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- 0:12Speaker 1: Welcome, Welcome, one and all. It is time for three
- 0:15Speaker 1: guys before the game. Episode number five hundred and seventy
- 0:19Speaker 1: five coming at you, and this is our pit game.
- 0:24Speaker 1: Recap Anthers win it by a final score of thirty
- 0:28Speaker 1: eight to thirty four. We're going to get into it
- 0:30Speaker 1: all the way through from A to Z coming up
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- 2:09Speaker 1: eight thirty four Pitt, when's the backyard Brawl? West Virginia
- 2:15Speaker 1: falls to one and two? Pitt goes to three and
- 2:17Speaker 1: oh and I think of all the episodes, and this
- 2:23Speaker 1: is five seventy five, this one may be the most emotional,
- 2:30Speaker 1: gut wrenching post loss episode that we've done. This probably
- 2:35Speaker 1: goes right there with two years ago up at Pitt.
- 2:39Speaker 1: To be quite honest with you, Yeah, all right, So
- 2:41Speaker 1: the lay of the land is this. We'll get into
- 2:44Speaker 1: the numbers. What's going on, what's happening? Why did it happen?
- 2:49Speaker 1: Why did it happen? That becomes the biggest question. Everyone's
- 2:53Speaker 1: got an opinion, and uh, we'll bust it down. Non
- 2:58Speaker 1: conference season is over in West Virginia's one and two.
- 3:02Speaker 1: Kansas comes in on Saturday to open up Big twelve
- 3:05Speaker 1: play and we'll talk all about that during the course
- 3:08Speaker 1: of the week. When it comes to textual healing, we've
- 3:12Speaker 1: entered entered into one of those episodes in which there
- 3:18Speaker 1: were just way more texts than can be consumed or
- 3:24Speaker 1: used unless we just made this thing into a telethon
- 3:27Speaker 1: and read everything. There was well over two hundred and
- 3:32Speaker 1: so what I've done is, using the fine services of
- 3:38Speaker 1: artificial intelligence and chat GPT, I took a lot of
- 3:44Speaker 1: those texts, not all of the two hundred plus, but
- 3:46Speaker 1: all you know it, just took a bunch and put
- 3:50Speaker 1: them into chat GBT and I said, summarize this into
- 3:54Speaker 1: ten bullet points what the theme is of the texter?
- 3:59Speaker 1: So I think it's part good idea, get it. You'll
- 4:01Speaker 1: get a consensus theme out of that. So we will
- 4:05Speaker 1: read some texts and uh, we've got some some things,
- 4:08Speaker 1: some pictures and things like that from various places, and
- 4:11Speaker 1: but not everything got used. Anyway, that's where we'll go later. Meanwhile, again,
- 4:17Speaker 1: we don't talk before we start. So oh, we just
- 4:22Speaker 1: said like, hey, what's up, what's up? Hey, how what's up?
- 4:24Speaker 1: But we don't talk about what we're going to talk about.
- 4:27Speaker 1: So happy you can lead off and give us your
- 4:31Speaker 1: take on yesterday.
- 4:33Speaker 3: Sure, let's start with macro. And why do we follow sports?
- 4:38Speaker 3: We follow sports because they're and they they are a distraction.
- 4:45Speaker 3: That's one of the reasons. And look, we have troubles.
- 4:48Speaker 3: You got troubles at home, you got troubles at work,
- 4:50Speaker 3: there's troubles in the world, and you need you need
- 4:53Speaker 3: a place to go. You need a place to get away.
- 4:56Speaker 3: And so you go to a lot of people, not everybody,
- 4:58Speaker 3: but one of the places you go is sport. It's
- 5:00Speaker 3: because it brings you joy. It's a distraction. You can
- 5:03Speaker 3: focus on that and kind of forget about everything else
- 5:06Speaker 3: for a while. But that has risk and reward, and
- 5:10Speaker 3: we know the reward, but also there's risk. And that
- 5:13Speaker 3: game yesterday, when you lose, it hurts. When you lose
- 5:18Speaker 3: to your rival, it hurts more when you lose to
- 5:21Speaker 3: your rival. In the way you lose, it's devastating. To
- 5:24Speaker 3: quote sting, it's a humiliating kick in the crotch. And
- 5:28Speaker 3: that's what it felt like. I mean, I've seen wins,
- 5:31Speaker 3: I've seen losses. Brad, I'm over pretty quickly. I mean,
- 5:34Speaker 3: come on, hundreds of them. Last night, my wife said,
- 5:38Speaker 3: do you want to watch college footballs?
- 5:39Speaker 2: That I really don't?
- 5:41Speaker 3: In the every Sunday morning, we have a ritual where
- 5:44Speaker 3: she reads me scores like I don't care. I mean,
- 5:47Speaker 3: this one, this one goes deep, and this one hurt
- 5:50Speaker 3: a lot from Mountaineer Nation and it's wow, huge, this
- 5:57Speaker 3: one is. It's historic for all the wrong reasons.
- 6:02Speaker 2: Well said, agree with all of that, and I think
- 6:04Speaker 2: that comes because of the build up and the excitement
- 6:07Speaker 2: leading into the game. Right when you lose those games,
- 6:10Speaker 2: it is tougher to swallow. And that's the part on
- 6:14Speaker 2: that game. Now you got to move it forward, and
- 6:17Speaker 2: the practical part of it is you're one and two.
- 6:20Speaker 2: That's maybe even a bigger story than just you lost
- 6:22Speaker 2: that one game with a difficult five game stretch really
- 6:26Speaker 2: the rest of the Big twelve season. But for Sure,
- 6:27Speaker 2: the next five games. The challenge of finding wins throughout
- 6:31Speaker 2: this schedule becomes even more real now that you had
- 6:34Speaker 2: a game you just should have won the game. I mean,
- 6:36Speaker 2: there's just no other way to say that. That's just
- 6:38Speaker 2: a disastrous loss in a game you should have won.
- 6:41Speaker 2: And we'll get into some of the particulars, but at
- 6:43Speaker 2: that moment, when you had a punt blocked return for
- 6:45Speaker 2: a touchdown, it did not look good. You generally don't
- 6:48Speaker 2: win games when you get a pump blocked. It's like
- 6:49Speaker 2: ninety percent of the time you lose a game and
- 6:51Speaker 2: you get a pump block to fight all the way
- 6:53Speaker 2: back and take that lead by ten, to have the
- 6:55Speaker 2: defense playing the way it was for the majority of
- 6:57Speaker 2: the second half, only to not be able to stop
- 7:00Speaker 2: them in the final two drives. Kicking the cross is
- 7:02Speaker 2: a great, great way to describe that and difficult to
- 7:04Speaker 2: get over. Difficult to get over for everybody involved. And
- 7:08Speaker 2: I get that that's a really tough loss to explain away.
- 7:12Speaker 1: Sure, and I do think and I agree with what
- 7:16Speaker 1: you guys are saying. A lot of what you're saying
- 7:19Speaker 1: is that from the perspective of fans, you know, they
- 7:24Speaker 1: make a financial investment. They make an emotional investment, and
- 7:31Speaker 1: they want a return from their investment. And I think
- 7:36Speaker 1: now for the second time this season, the result after
- 7:41Speaker 1: they heavily invested Penn State game and in this Pid game,
- 7:46Speaker 1: wasn't there. And when it happens to your absolute longest
- 7:52Speaker 1: rival and you have it in your hands up ten
- 7:56Speaker 1: withinside of five minutes to play, that is what takes
- 7:59Speaker 1: it to an another level of just exploding frustration. And
- 8:05Speaker 1: so that's super hard. So that's that. Obviously the score
- 8:09Speaker 1: is not going to change. Thirty eight thirty four of
- 8:13Speaker 1: a more smaller breakdown of this game. Through two games
- 8:19Speaker 1: now against Power five Power four competition, you're being outscored
- 8:26Speaker 1: thirty four to twenty three. So you're getting outscored by eleven.
- 8:32Speaker 1: Take away the Albany game and pass defense and Brad
- 8:36Speaker 1: I'm sure has the numbers is now really close to
- 8:40Speaker 1: the bottom in the nation, and that is a massive,
- 8:45Speaker 1: massive concern. There's a fundamental problem with your pass defense
- 8:52Speaker 1: right now. And you were hoping that this week they
- 8:56Speaker 1: would correct the errors that they had in the first
- 8:59Speaker 1: two games, and you went in there with some hope
- 9:03Speaker 1: and yet Pit ends up throwing four three and one yards,
- 9:09Speaker 1: three touchdowns and you don't get a pick. And these
- 9:14Speaker 1: are the things that just kind of stack on top
- 9:16Speaker 1: of each other, which you know as a fan and
- 9:20Speaker 1: I'm you know as a player, and the coaches. It
- 9:23Speaker 1: makes you want to scream because I'm sure when Brad
- 9:25Speaker 1: gets into the numbers here the numbers, you could make
- 9:28Speaker 1: a very strong case why what you did statistically should
- 9:32Speaker 1: have been good enough to win, but but you didn't.
- 9:37Speaker 1: And the in the bottom line is the bottom line.
- 9:39Speaker 1: This is a results driven business and the only thing
- 9:43Speaker 1: that matters in the big picture is the result. You
- 9:46Speaker 1: don't get style points.
- 9:48Speaker 3: And Neil Brown talked about this in the press conference.
- 9:51Speaker 2: Everybody could see it.
- 9:52Speaker 3: Brad will have stats on this is that you you
- 9:54Speaker 3: have to make plays at key times and West Virginia
- 9:59Speaker 3: didn't do that in those last two drives. You know, Brad,
- 10:03Speaker 3: you had to get You did a good job defensively
- 10:05Speaker 3: for most of that second half, but then when you
- 10:09Speaker 3: needed to make plays on those last two drives, defensively
- 10:12Speaker 3: you didn't. And then offensively, we needed to make plays
- 10:15Speaker 3: in that one drive and get a couple of first
- 10:16Speaker 3: downs you didn't.
