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3 Guys Before The Game - WVU Basketball Recap (Episode 685) · 3 Guys Before The Game

• 0:10
  Speaker 1: Hey, Merry Christmas, to your happy holidays. Everybody, welcome in.
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: It is three guys before the game. As we approach
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: Christmas Day and all that comes with it, there is
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: a quiet that will now envelop WVU Athletics for the
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: next several days. Nice rest, everyone needs it. Energize, re energize,
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: get rested and ready because ooh it's coming.
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  Speaker 2: Oh it's coming.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if you didn't know it is coming, is
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: coming like real, real, fe real hard. That's right. This
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  Speaker 1: is our Mountaineer basketball recap version of the show, episode
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  Speaker 1: number six and eighty five. The Mountaineer basketball teams, both
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  Speaker 1: the women's and men's. My goodness, they did so dusting
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  Speaker 1: on that colosseum floor over the last couple of days.
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  Speaker 1: They did right. Women won by two hundred or two
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  Speaker 1: hundred and six points, give two hundred and six points.
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  Speaker 2: You have to replace the nets. I mean, these things
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  Speaker 2: are worn out.
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  Speaker 1: Send a pit crew out there to start the fourth
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  Speaker 1: quarter in the women's game, change the nets up, freight them.
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  Speaker 1: They freight them on fire. And the man's team, they
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  Speaker 1: won by thirty five over the Mississippi Valley Staters.
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  Speaker 2: Did not cover.
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  Speaker 1: Oh he didn't. Line was forty one, forty one? Are
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  Speaker 1: you kidding me?
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  Speaker 3: A lot of points had inflated?
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  Speaker 1: There a lot of points. Let's do this thing. Three
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  Speaker 1: to say.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I was gonna say I want to say one
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  Speaker 2: thing without giving anything away, is I have known you
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  Speaker 2: guys for a long long time. Here it goes, and
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  Speaker 2: you will will see you in a capacity that was
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  Speaker 2: very new to me. I'll just leave it at that.
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  Speaker 1: Did we shock your Broca?
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  Speaker 2: It was? It was well, it depends on which way
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  Speaker 2: it goes. I found it very entertainment.
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  Speaker 1: Which way it goes.
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  Speaker 2: I loved it.
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  Speaker 1: Just fine, It'll go just fine. Hoppy's obvious observations are
• 3:04
  Speaker 1: coming up. Brads spreads on stats. We'll look into that.
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  Speaker 1: Got some textual healing as well. People just unbelievable last
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  Speaker 1: night at the Mountaineer game that were there in person,
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  Speaker 1: seemed as though many of them wanted to share Christmas
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  Speaker 1: gifts with us. Very nice, nice, and every single one
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  Speaker 1: of the gifts had some form of bakery item involved
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  Speaker 1: or a chocolate item involved. I walked out of there,
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  Speaker 1: had to have two student managers carry I mean, it
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  Speaker 1: was unbelievable.
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  Speaker 2: You all were beloved.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I don't know about that, but I'm just saying
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  Speaker 1: like it was a very nice yeah, very nice. Nice. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: goods are good, Man treats are good. Just got everything
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  Speaker 1: in moderation as they as they say, all right, so
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  Speaker 1: West Virginia now has played its last game of the
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  Speaker 1: non conference regular season schedule, and the Mountaineers have played
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  Speaker 1: their last game of twenty and twenty five, and they
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  Speaker 1: get ready now for an eighteen game arrangement that the
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  Speaker 1: head coach basically is saying, like it's a it's a
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  Speaker 1: prize fight, it's a boxing match. We're gonna go. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna go eighteen times, and we're going to swing and
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  Speaker 1: see where this thing goes. Mountaineers tuned it up with
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  Speaker 1: an easy victory over Mississippi Valley State final score of
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  Speaker 1: eighty six two fifty one. We'll get into that game.
