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3 Guys Before The Game - Rod Returns - Frisco Bowl Preview (Episode 601) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  Speaker 1: Hey there, welcome on, and it's time for three guys
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  Speaker 1: before the game. Alrighty, if you have a score book
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  Speaker 1: and you're scoring at home, it's episode six hundred and one.
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  Speaker 1: The episode title Rod Returns and Frisco Bowl Preview. I
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  Speaker 1: guess it's the Scooter's Frisco.
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  Speaker 2: Bowl, Scooter's Coffee, Frisco Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: Scooter's Coffee. We got switch. Yeah, we're ready to go.
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  Speaker 2: Roll on broken play Here makes something happen, Makes something happen.
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  Speaker 2: Next play.
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  Speaker 1: Here's a deal man. What I think there's a very
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  Speaker 1: strong chance that in like seven months if I said
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  Speaker 1: to you just came out of the blue, just came
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  Speaker 1: imagine and said, hey, what was the name of the
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  Speaker 1: ball game West Virginia played, and you'd go like, uh,
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  Speaker 1: it was in Texas. That's what you would give me. Right?
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  Speaker 2: Probably, Well we'll see GBA and the things I write,
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  Speaker 1: here we go, Rod returns. Frisco Coffee Game Bowl preview.
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  Speaker 2: Frisco Coffee Game Bowl. Is that what you called it?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, coffee bowl, coffee bowl. I'm gonna call it the
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  Speaker 1: coffee Ball in Frisco. All right, So here's a deal,
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  Speaker 1: youough man. We're recording Monday morning early, I mean early.
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  Speaker 1: It's like three in the morning. I don't know why
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  Speaker 1: we came in at three in.
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  Speaker 2: The morning in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: A little bit later in three in the morning, I've
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  Speaker 1: been up since three.
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  Speaker 2: I know you have. You were here when I got here.
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  Speaker 1: I took his spot. He got all bummed out. First
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  Speaker 1: thing he said, he took my spot.
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  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, you took two spots exactly because you're not
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  Speaker 3: even in straight. But that's all another story.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that was the thing, not that he took
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  Speaker 2: a spot. You got here first. You're entitled to that spot. However,
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  Speaker 2: the way you just went, just pulled it and somehow
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  Speaker 2: manage to take three spots.
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  Speaker 3: I parked across the street.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, Fine find folks at mark Lero's
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  Speaker 1: for they need to have a couple of spaces for
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  Speaker 1: that vehicle, right, you need it. I did that.
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  Speaker 2: I came in sideways. Huh again, in hot and you
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  Speaker 2: came in sideways.
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  Speaker 1: I did come in a little bit hot. I gotta go, man,
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  Speaker 1: I gotta run. It's a busy day, all right. So
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  Speaker 1: here we go. Been to a lot of Mountaineer ball games.
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  Speaker 1: This will be the forty first, not for me but
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  Speaker 1: for university. For the university, it's the forty first bowl
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  Speaker 1: game for West Virginia. And on only two occasions previous
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  Speaker 1: to this have I had this feeling going into a
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  Speaker 1: bowl game, and that is I have zero clue what's
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  Speaker 1: going to happen. One the case with every bowl game, No,
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  Speaker 1: you have a better feel. This one is. I mean
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  Speaker 1: this the Music City Bowl, Don Neeland's last game where
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  Speaker 1: the staff was lame duck and you didn't know right,
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  Speaker 1: and then obviously the Fiesta Bowl after you know, Richard
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  Speaker 1: left and it was Oklahoma and the Fiesta Bowl again.
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  Speaker 1: You you the lean on those games. Will there's no
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  Speaker 1: way they're going to play well. You know, you had
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  Speaker 1: no thought whatsoever that anyone was going to be able
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  Speaker 1: to play, you know, and let's face it, in this
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  Speaker 1: game here, mentally, you've got no idea. Does this team
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  Speaker 1: take on us against the world. Mentality, it's our last
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  Speaker 1: time together. Let's go out here and ball out or
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  Speaker 1: is it?
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  Speaker 3: Eh?
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  Speaker 1: I'm playing because I need to get my last nil check.
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  Speaker 1: If I didn't play, I wasn't going to get my
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  Speaker 1: last nil check. So I'll just kind of go out there.
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  Speaker 1: If you do, you're going to get boat raced. Because
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  Speaker 1: Memphis is good. Memphis is a solid football team. Offensively,
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  Speaker 1: they can move the football up and downfield. You will
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  Speaker 1: get boat raced if you go in half. Why do
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  Speaker 1: you ponder into the sky, I'm just thinking about all
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  Speaker 1: this looking for drones. What are you looking in the
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  Speaker 1: sky now?
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  Speaker 2: I'm thinking about all this and you're right, I think
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  Speaker 2: that it's hard to get a read on this game
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  Speaker 2: for all the reasons that you noted, And you can
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  Speaker 2: make an argument, Brad for a variety of things here.
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  Speaker 2: You can make an argument that with all the changes
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  Speaker 2: at WVU and that, okay, whatever. But at the same time,
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  Speaker 2: I keep coming back to the fact that Wyatt Milem's playing,
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  Speaker 2: and the fact that Wyatt Mylem's playing, and all these
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  Speaker 2: guys are playing. You know, Marshall, thirty guys opted out.
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  Speaker 2: They can't even play the ball game, so something is
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  Speaker 2: causing them to want to play. So maybe that is
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  Speaker 2: reflective of a team character and you'll be you'll see
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  Speaker 2: a solid performance maybe. So you know, Memphis is an
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  Speaker 2: interesting story too. Yes, they're pretty good, and we'll get
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  Speaker 2: into that it spreads on stats, but Memphis came at
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  Speaker 2: Memphis started the season by winning the bowl game last
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  Speaker 2: year against Iowa State and came in, Oh, they're gonna
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  Speaker 2: win the AAC And then after a couple of games
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  Speaker 2: where they eat Flida State or they're gonna they're gonna
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  Speaker 2: be in the twelve, they're gonna compete for they're gonna
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  Speaker 2: be in the twelve.
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  Speaker 1: They're gonna win.
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  Speaker 2: The league didn't win the league, finished third in the
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  Speaker 2: league obviously didn't get into twelve. Yeah, ten wins, that's impressive,
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  Speaker 2: But did they underachieve a little bit based on their expectations?
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  Speaker 2: Are they excited to be there?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I think I think the game is actually fascinating for
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  Speaker 2: those reasons.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot going on in this one. And what's
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  Speaker 3: what's interesting is, you know you mentioned that Music City
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  Speaker 3: Bowl that was what twenty five years ago? Twenty four
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  Speaker 3: years ago? Yeah, so you got the same coach coming back.
