you know, Arizona likes to get
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  Speaker 3: in the paint. They got into the paint, and I thought,
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  Speaker 3: that's what hurt West Virginia more than anything is those
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  Speaker 3: guards being able to get inside not settling for distance
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  Speaker 3: shots was a real problem for West Virginia.
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  Speaker 1: And again, West Virginia's playing seven guys right now. kJ
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  Speaker 1: Tenner was out of the game. Don't know if he'll
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  Speaker 1: be available for this upcoming trip. You hope that he
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  Speaker 1: will be, but you don't know for sure, and you
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  Speaker 1: just continue to say it. There is zero margin for
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  Speaker 1: air for this team unless they play at the highest
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  Speaker 1: level of efficiency. So it is the classic all gas,
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  Speaker 1: no brakes. If you have any any lack of energy,
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  Speaker 1: then you will be exposed of in this conference, on
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  Speaker 1: this particular West Virginia team. There are some teams in
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  Speaker 1: this league that can have a little bit of an
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  Speaker 1: off nine and still get away with a victory. Not
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  Speaker 1: right now for this team and the bad thing about
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  Speaker 1: it is that you lost, all right. The good thing,
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  Speaker 1: in my view is it redefines to each of those
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  Speaker 1: players what is required to win. Similar to what we
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  Speaker 1: saw in the pit loss. They came back out and
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  Speaker 1: they got the message and they said, Okay, this is
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  Speaker 1: what we have to do. And I think this will
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  Speaker 1: help them going on the road to play Colorado Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: What happened to them early this week. Again, don't want
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  Speaker 1: to lose, but I think it will once again let
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  Speaker 1: them know that there's zero margin.
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  Speaker 3: Arizona's popped back. There are a lot of people thought
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  Speaker 3: that's a final four team or a potential final four team,
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  Speaker 3: a team that can contend for a Big twelve title.
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  Speaker 3: You didn't see it early. They were trying to find themselves.
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  Speaker 3: That they found themselves. That's a talented team with a
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  Speaker 3: lot of different pieces. And listen, West Virginia would be
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  Speaker 3: nice if West Virginia could get on a stretch with
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  Speaker 3: no injuries, that might help a little bit. Never Mind
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  Speaker 3: that Tucker is still out, one of the best players
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  Speaker 3: in the country. But now kJ on top of that
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  Speaker 3: saw Moni go down again during the game, so it's
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  Speaker 3: it's one injury after another.
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  Speaker 2: There for West Virginia and you have of course, now
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  Speaker 2: it's just a given you're playing with Atucketavreese, but you
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  Speaker 2: took twenty seven to twenty six points off the board
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  Speaker 2: and you lost by twenty so there's a factor too.
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  Speaker 2: And Brad, what you talked about was, you know, West
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  Speaker 2: Virginia almost all season has been really good at the switches,
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  Speaker 2: on screens and picks and on getting back defensively.
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  Speaker 3: There where times in that game it just didn't happen. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: they got back, Okay, they slowed transition. It was it
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  Speaker 3: was really you know, I'll give you a couple of numbers.
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  Speaker 3: It's not spreads on stats, but it's a bonus section here.
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  Speaker 3: Arizona had forty four percent of its shots at the rim.
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  Speaker 3: That was significantly above their season average, almost ten percent
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  Speaker 3: more than they normally get, and they made seventy four
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  Speaker 3: percent of those shots. So the counter to that is
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  Speaker 3: West Virginia has a high three point attempt rate, So
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  Speaker 3: you need those threes to go in. If you're giving
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  Speaker 3: up buckets inside, fine, you've got to make the threes
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  Speaker 3: on the other end. Trader threes for two. West Virginia
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  Speaker 3: didn't shoot it at a high enough level like it
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  Speaker 3: did in the Bahamas when Tucker was going bananas. That
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  Speaker 3: was the difference in that particular game. The other part
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  Speaker 3: last thing I'll say about the Arizona review one, look
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  Speaker 3: at what we talked about going into the game. A
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  Speaker 3: key was going to be live ball turnovers. Both teams
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  Speaker 3: had been operating at a really high level in converting
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  Speaker 3: live ball turnovers into points. Arizona only had six of
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  Speaker 3: those points in the first meeting from West Virginia did
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  Speaker 3: not get those easy runout baskets, but had been averaging
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  Speaker 3: nineteen points per game over the last five that game,
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  Speaker 3: West Virginia they got almost one point six per possession
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  Speaker 3: off ten turnovers, so fifteen sixteen points off live ball turnovers.
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  Speaker 3: West Virginia just seven. So there's the difference. West Virginia
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  Speaker 3: had been living off that category as well, so that flipped.
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  Speaker 1: Part of the reason he didn't win. One of the
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  Speaker 1: keys of success to three guys before the game is
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  Speaker 1: the unbelievable support that we have from our production people.
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  Speaker 1: We just asked a question, We said, when was the
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  Speaker 1: last West Virginia's last Sunday Conference game. Jumping Jack on
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  Speaker 1: the other side of the wall reports in mos thirteen
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  Speaker 1: years ago February five, twenty twelve in the Big East.