- 10:17Speaker 2: Some close losses like this, you can always go back
- 10:20Speaker 2: and pull some individual plays out that you didn't. You
- 10:24Speaker 2: just didn't execute that costs you the game, and they did.
- 10:26Speaker 2: And you're right, you were elite defensively in the second
- 10:30Speaker 2: half and quite frankly from mid second quarter on. And
- 10:33Speaker 2: I will, I will, I do have some numbers to
- 10:35Speaker 2: get into that. That just shows how maddening that loss is,
- 10:38Speaker 2: because Tony, you're right, there's five or six things I
- 10:41Speaker 2: could pull out of there that if I had told
- 10:42Speaker 2: you on Thursday this would happen, you'd say that's a win.
- 10:45Speaker 2: But you drop a pass that's a sure pick six
- 10:50Speaker 2: by the defense early in the game. That's a game changer.
- 10:52Speaker 2: You completely miss a block on the edge that allows
- 10:54Speaker 2: not only the punt to be blocked. I feel like
- 10:56Speaker 2: this is the same thing we said two years ago.
- 10:58Speaker 2: Not only did you not catch the pass at the
- 11:00Speaker 2: end of that game two years ago, if you would
- 11:02Speaker 2: have just knocked it down, you probably would have been fine.
- 11:04Speaker 2: But not only did you not catch it, it goes for
- 11:05Speaker 2: a pick six. This not only did you get a
- 11:08Speaker 2: punt blocked, but you got a pump block that was
- 11:10Speaker 2: returned for a touchdown. You just don't win games like that.
- 11:13Speaker 2: Your defense is playing so well, and it had come
- 11:15Speaker 2: back and rallied and got something figured out, and you
- 11:18Speaker 2: just needed a stop. You just need to stop. You're
- 11:20Speaker 2: up two scores and they go down and get to
- 11:23Speaker 2: you to hold them to a field goal on the
- 11:24Speaker 2: final drive, and they march right down the field on
- 11:26Speaker 2: you seventy plus yards in what six or seven plays
- 11:30Speaker 2: with the game on the line. That just can't happen.
- 11:33Speaker 2: You have Eli Holstein wrapped up multiple times and can't
- 11:37Speaker 2: get him on the ground. Wait till I give you
- 11:38Speaker 2: some of these scramble yard stats and some of the
- 11:40Speaker 2: numbers of him after contact. It's just it's mind boggling
- 11:44Speaker 2: that you just couldn't make the play offensively. Offensively that
- 11:48Speaker 2: second to last series, not the one with only thirty
- 11:50Speaker 2: seconds left. Second to last series, you get one first down,
- 11:53Speaker 2: you're in good shape. That clock's ticking, they're going to
- 11:56Speaker 2: have to burn their timeouts. You just need one first down.
- 11:58Speaker 2: Can't get it. So there's multiple moments, and you don't
- 12:02Speaker 2: even need all of those moments. You just need a
- 12:06Speaker 2: moment of some of the ones I just named, and
- 12:08Speaker 2: that's a win. And yet you couldn't get across the
- 12:10Speaker 2: finish line on it. That's what I think the frustration
- 12:13Speaker 2: comes from. And listen coaches and players as well, more
- 12:16Speaker 2: so than anybody, But I get the fan frustration because
- 12:18Speaker 2: you're watching that saying, just get a stop here, just
- 12:21Speaker 2: get one more first down. You're averaging five yards to
- 12:24Speaker 2: carry bust a damn thing up the middle and get
- 12:26Speaker 2: five yards first down and move along. Just game. Just
- 12:30Speaker 2: just couldn't get there.
- 12:31Speaker 3: Just do what you in the last five minutes. Just
- 12:34Speaker 3: do what you had done the previous quarter and two.
- 12:38Speaker 2: Thirds on either side offensive. Just do that.
- 12:41Speaker 3: Yes, couldn't do it.
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- 14:03Speaker 3: Jeez, thank you sir. Hey, can I add one other thing?
- 14:06Speaker 1: Sure?
- 14:07Speaker 3: That because if you subtract the fandom, which is hard
- 14:11Speaker 3: to do, it was an exciting game. It was a
- 14:14Speaker 3: compelling game. It was an entertaining game to watch. And Brad,
- 14:18Speaker 3: one of the one of the saddest parts about this
- 14:20Speaker 3: that if West Virginia had won, you'd be talking about
- 14:23Speaker 3: Tevon straw Right and his fake punt run. You'd be
- 14:28Speaker 3: talking about that, like what a historic moment. It'd be
- 14:31Speaker 3: like the Brady you know fake punt that that's one
- 14:34Speaker 3: you'd be talking about.
- 14:34Speaker 2: Justin Robbinson, no question, one of the best catches in
- 14:36Speaker 2: brawl history.
- 14:37Speaker 3: Yeah, you'd be talking about those things, saying, wow, they
- 14:40Speaker 3: won the backyard brawl and what about these plays?
- 14:42Speaker 2: But those plays, but that all.
- 14:44Speaker 3: Gets diminished significantly because you watch the game, so you
- 14:47Speaker 3: don't get a chance to enjoy those moments.
- 14:49Speaker 2: It's a great point. It's like Tavon Austin having the
- 14:52Speaker 2: single game rushing record, but it came in a loss,
- 14:54Speaker 2: so we only tangily meant mentioned it right, right, So
- 14:56Speaker 2: you're right, it was the brawl lived up to what
- 14:59Speaker 2: the we all want the brawl to be, right, close,
- 15:01Speaker 2: fun games, exciting, good day of college football. You just
- 15:04Speaker 2: didn't get on the other side of it. Those two
- 15:06Speaker 2: plays get lost. It gets lost that you fought back
- 15:09Speaker 2: from giving up a pump block for a touchdown to
- 15:11Speaker 2: take a two score lead. You know, if this was
- 15:14Speaker 2: if that game had gone differently, we'd be sitting here saying,
- 15:16Speaker 2: how about the intestinal fortitude of that team to be
- 15:18Speaker 2: able to get itself up off the mat and find
- 15:20Speaker 2: a way on the road in front of an opposing
- 15:22Speaker 2: crowd and get the right There's so many things that
- 15:25Speaker 2: would have come out of that if it had just
- 15:26Speaker 2: gone that. If you get one stop there, if you
- 15:29Speaker 2: get one more first down, but you did not.
- 15:31Speaker 1: That's the concern. If you had, then it's a defining
- 15:35Speaker 1: game in your season, yes, but you didn't, so it
- 15:37Speaker 1: may become a defining game on your season.
- 15:40Speaker 2: Somebody texted I don't remember if this was on sports
- 15:42Speaker 2: Line or where I saw this text from one of
- 15:45Speaker 2: the listeners, but they talked about, and we've said this
- 15:48Speaker 2: many times over the years, how the Maryland game was
- 15:50Speaker 2: normally the defining barometer game of West Virginia schedule because
- 15:53Speaker 2: it landed in this timeframe. They thought this pit game
- 15:56Speaker 2: may be that. So that's what this group's going to
- 15:58Speaker 2: have to do. Is it going to be able to
- 15:59Speaker 2: fight back, put that loss behind it and find a
- 16:02Speaker 2: way in what is a very balanced top to bottom
- 16:05Speaker 2: Big twelve find a way to rally and get this
- 16:07Speaker 2: season back on track.
- 16:08Speaker 3: And Neil Brown said that in this press conference. He said,
- 16:10Speaker 3: there are going to be games like today, that's what
- 16:13Speaker 3: that's what you're going to have going forward. And the
- 16:15Speaker 3: difference between winning and losing is going to be really
- 16:18Speaker 3: really close in most of these games. Right, So you
- 16:21Speaker 3: got to find a way. You got to make plays.
- 16:23Speaker 3: And so far, so far, this team.
- 16:25Speaker 2: Has not been able.
- 16:27Speaker 3: This staff and this team has not been able to
- 16:29Speaker 3: establish that they can make the the key plays at
- 16:33Speaker 3: the key moments to win the game.
- 16:35Speaker 1: Can't dot, I can't cross. T's right, that's right. And
- 16:40Speaker 1: it sets up for Saturday. Not that we're going to
- 16:42Speaker 1: look ahead too much here, but for Saturday. You talk
- 16:44Speaker 1: about two wounded dogs coming into the coming into the field.
- 16:48Speaker 1: Here you got Kansas who gets stunned by UNLV. They've
- 16:53Speaker 1: got a quarterback. By the way, he'll run, right, he'll run.
- 16:58Speaker 1: That could be problematic. So you're going to see a
- 17:00Speaker 1: whole scenario. But that's for another day. Let's break down
- 17:03Speaker 1: the numbers. What do the numbers say? Let's find out.
- 17:06Speaker 2: So I check the numbers. I'll just go right to
- 17:09Speaker 2: the numbers.
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- 18:04Speaker 1: So numbers in glasses on, which means he's ready to go,
- 18:11Speaker 1: Ready to.