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  Speaker 3: You got the same new coaches you did twenty five
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  Speaker 3: years ago, which is interesting, right that whole rich was
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  Speaker 3: that was.
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  Speaker 1: His first those event. How many of those had How
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  Speaker 1: many of those head snapping memories are we going to have?
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  Speaker 1: Like you're putting it all together, right, Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But what's different now versus then is some of those
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  Speaker 3: you have you have players that aren't playing in this game.
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  Speaker 3: For West Virginia. You don't know what the motivation is.
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  Speaker 3: You don't know if they're going to rally because it's
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  Speaker 3: the last time they're all together, and they're going to
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  Speaker 3: play loose and they're going to go out and Memphis
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  Speaker 3: has no idea from a game planning perspective, what's going
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  Speaker 3: to happen? Or do they just all go in and say,
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  Speaker 3: you know what, it was a good run, this is
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  Speaker 3: the end of the run. We're out, we're and we're
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  Speaker 3: not playing. You don't know. Nobody knows, we don't know,
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  Speaker 3: coaches don't know, nobody knows how this is going to
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  Speaker 3: turn out. Normally, hop I would stand up here and
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  Speaker 3: I would be pounding the strength of schedule ratings. Right now,
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  Speaker 3: You've got a Memphis team in the one hundred's West
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  Speaker 3: Virginia in the top twenty five. Normally I would make
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  Speaker 3: a strong case here that these teams, despite the record,
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  Speaker 3: are very similar. You start to look at a bunch
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  Speaker 3: of advanced stats, and I'm not going to go through
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  Speaker 3: them all, a bunch of advanced stats, a bunch of
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  Speaker 3: power rankings, and these two teams are right together or
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  Speaker 3: West Virginia slightly ahead. Remember West Virginia opened is the
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  Speaker 3: favorite in this But then you flip over to the
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  Speaker 3: other side. If I have this stat right, not one
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  Speaker 3: team in West Virginia's situation won this game last year
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  Speaker 3: when they've lost a coach and they're cycling into a
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  Speaker 3: new staff, right, and I'm not sure any of them
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  Speaker 3: even covered the number, and that numbers slipped all the
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  Speaker 3: way around to Memphis minus four, minus four and a half.
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  Speaker 3: So it's an incredibly difficult You didn't do your obvious observation,
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  Speaker 3: so I'll take it go ahead. An incredibly difficult situation
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  Speaker 3: for West Virginia to walk into. It's two teams or
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  Speaker 3: two programs in opposite ends of the spectrum. A very
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  Speaker 3: stable Memphis program with a four year starting quarterback that
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  Speaker 3: has been very good playing in his final game ten
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  Speaker 3: minutes from where he grew up, versus a West Virginia
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  Speaker 3: team that's in total flux in terms of staff players,
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  Speaker 3: who's going to be there, who's actually gonna play, who's
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  Speaker 3: going to play five snaps, who's going to play no snaps,
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  Speaker 3: who's going to play seventy snaps? So I'll give you
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  Speaker 3: some numbers coming up, but I'm not sure numbers really
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  Speaker 3: matter in this game. This is just simply going to
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  Speaker 3: be which of these two teams wants to come out
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  Speaker 3: and play and what can you get from a West
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  Speaker 3: Virginia team that's in total transition mode right now?
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  Speaker 1: That's yeah, okay, I mean I was gonna close your
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  Speaker 1: obvious observations. Yeah, it's an intriguing game.
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  Speaker 2: Well yeah, and I gotta sneeze, so talk to somebody else.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, Okay, I think it's intriguing.
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  Speaker 1: Like you know me.
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  Speaker 3: I know I always default on you. Guys always get
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  Speaker 3: on me, you get on me. I love all these bowls.
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  Speaker 3: I don't care if West Virginia's in flux. I don't
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  Speaker 3: know that I care who plays, who doesn't plays. Give
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  Speaker 3: me more football? Want some football here? Wait nine months
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  Speaker 3: for football games. Give me some more football. And I
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  Speaker 3: do think there's some things you can look at, and
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  Speaker 3: again this is one of those. You've got a new
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  Speaker 3: staff coming in. How many of these guys on this
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  Speaker 3: West Virginia roster treat this as an open tryout, which
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  Speaker 3: there's an element of open tryout to these guys. Well,
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  Speaker 3: how many players say, you know what, I'm done, I'm
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  Speaker 3: gonna end of the portal anyway, it doesn't matter, I'm
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  Speaker 3: not playing. How many others say, you know what, I
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  Speaker 3: really like it there. I'd like to stick around. I'd
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  Speaker 3: like to be there. And I need to make an
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  Speaker 3: impression on who the new head coach is going to be.
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  Speaker 3: I really like this assistant coaching staff that his and
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  Speaker 3: that's I should have started with that. I give those
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  Speaker 3: dudes a lot of credit, the assistant coaches and the
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  Speaker 3: support staff over there, guys, that is really difficult. Another
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  Speaker 3: obvious observation from me, hot, but I think it needs
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  Speaker 3: to be said. That's really hard hard for those guys
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  Speaker 3: to not have any idea if they're staying, if they're
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  Speaker 3: not staying. They have families as well, many of them,
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  Speaker 3: and to try and have concentration on this particular group
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  Speaker 3: of guys, this game, planning for this particular game, keeping
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  Speaker 3: that group together and not knowing what your future holds,
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  Speaker 3: that's not an easy task. These last couple of weeks
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  Speaker 3: have been extremely difficult, absolutely on all of those folks. So,
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  Speaker 3: first of all, a lot of a lot of respect
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  Speaker 3: for what that group has put together over the last
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  Speaker 3: couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you've seen it, agreed, Agreed. I mean, the
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  Speaker 2: coach goes home and the spouse says, now what we know?
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  Speaker 2: Are we selling the house? Are we going here? Did
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  Speaker 2: you get a call? Where?
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  Speaker 1: So?
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  Speaker 2: Those things, But again we've seen it before. We've seen
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  Speaker 2: it before, like the Oklahoma game where you thought there
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  Speaker 2: was no chance, no chance, so you just you don't know,
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  Speaker 2: and for that reason in others it makes it intriguing.
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  Speaker 2: And like I'm with Brad, I mean, good, let's have
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  Speaker 2: let's have another football game.