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  Speaker 1: West Virginia beat Providence in overtime on February fifth, and
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  Speaker 1: this is the first ever Big twelve Conference game on
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  Speaker 1: a Sunday for West Virginia. In fact, Jack points out
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  Speaker 1: they're going to be two this year. They will also
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  Speaker 1: play Cincinnata on a Sunday on February the second, and
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  Speaker 1: obviously this coming Sunday. So yeah, don't play league, don't
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  Speaker 1: play Sunday games. But now, as I said earlier, pretty
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  Speaker 1: much every they're playing every day of the week now
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  Speaker 1: except Thursday. Because of the you got twenty games and
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  Speaker 1: you've got sixteen teams. Yes, like kind of like Gomart,
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  Speaker 1: they're just always open, you know what I mean, Brad.
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  Speaker 1: And Gomart's open on Sunday. Sure, I mean, Gomart's open
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  Speaker 2: You know when if you're driving through West Virginia, it's snowy,
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  Speaker 2: it's dark, and you see the light in the distance.
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  Speaker 1: What is that light? It's a beacon of hope. It's
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: a beacon of go Mart. Yeah, yeah, it's a beacon
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  Speaker 1: What do you say we do this? So I check
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• 18:53
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  Speaker 1: it did. What do you think? Okay, well let me
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  Speaker 1: what do you think the most fatal statistic coming out
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: of Arizona game was? Then you can preview Colorado.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: So a couple things. I think that's what we talked about.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: I thought Arizona's ability to get it in the paint
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: and get close shots.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: Was the difference.
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: You know, West Virginia has been able to close off
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: that lane so well and made it difficult for teams
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: to penetrate in. I just thought overall that was the
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: biggest difference in that game. Arizona size was a factor.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: And again the job that Arizona did screening out front
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: really freed West Virginia up. And then the thought, to
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: Hoppy's point, there wasn't a robin to Javon Small's batman
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: from a scoring perspective, he needed somebody else to come
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: along and make some shots. Javon hit three threes.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Sincere Curry, as we probably aris what Sincere Harris.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: Not a cousin of Steph Curry, as well as sincere
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: shooting it.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Well multiple three point games, made a couple threes, Yeah.
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: Correct, So those are the only two that had more,
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: and Amani did hit a couple two, which is good
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: to see. I think that moving forward, Amani getting comfortable
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: from three, including that one from the left wing, almost
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: trending towards a left corner that's not a spot a
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: Moni normally goes to. So that was encouraging. But just overall,
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: West Virginia's defense wasn't at the level that we have
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: normally seen that and that's as Darren mentioned, after that
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: margin for air, it's got to live first defensively and
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: then and then make its offense go off that all right.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: We move ahead to further action. Colorado West Virginia first
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: ever meeting between the two schools in Big twelve Conference play.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: They were in action on Wednesday night and lost a
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: game that went down to the last shot at UCF.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: Well, it was it was basketball until the end, then
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: it was monkey in the middle for the for the end.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: There got a crazy little scramble.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, seventy five seventy four. UCF gets a win. Colorado
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: oho to three in the conference.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: And Colorado had a decent lead. What it get up
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: to eight seven, somewhere in that range. That's a That's
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: a game they probably thought they had midway through the
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: second half. They came out blistering hot in the second
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: half and then really cooled significantly and had to take
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: the loss on the road, which you never like a
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: desperate team. I think you're gonna get a desperate Colorado
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: team coming back home on Sunday for your West Virginia.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: So this is one. This is one of those coin
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: flippy games. You look at it and say, all right,
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: can we go in and get a road win here? Yes,
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: but this is a team. I think you're gonna get
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: Colorado's best effort coming back here at home.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: I don't disagree.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: A couple things to watch. We just mentioned about Arizona's
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: ability to get it inside. That's what Colorado's gonna want
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: to do. They have good size, So West Virginia certainly
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: working these next few days on how to close that
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: middle off. They have size and length inside. One of
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: the things that they do extremely well, they pass it
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: at a really high level, eighth the best assist rate
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: in the country, And I think that's important to note.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: As I mentioned earlier, hopy, because I thought Arizona did
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: a great job of moving the balls and finding the
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: open man, penetrating past that first line of defense, drawing
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: the help, and then dishing it off. Colorado's going to
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: do that. On their cut to the basket, they're one
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: of the best in the country. They score seventy one
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: percent of the time on cutters going to the basket.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: That's where that good passing shows up. So Western's gonna
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: have to tighten up that inside def fortify the middle,
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: make them get outside. If they make threes on you,
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: they make threes on you, but block that middle off
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: as West Virginia has been so good with during the
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: season so far, turnovers have been an issue for this
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: Colorado team, especially in the last five games. This is
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: overall a bottom twenty team nationally in turnover percentage against
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: a West Virginia team that likes to create turnovers, get turnovers,
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: and score off turnovers. So my guess early on is,
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: if West Virginia wins this game, you will see a
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: good advantage in that points off turnovers.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: Bad question, yes, would that be linked to the fact
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: they're trying to hit the cutter and get the ball
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: inside and it's a little bit more difficult.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: No, I don't think.