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  Speaker 1: What were the bright spots? What did we learn? What
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  Speaker 1: have we learned about this Mountaineer team as it gets
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  Speaker 1: ready to jump into league play? Quick game one hour,
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  Speaker 1: fifty eight minutes. I mean, it was adjudicated quite well,
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  Speaker 1: no unnecessary whistles, did not have one replay review. Now
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  Speaker 1: that'll change going forward. Once you get into a league play,
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  Speaker 1: they go heavier to the replay these non conference games
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  Speaker 1: kind of like that football official swings at arm round.
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  Speaker 1: Just keep kid clock, just keep that clock, just keep
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  Speaker 1: that clock cooking there, and we'll get into that and more.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, you ready, hobster, Yes, sir, have you prepared
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  Speaker 1: for this?
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  Speaker 2: I have.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, he's got thoughts that sound brand new, but that
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  Speaker 4: things were already knew.
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  Speaker 1: It's hoppies, obvious observations.
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  Speaker 4: Heaven knows, I take it quick before obvious ovation.
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  Speaker 2: Damn the game last I listened to you guys the
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  Speaker 2: whole game, pregame game itself, and you guys did a
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  Speaker 2: wonderful job, and you guys will talk more about the game.
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  Speaker 1: I was.
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  Speaker 2: I had complicated feelings about the game that I had
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  Speaker 2: complicated feelings in that I'm thrilled West Virginia won the game.
• 6:00
  Speaker 2: I'm thrilled West Virginia won a game. Going away, I'm
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  Speaker 2: glad a couple of players had big games, and you
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  Speaker 2: guys will talk about that. So it was entertaining in
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  Speaker 2: that sense. But this thing with Mississippi Valley State. The
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  Speaker 2: longer the game went on in the second half, the
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  Speaker 2: worse I felt. Because I know Brad, I know your rule,
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  Speaker 2: and normally I'll subscribe that rule. You don't feel bad
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  Speaker 2: for the opponent, and normally I would follow that. It's
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  Speaker 2: different in the case of Mississippi Valley State. Why is
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  Speaker 2: that well, because they they don't just face headwinds, they
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  Speaker 2: face hurricane force wins. And the Ken Palm rankings out
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  Speaker 2: of three sixty five, they're three sixty five. They are
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  Speaker 2: statistically the worst team in the country. They have the
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  Speaker 2: smallest D one athletic department budget in the country. You
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  Speaker 2: know what their whole butt now they don't have football.
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  Speaker 2: You know what their whole budget is four million dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Are you serious?
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  Speaker 2: That is their entire budget. Compenstate also has for me,
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  Speaker 2: that's their entire budget. So they're you know, they're they're
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  Speaker 2: wildly underfunded. So as a result, they got to go
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  Speaker 2: out and they gotta go on the road and play
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  Speaker 2: West Virginia in Kansas State and Texas A and M
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  Speaker 2: and get not only be get, but get throttled, gets
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  Speaker 2: humiliated by thirty forty fifty sixty points.
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  Speaker 1: This will humiliate it, This will blow your mind. What
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  Speaker 1: talking about the lack of funding and things like that.
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  Speaker 1: They're sports information director, Yeah, volunteer. Last night was the
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  Speaker 1: first game that he saw them play this year because
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  Speaker 1: he lives in Maryland and does the sid work remotely.
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  Speaker 2: This is they're they're located in Lafour County, Mississippi, the
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  Speaker 2: heart of the Mississippi Delta. Lafour County is one of
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  Speaker 2: the poorest counties in Mississippi. The poverty rate is twenty
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  Speaker 2: seven percent, which makes it one of the poorest counties
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  Speaker 2: in the country. And I think, as West Virginians, I
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  Speaker 2: kept thinking that we can relate to that. Okay, in
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  Speaker 2: West Virginia, we have poverty issues in a number of
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  Speaker 2: our counties, and we know the impact of really serious poverty.
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  Speaker 2: We know how that impacts a community. And they've been
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  Speaker 2: bad for a while going I went back to look
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  Speaker 2: back to twenty sixteen, they've averaged four and a half
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  Speaker 2: wins a year going back to twenty sixteen. And now
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  Speaker 2: these players and I don't know them or there, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know any of them, but they got a Christmas break.