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  Speaker 1: Football is a game, man. You can't go half, you
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  Speaker 1: can't go three quarters. Well you see what happens when
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  Speaker 1: you do. You just get absolutely he just torqued. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So if West Virginia comes in here and plays, and
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  Speaker 3: Memphis rolls in saying, well, they're not ready, they're not
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  Speaker 3: gonna be ready. I mean we can just show up
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  Speaker 3: they're not gonna be ready, then you might have a game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. You hope that the kids on the WV roster
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  Speaker 1: that plan on going into the portal look at it
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  Speaker 1: as here's my last chance to be on tape for
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  Speaker 1: the team that I'm trying to impress. So I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: really show you what I can do. You hope that
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  Speaker 1: for those that plan on or hope to stay, You
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  Speaker 1: hope they are going to go out there and play
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  Speaker 1: so that the new staff watches the tape and goes like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: yeah that guy can play. You hope you get that
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  Speaker 1: is what you're hoping for.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, we'll have to wait, but it's well,
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  Speaker 2: I think Brad. I'll get into this, but I think
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  Speaker 2: just when you get into the game itself, you don't
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  Speaker 2: like the matchup in the sense that they're they're a
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  Speaker 2: pretty good offensive team. Yeah they are, and with Hennigan
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  Speaker 2: who's been there eleven years now and started five hundred games,
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  Speaker 2: with Hennigan and the receivers, and against West Virginia's pass defense.
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  Speaker 1: Situationally, I always talking about the situations. Situation is not
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  Speaker 1: good when you're seth hand again their quarterback, and you
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  Speaker 1: grew up like ten miles yeah, ten miles away, like
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  Speaker 1: your last college football game. Like, that's not a good
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  Speaker 1: situation if you're the other team, because he's gonna go
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  Speaker 1: out there and really, you know, try to this.
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  Speaker 2: Who was the last guy that started four years at
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  Speaker 2: the same school.
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  Speaker 3: Is it that wind was good?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? It was good?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, good all for years.
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  Speaker 3: Put some massive numbers, h crazy numbers, early spreads on stats.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we'll get to that in a second. Three guys,
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  Speaker 1: to them, let them take care of it. Plus they
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: will also outsource CFO services. They do it all. It's
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: Conley's CPA group. Is this the most difficult assessment that
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: you've made based upon the mental state?
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: It is because normally you know how I am by
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: the end of the season. I love the numbers even more,
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: very refined, because they've matured, right, like you get a
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: good picture of Okay, this makes some sense Again, Like
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: I said in the beginning, I think the biggest one
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: would be in a normal situation up I'd be all
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: over this strength to schedule. If you look at Memphiss,
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: they one six in the in Sagrin, West, Virginia twenty fourth,
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: so there's a giant gap here. I think they played
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: nine non winning FBS program They had an FCS mixed
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: in there. So I don't say I take anything away
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: from him. I just say I would have liked to
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: have seen We talked about the strength of the Big
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: twelve all year. I would have liked to see how
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: that's stacked up with a six and six record against
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: a ten win team that didn't play the same strength
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: of schedule. But I don't know that that's a that
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: will even be a factory.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: Looking at their schedule. I tell you what stood out
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: to me was they did beat the Tulane, but Twulaane
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: turned the bowl over three times and Navy. Navy scored
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: fifty five on them.
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they gave up one hundred and two of their
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: two losses, so you can score on them at times.
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: It's interesting you bring up the turnovers plus sixteen? Is
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: that good? Plus sixteen on the year, it's a turnover
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: country number two. Probably just start with that. Yeah, that's
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: a massive number for a West Virginia team that has
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: struggled in that area, So certainly keep an eye on
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: that right away. Let's just go big picture first. You
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: guys have mentioned hen again a couple of times, what
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: a year he's had, What a career he's had. Just
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: do year first, twenty three touchdowns, six interceptions. You go
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: to the big time throw metric, maybe he's due for
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: a couple of balls that could be picked off. Here
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: he had twenty nine big time throws, twenty three touchdowns,
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: those are fairly close. Six only six interceptions, but thirteen
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: turnover worthy place can you get him to throw one
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: or two in there that maybe you come up with.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: He's had one thousand, seven hundred and seventy seven pass
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: attempts in his career. In his four years, it's trowing
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: almost two thousand passes.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: How many total yards do you have?
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: That there thirteen thousands in his career fourteen thousand and two,
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: he's going for fourteen thousand yards. So hot the another
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: I'm just stealing your obvious observations today, that's your biggest concern,
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: right an offense that can throw it, a quarterback that
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: has seen about everything you can see, you're probably not
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: going to be able to confuse him too much against
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: a West r India pass defense that has had just
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: a very few moments where it's looked good, most moments
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: where it's really struggled. So that's a giant concern obviously,
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: is the passing offensive Memphis versus West Rings. If you
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: want an advanced stat off of that, go to that
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: EPA number. I like to use expected points added, just
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: the rate of successful plays you have. Memphis offense is
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: thirty fourth in the country. And expected plays expected points
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: added per pass going against a West Virginia defense that's
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: one hundred and thirty third. Yikes, there's quite a gap
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: right there. That's one of the worst in the country
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: as we know.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: How many excuse me? How many total yards is he
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: thrown for?
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: Fourteen thousand and two? You gonna do miles, Tony, Yes,
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: fourteen zero zero two.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: It's like he's thrown for He's thrown for just a
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: hair under eight miles. Yeah, he's like from here, really good,
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: from here to the coliseum, plus a little bit.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: Really consistent for all those passes, never more than nine
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: interceptions in a single season.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Coach's son, that's one of the first guys reads coverage.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: He's good. So again, situationally favored to Memphis, passing game
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: favorite to Memphis. Here's one to watch, Tony. We talked
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: to Memphis play by play voice earlier this or late
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: last week. This was an area. You're getting a top
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: ten Memphis run defense against a West Virginia team. That
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: what's it do?
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: Well?
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it wants to run right when it wins, it runs.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: So how does that stack up?
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Again?
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: Are those numbers inflated for Memphis going against the schedule
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: it went? Or is that going to be a bouncy
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: defense that gives West Virginia struggles against the run? Quarterbacks
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: running the ball have given Memphis a little bit of
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: trouble though, even though overall opponents rush games have not
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: been good. So can West Virginia get anything out of
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: that side of things? That's basically my football numbers. I
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: mean I could give you a thousand more. I don't
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: know that it matters. Those are the big things. Don't
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: turn it over? Have you heard of say that before?
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: Have success running against what's a top ten rush defense
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: on paper? And can you somehow contain Hennigan in that
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: passing game for a Western Aniya pass defense that's really struggled.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Be really interested to see how Garrett plays.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: He goes out and blaze.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: I don't think he's not one that I question whether
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: or not he's gonna go ball out, But like, does
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: he take it to a different level? Does he with
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: his legs, with his wheels? Does he just say Okay,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: here we go? Does Chad Scott? How's Chad gonna call? Again? Yeah?