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: I just think they've they've got into big twelve play
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: here and it's in the defense, and the talent has
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: picked up against them. So because they've been very successful
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: on those cuts, in fact, they probably should run those
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: or as much success as they are having with it,
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: So keep an eye on that. That's going to be
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: important to watch. Colorado's defense has been better speaking of
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: turnovers off of LiveBall turnovers the last five games. They're
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: not too far off from where West Virginia has been
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: in a points per game situation. They like to go
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: for two off a LiveBall turnover, and they're good at it,
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: shooting seventy three percent, which again makes sense. Usually a
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: LiveBall turnover, you think you have numbers going the other way,
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: you try and get in Gianesi shots. So watch watch
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: turnovers both sides. As we again will say every game,
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: they are good Colorado is if you leave them on
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: guarded from three forty one percent from three on unguarded
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: catch and shoots. That's something to watch. West Virginia just
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: doesn't leave you open very often for those on guarded shots.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: So does that change Colorado's offensive profile if they're not
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: getting the open looks that they're used to. So I'd
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: keep an eye on that watch. Inside Malone is one
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: of their big guys. Seventy three percent of his points
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: come from the paint West three. He's gonna have to
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: handle those bigs Inside.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: There's some of the numbers. It's all good stuff.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Can I make a couple obvious observations?
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Sure?
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: One is that the importance of the game. I mean,
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: you're on the road. That's always tough. It's a conference opponent.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: But they're eighty fifth, eighty six or something. In Ken Palm,
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: Arizona was thirteenth. You got Houston coming up to three.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: Obvious stage four. Got to try to get this one,
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: Tony got to try to get this one.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Number one question, I mean, if if you take a
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: non coaching move here, because coaches only look at what
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: brad next game, next games, look at the nextcent but
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: like if you do look at it, and if you
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: just want to refer to Ken Pom. So Ken Palm
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: gives West Virginia a fifty two percent chance to win
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: the game. Well that's all right. So the Ken Palm's
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: computer says sixty seven sixty six West Virginia whatever, I
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: take it one nothing. But after that, Ken Palm's computer
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: says West Virginia has an the eleven percent chance to
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: beat Houston and a thirty two percent chance to beat
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Iowa State, before it grows to seventy one percent against
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Arizona State, then fifty six percent against Kansas State. So
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: the computer says you're gonna lose Houston and Iowa State
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: gives you a teeny little edge Colorado. To your point,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: it would be extremely important to get this victory for
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: a bunch of different reasons. It gives you renewed confidence
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: when you go to Houston, because Houston is going to
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: absolutely try to suffocate you with the defense.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: Tony one other point, I don't know if you've ever
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: been to the event Center at Colorado, so new venue
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: for the Mountaineers that I just looked this up. This
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: it seats eleven thousand, they're averaging sixty seven hundred, So
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: maybe it's not the toughest place to play. I don't
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: know much about I don't know much about it except
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: that I thought that was an interesting stat I mean,
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: they're not selling the place out. Maybe it's of course,
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: you want a Kansas so maybe that's not a fact
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: at all.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: But yeah, let mean see something. I want to take
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: a look at something. Might I take a look at something, Stamley, Yeah, yeah,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: stamp Stampley. I take a look at one thing.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: I think we'll get your attention. Most about this Colorado
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: team is that win over Connecticut out in Maui. So
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: their losses are to Michigan State Top twenty team, Iowa
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: State twice, an Arizona State team that you saw took
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: Kansas for a half last night in Allen field House,
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: and then the UCF game last night. So this is
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: a team that has has had trouble since it got
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: into the Big twelve. But it's this is a dangerous game, guys,
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: this is this is not easy, right.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: I looked at up that when they beat Yukon seventy three,
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: seventy two, they've got the free throw line twenty eight times.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that their free throw at temperate's pretty good. It's
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: it's right around the top one hundred in the country.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: And part of that is they like to go inside, right,
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: They've got Malone inside who gets to the line a lot.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: I looked at I looked at the thing I wanted
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: to look at Broncos play Sunday afternoon. That'll help keep
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: that'll keep a few away. Yeah, right then I want
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: to stay home. Watched Broncos game, right right, so yeah.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: Or go to the Broncos again or is it home
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: or is it away?
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: I know Bill's Bill at the Bills. Yeah yeah, so yeah,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: make them stay there, check out the Broncos. All right,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: very good, got it. It's a good plan. Also, first
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: time that West Virginia is going to play an elevation.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: What is it? Do you know the elevation?
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: I'll check. I don't know how high it is there,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: but I do know whether it was or it wasn't
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: a factor. Wv's women's team when it played there before
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Christmas blew a very big lead in the fourth quarter.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: Oh mile high and thirty.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Did it run out of guess? So West Virginia will
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: go in Saturday late afternoon to get a practice there
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: to acclimate itself to the elevation.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: Remember one o'clock mountain time. Don't get confused. Correct one o'clock.
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  Speaker 1: Well it sure it is, because that's when West Virginia leaves.
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  Speaker 1: Like whenever, whenever West Virginia gets to an area, just
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  Speaker 1: like assume assume worst case scenario, and then after that
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  Speaker 2: How many times is it football? If you go into
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  Speaker 2: it's cold.
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  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame Bowl.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my, was that?
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  Speaker 1: Uh was you in Birmingham? Weren't you in Birmingham? And
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: I thought it was to death?
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: Oh were going south going to Birmingham. It was freezing almost.
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  Speaker 2: We had the and I had just like slacks on
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: and it's shirt and nice shirt. Had the windows open.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: It was freezing. Hate to hear that West Virginia one.
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  Speaker 1: Well. I like that West Virginia women last night. Wow,
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• 29:33
  Speaker 1: West Virginia goes to the foul line thirty one times.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Excuse me, they went to the foul line thirty one times.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: They made twenty eight of them. I think they made
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: like it was they made over twenty in a row
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: before they eventually missed. I think it was like twenty
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: two and twenty three in a row.