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  Speaker 2: They got to go home, or they can go home
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  Speaker 2: with family and friends. Hey, how's it going, how's the
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  Speaker 2: team doing? And they got to say, well, we got
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  Speaker 2: one win. It was against Texas Women's College, which has
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  Speaker 2: men enrolled since you know, nineteen eighty or something. But still, so,
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to say I'm sad for them, because
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  Speaker 2: that's patronizing, but I want to say, I would hope
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  Speaker 2: that their circumstances improve because they have this, they face
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  Speaker 2: this incredible challenge, and so that's that's my Christmas hope
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  Speaker 2: that their circumstance improves. And if you want to comment out,
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  Speaker 2: I will tell you this that Pat Conroy, who wrote
• 9:01
  Speaker 2: one of my favorite sports books, The Losing Season, about
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  Speaker 2: his years at Citadel, and he said this, and Brad,
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  Speaker 2: you know this because you're an athlete. Loss hurts and
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  Speaker 2: bleeds and aches. Loss is always ready to call out
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  Speaker 2: your name in the night. Loss follows you home and
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  Speaker 2: taunts you at the breakfast table, follows you to work
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  Speaker 2: in the morning. This is not only a team that
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  Speaker 2: loses games. This is a team that loses every game
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  Speaker 2: by wide margins in most cases. And I just think
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  Speaker 2: that's unfortunate. And that's why I had complicated feelings about
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  Speaker 2: the game.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, so you think this will scar them for forever?
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  Speaker 2: I have been scarred for years. I just think that
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  Speaker 2: it's it's again sad, sounds patronizing. I think it's profoundly
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  Speaker 2: sad for a school.
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  Speaker 1: And it looked on the part of the country looking
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  Speaker 1: on the bright side. Okay, West, they walked out of
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  Speaker 1: there last night. With a check for Lono. Was it
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  Speaker 1: one in a quarter? Probably one hundred and twenty five
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  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty grand. It's a good night's work. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to go back in their league now, they're going
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  Speaker 1: to go on the swack and they're gonna take their swings.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see, okay, So that's that coffee.
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  Speaker 1: They don't have to be I understand one. They want
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  Speaker 1: to be Division one. I understand they can step it down, man.
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  Speaker 2: I understand that. But for the moment they are, and
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  Speaker 2: those players had no choice in that. And you're you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna recruit to their Laford County not even a grocery
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  Speaker 2: store in town.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: So anyway, that's my feeling.
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  Speaker 1: I know it's a go Mark down there. Probably get
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  Speaker 1: a Go Mark down there when or tutors.
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  Speaker 3: They're expanding franchises.
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  Speaker 1: That's true, they're available.
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  Speaker 2: Next obvious observation, unless you want to comment on that.
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  Speaker 1: That was not obvious. But anyway, you know you're.
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  Speaker 3: Way off the obvious observations. I mean they've been great.
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  Speaker 3: I mean you're starting to quote Ken Palm, You're diving
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  Speaker 3: deep in the number, You're all over the place.
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  Speaker 2: I am. I mean, it's very good, well, thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Not under the guys of obvious observations. That's gonna have
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  Speaker 3: to change in the new year. Go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just saying that I listened to you guys faithfully,
• 10:47
  Speaker 2: and you guys were very excited last night for a
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  Speaker 2: thirty point game because guys were making individual plays, and
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  Speaker 2: you should have been. You should have been, you should
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  Speaker 2: have fired up about these guys.
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  Speaker 3: I take winning for granted, I know, I know. Don't
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  Speaker 3: take winning for that. I know, but I'm excited. You're
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  Speaker 3: going to line up, drill somebody in the ground. Don't care,
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  Speaker 3: gonna line up, gonna be excited about that.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, line up.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just telling you to celebrate wins. My reaction to understand,
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  Speaker 3: and you can't. But don't come over here talking to
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  Speaker 3: us about our excitement. Kind of taught us for our excitement. No, No,
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  Speaker 3: you take whatever take you want. I taught you will
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  Speaker 3: handle will handle the approach however we want, or I
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  Speaker 3: will speak to you.