- 18:11Speaker 2: Go, I got a lot, so bear with me here. Sure,
- 18:14Speaker 2: So we're going to do a couple different things. Some
- 18:16Speaker 2: have got just some raw numbers that'll make you shake
- 18:18Speaker 2: your head. That we'll get into in a second. But
- 18:20Speaker 2: since we went into some specific keys to winning the
- 18:23Speaker 2: game back on Thursday, let's look at how those areas
- 18:26Speaker 2: came out hoppy. We talked a lot about games within
- 18:28Speaker 2: the game, yes on this one, and let's see how
- 18:30Speaker 2: they did. First one, we talked about could West Virginia
- 18:33Speaker 2: not only handle but exploit pits pressure and aggressive defense
- 18:38Speaker 2: against it. So the ability to block, hold them out
- 18:42Speaker 2: and then hit them for some big plays. You had
- 18:44Speaker 2: seen Pitt give up a ton of big plays in
- 18:46Speaker 2: their first two games. How did West Virginia do against that?
- 18:49Speaker 2: Did pretty well offensively. We talked about the right side
- 18:52Speaker 2: of West Virginia's line had to hold up against their
- 18:54Speaker 2: left side pressure. Did for the most part. Nick Malone
- 18:56Speaker 2: highest graded offensive player as of this morning. Again, those
- 19:00Speaker 2: may change a little bit as they go in and
- 19:02Speaker 2: review the film a couple more times, but Malone held
- 19:04Speaker 2: up very well on that right side. The big play
- 19:07Speaker 2: part of it, It's one of those just kind of
- 19:08Speaker 2: like the game, like, Yeah, you got some big plays,
- 19:12Speaker 2: but did you get enough? I frankly thought there would
- 19:14Speaker 2: be more. I thought happy there would be a sixty
- 19:18Speaker 2: yard or two pass past their defensive backs. I thought
- 19:21Speaker 2: Garrett would whip off a forty yard run for a
- 19:24Speaker 2: touchdown White on the edge. I thought there would be
- 19:27Speaker 2: some opportunities for that, and there wasn't those massive big plays.
- 19:31Speaker 2: You had seven rushing plays of ten yards or more,
- 19:33Speaker 2: but only one that was longer than fifteen yards. So
- 19:36Speaker 2: those ten yards or more runs designed described as explosive plays,
- 19:40Speaker 2: but you didn't have the couple of really big ones
- 19:42Speaker 2: I thought would be there. You had five passing plays
- 19:45Speaker 2: of fifteen yards or more, but only two of them
- 19:47Speaker 2: came in the second half, one and the third quarter
- 19:50Speaker 2: one in the fourth quarter. Pitt did fall all the
- 19:52Speaker 2: way to seventy ninth nationally in opponent plays of ten
- 19:56Speaker 2: yards or more, so they dropped a full ten spots,
- 19:58Speaker 2: so you got a bunch of those. West Virginia moved
- 20:01Speaker 2: up a spot to twenty fourth nationally in plays of
- 20:04Speaker 2: ten yards or more. So the numbers tell you you
- 20:07Speaker 2: did that, but I thought there'd be more. Quite frankly,
- 20:10Speaker 2: I thought more of those would turn into big play touchdowns,
- 20:13Speaker 2: and they just they did not. Second one, can you
- 20:15Speaker 2: handle Pitt's tempo turn it into a positive in your
- 20:18Speaker 2: favor by getting some stops. Again, there were parts of
- 20:23Speaker 2: the game where you did this extremely well. There were
- 20:25Speaker 2: other parts where you did not, namely those last two
- 20:28Speaker 2: drives and some early You won the time of possession
- 20:31Speaker 2: guys by thirteen minutes. If I had told you that
- 20:35Speaker 2: back on Thursday, I'd say that's a win. Pitt had
- 20:37Speaker 2: the ball for only three minutes and forty five seconds
- 20:40Speaker 2: in the third quarter. Yes, thirteen minutes. You did exactly
- 20:45Speaker 2: what you wanted to do. You ran sixteen more plays
- 20:47Speaker 2: than Pitt did. That's the exact formula you wanted in
- 20:50Speaker 2: this game, and yet you didn't end up with a win.
- 20:53Speaker 2: Talked about will your pass coverage be better it needed
- 20:56Speaker 2: to be. Can you get pressure on Holstein? This is
- 20:59Speaker 2: another one of those. It's just exactly as the game
- 21:02Speaker 2: played out. Yes and no, Yes and no. Right, they
- 21:07Speaker 2: ultimately beat you on some pass plays that cost you
- 21:09Speaker 2: the game. But man, you dominated that pit offensive line
- 21:13Speaker 2: all night. That's just good as a West Virginia team
- 21:15Speaker 2: has played upfront in a long long time. In fact,
- 21:18Speaker 2: if you want a number to back up that statement,
- 21:21Speaker 2: that's the most quarterback pressures. That's more quarterback pressures twenty
- 21:25Speaker 2: nine of them than any game since the Virginia Tech
- 21:28Speaker 2: game in twenty twenty one. That's how much you forced
- 21:32Speaker 2: pressure up front. And we're gonna go to the second
- 21:35Speaker 2: part of that, which was I credit Eli Holstein. He
- 21:38Speaker 2: was the best player on the field last night. He
- 21:40Speaker 2: did an incredible job. Even though he had five sacks
- 21:43Speaker 2: and he had, however many tackles for losses. He had.
- 21:45Speaker 2: I thought he did a really nice job of under pressure,
- 21:48Speaker 2: getting out and then throwing after absorbing the pressure, or
- 21:52Speaker 2: at the end taking off and running. We'll get to
- 21:54Speaker 2: some of that. TJ. Jackson, we talked about him last week.
- 21:58Speaker 2: He was he was a dude up front. Had the
- 22:01Speaker 2: most tackles for loss four since David Long back in
- 22:04Speaker 2: twenty eighteen. Jackson now has twenty seven percent of all
- 22:08Speaker 2: of West Virginia's pressure on the year he has played.
- 22:11Speaker 2: He was there, He was in the backfield a lot
- 22:14Speaker 2: last night. We thought it would come a lot of
- 22:16Speaker 2: pressure hop against their right side. Their right tackle had
- 22:19Speaker 2: a twenty something great on pass protection. It was right
- 22:22Speaker 2: where you thought it would be. You got the pressure
- 22:24Speaker 2: up front, it just wasn't enough to get the win.
- 22:28Speaker 2: So there's some things from Thursday's preview show that just
- 22:31Speaker 2: didn't end up going in your favor, or they went
- 22:35Speaker 2: in your favorite, just couldn't win it. Now here's some
- 22:36Speaker 2: raw numbers. Some of these are just mind boggling, guys.
- 22:40Speaker 2: Thirty four that's the number of minutes West Virginia went
- 22:46Speaker 2: without allowing an offensive point from Pitt and yet you lost.
- 22:50Speaker 2: They scored with just over seven minutes to go in
- 22:52Speaker 2: the second half. They did not score another offensive point
- 22:55Speaker 2: until three minutes in the fourth corner, and he didn't
- 22:57Speaker 2: win the game. If you had told me you took
- 22:59Speaker 2: that offense and held it for thirty four game minutes
- 23:02Speaker 2: without an offensive point, how's that not turn into a win?
- 23:05Speaker 2: That's that number we could stop right now. I mean,
- 23:07Speaker 2: we could just stop the number. Segment. That to me
- 23:09Speaker 2: is mind boggling that that happens with a defense that
- 23:13Speaker 2: had been struggling and you don't end up with a win.
- 23:17Speaker 2: You held them to four yards of offense for the
- 23:19Speaker 2: first twenty seven minutes of the second half. Four yards, guys.
- 23:23Speaker 2: They had one hundred and fifty two yards in the
- 23:25Speaker 2: final three minutes of the game, four to one, fifty
- 23:29Speaker 2: two at the end. Amazing sixty seven scramble yards for
- 23:34Speaker 2: Holstein on the final two drives. Pitt was one of
- 23:40Speaker 2: seven on third down, zero of one on fourth, one
- 23:42Speaker 2: of eight on end of possession. And you didn't win
- 23:44Speaker 2: the game. I told you. Thirteen minutes time of possession
- 23:49Speaker 2: advanced for West Virginia plus sixteen plays. Here's a number
- 23:54Speaker 2: that surprised me. Ultimately, you ran it pretty well. Nearly
- 23:57Speaker 2: two hundred yards rushing right, you could have used another
- 23:59Speaker 2: five or six to get that first down. Hop that
- 24:01Speaker 2: we talked about. Eighty nine percent of West Virginia's rushing
- 24:04Speaker 2: yards were after contact.
- 24:06Speaker 1: CJ.
- 24:07Speaker 2: Prey good run through contact. Here's here's a mind boggling
- 24:11Speaker 2: number and goes back to I thought Holstein played the
- 24:13Speaker 2: best game of anybody on the field. Seventy nine percent
- 24:19Speaker 2: of Pitt's total rushing yards after contact were from Holstein
- 24:23Speaker 2: the quarterback. And that's one of those guys. That's a number.
- 24:27Speaker 2: I say this a lot. That's a number that backs
- 24:29Speaker 2: up what you saw. The number of times West Virginia
- 24:31Speaker 2: had hands or a hand on Holstein and didn't put
- 24:35Speaker 2: him on his back is staggering.
- 24:37Speaker 1: That's what leads to frustration.
- 24:38Speaker 2: I think that's you got pressure and you got to
- 24:41Speaker 2: him with your hands on him, and he turned into
- 24:44Speaker 2: Michael Vick at times right and just ran away from
- 24:47Speaker 2: you to make place incredible, including that spin out at
- 24:50Speaker 2: the end when he took off the other one. And
- 24:53Speaker 2: again give him credit, but West Virginia's just got to
- 24:56Speaker 2: make some plays here. Holstein came into the game leading
- 24:58Speaker 2: the country and turnover worthy. He was giving people opportunities
- 25:03Speaker 2: to get turnovers. You had two. You had one that
- 25:05Speaker 2: we talked about down the corner. Thought Fagan was right there,
- 25:08Speaker 2: had the ball in his hands, and I think that
- 25:09Speaker 2: goes for a pick six because Reed Kerrico had just
- 25:11Speaker 2: leveled Holstein. He was on his back. I'm not sure
- 25:14Speaker 2: there was anybody in front of him to stop him.