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: At a near sixty percent free throw attempt rate. Yeah,
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: which is a lot.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: So West Virginia was up twenty four eight and a half
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: eighteen to nine. They outscored him in the second quarter,
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: scoring was even twenty four eight at one first quarter.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: At the end of the first quarter they were up
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: twenty five years a half. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Then
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: first quarter yea, eighteen to nine. West Virginia scored them
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: in the second ward, so the game was over at halftime.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: They played even in the third quarter at twenty four each,
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: and then West Virginia out scored them twenty three to
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: twelve at the end. So Texas Tech played Saturday at
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Kansas State and then couldn't get out of Manhattan. They
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: had the most snow in Manhattan in one hundred and
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: twenty five years, really, so they got iced out and
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: did not get home until Tuesday, late afternoon, and so
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: they were kind of all out of sorts, and they
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: continued to play like they were all out of sorts.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: West Virginia boat raced.
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: Them thirty five twelve points off turnover advantage.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Is that good? Yeah, yeah, that'll work.
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: West Virginia turning over twenty six times twenty six times
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: in the game.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: So now the women go on the road. They stay
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: on the road. They leave today which is Thursday, and
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: go to Stillwater and Oklahoma States got some interesting wins,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: but it would be great if they could pick pick
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: up another one.
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: West Virginia has forced fifty seven turnovers in the last
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: two Big Twelve Conference games. Wow, fifty seven turnovers in
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: two conference games.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that'll work. Yeah, yeah, that'll take care of some.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: Qually had another which you have twenty six to twenty.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: She's up over twenty and Harrison head Over had twenty.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: So yeah, they're playing well. Fingers crossed, keep it going,
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• 32:13
  Speaker 1: Joe DiMaggio, mister coffee did it? Yeah, he did. He
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: brought in a mister coffee. He got his own setup
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: like everyone else. You get your coffee over there, that's
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: that's he's just a straight coffee.
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: Then if you're bringing in a mister coffee, you're not
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: you're not letting that.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: Well, he's got a different you know how you like
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: special coffee's right, special cofee. He's it for him.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: It's fuel. Yeah, it's just fuel. Yeah, yeah, hot fuel. Yeah,
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: coffee shame him like you do everybody else. Oh, yeah,
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: what I did once, I said, I said, this is
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: what I said, Hey, George, you drink this rat piss?
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: I said, are you kidding me? Oh? I did? He
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: kind of he did. His countenance did kind of droop
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: a little bit. Then I I brought him some of
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: mine one day, I said, here, George, drink this. He
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: went like, well that's really good and I want Yeah,
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: that's that's good coffee. But yeah, I did. I coffee
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: shamed him. Thought it was necessary. Thought I thought it
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: was necessary. I hope it didn't hurt his feelings. He
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: seems to be okay. He talks to us, likes what
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: he likes.
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: Hey, listen, they grind would be better, it would be Hey.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: We should we should hide it like one day, like
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: when he thinks he's making it, like, dump his stuff out.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: That's what we should do. The coffee test.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: Let him go into the office. Well, while it's brewing,
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: we take it, dump it. Put the game day grind
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: in there, brew it and oh that'd be a special treat.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: That a throwback to the old commercial. What if I
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: told you were drinking folders exactly, which is what he drinks.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: By the way, I already called it rat piss. Sorry
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: to all you folders drinkers out there.
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: Attempts and sales staff, don't call folders. Continue to take
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: with our game day grind.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: Hey, have I told you that Connection three oh four
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: is the beer of the month at Gomart? That's terrific.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: I haven't stopped in yet too, Brad, Were you there
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: on Tuesday? Today's Thursday?
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: No going today though, gotta get some guess okay today? Yeah,
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: being there today, I will go and check out the
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: beer of the month though. Yeah, see if they are
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: stucked up, yeah, because it's in like what seventy locations?
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: And then we said over seventy locations correct.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: I need some.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: Pictures of some of that, some folks that are out
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: getting it in there. I want to see. I want
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: to see the graphic on the gas pumps. I look
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: today too at ours.
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: Dom, not don but Dom from what That's the beer
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: of the month this month, January, all January, the whole month,
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: so it's easy to find when you walk into the
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: Gomart stores in.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: Action three oh four, taste it Dom from Smithers. I
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: would like to take this moment to fully support Uncle
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: Tony's stance on referees taking selfies before a football game.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: There's too much on the line with these games to
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: see a referee taking a selfie, and that would signal
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: for me that the referees not ready for the moment,
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: would be easily overcome by the crowd and other emotional
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: factors that's around the game. Thank you for all you do. Yes,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to watching Andy Kodal Nicky's offense take
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: on the fighting Irish Dom from Smithers. Joah, there's total
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: Nicki reference check question for spreads. That's you. Yeah. Where
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: does West Virginia's defense rank nationally on guarded.
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: Shots NASA and guarded shots?
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: Who's that from? Jason Charleston, South Carol.
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: Aggociate that question. It's a good one. Let's look here
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: guarded shots. So West Virginia sits in the top ten
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: percent nationally of percentage of time that the opponent is
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: has a guarded shot or conversely u guarded whichever way
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: you want to look at. That's one of the best
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: in the country, top ten percent. And he's asked allowing
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: the fewest.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's asking guarded shows WHATSOO teams shoot when
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: they're guarded against West Virginia.
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they shoot when they are guarded against West Virginia
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: from three specifically, sure, just thirty three percent?