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  Speaker 2: I said you were understandably excited.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't hear that.
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  Speaker 2: No, you're understandably excited because of the individual point.
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  Speaker 3: I get that very excited pause in a thirty point
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  Speaker 3: That is how you deliver it, but go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: And all I said was all I said was I
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  Speaker 2: want to be clear. Yes, because I'm happy West Virginia one.
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  Speaker 2: I'm happy individuals had great performances. I had complicated feelings
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  Speaker 2: about it. I can feel two things. I can feel
• 11:51
  Speaker 2: great for West Virginia and feel like the terrible circumstance
• 11:54
  Speaker 2: from Missippi Valleys take.
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  Speaker 1: I could uh hoppy, I could empathize as you are
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  Speaker 1: with them, only if only if they were forced to
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: play at that level. But since it's their decision and
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: they stay in that level instead of dropping the thing
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  Speaker 1: down to like D two, then I go like, hey man,
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  Speaker 1: that's part of the deal. If you want to play
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  Speaker 1: in the party, then that's what it is.
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  Speaker 2: Fair fair. Next obvious observation today and now people are
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  Speaker 2: watching live today is the anniversary of the immaculate reception.
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  Speaker 1: Did not know that well? That quickly turned from Mississippi
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  Speaker 1: Billy State.
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  Speaker 2: December twenty third, nineteen seventy two AFC Division playoff game
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  Speaker 2: Raiders and the Steelers. Steelers are down seven to six,
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  Speaker 2: twenty two seconds remaining. They're on their own forty yard line.
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  Speaker 2: Brad fowl Swier pass bounces off Tatum not Fuqua, because
• 12:50
  Speaker 2: if it had bounced off Fuqua, it would.
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  Speaker 1: Have been can't touch it, you can't touch it.
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  Speaker 2: Back then the rule has changed, I mean back, the
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  Speaker 2: rule has been changed since then. And of course Franco
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  Speaker 2: picks it up, runs for the touchdown, and Steelers win
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  Speaker 2: the playoff game. Fans run on the field. A couple
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  Speaker 2: of interesting things about that is, again Tony, as you mentioned,
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  Speaker 2: the rule was changed because if it had bounced off
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  Speaker 2: only Fuqua and caught by Franco at the time, it
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  Speaker 2: would have been an incomplete pass because you couldn't do that.
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  Speaker 2: Then then the rule was changed. And of course Oakland
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  Speaker 2: claimed that it did bounce off him, and the Steelers
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  Speaker 2: always said no, had bounced off Jack Tatum. And then
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  Speaker 2: did the ball touch the ground with Franco? And another
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  Speaker 2: interesting note, and you know what happened I went back
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  Speaker 2: and revisits is that, you know, the officials got together and.
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  Speaker 1: They called upstairs.
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  Speaker 2: There was no insto replay. They called upstairs. There was
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  Speaker 2: an official upstairs in like the Rooney booth, and got
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  Speaker 2: a hold of a major official or a lead official
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  Speaker 2: and asked him and he said, well, what do you
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  Speaker 2: all think? And they said, we think it's a touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: They said, Okay, touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: That's why it should be dog on it.
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  Speaker 2: But Art, I mean Art Rooney missed it because.
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  Speaker 1: It was a gun downstairs.
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  Speaker 2: He had gotten in the elevator. He was going to
• 14:03
  Speaker 2: go down and console the team because he thought they lost.
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  Speaker 2: So he missed the play.