- 25:16Speaker 2: Didn't make the play. Anthony Wilson gets in front of
- 25:19Speaker 2: the route, jumps the route, he saw the route coming,
- 25:21Speaker 2: gets a hand on it, bats it. Not only was
- 25:23Speaker 2: it not an interception, not only was it knocked down.
- 25:25Speaker 2: It turns into a big game for pit So you
- 25:28Speaker 2: had opportunities right there for some turnovers. You didn't get it. Instead,
- 25:31Speaker 2: you were the one that turned it over. I know
- 25:33Speaker 2: you had one late. It still counts on your record.
- 25:35Speaker 2: He talked about next week's game. You're gonna get two
- 25:37Speaker 2: of the teams with the worst turnover margin in the
- 25:39Speaker 2: country in Kansas and West Virginia. Only four teams are
- 25:42Speaker 2: worse than those two teams. So of all the problems,
- 25:45Speaker 2: that's another one that West Virginia's had. It has not
- 25:47Speaker 2: been able to create any turnovers and it keeps giving
- 25:49Speaker 2: up too many. There's the Book of numbers. Wow, No, Brad.
- 25:58Speaker 3: You during our coverage you kept saying appropriately, I mean,
- 26:01Speaker 3: because you're going by the analytics, like there has to
- 26:05Speaker 3: be a turnover, there has to be an interception here,
- 26:07Speaker 3: there has to be a turnover, right, and you just
- 26:10Speaker 3: didn't get it. I mean you had turnover opportunities, like
- 26:13Speaker 3: you said so analytically you should have had two, and
- 26:18Speaker 3: you didn't get any right.
- 26:19Speaker 2: Correct or at the very least one right at the
- 26:22Speaker 2: very least one because Wilsons probably should have just ended
- 26:25Speaker 2: up knocked down. He didn't necessarily have his hands on it.
- 26:27Speaker 2: He was there in great position in just that play.
- 26:30Speaker 3: But even so, with a team that's behind and the
- 26:32Speaker 3: kind of pressure the front was getting on the quarterback
- 26:35Speaker 3: that's usually and you're dropping eight seven, that's usually the
- 26:41Speaker 3: formula for for a turnover.
- 26:43Speaker 2: I would think that's what the most maddening part is
- 26:45Speaker 2: over in that building today, is you dominate upfront like
- 26:48Speaker 2: you did, and didn't have to bring a ton of
- 26:51Speaker 2: exotic blitzes to do so. You just were beating them
- 26:53Speaker 2: up front. You were better on your defensive line than
- 26:56Speaker 2: they were on the offensive line, and you didn't get
- 26:58Speaker 2: a win. That just never mind all the other numbers
- 27:00Speaker 2: you throw in. You do that, that should be a win.
- 27:02Speaker 2: Kid was running for his life all night and just
- 27:06Speaker 2: made some plays that got out of your tackles. You
- 27:09Speaker 2: did not do a good job once you got pressure
- 27:11Speaker 2: of them getting him on the ground. That'll ultimately be
- 27:13Speaker 2: defensively what the mark is against this. You've got great pressure,
- 27:17Speaker 2: just couldn't get the kid on the ground.
- 27:18Speaker 1: So you mentioned they had six plays that were ten
- 27:22Speaker 1: yards or more rushing, and Holstein owns four of those
- 27:28Speaker 1: six plays. He had a twelve yard jaunt first quarter
- 27:33Speaker 1: and then fourth quarter he went for ten, he went
- 27:36Speaker 1: for twenty four, he went for seventeen. Inability to bring
- 27:41Speaker 1: him down and to stop him led, you held that
- 27:44Speaker 1: was the key to the victory.
- 27:45Speaker 2: You held Reid to twenty six yards rushing, but we're
- 27:48Speaker 2: rushing defense was very good.
- 27:50Speaker 3: But where Reid burns youw was on pass receptions. He
- 27:53Speaker 3: got open, caught four or five passes, caught two touchdowns.
- 27:58Speaker 1: He's their safety velve when pressure comes, that's where they go.
- 28:01Speaker 2: He did, but she held him too seventy six yards.
- 28:03Speaker 2: If you had told me that on Thursday, that he
- 28:04Speaker 2: had seventy six total yards guy that leads the country
- 28:06Speaker 2: in all purpose charts. He would have said, that's a win. Yeah,
- 28:09Speaker 2: I mean you just would have won. You give up
- 28:11Speaker 2: four total yards in the first twenty seven minutes of
- 28:13Speaker 2: the half and lose the game. Gave up one hundred
- 28:17Speaker 2: and fifty two in the final two drives. Those are
- 28:19Speaker 2: some Those are mind blowing numbers. That thirty four minutes
- 28:22Speaker 2: without an offensive point, you don't win the game. Staggering, staggering.
- 28:32Speaker 2: That's it. That's all I got. I mean, I could
- 28:33Speaker 2: give you a bunch of grades, but it doesn't much matter.
- 28:35Speaker 2: Those are the numbers that mattered to the game. Right there.
- 28:37Speaker 1: You said, Nick graded well.
- 28:39Speaker 2: Nick highest graded offensive player.
- 28:41Speaker 3: Overall second week in row Right, isn't second doing great?
- 28:45Speaker 2: Wyatt mielem right in their top four Gallagher Justin Robinson
- 28:48Speaker 2: graded well, Yeah, the offensively TJ Jackson, Tyron Bradley. You know,
- 28:57Speaker 2: the loss of Karako hurt right, he went out fair
- 29:00Speaker 2: early in that game, and he again was making plays
- 29:03Speaker 2: early in that game. That's that's not ideal that he
- 29:06Speaker 2: went out. No, Yeah, that was probably hoppy. We didn't
- 29:08Speaker 2: talk about that much on our broadcast. That was probably
- 29:10Speaker 2: a bigger story than what we're making it out to be.
- 29:12Speaker 2: You know, you got the middle of that defense and
- 29:15Speaker 2: Holstein's chewing you up running right down there. You could
- 29:18Speaker 2: have used another one of your really good playmakers on
- 29:20Speaker 2: the season read Karaco in there, so that that probably
- 29:22Speaker 2: cost you as well.
- 29:24Speaker 1: And Edward Vestern in first game they played without him,
- 29:28Speaker 1: just you know whatever, not that he's going to run
- 29:30Speaker 1: after quarterbacks and bring him down, but just from a
- 29:32Speaker 1: depthetive perspective, you lose a guy that had played a
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- 33:12Speaker 1: As I said, with textual healing again, well over two
- 33:17Speaker 1: hundred text there's a general theme. We'll try to get
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- 33:24Speaker 1: But as you can as you can imagine, there's a
- 33:29Speaker 1: lot of unhappy people. There are unhappy people who question
- 33:38Speaker 1: our manhood here as to what we're going to say.
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- 34:04Speaker 1: of it's not funny, but it's funny. So every once
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- 34:17Speaker 1: The ones that I giggle over are the ones that
- 34:20Speaker 1: say various things, and so sometimes they'll leave a name
- 34:23Speaker 1: or whatever, and I'll just kind of do a little
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- 34:29Speaker 1: and then their little bio thing and it'll say like
- 34:32Speaker 1: Christian Dad, nice witness Sparky.
- 34:43Speaker 2: All right for forget this.
- 34:44Speaker 1: So so here we go some of these again, we'll
- 34:47Speaker 1: get into the jedim. So what we'll do. I'll read
- 34:49Speaker 1: some of them and then we'll do the whole general
- 34:51Speaker 1: theme thing. Gentlemen, I took a long shower and calm
- 34:56Speaker 1: down before I sent this text. I've always supported Neil Brown,
- 34:59Speaker 1: but something is wrong. I can already hear Brad say
- 35:02Speaker 1: players need to make plays and defensive coach Brown, but
- 35:05Speaker 1: this keeps happening, keep losing this way, something is wrong.
- 35:09Speaker 1: We hear the players are underrated nationally and the coaches
- 35:12Speaker 1: are great, but Penn, Stateton Pitt happen over and over again,
- 35:14Speaker 1: year after year. If at this point we lose games
- 35:17Speaker 1: with great players, then it has to be bad coaching.
- 35:20Speaker 1: If we lose games because we don't have great players,
- 35:22Speaker 1: it has to be bad recruiting and coaching. It is
- 35:24Speaker 1: year six and we can't have it both ways anymore.
- 35:28Speaker 3: Scott from Stafford Wendy want us to weigh in, Go ahead, whatever,
- 35:35Speaker 3: whatever the stir it leads you. If you have a
- 35:36Speaker 3: bunch of the coach things, we can I can wait.
- 35:39Speaker 3: You got a bunch of the coach things?
- 35:41Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's yeah. I'll just I'll read some
- 35:43Speaker 1: of them. I'll read something you can go like, Okay,
- 35:45Speaker 1: I got it. On your last episode, you had a
- 35:48Speaker 1: text about going to a concert or the pit game,
- 35:51Speaker 1: no contest, pit game, And my wife and I were
- 35:53Speaker 1: playing in our fall wedding on a stern wheeler on
- 35:56Speaker 1: the Ohio River. I told her it had to be
- 35:57Speaker 1: on an off week for the Mountaineers, so we got
- 36:00Speaker 1: married October twelve, nineteen eighty five. I didn't think about
- 36:03Speaker 1: the possible anniversaries in the future.
- 36:05Speaker 3: Though I did exactly the same thing.
- 36:07Speaker 1: Yeah, so, yeah, you can get married on an off week,
- 36:10Speaker 1: but those anniversaries do happen on a yearly basis.