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: Okay from three? Yeah, Texter says, scope spreads and really
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: a part timer. So does the need for quantity cause
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: the fact that we are going after lower level guys
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: in football to make the money go further? I think,
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: as I kind of said earlier, I think we're into
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: a new world where they're figuring that part of it out.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: But yeah, you're trying to get your most value for
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: your dollars. You know how much it is that you
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: have to spend, and like you know, it could be
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: football players, or it could be groceries. You're trying to
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: figure out how can I get my most value for
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: my least amount of dollars.
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: So yes, but you're also trying to I do think
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: that's an interesting discussion that personnel folks have to have
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: now in college football, is do you take the guy
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: that's been highly productive at a lower level versus a
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: guy that has not played much at the power for It.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: Is a great question.
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: He said power for for a reason, theoretically athletically, but
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: those guys, and we've seen it here at Western any
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: highly productive guys that have played a lot of football
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: that come in as experience and are very valuable. So
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: I think that's why you need a mix of those
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: particular guys. And you're seeing some of this first wave
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: of guys that come in are guys that have played
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: a lot of football at that lower level.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: And conversely, we've also seen guys come from a lower
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: level they're not good enough and that it doesn't translate.
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: And that gets to but you've also seen guys at
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: the power floor level that have come in and haven't translated.
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: So there's there's no exact formula. If there's everybody would
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: do it it's your heart.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: Well, how many times I gotta tell you, Clancy, you
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: gotta have it in your hearts. You got to be
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: a dog.
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: It also helps to have skills. But the and in
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: the old days, by that I mean three years ago.
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: In the old days, you would take a high school
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: kid and maybe over four or five years you could
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: develop them, right if they had some basic skills. And
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: now it's now the new emphasis has to be on
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: talent evaluation. How good is your crew at evaluating talent?
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: Which is hard for guys that have not played in
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: college but have been on.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: Rosters exactly, that's hard.
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: I mean you're going back to what your high school
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: evaluation of them was. That's why a lot of times
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: we saw Underneil you were looking for guys that you'd
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: recruited once in a bounce back spot. I'm sure richest
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: staff will be the same way once they get up
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: and rolling.
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: Here, No, Brad, the power fours can't get They try,
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: but they can't get everybody. And we watched all these
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: Bowl games and we I mean just now that's just casual.
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: You're just watching them. We saw some guys, I mean
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: there's guys.
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's why there's there's certain just to pick a conference. Mac,
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: guys that you see all the time. The power fours
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: are going in looking at the max and all right,
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: who's been the most productive? Can we get you guys
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: because they're Yeah, Harold Fann and Junior bowling.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: Green except he's going to the National Football.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: Ted from Colorado rights in all of the West Virginia
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: transplants here in Colorado are excited to have the Mountaineers
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: and Boulder Sunday. We've got a block of twenty tickets
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: for the game. Look forward to seeing Tony and Brad
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: on Sunday.
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: Tell a nice contingent. DeVries are going to have a
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: good crew that's coming in from Omaha. My sister and
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: nephew will be in at sister and one of my
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: nephews excellent boy or girl boy age senior in high school.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: Oh old ish, Oh yeah good.
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: Hey till Ted, I said, I know Ted, he's a
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: he was a talk line guy when I used to
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: host that show several years back. Ted Fiala, tell him,
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: I said, Heloe, I'll do it.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: Well. So you did do that show for a while.
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: All about this, it's it's been forgotten.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Mike from Oakdale writes in Scopes any word on
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: when an announcement will be made on future seating, stadium
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: upgrade capital projects that Rent has mentioned, does the hire
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: of Rich alter the projects except the hopeful acceleration of funding.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: I always appreciate you three as always, I would certainly
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: say this Mike, that it will serve as a catalyst
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: to get it done. It is a massive capital expenditure.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: It's definitely on the list to do. It's not a
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: back burner item. They want to do it because they
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: know that it will generate dollars. I do think that,
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: you know, the groundswell of momentum that Rich brings will
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: make it happen. And I think, yeah, is the short answer,
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: short answer to it. By the way, I've reached out
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: directly to the director of athletics and asked him to
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: come in, and he said yes, because we want to
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: really dig into how in the heck this money that
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: we're talking about, Like how do you pay this guy?
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: What's this how's this count against your roster spot? Can
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: you come in and just walk us through how this
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: actually is happening because there's a lot of questions. We
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: got a lot of questions Texter TC and the other
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: two guys Inquiring minds want to know when Tony and
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: Brad are doing a West Virginia game, can you hear
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: the ball hit the rim on a shot or is
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: that a button you or someone hits? Thanks go And
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: then another one came in, three guys. I listened to
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: two guys at the game. While watching most games at
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: the coliseum, is there a microphone positioned on each backboard?
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: The sound of the ball hitting the rim is crazy
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: loud and clearly audible at times, realizing that two of
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: you are working and not listening, but wasn't sure who
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: else to ask why this happens? Thanks Craig in Oakmont.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: So first ever sound effects questions on thet an effects question,
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: so real simple. There are microphones on the backboard right
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: next to the rim. It's a teeny little microphone, and
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: there is something called an effects feed which takes both
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: of the baskets and other sound from around the floor
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: and it's brought together and then it's distributed to the
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: TV people. They're the ones that lay it all out,
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: and then the radio people get a feed as well.