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: What's the play calling? That's a that's a great point
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: and that could go either way. Right, that's a that's
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: a Chad's calling those full time for the first time
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: for this West Rdian team this season. But that could
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: also work to an advantage. So Memphis is gonna have
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: some idea Western He's not gonna go in and change
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: and come out run the bone, so to speak. I
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: wouldn't think. So you're gonna basically get what you're gonna get.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: You're gonna get your package. But what's your nuance? How
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: often do you go with it? On fourth? Well, Chad
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: be is aggressive? Well he mix in the empty the
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: playbook there, there's no reason to save anything. Might as
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: well throw everything out. Son, got a little bit of
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: that unknown coming in game wrinkles.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: Sure you'll get those.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Bone didn't to work too good Saturday? Did it? Army Navy?
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: That was Navy broken bone.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: Let's say what Navy put up a heck of a performance.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: That was an incredible performance, especially defensively, I think by Navy. Yeah,
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: it was well done. It was a heck of I
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: love that environment. Don't you just love that game?
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Brad and I were working, I know you were, Yeah,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: we were working. Didn't get an opportunity to really to
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: see it. But yet it's quite a spectacle.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: You had a five o'clock tip. I understand it.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, quite a spectacle. But uh yeah, we'll talk about
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: basketball in just a second. Here. This is going to
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: be super interesting. We'll see, we'll see how it all
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: goes down. Now. The Rich Rodriguez return on campus on Friday,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: it was it was absolutely uh just you could not
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: have scripted it. You could not have scripted it the
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: way that it came out. I mean, but you can.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Keep saying that, Tony, actually it is the script. We
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: talked about that.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no, there's various elements. I mean. The
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: last time Rich was introduced as West Virginia's head coach,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: it was in what's now Touchdown Terrace area on the
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: near side of the stadium, okay, and it was a
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: room that chairs I'd say hundred people maybe in the
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: nice crowd, one hundred people. One hundred people were in there, sure,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: nice folded chairs, plastic chairs. Rich got up there, you know,
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: and he gave the thing. And then you come to
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: this thing full circle, right, and instead of the team room,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: instead of the alumni center or somewhere else in the stadium,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: and said, no, let's go to the coliseum, go to
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: the Collie. So go to the coliseum and Pat McAfee
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: within like twelve twenty four us says, I'm gonna do
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: my show there. So he brings his show, which just
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: brings this tribe of people with him. They opened the
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: concession stands at ten thirty. The thing's going to go
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: at one thirty. Pats on live on ESPN from noon
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: until two and then on YouTube from two until three,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: and it just becomes this.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: Spectacle.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: It becomes a spectacle. It becomes an infomercial for West
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: Virginia West Virginia University that you would have to buy.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: You would have to go to a PR company. They
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: would have spent twelve to twelve to twelve months. Okay,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: now we're gonna have this event, and they would have
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: brought their event planners in and then they would have
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: they would have had the event management team come in.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: They're gonna have structural meetings about how they're gonna do
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: and then the task force on the committee to have
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: the meeting of how you're gonna do this event, and
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: you're gonna have But instead it was so West Virginia.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: It was like pack can come, Pat's coming all right,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: get pat, what's you need? Table? Yeah, got the table? Okay,
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: just open the doors. And it just it went like
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: this meant it mushroomed, and it mushroomed, and it mushroomed
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: and it mushroomed. And by the time they turned the
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: lights out and Rich is standing in the tunnel ready
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: to walk out there, it was as if West Virginia
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: in that tunnel was about to go out, and it
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: was Kansas Mountaineer basketball and the place.
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: Was just the pirate technically involved.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: Got fire, We got fire blowing up in the air,
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: and his highlights are up there, and I was standing
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: next to him and he's looking up there at that
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: at the scoreboard you're d in the video, and he
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: sees all that stuff right, all those.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Games, and like it was overwhelming.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: And then you walk out in the fire and the
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: blowing all up and everything, and the lights are flashing
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: and people are they're all standing and it's loud and
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: the thing's vibrating, and he walks out there, it's like
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: what just happened?
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: Right? Yes, And and it it took him back. It
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: took him a back. He had no idea that it
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: was going to be like that when he walked out there.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Let's face it, man, He's thought about it for a
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: long time. Right. He went from, I'll never go back.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: I'll never get the chance to go back. Maybe one
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: day I'll go back, and then suddenly I'm back, and
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: then oh my gosh, I really am back, and I
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: don't know how these people are going to react to me. Right,
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: and they went and they lifted up and he went,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: oh and it like it wowed.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: It was an event.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but it was a big event.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: And you know what's wild too, guys. And we talked
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: about this when I said West Virginia won the PR
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: National Championship on the day before the Penn State game.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: This is the stuff when Ren goes in and says
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: to the university, we're gonna we're gonna need some help financially.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: We're gonna need some help financially. This is the payback.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: This is what your money is going toward. Is that
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: PR hob That was a that was an athletic event,
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: That was a football event introducing your new old football coach. Right,
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: but that also was about the brand and about the university,
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: and it helped Darren DeVries in the basketball program too.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: Is it elevated West Virginia's brand up. What's your point?
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: I mean, you're clearing on an ESPN platform there for
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: a couple of hours.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Time what time out? It wasn't ESPN nine, it wasn't
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: ESPN plus. Yeah, it wasn't ESPN you it was the
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: mother ship. It was the ESPN. But think about that.
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: That's some unbelievable exposure. So that's part of why when
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: Ren makes that case, that's where you are in this
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: life cycle of athletics, the university, what support should be there,
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: How can they work together to help this. That's that's
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: what I assume Ren is making the pitch. Like you
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: guys want to invest, here's what the investment is going for.
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: We're doing that.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: You're not.
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: You're not getting that exposure by anything else on that
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: particular day. And that's twice in four months that's happened.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: Hop So that's part of it too. This was a
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: football event that transcended football and went a little bit
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: further in terms of what it did for West Virgin's brand.
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: Is a university I.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: Think absolutely, and Brett, as you like to say, he
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: won the news conference plus because of all the things
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: that you guys have talked about. Here's something interesting.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: I did an.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: Online poll, excuse me, online poll, scientific no anecdote, and
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: it was when the search just began and rich his
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: name was out there, and I said, I asked the question,
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: and again it's just people will follow me on the X.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: Should rich Rod be in the pool for the next coach?
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: Seventeen hundred votes fifty seven percent no, forty three percent Yes. However,
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: I did a poll yesterday and this morning, scientific no anecdotal,
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: and I said, how do you feel about the hire
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: of rich Rod? And it was like seventeen hundred votes. Again,
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: I mean, he's a bunch of votes. Eighty five percent
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: strongly or somewhat support, eighty five percent strongly or somewhat support,
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: fifteen percent a post and of those eighty five percent,
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: sixty percent strongly support. I think that sports are sports
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: are emotional, as we talked about it, and so that
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: Friday event that was it would be hard to not
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: be caught up in that if you were paying attention.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: I think a lot of people got caught up in
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: that wave on Friday.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: Well, I said this the other day and and and
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: I felt it even more and watching this episode, by
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: the way, speaking of shout outs, our guy Ross Mara
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: and the creative team over there. Sure, yeah, I mean
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: you talk about winning Natties, They were winning Natties. There
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: were some videos, that one, that one with Rich walking out.