- 36:14Speaker 3: So my anniversary, I'll be celebrating my anniversary this year.
- 36:16Speaker 1: Bad at the Kansas game.
- 36:19Speaker 2: This schedule didn't accommodate your anniversary and take a week off,
- 36:22Speaker 2: did not?
- 36:23Speaker 1: You guys have taken Nick the Greek up. Thank you
- 36:26Speaker 1: for taking or you should have taken Nick the Greek
- 36:28Speaker 1: up on his offer of bac Leva. It was excellent.
- 36:31Speaker 1: He also makes great chicken for the Greek Food Festival.
- 36:35Speaker 1: They're in Clarksburg, and they sent me a picture of
- 36:40Speaker 1: them cooking their chicken on their grill, So shout out
- 36:44Speaker 1: to there he is. How about that right, there's a
- 36:47Speaker 1: good deal. I don't know if that's Nick the Greek
- 36:49Speaker 1: himself or another person who identifies as said Texter three connection.
- 37:01Speaker 1: I was on a ferry this morning of the pit
- 37:03Speaker 1: game between Corsica, France and Sardinia. I spotted Steve from
- 37:07Speaker 1: Colorado Springs sporting this nice West Virginia pullover. He has
- 37:13Speaker 1: a brother in Charleston and I live in the Lake
- 37:15Speaker 1: Norman area of North Carolina. There's always a West Virginia connection,
- 37:21Speaker 1: So these guys are there. Look at that he was
- 37:23Speaker 1: on a ferry between Corsica, France and Sardinia and he
- 37:29Speaker 1: sees the West Virginia pullover and they befriended one another.
- 37:32Speaker 1: That's kind of neat. Always yeah, always, Texter, Let's keep
- 37:40Speaker 1: Bama on the schedule. Pit is too much of a challenge, Texter.
- 37:47Speaker 1: All right, fellas some of us have been denying the
- 37:50Speaker 1: climb for three years. You have stood strong. What do
- 37:54Speaker 1: you need to see to accept that Neil Brown simply
- 37:57Speaker 1: cannot get it done at this level? P one Jason
- 38:03Speaker 1: in Phoenix. I've had enough of Neil Brown. He's incompetent.
- 38:08Speaker 1: Goodbye and goodbye to anyone associated with him. I don't
- 38:11Speaker 1: care who replaces him. I don't care if it's an
- 38:13Speaker 1: upturned broom with a bucket for a head, gone goodbye.
- 38:17Speaker 1: Make all the excuses you want. Incompetent gone, goodbye, Texter.
- 38:27Speaker 1: This is Derek and Parkersburg in game text. As I
- 38:30Speaker 1: watch a pick on the last play, I can't blame
- 38:33Speaker 1: this game on the team. They played their hearts out,
- 38:36Speaker 1: although I can blame officiating because we were robbed on
- 38:40Speaker 1: that one. Do you feel there was interference in the
- 38:42Speaker 1: end zone on Pitt's final drive?
- 38:45Speaker 2: Well, do you want to talk about the officiating.
- 38:48Speaker 3: I mean, Brad raises the valid point that officiating is
- 38:50Speaker 3: part of the game and should be open to discussion.
- 38:52Speaker 3: It is open discussion, and we talked about it a
- 38:54Speaker 3: lot yesterday during our broadcast, and I'll just tee you up, Brad.
- 38:58Speaker 3: I mean, I felt, at the very least the officiating
- 39:00Speaker 3: was inconsistent.
- 39:02Speaker 2: Yeah, and both teams thought that. Pat Nardozy and his
- 39:04Speaker 2: postgame press converce that we beat two teams. They beat
- 39:06Speaker 2: Westerdian and we beat the officials. So if I'm Neil Brown,
- 39:11Speaker 2: I would have said partly the same. He said in
- 39:12Speaker 2: his post game that that holding call on whyat Mine
- 39:14Speaker 2: is just the wrong call, and that was just that
- 39:16Speaker 2: was that was a swing in the game. I know
- 39:17Speaker 2: you came back and took the lead, but it was
- 39:19Speaker 2: fourteen point the point gets the first down very next play.
- 39:23Speaker 2: Then he hit Hudson Clement for what would have been
- 39:25Speaker 2: a touchdown, called the phantom hold on myle and brings
- 39:27Speaker 2: that back next play pump block return for a touchdown
- 39:30Speaker 2: change the moment in the game that might have been
- 39:31Speaker 2: the dagger with that touchdown pass. There are also two
- 39:34Speaker 2: holding calls earlier that kept drives alive for Pitt, kept
- 39:37Speaker 2: a drive alive calls on defensive holding away from the
- 39:41Speaker 2: playing away from the ball. Yeah, I have a lot
- 39:42Speaker 2: of questions on that. I think that's part of it,
- 39:44Speaker 2: if you I mean again, and you know my stance
- 39:46Speaker 2: on that. So now we'll get a million text saying
- 39:47Speaker 2: crying about officials not saying that you needed to make plays.
- 39:50Speaker 2: Been very clear about that. But we again, as I
- 39:52Speaker 2: always say, you can also have a conversation about officials
- 39:54Speaker 2: when they blatantly missed some calls that I thought they did.
- 39:57Speaker 3: Tony, let me ask you because you were we called
- 40:00Speaker 3: the game. So there were nineteen penalties called, twelve on
- 40:04Speaker 3: Pitt in seven on West Virginia. Now, so more penalties
- 40:08Speaker 3: were called on Pitt, but West Virginia's penalties came at
- 40:10Speaker 3: key times in that game. But it seemed like that
- 40:15Speaker 3: the officials were very involved. Usually you see a game
- 40:18Speaker 3: like okay, there's five on one team and six on another,
- 40:20Speaker 3: or four and five. They were very much they were
- 40:24Speaker 3: very much inserted in this game.
- 40:26Speaker 1: Yeah, they were. I mean, we went from a game
- 40:28Speaker 1: last week there was not one replay review to a
- 40:32Speaker 1: bunch yesterday, and I went back. I wanted to see
- 40:35Speaker 1: the Wyatt mile and penalty, and I watched the tape
- 40:37Speaker 1: of it this morning, the film of it, the game
- 40:40Speaker 1: film of it this morning, and that's about as bad
- 40:43Speaker 1: as I've ever seen. And that was a fourteen point swing.
- 40:46Speaker 1: You take the touchdown there, you're not forced into a
- 40:49Speaker 1: situation where you punch. You don't get the pump block. Anyway,
- 40:52Speaker 1: long story short, as Brad says, it was really unfortunate
- 40:58Speaker 1: it certainly it certainly didn't help. Certainly didn't help. That's
- 41:02Speaker 1: a big twelve crew.
- 41:04Speaker 2: It was. Yeah, they didn't have a good game either.
- 41:07Speaker 3: Yeah, you didn't do enough play.
- 41:08Speaker 2: You didn't make enough plays to make the win. They
- 41:10Speaker 2: didn't make enough plays either of the officials.
- 41:12Speaker 1: Just is what it is, rusty in Monroe County. This
- 41:16Speaker 1: feels worse than the infamous game. That's all I say.
- 41:18Speaker 1: God bless text a immediate game reaction. We know more
- 41:22Speaker 1: about our team now after three games. We don't tackle well,
- 41:26Speaker 1: we can't defend the pass. Anybody that's watched our tape
- 41:30Speaker 1: that doesn't chuck at deep thirty times a game isn't
- 41:32Speaker 1: paying attention. If they aren't complete, it's a pass interference.
- 41:37Speaker 1: We make too many mental mistakes other than good fourth
- 41:40Speaker 1: down calls. We played too conservatively on offense.
- 41:43Speaker 3: You know the Maybe we talked about this already, but
- 41:47Speaker 3: I guess we did on the next to last series.
- 41:50Speaker 2: Like to play called.
- 41:50Speaker 3: People can say, well, it's too conservative, and I think
- 41:52Speaker 3: we said that at the time. Neil Brown said afterward
- 41:55Speaker 3: that you miss a block. I mean that if you
- 41:59Speaker 3: don't if you make the block, CJ probably gets ten
- 42:03Speaker 3: yards and get that sits down.
- 42:04Speaker 2: And that's a tough one because you would ideally like
- 42:06Speaker 2: to run it. You're averaging five yards per carry, you've
- 42:08Speaker 2: had success running it. You want to run it right
- 42:10Speaker 2: there so that clock keeps running. That's what you were
- 42:12Speaker 2: playing against in that point. And yeah, you just didn't
- 42:15Speaker 2: get off it on the first play of the drive
- 42:17Speaker 2: is what he was referring to there, and didn't get
- 42:19Speaker 2: the play that you needed.
- 42:23Speaker 1: Uh, Texter, Texter, Texter. I'm trying to be logical about
- 42:27Speaker 1: this loss to pitp but this loss feels like a theme.
- 42:30Speaker 1: We get a lead, get way too conservative. With calls
- 42:33Speaker 1: on offense go three and out, and the defense, which
- 42:36Speaker 1: played well in the second half, absolutely falls apart in
- 42:38Speaker 1: the fourth. Feels like a broken record. Neil's play calling
- 42:42Speaker 1: late in the game with the lead has to change.
- 42:45Speaker 1: We can't play not to lose with three minutes. You
- 42:48Speaker 1: have to run more aggressive offense. Something needs to change
- 42:51Speaker 1: with the defense too, Although I'm not sure what bottom
- 42:55Speaker 1: line is. Although the players failed to make plays, I
- 42:58Speaker 1: feel like this loss falls on the coach is Josh
- 43:00Speaker 1: and Mason West Virginia. I just I don't.