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: So there is a what we call a pot on
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: our board a channel that has its own volume that
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: our engineer will regulate during the course of the game.
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: And so like when there is a free throw, that's
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: when they are sitting there and they see that thing hit,
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: they'll give it the old h So you hear it
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: go or you hear it go pink. So yeah, you're
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: you're manually correcting that and it adds to the ambiance
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: hide of it. And yes, we do hear it in
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: our headset just like you're hearing it. However, if you
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: want to, I'll give you more than you want to know.
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: You could also have discrete what we call discrete mixes.
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: And so certain announcers want, like, hey, give me heavy effects.
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: In my head I want to hear I want to
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: really hear it. Or like me in football, I don't
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: like to hear a ton of effects in my headset.
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: I want to hear more of me than I want
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: to hear of the effects because sometimes it just becomes
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: overwhelming that it gets so loud.
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: There's that is that's an interesting backstore because there is
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: how much how much effects do the play? But like
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: Brian Estridge once huge effects and when Dale Miller ran
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: the games, he loved effects. He had a lot of
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: effects in there. The the sound of the rim to me,
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: really helps on radio. I love it because it really
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: gives it texture. It was terrible in golf. Remember when
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: they did they had effects of the ball dropping in
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: the hole.
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I used to like the cups sound.
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: Not I didn't like the cup sound because and that
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: a that was artificial, right, That was not a real cupsound,
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: it was it was artificially generating. Second of all, you
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: can't how is it you don't hear the putter hit
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: the ball and you don't hear anything except then all
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: of a sudden, it's really loud when the ball goes.
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: In the hole. Well you've gone deep on that.
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've thought about it was so it was out
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: of context. It was out of context. The rim, the
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: rim shot is not it adds.
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: But no, it's those are those are that's the authentic sound.
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: There's no there's no you're low effects. But in basketball
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: doesn't matter because because it's it's so loud, you hear
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: everything regardless. But in football, I try to give it
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: a little bit lower. Are you going to offer Valentine
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: strawberry popcorn this year? Yes? We are on a website episode.
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: That's really good. Where do you get it? It'll be
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: this month. It'll be put back out onto the website
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: from Mountaineer Popcorn and Shepherdstown in Martinsburg locations, but.
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: It'll be on the web episode eight Hunter dot Com.
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I hope they took care of that sign
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: there in Martinsburg for Mountaineer Popcorn. Remember they were having
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: some issues with the city government there, like could you
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: put the sign up that says Mountaineer Popcorn take the
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: fish sway?
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: Some zoning issue there.
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: Get on with it, let's get business doing. Dave Sean
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: Butler is the single greatest basketball player ever to come
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: back in a coaching role at West Virginia. You might
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: be right there, Brad. Remember we talked about that in
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: the last episode. I mean he's third all time and scoring.
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: A great player. Yeah, probably right.
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah on the basketball side, we were talking football.
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, with the basketball you would have number. Lester would
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: be there is two, right.
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: Bobby Joe Smith was really good.
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: Oh, Fred Ouse Rich Alls, but they would be certainly
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: right in the discussion.
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: Hi, Tony, Brad Hopey. I noticed during this season and
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: postseason a few teams still use helmet stickers. You think
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: there'd be a time when West Virginia might bring back
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: musket stickers or is that a thing to be left
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: in the past. Personally, I like them. I kind of
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: liked him too.
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: I liked him too. There'd be a lot of work
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: for the equipment guy.
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: Plus, you wear more helmets now than you used to. Right,
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: would you have to take him off each each helmet
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: put on the next hour?
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: I do like that.
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: Look, you're getting paid.
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: Take this.
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: Don't worry about stickers.
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: Ps. I brought my son to his first football game
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: this season. I built him up about the three guys
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: food court I had been hearing about. Unfortunately, it was
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: the Baylor game and there wasn't wouch. Oh well, I
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: hope to catch one this coming season. Thanks for all
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: you do. I enjoy the show. Kevin b born in Logan,
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: now in bunker Hill.
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: Sorry Kevin, we got nervous about that weather late, which
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: turned out to be a good decision.
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: Right are we doing wondering baseball?
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: I think there was a plan to do an event. Now, Tony,
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: why are you just throwing things out there? I think
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: you're right Hoppy, Well, because he's retired, he's looking for
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: things to do.
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: And I'm here random thoughts on events.
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: I think we ops into my mind. I'm just gonna
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: say it, I think we are going to do that.
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: Now, you got him going now you just as you
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: asked the question, we're going to Now he says, yeah,
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: think we're doing that.
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: I think Coach Saban's actually he did ask that'd be great.
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: There's been no discussion of the logistics.
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: Of that, as as opposed to all the other times
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: when planning meetings.
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: Fair enough scopes Senator and now full time hoppy. I
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: hope this makes the show Rue Rue formerly Richie from Buchanan,
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: not Hawk formerly Jeremy from Cooperstown. So I have two shoutouts.
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: First of my great friend Hawk formerly Jeremy from coopers Town.
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: He recently got engaged to Heather at the Greenbrier over
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: the New Year's holiday. I want to give him a
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: mountaineer shout out and give him a let's go. I
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: wish him nothing but the best. Congratulations. Yeah, there you go. Hey,
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: what's up, three guys. Here's a true mountaineer fan, Wyatt.
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: Wyatt got tickets to the suns at Hornets game for Christmas.