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: It starts with the Madonna song. Yeah, you watched that
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: one one hundred thousand times. I thought it was just awesome.
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: The I love that song anyway. But this you say
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: I hate music, Well, well where the Madonna song in there?
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: Got it like a prayer. Of course, everybody knew that
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: Morgan symbolism they dropped in there about when call my
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: name and then boom, there's Rich's name. I mean they
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: that was awesome. A plus for Rosson's team winning a
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: Natty on that particular video.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: But little wait, real quick, a little always a West
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Virginia connection. Yeah, so Ross mar is a young guy.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: How is he's not thirty? I don't think he's in
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: his twenties. He's super talented, runs creative thing. You see
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: all those cinematic movie recaps. That's all Ross right, So
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: here's the West Virginia connection. His mom Diane cheered at
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: WVU with Rita Rodriguez. Of course she did, so they'd
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: never met. So Ross goes down there and flies down
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: with Wren to pick him up. Does all the video
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: all that stuff you saw on the airplane, He said, Yeah,
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: I'm Diannicles my mom.
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's crazy. That's another thing that's West Virginia. That's
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: another thing that's different. Since Rich was here last that stuff,
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: the stuff they had done to document this has I
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: think just been fantastic. Him standing in the in the
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: facilities building looking at the sugar Bowl stuff and the
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: look on his face. I mean, that stuff is priceless
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: and awesome. And so that led me this weekend up
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: to back up what I said on Thursday show, where
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: it was fun going back and looking at the seven
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: Entrance film and watching the United Bank commercial we did
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: and all that stuff was fun. That was fun to
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: remember that nostalgia is powerful. Oh right, Yeah, It's part
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: of what Mike Tyson and Jake Paul brought all that
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: money into that fight. Because you want to go back
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: and those of us at a certain age, I want
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: to see Mike Tyson in the ring, even though it's
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: not saying Mike Tyson. Then nostalgia is a powerful, powerful tool,
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: and I think that's been on display over these last
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: few days now can you turn around and can you win?
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: And can you win at the clip that you did before.
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: There's there's a million questions coming on the football side
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: of it, but for this particular part of it, I'm
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: with you. I can see why it's easy to get
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: caught up in this because this has been fun watching
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: and reminiscing about once was, what once was, that is
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: now back.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: And as we've talked about before, the literary references and
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: the return of the prodigal son, and then we're waiting
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: to see whether you want him to succeed or you
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: really didn't want to come back the final chapters.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: Either way, either.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: Way, you are compelled to pay attention to see what happens. Right,
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: So the attraction is there.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: You going back to the emotional aspect, why do people
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: invest their time, their money, their energy, their passion to
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: follow this. It's a return game, right, I'll give you mine.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: You have to you have to fill me right, and
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: that hope is what everyone right now is embracing. That's
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: why your poll went so quickly to the other way.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: So many people have come up to me since going like,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: you know, I was kind of on the fence wasn't sure,
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: but like that fireman, why because you just had your
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: embers restarted, right, They've just kind of been and people
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: have just been wanting that. Right. They want they want hope,
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: they want hope, and I don't think they felt that
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: in the past, and they wanted that hope. Now Again,
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: the hard part of it is to do it. And
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: the history says statistically he is not going to win
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: at the same percentage sixty nine percent that he did. However,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: he doesn't need to win at sixty nine percent. If
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: you can get that thing above in the in the
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: sixty sixty four sixty five, you're gonna be fine. You're
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: gonna do really really well. That statistically sixty nine is
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: like crazy winning and very very few do it. But
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: he'll be there, I truly do believe. So is he
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: going to do better? If you did better, you'd be
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: in that you're winning eleven and twelve games. Probably not,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: but you're going to be right there. You're gonna compete
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: for this champions.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: Well, that's that's is you just you just Tony articulated
• 33:43
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• 33:47
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. There's some people I hadn't seen in seventeen years,
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: really walked in that room and it was like where, hey,
• 33:57
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• 33:59
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  Speaker 3: Before you get into the text, a couple of shout outs.
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: You mentioned down and it was down in Charleston Friday.
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: You were down there, down there, just quick trip down
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: and back. Couple state couple state championship games. Had to
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: call met a couple of loyal listeners. Yeah, John and
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: John in Charleston by way of Pineval was nice enough
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: just to come to a screeching halt in the middle
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: of the street to say hello, went over talk to
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: him hot.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: I think he texted in. I think I have a
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: text on that.
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: Oh you're gonna read that, Okay, thanks to John. It
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: was great to meet him. And then shep, you know,
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: shep that always Texas. Shep the text in all the time.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: I like that.
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: I don't know, but I like that name. Yeah, you know,
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: she he texts all the time. His son, Brian was
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: working the event, came into the booth and said hello,
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: said Shep said hello. I like to shout out to
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: Brian Shepp and John.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: I got a shout out too, and into hey, j
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: can you put that? It ran into A former Mountaineer
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: was out having lunch.
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: For Mountaineer player, former mountain.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: Player, A former Mountaineer player, offensive player, defensive, defensive, that's
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: that's that's Willie Edwards. Willie Edwards, number forty seven, started
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: the scored the first points of the eighty eight season,
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: recovered a block punt in the end zone against Bowling Green,
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: and then final game of the regular season, West Virginia
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: goes undefeated, stole the ball, intercepted, had a pick six
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: down the Syracuse sideline, ran into the hospital side of
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: the stadium.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: Teammate teammate of Rich Rod.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, teammate of Andre Johnson.
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: Oh, you're out. You were out and about there?
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: I was.
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: I was after that picture. He is a resemblance sort
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: of the actor.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: Could you put that back up? Jake?
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: What do you address Idris Elba? You know that actor?
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: Okay, looks like I mean Willie. I was thinking. I
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: told him how old I was, and he said, you
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: don't look that old, and I looked it.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: Well, he doesn't.
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: He looks like he's thirty and he hasn't played in
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: forty years or thirty five years. I mean, will It
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: looks great.
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: Where were you in Morgantown?
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: Downtown? Okay, downtown at a lunch establishment out about having
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: lunch out? In about you?
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: I mean, you're stepping out here. That's really good. Do
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: you have a good week of vacation since you were
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: here for the five days.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: The two and a half days I had off were great.
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: It's okay, it's all right. I beauty called suty cold.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah. We just we just can't. That's what we do,
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: all right, Ready to do this thing, let's do it.