- 43:03Speaker 2: I don't. It didn't work, so I realize that opens
- 43:06Speaker 2: it up for criticism. But again, you want the clock
- 43:10Speaker 2: to run. You come out and throw on first down
- 43:12Speaker 2: of that series in a game when you're not throwing it, well,
- 43:14Speaker 2: you're passing great. In that game was as bad as
- 43:17Speaker 2: it's been in two years. You didn't have receivers getting
- 43:20Speaker 2: wide open. Now, the fourth down plays, the little passes
- 43:22Speaker 2: in the flat, those were good. So okay if you
- 43:24Speaker 2: want to say it, But if you run that play
- 43:25Speaker 2: and don't complete the pass and that clock stops, you
- 43:29Speaker 2: talk about being open for criticism, that you'd be going
- 43:32Speaker 2: bananas in that right. You need to be able to
- 43:35Speaker 2: run and move the clock. You'd had success running it,
- 43:37Speaker 2: So I get that everybody's losing their mind because it
- 43:40Speaker 2: didn't work, and you're screaming about conservative because it looks.
- 43:43Speaker 2: But if you go the other way and that clock
- 43:45Speaker 2: doesn't run, that's that's more. That's more malpractice than it
- 43:48Speaker 2: is trying to do what you've done well in that game.
- 43:50Speaker 2: You weren't throwing it well for the most part, you
- 43:53Speaker 2: were running it well. You didn't on that play. I
- 43:56Speaker 2: think too that.
- 43:58Speaker 3: And and I'm not I am not equipped to make
- 44:02Speaker 3: judgments about play calling in general. But the fans, the
- 44:09Speaker 3: upset fans are right in this respect. I mean, we
- 44:11Speaker 3: do say two things can be true. And one is
- 44:14Speaker 3: that players need to make plays. Okay, I know people
- 44:16Speaker 3: get tired of hearing it, but that I'm sorry, game
- 44:18Speaker 3: in a game out, that's that's what you have to have.
- 44:21Speaker 3: The second thing is it does start and stop with
- 44:24Speaker 3: the coaches. I mean, ultimately they are in charge. Ultimately
- 44:27Speaker 3: they're going to be held responsible for it. They're the ones,
- 44:30Speaker 3: so it does fall to them. So both things right
- 44:33Speaker 3: or true.
- 44:34Speaker 2: Yeah, I know we have a hard time when two
- 44:36Speaker 2: things can be true. That's that's true. Yeah, I agree.
- 44:41Speaker 1: Yeah, it catch twenty two in that drive that went
- 44:43Speaker 1: three plays negative seven yards. The second to last drive
- 44:48Speaker 1: was so they had three timeouts and the two minute warning. Okay,
- 44:53Speaker 1: so they had the ability to stop the clock, and
- 44:58Speaker 1: the first play West Virginia goes twins slot receiver absolutely
- 45:04Speaker 1: whiffs on his block. So if you'll take a look
- 45:07Speaker 1: at it, that was going to get seven maybe ten yards, right,
- 45:13Speaker 1: that keeps the clock, you know, that'll keep the clock going,
- 45:16Speaker 1: and you're just satisfied. No pip made have taken the
- 45:18Speaker 1: time out if you had gotten that. But if you
- 45:20Speaker 1: do go out there and you're aggressive and you're passing
- 45:24Speaker 1: the ball, I mean, you completed fifty two percent of
- 45:26Speaker 1: your passes yesterday. You were averaging four point two yards
- 45:29Speaker 1: per carry, so I could see what it was. So yeah,
- 45:32Speaker 1: you can go back now and go like, yeah, you
- 45:34Speaker 1: should pass that thing. The box was completely loaded. I
- 45:37Speaker 1: get that part of it. I understand that, and that
- 45:40Speaker 1: is a huge piece of frustration. I'm sure that's something
- 45:43Speaker 1: you know that they're looking at right now. It was
- 45:45Speaker 1: a catch twenty two and the deep ball was not
- 45:47Speaker 1: there all day. Receivers couldn't get separation number one and
- 45:51Speaker 1: number two. Even when West Virginia bread did complete those
- 45:54Speaker 1: short passes, like on fourth downs, the pass was bobbled.
- 45:57Speaker 2: I mean it was. It was close on a couple
- 45:59Speaker 2: of those. Both were bobbled. Ultimately made the Cats. Both
- 46:01Speaker 2: were bobbled. You only average seven yards per attempt yesterday.
- 46:05Speaker 2: So yeah, when you talk about the deep ball was
- 46:06Speaker 2: not there. West Virginia couldn't get deep, couldn't get by
- 46:09Speaker 2: their defense. That was not there. So part of the
- 46:11Speaker 2: reason where it would I'm sure Neil will say this tomorrow,
- 46:14Speaker 2: s ppretial is part of why you think it looked conservative.
- 46:16Speaker 2: You couldn't push the ball down the field. It wasn't
- 46:18Speaker 2: available to you to continue to throw into That would
- 46:21Speaker 2: have been a fool's errand you just seven yards per
- 46:23Speaker 2: attempt is not good. That would have been near bottom
- 46:25Speaker 2: of the Big twelve two seasons ago, because that's where
- 46:28Speaker 2: you were as a team. You were seven yards pertenption.
- 46:30Speaker 3: No. And also, I'm rallying here in defensive play calling,
- 46:34Speaker 3: even though I just said I'm not qualified to do
- 46:36Speaker 3: play calling, is that you were running the ball successfully.
- 46:38Speaker 2: You ran for almost two hundred dards. You could run the.
- 46:40Speaker 3: Ball five yards of carry. You know you ran the
- 46:42Speaker 3: ball all day? What was your best play? Brand all day?
- 46:45Speaker 3: What was your best play?
- 46:46Speaker 2: CJ? Running the ball? So you gave the ball to
- 46:50Speaker 2: the guy that had been having the best day for you,
- 46:52Speaker 2: and it just again you didn't you didn't execute it.
- 46:58Speaker 1: Texter, I'm having difficulty trusting the climb. While my support
- 47:02Speaker 1: for the team doesn't waiver, my faith and our staff does.
- 47:06Speaker 1: I'm not sure what the answer is. As we set
- 47:08Speaker 1: our bedtime prayers, my six year old son closed is
- 47:12Speaker 1: with and even though West Virginia loss, we know things
- 47:16Speaker 1: will be okay. Amen. I wish I could say that
- 47:18Speaker 1: I felt the same way. His birthday's next weekend and
- 47:21Speaker 1: his only request is to attend his first Mountaineer game,
- 47:25Speaker 1: so we will be there to welcome the Jayhawks and
- 47:28Speaker 1: cheer on the old Gold and Blue, Ben and Hurricane ps.
- 47:33Speaker 1: My birthday is this week as well. If one of
- 47:35Speaker 1: you has the answer, be sure to let me know
- 47:37Speaker 1: so I can include it when I blow out the candles.
- 47:42Speaker 1: Speaking of the Kansas game, noon start this week, and
- 47:48Speaker 1: for those of you that are coming food court with
- 47:51Speaker 1: new hours, excuse me, we're going to open up the
- 47:55Speaker 1: food court earlier in the hour. On Friday, we're going
- 47:58Speaker 1: to go at noon, we're going to do lunch. We're
- 48:01Speaker 1: gonna do lunch. If you're coming into Morgantown on Friday,
- 48:04Speaker 1: lunch will be served starting at noon. Hey you want
- 48:08Speaker 1: to do lunch, Yeah, I will. I'll go over there.
- 48:10Speaker 1: I'll go over there. Let me give you the can
- 48:13Speaker 1: I give you the rundown of what we're gonna least do.
- 48:15Speaker 1: So this is gonna be really good. So Revkev and
- 48:19Speaker 1: Douka will be there. But anyway, what they're doing is
- 48:22Speaker 1: twelve to four. Lunch is the sausage and pepper hogies,
- 48:25Speaker 1: shaved beef tenderloin hogies. And then the night serving there's
- 48:32Speaker 1: a seating. There's four until nine. He got pork belly
- 48:36Speaker 1: from Snake River up in Idaho. So pork belly b
- 48:40Speaker 1: lts coach STU leave no doubt, loaded nachos, you'll have
- 48:46Speaker 1: barbecue in a box, brisket, pulled pork, pulled chicken by
- 48:49Speaker 1: the pound. And Saturday morning they're opening up at seven.
- 48:54Speaker 1: Breast breakfast, breakfast biscuit, breakfast brisket, biscuit. It's hard to
- 49:00Speaker 1: say breakfast brisket biscuit. It's called a B three yeah,
- 49:05Speaker 1: barbecue in a box, breakfast style with a Frida egg
- 49:07Speaker 1: on top. So brisket, pulled pork, pulled chicken. Also, if
- 49:12Speaker 1: you didn't get a pan, if you're gonna have a tailgate,
- 49:16Speaker 1: last time they sold out you Now the window is
- 49:19Speaker 1: now opened to buy, so you get a pan. And
- 49:23Speaker 1: this is the way that this works. You get a
- 49:25Speaker 1: full brisket, sliced, two pounds of pulled pork, two pounds
- 49:29Speaker 1: of pulled chicken for two hundred American dollars. And this
- 49:34Speaker 1: is Revkev's barbecue. You can go to the source wv
- 49:39Speaker 1: dot org the source wv dot org to order. But
- 49:43Speaker 1: once these are gone, they're gone. You can order for
- 49:46Speaker 1: pickup Friday or pick up on Saturday. Last time they
- 49:50Speaker 1: sold all fifty of them, so check it out the
- 49:54Speaker 1: source wv dot org and they will be happy. But
- 49:58Speaker 1: the order the website's open now, and then when they're gone,
- 50:01Speaker 1: they're gone. So if you're interested, I'm just telling you
- 50:04Speaker 1: it's a super easy way to get a bunch of
- 50:06Speaker 1: food to feed a bunch of people without hassle. Last
- 50:11Speaker 1: time we got to bring a wagon in. So you're
- 50:14Speaker 1: here there bro when the guy brought that wagon just
- 50:16Speaker 1: kind of rolled the wagon in with his pan.