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  Speaker 1: You know who else did who? The biggest part to
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  Speaker 1: me from a broadcaster standpoint, that Jack Fleming had one
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  Speaker 1: of the greatest calls in the history of sports. Yes, right,
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  Speaker 1: it never would have happened had his analyst Myron Cope
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  Speaker 1: been there. You're right, because Myron obviously was just over
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  Speaker 1: the top of Jack on anything and everything. Myron had
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  Speaker 1: left to go down and do the post game interviews
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  Speaker 1: in the Steelers' locker room. He walked out. So Jack's
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: doing the game by himself. That's the only way that
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  Speaker 1: call is clean. Otherwise Myron would have been all over
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: that thing and it would have just antny.
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  Speaker 2: You know as a broadcaster that Fleming had it. He
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  Speaker 2: nailed it on a really on a weird play. Yep,
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  Speaker 2: you know he had the call, had it was Franco
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  Speaker 2: and had a great call. So there's a West Virginia
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  Speaker 2: connection because Jack Coman had the call. So there's that,
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: the anniversary of the mac reception, which Oakland fans or
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: the Raiders fans still call the macular deception. And finally, I.
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  Speaker 1: Wait, can I say this?
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: So he went basketball, mister, he went magla. I can't
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: wait to hear what the third thing is gonna be? Like?
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  Speaker 1: This is gonna be great? What is it?
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  Speaker 2: Me?
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  Speaker 3: Some fourth century poet?
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: I've been listening to a lot of Christmas music. Yeah, sure,
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: and I love Chris a lot of Christmas music. Yeah,
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: we're be each abled at one of our favorites.
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: I pound it from the start of November on.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, miss but there are five Christmas songs I wish
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: I would never hear again.
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  Speaker 1: This is the best, best, best is ever. This is
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  Speaker 1: his best obvious observations.
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  Speaker 2: This is personal, like the whole thing with Missipi, Valley
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  Speaker 2: States and five Christmas songs I wish I would never
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  Speaker 2: hear again. Number five Wonderful Christmas Time by Paul McCartney.
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  Speaker 1: Just heard it this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Number four I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas. Haven't heard
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  Speaker 2: that one yet this year either, by Gala Peev nineteen
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  Speaker 2: fifty three.
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  Speaker 1: Gale's one of the good ones.
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  Speaker 2: Number three Santa Baby by Anybody and Everybody.
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  Speaker 1: I played it quite a bit, Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Number two Little Saint Nick by the Beach Boys.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're got to that. Number one, the.
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  Speaker 2: One Christmas song I wish I would never hear again.
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  Speaker 2: Christmas Don't be Late by Alvin and the Chipmunks.
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  Speaker 1: Haven't heard that this year either, Elvin. I have not
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  Speaker 1: heard that Alvin. I think Alvin was a huge mountaineer fan.
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  Speaker 1: I have to look back. There's some connection with him.
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  Speaker 1: Problem mountaineers.
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  Speaker 2: Those are my obvious observers.
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  Speaker 1: Those are really good, hob Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Although you guys aren't with me on the first thing.
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  Speaker 2: But that's cool.
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  Speaker 1: It's just me. It's me. It's just me, man, it's
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: all good.
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  Speaker 2: It's all good steaming.
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  Speaker 3: Because you told me I shouldn't be excited about it.
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  Speaker 2: I I don't care.
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  Speaker 3: I don't care what you think about MISSISSIPI. Guys say
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  Speaker 3: that doesn't affect me. But you start to tell me
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  Speaker 3: I shouldn't be excited about the when and that's where
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  Speaker 3: I took exception.
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  Speaker 2: I want to set to it's not what I.
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  Speaker 1: Need to feel bad for.
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: All he wants a giving season. I respect that. That's fine.
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: Just don't tell me excited.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: Excited talk that's the play.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, baby, I just since you got my interest piqued,
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: I'm going to see what old Ken palm just to
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: make you feel a little bit better.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know how.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: Many good It is gonna be a long year for
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: the Delta.
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: Devils their last well, I know that.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: I wanted to see what the record projection for the
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: rest of the season is gonna be. I thought they
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: might be able to make a little little hay in
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: the league. They have them down for a projected record
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: of three and twenty nine. So, yeah, they still have
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: to play Oklahoma on Monday. I mean what then they
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: finally get into the league?