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• 39:08
  Speaker 1: Did not know that. So he's got a bunch of
• 39:10
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• 39:17
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• 39:31
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• 39:35
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• 39:37
  Speaker 1: What more to come when we do the episode right
• 39:41
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• 39:44
  Speaker 3: You just said we've got good news on the beer.
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: Then you stopped.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: Yes, Connection three oh four is still getting good reviews,
• 39:49
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• 39:54
  Speaker 3: When are you giving the rest of that news?
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: I said the show before the Kansas game coming up soon.
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: It's very unlike you'd actually on the beer in January.
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  Speaker 2: What is it.
• 40:07
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• 40:10
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  Speaker 2: Check it out at Gomart. You already Yeah, Then this
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: first text really sums up what we were just talking about.
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: I was a student at DOUBLEVU during the rich Rod years,
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: and to say the seven pit loss was heartbreaking is
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: an understatement. It is a scar we've all lived with
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: for seventeen years. I was hardcore, never rich, but I
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: have to admit, after watching and listening to his speech,
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: he has changed my feelings. It was nostalgic and emotional.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: It made me feel like I was back in college again.
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: I even shed a tear, which I hadn't done for
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: DOUBVU football since that two thousand and seven loss. I
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: feel like we have an identity again, and I love that.
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: I want to believe his words and emotion we're genuine.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: It felt genuine the man's basketb So that's what we said.
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: That was a take. It summed it up really well.
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: Yep. You know who was really relieved there Saturday at
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: that reception the director of athletics.
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: Mean Friday, Friday, yeah, Friday, Yes, yeah, sure.
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: I give friend credit. He got a little put a
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: little more air in your helmet, little more tape on
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: your hands.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: He got that.
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: In the introduction.
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: That was well done. Someone slid that day?
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: Good yeah, yeah yeah.
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: The textter says, the man's basketball team is led by
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: a great coach and his sharpshooting son, Rich Rodriguez is
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: the head basketball coach, head ball coach. Is this twenty
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: twenty four, two thousand and four?
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: Very good point?
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Pat Beeline used to play for the Mountaineers back
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: in that time. Bobby from Myrtle Beach. I'm not happy
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: to announce I will be entering the portal this week.
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: I appreciate my time as am Mountain Near football fan,
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: but I feel it's for me. It's a best move
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: and go forward. I'll be taking my talents fandom to Tennessee.
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: You know those are fan choices, obviously, but as somebody
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: who's been around a while. I am a fan of
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: the university. You know, I stick with the university. I
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: mean you have to call them out when things go
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: wrong or they make mistakes, things like that, but there
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: is a loyalty to the university. Coaches come and go,
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: players come and go. The university is always there. Yeah,
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: speaking of the university, and I'm.
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: Glad as we've learned, you also have to win. I
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: mean that's that's the part that's right, that's the part
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: of it. I mean, I get this, this is this
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: is going to be a fun howevery months. So the
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: first game, this this will be a fun off season
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: and there's some newness in what's going on in the
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: portal and there will be a lot to talk about this.
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: You're going to have to win games. That's also the
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: part of it. The nostalgia at some point is going
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: to get put on the back burner and you've got
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: to go win.
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: Speaking of the university, I believe there's a commencement or
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: two this coming weekend. Brad, Yeah, the winner is that
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: this weekend. Yeah, yeah, And one of the three guys
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: not named Tony or Brad will be receiving a well
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: deserved honorary doctorate from the university from the state Land
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: Grand Institution.
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: Congratulations to you, Hope. I appreciate that this is your
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: second doctorate. Well it's I think they finally checked. They said,
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: well he did get his degree.
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: Do you give a speech with that?
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: Uh?
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: Like, brief brief remarks, brief remind what does that mean?
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: About a minute and a half a minute? I got
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: it down. I wrote it about a minute and a half.
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: You can do a minute and a half.
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: I can do a minute a half. What do you like?
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: Like you, what do you need? You need thirty seconds?
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: You need a minute and a half, you need tow out?
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: What do you need?
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: We can do it. But seriously, I'm very I was
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: when President Geek called me. I was, I was surprised.
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: I'm very flattered. And it's at the twilight of your career.
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: It's it's very meaningful to me. Appreciate that.
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: So with this, do we call you the dean now
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: or can we call you doctor?
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: All references should be doctor, doctor Kerchievell.
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: I think we've opened up that can of worms in
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: the past about people that like to be called doctor
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: but aren't really doctor. Doctors you know what I mean.
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: You call me a lot of other things, So whatever,
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: what are you going to call me?
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: Well, that's awesome.
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: Thank you appreciate that.
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: It's awesome.
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: Very I've been very blessed, very blessed, very lucky, worked hard,
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: got lucky.
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that comes along with it. Luck is the residue
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: of preparation.
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: Harder I work, the luckier I got. Any more cliches
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: we can throw, Now, let's just do it. Let's go
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: with this, Texas says. I don't want to be angry anymore.
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: But I can also take a step back from my fandom.
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: I follow my beloved Mountaineers three hundred and sixty five
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: days a year. It upsets me the coach Brown will
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: never get credit for the infrastructure he built, even though
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: I never agree with some of his philosophies. He can
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: coach my team any day. Now I have to accept
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: a man who I've been rooting against for seventeen years.
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: The only reason I can do it is because I
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: enjoy seeing the former players getting excited, and I like
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: the publicity that the program's are receiving. There's absolutely zero
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: grace period though. Now when now or folks like me
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: will turn quickly, Josh and wheeling. So I edited this
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: next one because it was too long, but I get
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: you the context of what he wrote. First off, meet
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: Rich Rodriguez, the snowman. My kids and I built this
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: past Sunday. Do we have this no man picture. This
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: guy's up in the Massachusetts. They had a lot of snow.
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: They're built a snowman. They called him Rich.
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's obviously a baseball fan too. A baseball cap
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: on there. Anyway, This is what he says in context.
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: I went to the Penn State Michigan game in an
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: arbour in two thousand and eight. We happen to be
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: sitting a few rows behind the Michigan bench. Long story short.
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: I called Rich Rod everything ugly you could call a
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: person under the sky, mostly out of heartbreak. I became
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: so embarrassing my brother made me leave that game. Fast
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: forward sixteen years. I've been moved to tears several times
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: now about Rich coming home. Rich obviously has something to prove,
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: but that's how he's always been wired, and I have
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: faith he will. What do I know at the very least,
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: is he's bringing back our state, our mentality, and our
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: work ethic. We don't require a national title here, but
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: we do demand respect. Coach Rod will absolutely provide that
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: spot the damn ball. Hold a rope, baby, There you go,
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: three guys. I wanted to start off with an apology.