- 50:18Speaker 2: What's uh, what's that's not That's not the only food
- 50:21Speaker 2: that's going to be there.
- 50:22Speaker 1: Oh no, duka, and the wine bar is going to
- 50:24Speaker 1: be there. Let me give you the rest of that rundown, and.
- 50:27Speaker 2: Our dog policy stays in place. Yeah, I don't know
- 50:29Speaker 2: about that.
- 50:30Speaker 1: Yeah, bring the dogs.
- 50:31Speaker 2: I'd like to see.
- 50:32Speaker 1: I like to see Ted and Luca.
- 50:34Speaker 2: Uh.
- 50:36Speaker 1: We believe working on so so uh a pet policy
- 50:40Speaker 1: to be there, and we're gonna have connection three or
- 50:43Speaker 1: four beer which is flying off of the off of
- 50:46Speaker 1: the shelves, and tardy time might.
- 50:49Speaker 2: Be there, just are cans of it. I'm out of
- 50:52Speaker 2: cans this week. This week they'll be back there. They're
- 50:56Speaker 2: redistributing this week.
- 50:57Speaker 3: Okay, I'm out.
- 50:59Speaker 1: Yeah, just hold your water. It's coming. Okay, it's coming.
- 51:02Speaker 2: Did you try those meatballs yet from Oh? Yeah, yes,
- 51:05Speaker 2: go go kick to them cheese on top. Yeah, awesome.
- 51:11Speaker 1: Hey, let's do some pictures here, guys, from the ones
- 51:14Speaker 1: that Homeless Dave sent us. Here's the rundown of what
- 51:19Speaker 1: we're going to get. Just goes to get a little
- 51:21Speaker 1: bit of a feel to Uh, what's going on. You
- 51:24Speaker 1: mentioned Connection three oh four. That will be on premise.
- 51:27Speaker 1: We'll have cans, we'll have drafts and yeah, slide through
- 51:32Speaker 1: some of those if you would. And uh, people that
- 51:35Speaker 1: this was at that was at a tailgate there in Pittsburgh.
- 51:39Speaker 1: Someone brought them up there and then the standard holding
- 51:42Speaker 1: of the can and then the the can as well
- 51:48Speaker 1: at a tailgate. See Kerchievell, you were represented their Connection
- 51:51Speaker 1: three or four.
- 51:52Speaker 2: These pictures very well.
- 51:53Speaker 1: Yeah, skills that on tap now on tap at the Varsity.
- 52:00Speaker 1: So that's what we got Friday at six thirty. We
- 52:03Speaker 1: also have music. Kegan McLain, native of Charleston, graduated from
- 52:07Speaker 1: West Virginia in twenty nineteen political science degree. Huge Mountaineer
- 52:11Speaker 1: sports fan, third generation grand Kegan McLain will be performing
- 52:15Speaker 1: at six thirty at the food Court. First album came
- 52:18Speaker 1: out in March of this year. Old Flame, was recorded
- 52:21Speaker 1: with Zach McCord is from Bridgeport. Other talented West Virginia
- 52:25Speaker 1: artists also Hoppies Hat Fashion Show may be happening again
- 52:30Speaker 1: on Friday.
- 52:31Speaker 2: Said the expectation can I. By the way, thanks to
- 52:33Speaker 2: the Varsity Club, they were early adopters of the first
- 52:36Speaker 2: beer as well, So they hop right on the very
- 52:38Speaker 2: front edge.
- 52:38Speaker 1: Of the varsity. Club has always been out in front.
- 52:41Speaker 1: I mean they're league leaders. Hey, guys, show you the
- 52:43Speaker 1: picture of Zach that I sent to you yesterday. Me
- 52:47Speaker 1: and Ali matt Ali in the parking lot at the
- 52:52Speaker 1: team hotel. And she's the lead bus driver for the Mountaineers.
- 52:59Speaker 1: Really had bus one with the offense on it. She
- 53:01Speaker 1: came up to me, wonderful lady from Morgantown. Been driving
- 53:05Speaker 1: for years, and she said, I want to introduce myself.
- 53:08Speaker 1: You're hoppy.
- 53:11Speaker 2: Straight up and I said, you say, nice to meet you.
- 53:14Speaker 1: I said, actually not, but anyway, she was very very nice.
- 53:20Speaker 3: She gets to it's a common common mistake.
- 53:25Speaker 1: Yeah, for some reason. So okay, to the back to
- 53:30Speaker 1: the stuff at hand. Here is the overall theme in
- 53:35Speaker 1: ten bullet points from the Texters. Fans are expressing frustration
- 53:42Speaker 1: with the head coach, coaching staff and the conservative play
- 53:46Speaker 1: calling costing the team games. So is the play calling conservative?
- 53:55Speaker 3: I think you call what works, and you're calling the
- 53:58Speaker 3: run was working, ran for two hundred yards. The deep
- 54:01Speaker 3: ball was not there, receivers were not open. Again, I'm
- 54:06Speaker 3: waiting into an area where I'm not completely comfortable, but
- 54:10Speaker 3: I mean, you you did score, you did, you did
- 54:13Speaker 3: get thirty four points, and Brad, with the over under
- 54:17Speaker 3: at sixty some that that should have been enough to win.
- 54:20Speaker 2: I agree.
- 54:24Speaker 1: Fans are disappointed by recurring losses to rivals like Pitt
- 54:28Speaker 1: and Penn State, often where West Virginia had a lead
- 54:33Speaker 1: but failed to close Penn State. Forget Penn State. You're
- 54:36Speaker 1: not going to beat Penn State six out of seven times.
- 54:40Speaker 2: You just aren't.
- 54:41Speaker 3: I mean, history shows that Pitt, justifiably upset, should have
- 54:45Speaker 3: won the game. That a rivalry game. It's going to
- 54:48Speaker 3: go back and forth programs fairly even, but you should
- 54:52Speaker 3: have won the game yesterday, no question.
- 54:55Speaker 1: Several texts expressing frustration with the defensive schemes, particularly passed defense,
- 55:00Speaker 1: with calls for changes in the coaching staff.
- 55:03Speaker 3: Well, the coaching staff is saying they're going to change
- 55:05Speaker 3: some of those defensive backs.
- 55:06Speaker 2: Tony.
- 55:08Speaker 3: It's like, you're three games in, you're not doing a
- 55:10Speaker 3: good job on past defense, and at some point, Brad,
- 55:15Speaker 3: you're going to say, okay, who You're going to use
- 55:18Speaker 3: other guys?
- 55:19Speaker 2: Right? Yeah, they tried yesterday, Right, A bunch of guys
- 55:21Speaker 2: played yesterday and it just there were still there were
- 55:23Speaker 2: still some gaps and again you got you got half
- 55:25Speaker 2: the equation there, because it's not always just the defensive backs.
- 55:28Speaker 2: You got to get pressure and you did right, You
- 55:30Speaker 2: just you got extreme pressure and it still didn't get
- 55:33Speaker 2: you home.
- 55:34Speaker 1: These again, they are all generated by the theme of
- 55:37Speaker 1: the texts from Chad GPT. The programs. Frequent mental mistakes
- 55:42Speaker 1: and lack of execution and crucial moments are repeatedly highlighted
- 55:46Speaker 1: as problematic. That would be the dotting eyes and the
- 55:51Speaker 1: crossing of t's not being able to finish it.
- 55:56Speaker 3: They're making just making mistakes at critical times or not
- 55:59Speaker 3: making plays critical times.
- 56:01Speaker 1: Fans expressing loyalty to players in the program, but frustration
- 56:05Speaker 1: with the lack of consistent results. Yeah, understandable texts from
- 56:12Speaker 1: fans in these situation. There's enough blame to go around everybody. Sure.
- 56:17Speaker 1: Text from fans suggest that they feel West Virginia is
- 56:19Speaker 1: failing to meet the program's Hicks historic standard, with some
- 56:23Speaker 1: doubting that it can reverse the trend.
- 56:30Speaker 3: Well, they didn't meet expectations, Yes, what is the What
- 56:33Speaker 3: is the expectation to me? The expectation is that more
- 56:36Speaker 3: often than not, you have a winning record that you
- 56:39Speaker 3: beat forget about Penn State, that you beat your rival
- 56:42Speaker 3: or more often than not when it's when you play
- 56:45Speaker 3: Pitt or Maryland or Virginia Tech. And the expectation is
- 56:48Speaker 3: that every for me, every few years, you compete for
- 56:52Speaker 3: a league championship with Texas Nokoma out out of the league.
- 56:55Speaker 3: That to me would be the expectation. Fair yeah, fair, yeah, I'm.
- 57:03Speaker 1: My deal is you take a look at your historical
- 57:09Speaker 1: what have you done in one hundred plus years, and
- 57:12Speaker 1: your goal is to continue to do that, right, Yeah,
- 57:17Speaker 1: go to your top fifteen, your top fifteen program and wins.
- 57:20Speaker 1: So the realistic expectation is whatever that percentage clip is,
- 57:25Speaker 1: you need to continue to be in that world.
- 57:28Speaker 3: Go to a bowl game. That's part of the expectation.
- 57:32Speaker 3: To me, competing for a national championship is not in
- 57:35Speaker 3: the expectation, is not in the realm of what is
- 57:39Speaker 3: reasonable or achievable.