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: Then last night decided he wanted to go see the
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: Mountaineers play, and his sister Ella wanted to tag along
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: while mom worked. Today, Old Dad took the kids, traveled
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: seventy seven to nineteen up seventy nine, battled heavy snow
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: showers on the way home, three and a half hour
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: trip from Princeton and back home, and one day completed.
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: I've successfully trained these two into being part of the
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: next generation of mountaineers. Lol. Long day for them, but
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: it is worth it. Let's go mountaineers, and there they are.
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: That is work. That is a strong effort. That is
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: a day's work Princeton and back for hoops. Wow, that's
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: hard there yet? Yeah, man, it is horrible.
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: Hold on, that's tremendous all three. Great work by Dad,
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: But your job on the two kids traveling, Yes, it's
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: not easy.
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: Well, okay, so I'm asking for a chance to be
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: vindicated here. It has come to my attention that I
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: was the topic of conversation because I had a pit
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: sweatshirt on during the mercy Hurst game. It was ugly.
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: It was ugly sweater night, best ugly sweater ever. Can
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: you guys please clear this up. I can't allow any
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  Speaker 1: doubt in my love for the Mountaineers. Eat crap pit,
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  Speaker 1: Let's go Mountaineers. I appreciate you guys love the show.
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  Speaker 1: Anthony from Bridgeport, so yeah, go ahead tell the story.
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  Speaker 1: So there's a great our buddy, Anthony originally from Bridgeport.
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  Speaker 1: Now I lives in Pennsylvania, up in Pittsburgh. Great guy,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, huge supporter, comes with us on a lot
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  Speaker 1: of road trips. So one game recently, it was ugly
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  Speaker 1: sweater game. Mercy hears Mercy, Oh yeah, mercyers like Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking at the TV monitor during the game and
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  Speaker 1: they're showing crowd shots and like, I look and there's
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  Speaker 1: Anthony and he's wearing a pit sweatshirt. So I said,
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  Speaker 1: why would Anthony be wearing a pit sweatshirt in the coliseum?
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  Speaker 1: And so Brett I said, he must have lost a
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  Speaker 1: bet to a pit fan air we were talking about.
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  Speaker 1: So I finally corralled him at the I said, dude,
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  Speaker 1: I got to ask you something. What were you wearing
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  Speaker 1: that pitt sweatshirt for? He said it was ugly sweater day.
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  Speaker 1: What is more uglier than a pit sweatshirt? We should
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  Speaker 1: have known that, And I went, should Yeah, lost a bet?
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  Speaker 1: Was a was a logical assumption. We should have realized
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  Speaker 1: it was ugly sweating. Was well done by Anthony. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: good play.
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  Speaker 3: A little bit too smart for the two of us.
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  Speaker 3: We couldn't figure it out a little bit more nuanced
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  Speaker 3: than hand. That was more than Anthony. Good move, Anthony.
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  Speaker 1: You're back in the family, Anthony, Tell he always was.
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  Speaker 3: You knew Anthony was sitting there in a pit sweater, now,
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  Speaker 3: I mean we had that there was a reason behind it.
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  Speaker 1: Sure, he just missed the reason. Exactly Well done, Texter.
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  Speaker 1: Did someone kill kJ Lewis's dog because he went? John
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  Speaker 1: Wick on us? Wasn't our night? Move on to the
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  Speaker 1: next one. Perryopolis Phillia Lewis came off. Yeah, this is
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  Speaker 1: acid really good. Three guys, even with a nineteen point
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  Speaker 1: no loss, I'm happy. I'm okay, let me do this
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  Speaker 1: in English. Three guys, even with a nineteen point loss.
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  Speaker 1: I am over the moon happy about this coaching staff
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  Speaker 1: and players. I really don't really know how much about
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  Speaker 1: the x's and o's, but just about how anyone can
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  Speaker 1: evaluate Jimmy's and Joe's and man, do we have some
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: Jimmy's and Joe's As it seems to happen far too
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  Speaker 1: often after becoming ranked. West Virginia players lose focus, dipping
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  Speaker 1: their performance. However, I'm confident they'll bounce back. They've already
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  Speaker 1: pulled off a couple of miracles. I expect the remainder
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  Speaker 1: of the season to be a tough row to hoe,
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  Speaker 1: but with this group, I won't be shocked to see
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  Speaker 1: a couple more miracles. Hope the coaches and players know
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  Speaker 1: how much we appreciate their performance. Ps I suspect will
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  Speaker 1: have to open up the check book in April to
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  Speaker 1: keep the ball rolling for the future. Doug and Buchanan,
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  Speaker 1: you got a good one. There's no doubt. Texter. Dear
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  Speaker 1: three guys, have you this is great? Have you all
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  Speaker 1: ever noticed that the deeper the senator goes into his numbers,
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  Speaker 1: the less eye contact he makes with the rest of you.
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  Speaker 1: In particular, he starts churning his back to Hoppy and
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  Speaker 1: talking to him over his shoulder, as if he was
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  Speaker 1: a father talking to his son about how many grounders
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  Speaker 1: he missed in the little league practice. If I remember correctly,
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  Speaker 1: Brad was an insurance agent assistant ad reeler Or was
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  Speaker 1: also on the list. Either the senator is obsessed with
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  Speaker 1: his numbers, or Hoppy is so big time that he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't want anyone looking at him directly in the eye,
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  Speaker 1: just like Sandy Bullock Love the Show, Pete and Pennsborough.