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: This morning. I was dejectedly leaving my barber after I
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: was realizing I would not have enough time in the
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: day to attend the introductory press conference in Morgantown. I'll
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: be helping my wife prepare for a work holiday party
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: attended by a ton of people I'm not too thrilled
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: to entertain. I was about to pass by the world
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: famous Empty Glass on the East end of Charleston when
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: I spotted a gentleman who used to frequent another establishment
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: close by called the Red Carpet Lounge. Yes, mister Brad Howell,
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: it was kind enough to stop and talk to me
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: on his way to the stadium for the championship games. However,
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: I had so many other things on my mind that
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: I must apologize for tripping over my words and not
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: having much to say. That chance encounter so far the
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: highlight of my holiday season. So obviously, he has.
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: Been a holiday season so far.
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: Thanks for everything you guys do. John from Charleston, By
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: the way a pine.
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: Vale, Brad taking Tom heading over do the game. Stop
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: talk to people.
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: It was awesome love to talk to him Texas. Sorry,
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: that was the highlight the holiday season. Maybe you'll get
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: better to aim higher.
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: John might bum out his wife that she finds out
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: he doesn't want anything to do with her and listen
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: the show Three guys. This year's addition to the holiday
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: inflatable lineup, I have named him Rich Merry Christmas Brandon
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: from Herndon, Virginia, A big old mountaineer inflatable.
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: There somebody the same one that used to be at
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: the coliseum.
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: No, that was his cousin. People I forgot. Someone texted
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: and said, are they going to bring back the inflatable helmets?
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: I hope so, because you don't have to be in
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: charge of it. I don't have to blow it up. Brad.
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: A great group that did that, did you?
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: That was paint that was getting that thing back in
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: the little bag afterwards?
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: Oh I bet how big like it was a giant thing.
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: What was just like a nuffel bag, probably carried on
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: the plane. Gosh to work hard to get that thing
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: back in.
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: The can't get all the heir out. Still got some
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: are and this.
• 48:50
  Speaker 5: Sit just sit on that there, get in the bag
• 48:54
  Speaker 5: not folded right, Doug from Sutton, Brad, please do the
• 48:58
  Speaker 5: stat on the number of times that Tony refers to
• 49:01
  Speaker 5: an opposing player as a poor free throw shooter that
• 49:04
  Speaker 5: results in said player making his free throws.
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: I believe this is his only flaw.
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: The stat's the stat I point out.
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: I mean, I report, Yeah, let the free throw shooter
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: decide whether he's good or bad. Imagine my surprise when
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: the woman sitting next to me said she was a
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: player's mother, not just any player, but Jake our I
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: enjoyed chatting with her the entire game with the best game.
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: When Jake hit his four to three pointer in just
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: two games and he hit the over on the Jake
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: hour over under, we got to high five and cheer
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: for Jake. Ps. She did say that she knows about you, Brad.
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: P one listener, Martha.
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: Our guy did it again. He's money, he as you,
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: as you correctly pointed out when we were watching hop
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: when he got in and we were we were rightfully
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: worried that there wouldn't be enough possessions to get the
• 49:59
  Speaker 3: shot off. Jake only needs one possession, got the shot
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: in the corner boom banged at four to three in
• 50:03
  Speaker 3: of the week. His parents were in town. That's why,
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: as the Texter said, there so that was fun that
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: they were here and they got to see Jake knock
• 50:10
  Speaker 3: one down.
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: Texas says. My girlfriend and I are both stationed at
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: Shepherd Air Force Base in Texas. We had the water
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: in the full opportunity in September to drive out to
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: West Virginia. I could show her our beautiful state. We
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: got to see the backyard brawl, take a tour of
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: the football facility, talgate at the Country Roads Tent, and
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: see the home game against Kansas. There you go. They
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: were at pitt there and he brought her and then
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: they came in stayed for the Kansas game. So they
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: were here all week and when she got her first
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: Pepperoni Rold witness the greatest tradition of all the scene
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: of Country Roads. I was being bummed that that Kansas
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: game was probably the last time I was going to
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: see the team play this year, but I was thrilled
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: to see the world champion Mountaeers are going to be
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: playing their bowl game just two hours away from us.
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: Of course, we got our tickets right away. We listen
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: to you guys every week. Can't wait to finish out
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: the season watching our boys in person. There you go,
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: he said. PS. I got some Mountaineer munch for a
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: Christmas present from my dad. Of course I had to
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: snag a bag for me as well. There you go.
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: Thank you very much. We do appreciate that. How about this,
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: I had not seen these. I this was before I
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: got to West Virginia. I didn't realize that they bottled
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: the bourbon the year that the Mountaineer Field opened up
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty. And this texter says, bourbon from nineteen eighty
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: opening the new stadium. See that hop that bad boy
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: is now forty five years old. Also got some connection
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: three h four there to the side. I'm waiting for
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: a national championship to open the bottle of bourbon, Jeff
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: from Sandyville.
• 51:31
  Speaker 3: I don't know that's well, there's three or four right there?
• 51:33
  Speaker 3: Connection three all four?
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, I don't.
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: Think it continues to age after it's bottled. I think
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: it's aged prior to bottling. I think that what's done
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: then it's I think.
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: So you're saying, crack that thing open, let's God is
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: that what you're.
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: Saying, Well, I'm just making an somewhat obvious observation. Let
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: me double check. Then I want to check.
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: Then Yeah, Rick Harshberger, did we do this last show?
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: You sent those cookies, those candy cane cookies.
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: I remember eating the candy. I'm They're tremendous. They're just
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: so saying thanks for Rick Harshburger. We do appreciate that.
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: Rick's got a milestone coming up. Milestone, Hoppy, He's a
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: two billionaire game in a row.
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so here it is, man, Rick. Everyone likes to
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: be a you know, say hey, I don't miss a
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: game right now? Rick Harshberger, who lives in the East
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: Aaron Romney. He's at five hundred and sixty four consecutive
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: Mountaineer basketball home games, started with the UMass game January
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: of nineteen eighty seven, has not missed a home game since.
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: It's going to come to an end though, this coming
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: January the eighteenth. The streak's ending.
• 52:56
  Speaker 3: He's at what now, five six four, He's.
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: At five six four. It's going to end it five
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: six nine. It's gonna be Jerry West Day when West
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: Virginia plays Iowa State. Family bought him a trip a
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: Disney thing, so he literally won't be there. But my
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: guy will go to five sixty nine in a row. Incredible,
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: there's no one. Don't even don't even start and say
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: you were there. Don't don't don't time been to seven
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: hundred and ninety two. You missed one somewhere. This guy
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: hasn't missed.
• 53:26
  Speaker 3: Didn't he leave a hospital?
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: He was, he was hospitalized, and he left.
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: He checked himself out, checked himself out, went to the game,
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: went back to the hospital. You know what's scary about that?
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: Who's the one doing the surgery? When he left and
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: came back.