- 57:41Speaker 2: You know, one of the I thinks the sources of
- 57:42Speaker 2: frustration from yesterday specifically and what that means going forward
- 57:46Speaker 2: and again, still time to a lot of season left here,
- 57:49Speaker 2: but you got to turn around fast. But I feel
- 57:51Speaker 2: like what you did a little bit yesterday with that loss,
- 57:53Speaker 2: you'd given back some of the momentum you'd create it
- 57:56Speaker 2: no question, you know you took the momentum back last
- 57:59Speaker 2: season doing what you did when everybody was screaming and
- 58:01Speaker 2: hollering that you're going to finish last and that you
- 58:03Speaker 2: needed change, and you took it back. And you can
- 58:05Speaker 2: say whatever you want about this schedule. You won the
- 58:07Speaker 2: games in front of you, and you did what you
- 58:09Speaker 2: needed to do, and the off season was good, and
- 58:11Speaker 2: you got control and command of your scouting process and
- 58:15Speaker 2: the NIL process, and your retention was really good in
- 58:18Speaker 2: the off season with key players that you wanted to keep,
- 58:20Speaker 2: you kept almost every one of those that you wanted
- 58:22Speaker 2: to so you had some momentum built. Then you saw
- 58:25Speaker 2: it leading into the pit game with all the attention
- 58:27Speaker 2: around that and winning the pr National Championship. So you
- 58:30Speaker 2: had that momentum. Gave some back by not playing as
- 58:32Speaker 2: well as you could against Penn State, even if it
- 58:34Speaker 2: would have been a loss. All right, you get back
- 58:36Speaker 2: on track with Albany. It is what it is. Then
- 58:38Speaker 2: you had a chance to continue that momentum right and
- 58:41Speaker 2: turn Penn State into a little speed bump rather than
- 58:44Speaker 2: a crash. And that's part of what you gave back
- 58:47Speaker 2: last night. So the goodwill that you had gained and
- 58:50Speaker 2: the momentum you had picked up, I feel like you
- 58:53Speaker 2: took a significant step back by giving that back. With
- 58:55Speaker 2: that lossed agreed doesn't mean you can't get it back,
- 58:58Speaker 2: but you've created some really difficult work. So you're off
- 59:01Speaker 2: the road now. Now you're going four wheel drive and
- 59:04Speaker 2: you've got to go through some bumpy terrain over the
- 59:06Speaker 2: next five weeks to get that back on the road
- 59:08Speaker 2: and continue down smoothly.
- 59:09Speaker 3: Agree completely, And also that will determine whether last season
- 59:14Speaker 3: was an aberration or the new level of consistency.
- 59:19Speaker 2: Yeah, because if you don't end up.
- 59:21Speaker 3: With you know, seven or eight wins, then you'll last
- 59:25Speaker 3: year and go, well, that was just an aberration, right right, Okay.
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- 1:01:19Speaker 1: taken over all Right, So this is gonna be a
- 1:01:26Speaker 1: heck of a week here, boys. Oh, because I've said this,
- 1:01:29Speaker 1: I've gone on record. Let's wait till the month's over
- 1:01:32Speaker 1: before you really make an appraisal of where you are.
- 1:01:37Speaker 1: And right now, this thing's either going to be one
- 1:01:42Speaker 1: and three or two and two. After four Well, and.
- 1:01:48Speaker 3: I bet there's talk shows in Kansas right now talking
- 1:01:51Speaker 3: the same thing. Right Like, wait a minute, I thought
- 1:01:53Speaker 3: we were top, I'm gonna win the league, and here
- 1:01:55Speaker 3: we are we one and two?
- 1:01:56Speaker 2: What's going on here?
- 1:01:57Speaker 1: So?
- 1:01:58Speaker 2: Huge game, Brad for both teams, massive both teams. Backs
- 1:02:01Speaker 2: against the wall. West Virginia is at home. You've got
- 1:02:04Speaker 2: to take care of your business at home. Can Jalen
- 1:02:06Speaker 2: Daniels continue to produce turnovers at that clip?
- 1:02:09Speaker 1: Well?
- 1:02:09Speaker 2: West Virginia continue to produce turnovers at that clip, which
- 1:02:13Speaker 2: is you know, we say this all the time, don't
- 1:02:14Speaker 2: often include turnovers and keys to the game because it's
- 1:02:17Speaker 2: such an obvious key. It's an obvious key for a reason.
- 1:02:19Speaker 2: You lose turnover it, you rarely win the game. Right Western,
- 1:02:22Speaker 2: You had two turnovers yes day, plus got a pump
- 1:02:24Speaker 2: blocked return for a touchdown. Don't win the game in
- 1:02:26Speaker 2: what was a close game. You better get that cleaned
- 1:02:28Speaker 2: up fast. You better get that fixed.
- 1:02:31Speaker 3: You got a tough stretch coming up.
- 1:02:33Speaker 2: And if you.
- 1:02:36Speaker 3: I hate to think if you lose Saturday, well, I mean.
- 1:02:40Speaker 2: You're to the point now this listen. I'm not plowing
- 1:02:42Speaker 2: new ground here, but you're to the point now. And
- 1:02:43Speaker 2: I've talked about this a lot, this five game stretch.
- 1:02:46Speaker 2: Probably got to stop talking about the five game stretch.
- 1:02:49Speaker 2: This is a one game stretch and you better get fixed, right.
- 1:02:52Speaker 2: I mean, that's really that where this season lies. Now.
- 1:02:54Speaker 2: You better just figure out a way to get this win.
- 1:02:56Speaker 2: Then you can worry about going on the road. Oklom State,
- 1:02:58Speaker 2: you have got to beat a fledgeling Kansas team at
- 1:03:02Speaker 2: home right now. You've got to figure out a way
- 1:03:03Speaker 2: to do that. Offense has to get on tracked. You've
- 1:03:05Speaker 2: got to find a passing game. Got to find a
- 1:03:08Speaker 2: passing game. Still got to be able to run the ball.
- 1:03:10Speaker 2: You've got to find a passing game. And that defensive
- 1:03:13Speaker 2: back end and if you want to count the linebackers
- 1:03:15Speaker 2: and coverage, because they're part of it too. They've got
- 1:03:17Speaker 2: to get that fixed, continue to get the pressure. You
- 1:03:19Speaker 2: did get some things to work.
- 1:03:20Speaker 3: For Hey, Tony, you were we do not have the
- 1:03:22Speaker 3: benefit of seeing the whole field, but the parts we
- 1:03:27Speaker 3: could see, it just looked like those receivers just were
- 1:03:29Speaker 3: never open. I mean that you don't see open guys. No,
- 1:03:35Speaker 3: I mean when when Clement was open on the one
- 1:03:36Speaker 3: that got called back because the defender fell down.
- 1:03:39Speaker 1: Yeah, that was a good play call too. They baited
- 1:03:43Speaker 1: him into that. That was a play call. Yeah. Mentally
- 1:03:48Speaker 1: huge week, Like where's West Virginia's had. How much mental
- 1:03:51Speaker 1: energy did they expend to try to get this win
- 1:03:54Speaker 1: against the arch rival? How much gas can they quickly
- 1:03:59Speaker 1: float themselves back up on in the same for Kansas, right,
- 1:04:01Speaker 1: this was not the season Kansas was expecting. Right, they
- 1:04:06Speaker 1: were going to contend for the conference championship, and now
- 1:04:09Speaker 1: they've had a couple of wos.
- 1:04:11Speaker 2: With a guy that some were calling a dark horse
- 1:04:12Speaker 2: Heisman candidate and Jyln Daniels that missed most of last year,
- 1:04:15Speaker 2: so he's really struggling this team. This program has been
- 1:04:18Speaker 2: very good I think over the last couple of years
- 1:04:20Speaker 2: of tuning out noise and going to work both coaches
- 1:04:23Speaker 2: and players. That's two really emotional games that you were
- 1:04:27Speaker 2: way up for with a lot of build up around it.
- 1:04:29Speaker 2: You didn't come home with either. Do they have it
- 1:04:31Speaker 2: in him again? You've got to get back off the mat.
- 1:04:33Speaker 2: They've done a good job at that. Can they do
- 1:04:34Speaker 2: it again?
- 1:04:34Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 1:04:35Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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- 1:05:19Speaker 2: You'll be hosting that I soon.
- 1:05:20Speaker 1: I will. And then Friday night there's an event but
- 1:05:23Speaker 1: it's closed, but there's an event Friday night honoring twentieth
- 1:05:28Speaker 1: anniversary of the John Beeline Elite eight basketball team.
- 1:05:31Speaker 2: You'll be there too, I guess I will.
- 1:05:33Speaker 3: So you're not going to be at the Three Guys
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- 1:05:39Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe we'll see maybe early before when it just well,
- 1:05:42Speaker 1: if it opens at noon, I'll be there Friday, Okay,
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- 1:05:46Speaker 2: My buddy was sheet going in the Hall of Fame.
- 1:05:48Speaker 1: He is, Yes, he is.
- 1:05:49Speaker 2: Had two of my all time favorites, he and Anthony Beck.
- 1:05:52Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 1:05:52Speaker 2: Well, I know Anthony's not getting inducted this weekend, but
- 1:05:54Speaker 2: he's in this Hall of Fame class.
- 1:05:55Speaker 1: Anthony's going to get inducted when Iowa State comes in.
- 1:05:58Speaker 1: Oh that weekend, sure honor him out there and also
- 1:06:03Speaker 1: the Mountaineer basketball team. That Elite A team will be
- 1:06:06Speaker 1: brought out, I'm sure on the field during the game
- 1:06:09Speaker 1: on Saturday.
- 1:06:09Speaker 3: Can we get I'm gonna do a tony here we
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