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  Speaker 1: The chauffeur line was a good line that could have
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  Speaker 1: got missed because he kept going, you're doing this, You're
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  Speaker 1: kind of going look looking back, looking back.
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  Speaker 2: I think there's I don't take that personally, because you're
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  Speaker 2: working off your I am, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot of numbers going on there. I'm trying
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  Speaker 3: to make sure I've got them all right. So I
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  Speaker 3: am looking off my notes slash databases, and we're set
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  Speaker 3: up in a way that I can't look at you
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  Speaker 3: and my thing, and I try and turn and give
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  Speaker 3: don't want to totally ignore him. Yeah, and you referenced trying
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I'm I'm fine with her.
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  Speaker 1: all fine. Here we go, guys. You guys eat over there?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah yeah. Dougie
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  Speaker 2: Introduced me to the coach.
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  Speaker 1: You've not met him?
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  Speaker 2: I don't, well, I guess when he was here.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that was the only but yeah, he'd like
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  Speaker 2: I doubt that, but he would.
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  Speaker 1: He got nothing going on? Uh, here we go. Ready
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  Speaker 1: for this sous v chuck roast for thirty hours in
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  Speaker 1: he goes broccoli back left, potato to the right. That's
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  Speaker 1: a nice plate. It is really nice. Here comes another one,
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  Speaker 1: smoked turkey and dressing smothered in gravy with a sight
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  Speaker 1: Mountaineer Strong Neil from Greenbrier County. Now that is just
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  Speaker 1: a conventional, old school place and it just like, what
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  Speaker 1: do you want? Give me turkey dressing, put some other
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  Speaker 2: Man's you know when it maybe it's just me, it's
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  Speaker 2: probably most people that when it's snowy and cold, comfort
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  Speaker 2: food really works, does it?
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  Speaker 1: for each pound at five hundred degrees. Just a few
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  Speaker 1: five hundred you might notice smoke coming out of the oven.
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  Speaker 1: If your oven's dirty, there will be a lot of smoke.
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  Speaker 1: The first year he made it, smoke was pouring from
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  Speaker 1: the seams of the oven door as well as the stovetop.
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  Speaker 1: Don't place anything on the stovetop that would interfere with
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  Speaker 1: the airflow. Five hundred degrees is a hot oven. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: Now now we're in the risk category.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. The prime rib turns out perfect every time with
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  Speaker 1: no fire damage to report. Side by smokeo arm. So
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  Speaker 1: they sent us a video and seriously, there was smoke
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  Speaker 1: coming up. But that is the I gotta do that
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  Speaker 1: prime rib that way. I have not done it that way.
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  Speaker 1: So it's five hundred degrees. You take the poundage as
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  Speaker 1: I said, If it's eight pounds, five minutes per pound
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  Speaker 1: five hundred, cook it and then just shut the oven
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  Speaker 1: off completely and don't open it up again. Do not
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  Speaker 1: open it eye again. I don't that's the part. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know for how long, like a couple hours.
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  Speaker 2: That's how my mother used to make it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's awesome. Okay, here we go, bragg fish tacos.
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  Speaker 2: Are you throwing a couple of three zero four's on that?
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  Speaker 1: I do? Oh? Yeah, yeah? Last one Shawn and Washington State.
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  Speaker 1: I've watched West Virginia basketball for almost five decades, a
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  Speaker 1: recurring theme throughout the years, no matter who the coach is.
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  Speaker 1: When the team makes the top twenty five after a
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  Speaker 1: long hiatus, they immediately lay an egg. Happy New Year
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  Speaker 1: Sean Washington State opponent adjusted Arizona had something to do
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  Speaker 1: with it. Yeah, pretty good, pretty good.
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  Speaker 3: Long season probing facts you were ranked. It's pretty remarkable,
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  Speaker 3: all right. So next we're not done. We forgot these
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  Speaker 3: for two straight shows. That's why I set them right there.
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  Speaker 3: Almost missed again. They're sitting right there.
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  Speaker 1: Dude, I would have been livid if we forgot again.
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  Speaker 3: Put them there last night after sports Line, so we
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  Speaker 1: One is for Bradley. You might have got a bigger bag.
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  Speaker 1: these gifts for Christmas. You look at that. They're the best.
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  Speaker 1: Plus they gave us a card there at the stadium.
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  Speaker 1: Martha and Charlie, you're the best. How about this one
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars Amazon gift card in my envelope? That was
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  Speaker 2: Oh look it's different shapes. Mine has Santa's boot.
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  Speaker 1: Oh you got Santa's boot.
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  Speaker 2: I got Santa's different shapes, but Santa's boot is in there. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: Oh there is an assortment no men, Santa's boots and bells.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm not going to take this harassment. We're done.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you guys, Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 1: Wonderful next week schedule wise, folks, is weird. But four
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  Speaker 1: right now schedule wise is weird because we're on the road.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, you only do one guy before the game.
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  Speaker 1: Hoppy's gonna sit in here and sing some of his
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  Speaker 1: favorite tunes. So probably down the one show next week Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: we recap Colorado Houston, then we'll preview Iowa State.
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  Speaker 2: You're on the road the whole time. You're not coming back.
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  Speaker 1: No, really, Hoppy, I mean Colorado. It's not like I'm
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  Speaker 1: coming in from Star City. All Right, I gotta go
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  Speaker 1: That wasn't clear for him. I guy, I'm going Colorado.
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