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: Fin, I just thought he could have I thought he
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: could have changed out of the gown before he got
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: to the coliseum.
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: It is amazing.
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: Okay, Now next up, good run, Rick, Thank you Charlie
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: from mid Lothian.
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: Yes, oh what he got?
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: He sent us Harry and David Pears.
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: Oh I love this.
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: I know they're awesome. So these guys are each going
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: to get their pairs charge. Thank you so very very much. Now.
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: He also texted he said this last show to answer
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: Hoppy's question, how did they get three people in their
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: family to steal all that gas at Kroger.
• 54:10
  Speaker 3: I don't think he's stealing the gas.
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: No, taking advantage of the thirty five games.
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: Coordination was the question.
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: He says. Our daughter will either call or text me
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: and ask if we're going to go be gassing the
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: cars soon. Now listen. At that point, we'll all agree
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: to a day and a time to meet at our
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: favorite pump at the Kroger's. Me on one side and
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: our daughter waiting behind her mom. And there you have it.
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: There you go, they coordinating.
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: M hm.
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: That's a good family get together.
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: Charlie also asked this, You think Reggie Theas was making
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: sure that the uh betters were covered at the end
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: of the game, not to give Jake an opportunity to
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: drain another three. It was a bad beat, right, that
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: turned out to be a bad beat on the toe.
• 54:54
  Speaker 3: I didn't know, think it was twenty three or something
• 54:55
  Speaker 3: like that.
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: He wasn't. Yeah.
• 54:57
  Speaker 3: I think he means Jake's over.
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, over under e No, no, no, I think he's talking about Oh.
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 55:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the game was too.
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 55:06
  Speaker 3: He'son fun talking to Reggie Theis. We talked to him
• 55:08
  Speaker 3: for the talk to him, man, Yeah, he was ten
• 55:10
  Speaker 3: thousand points in the league, All Star, NBA Rookie of
• 55:13
  Speaker 3: the Year actor, he was, he did the game.
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: He coaches and director of athletics.
• 55:21
  Speaker 3: Really we rolled right up, had to talk to him,
• 55:23
  Speaker 3: he was. I had a bunch of his basketball cards up.
• 55:25
  Speaker 3: I was going to go talk to Reggie theis.
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: Oh, well he was really nice, he was, Yes, it's great, yes, yeah,
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: So all right, here we go seasons. Greetings of the
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: three wise Men. The transfer portal giveth, the transfer portal taketh.
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: This year, it took away an appearance in the Independence
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: Bowl from a ten to three Marshall team. How does
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: this get fixed? Rick and Elkins?
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: That was bizarre, Yeah, it was bizarre, Like thirty plus players.
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: You hope that that becomes something of a of a presedent,
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: and so the people that you know, the college football
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: world figures out a way that that can never happen again.
• 56:07
  Speaker 3: It's we don't have time to get into it now,
• 56:08
  Speaker 3: but it is odd that you're jamming signing day, opening
• 56:13
  Speaker 3: of the transfer portal and bowl games all in this
• 56:15
  Speaker 3: three week period. The portal. You've obvious observation. You've got
• 56:21
  Speaker 3: to do something in the timing of this it does
• 56:23
  Speaker 3: hurt these games, there is no question. But you've also
• 56:26
  Speaker 3: got and I know we haven't talked about academics since
• 56:29
  Speaker 3: two thousand and nine as it relates to athletics, I understand,
• 56:33
  Speaker 3: but you've got the second semester starting at a lot
• 56:35
  Speaker 3: of places, so these guys that are transferring are trying
• 56:39
  Speaker 3: to get enrolled for second semester at times, so you
• 56:41
  Speaker 3: can't just back the portal up without adjusting an academic calendar,
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: which you're not gonna do. So, as always, there's a
• 56:47
  Speaker 3: lot of moving parts in college sports, but the way
• 56:49
  Speaker 3: you're doing it just does not make a lot of sense.
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: You know, but it doesn't. And part of the issue is,
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: namely another sport that stops and then restarts. Okay, yeah,
• 57:00
  Speaker 2: I mean, and we say, well it used to be like, well, yeah,
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: there's less.
• 57:03
  Speaker 3: Of a gap. Now, that's right, you're right. It's just
• 57:06
  Speaker 3: the fact that you're having player movement is really making
• 57:10
  Speaker 3: it even more odd.
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: So we either adjust when the bulls are which will
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: probably never happen, or adjust when the portal.
• 57:17
  Speaker 3: Oh but that's what I'm saying. The portals up against
• 57:20
  Speaker 3: when school begins second semester in some.
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: Places Penn State's backup quarterback left and I'm not going
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: to playoffs, so you out see you last text? Okay,
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: Tony Brad and the Christmas help mailman from Mercer County,
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: a great listener of ours. Remember here's his picture. He says,
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: I am ready those glasses. You can't see that picture
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: really good. But on the lens it says spot the ball.
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: Those are spot the ball sun glass.
• 57:49
  Speaker 3: He's held onto those that long. How about that rich
• 57:52
  Speaker 3: had those wrap arounds?
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: Remember Richard, those wrap rounds.
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: I remember he was early on in the whole sunglass
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: wrap rounds. Yes, and now it's very common.
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: But yes, so a lot lot's going to be happening obviously,
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: who players, who's staying, who's leaving, what a staff, who's coming,
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: who's coming, who's coming back, who's coming back?
• 58:15
  Speaker 3: You know?
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: So the only one that I had leaving before the
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: ball game was Trotters. There's somebody else out before.
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: The Jalen Anderson's gone, crandall's gone, okay yeah, and then
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: you you just I say, Justin Robinson, he's gone, He's gone, okay,
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean you're about four snaps away, Hoppy
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: from being out there in the receiver rotation MH the
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: and then certainly if rich Rod brings his own staff,
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: most of the staff leaves are going to take guys
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: with them. So sure, how many guys from Jacksonville State
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: come with rich.
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: Well, Brad was laying that outlast show.
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: Right, how many of those guys? So a few of
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: those guys jump into portal this weekend?
• 59:01
  Speaker 3: Time of change.
• 59:02
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• 59:07
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• 59:10
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• 59:13
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• 59:16
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• 59:17
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• 59:19
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• 59:20
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• 59:31
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• 59:36
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• 59:39
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• 59:40
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• 59:43
  Speaker 3: I don't know why I took shot it. There'll be
• 59:45
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• 59:46
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• 59:47
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• 59:47
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• 59:48
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  Speaker 1: wear like a hood when you do this doctorate thing.
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• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: They did?
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: They do ask you? They asked me for my hat socks.
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• 1:00:09
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• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: When you get the flopp you get the flop. You
• 1:00:12
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• 1:00:14
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• 1:00:44
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