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: Wow? Making their budget. That's the way it works.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: Listen to this. You want to even get worse.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: It can't get worse.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the computer the best chance they have of winning
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: the game for the rest of the season is twenty
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: two percent. That's the highest chance that they have against
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: Arkansas Pine Bluff.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: It was like one last night, right or yeah, cred
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: they came in and played hard.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: Michael James commented during the broadcast he heard hard. He
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: could have shot at one hundred and fifty times in
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: that game. Probably needed to shoot it at one hundred
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: and fifty times and didn't tried to play within the framework.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: So I give him credit. But that's part of the deal. Man.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: You want to play Division one, you want to make
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: your budget. This is what this is how you do it.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, go on the road.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: You gotta play some games where you're overmatched and take
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: your check and then go back and try and win
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: lea games.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's hard, that's it. It's a hard business. It's
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: gonna be all right, It's gonna be all right. Don't
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: don't feel for them, all right, the kids had fun then,
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: they were a good mood after the game, all right,
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: gottle sandwich or something. They took off. They were, they
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: were all good. No one was.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: You told me they got to meet Santa.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: They did it. The most bizarre thing of the night,
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: and it's gonna rank as one of the forgetting the night.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: One of the most bizarre things I ever saw. Never
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: have seen it in my life, never have seen it.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: So the game goes final, so you know, all right,
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: final score, you know, West Virginia Da Da da Da
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: da da, And I gotta I'm gonna throw it to
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: a break and uh and right in front of our location,
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: the two teams cross paths. Right, they shake hands. West
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: Virginia comes from this way. Right to laugh and here
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: comes missive value. Two head coaches meet, players meet. Everything's
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: very good, everything's very cordial. That looks good. Towards the end,
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: I look over and in the West Virginia line going forward,
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: guy dressed up as Santa and a guy dressed up
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: as a Grinch and an alf and the elf. What
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: are we doing?
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: You should feel bad for Mississippi Valley State that they
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: had to go through the line and shake hands with
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: the Grinch. Yes, that's what you should feel bad for.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: Santa had a rough night.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Oh got get killed.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: He lost track of time and score. During the build up,
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: burger By Kegler lost track, started celebrating. He like did
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: the swan dive on tough night for Santa.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: He's overworked, He's got a lot on his mind.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, unbelievable, Sanna, the Grinch in an elf. We're in
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: the West Virginia line. After the game, I want video
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: of that because that'll make If I see video that,
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: it'll make me cry.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: Too bad. They don't play on Easter got a big
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: old bunny in the line.
• 20:18
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• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Let's get through a bunch of things here. First of all, offensively,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: this was another We've got a few of these this year.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: Another baton game, another baton. Well, Amir and DJ ran.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: The first leg. They were very good offensively. We'll come
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: back and talk about their their deal. They started the race.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: Amir and DJ had nineteen in the first half and
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: and carried you there and kind of sparked that team
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: offensively and got you going. Then they handed the baton
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: to Trey Eagle Staff in the second half, who had
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: one of his better games as a mountaineer. He was
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: he did everything offensively, defensively, rebounded, did the whole thing.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: So Amir and DJ handing off to Tray throughout the game.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: Third straight game where the threes were falling. So as
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: we're going through some of these numbers. We'll try and
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: pick some things out that is is it a trend?
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: Is it something you can carry through? Is it something
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: you can pick up and move forward in the Big
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: twelve season. Maybe these made threes. They're starting to come
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: along now as West Virginia understands this system a little better,
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: understands how to play together. That's thirty nine of them
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: over the last three games.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: That's extremely big.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: Thirty nine made threes the last year games. But maybe
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: even more impressive than the raw number is the shooting
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: percentages and all work backwards. Last night forty four percent
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: from three. The game before against Ohio State forty six
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: percent from three the game before fifty percent from three,
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: So you're shooting a high percentage as well. Now again
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: that's going to change when you get into Big twelve,
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: play longer, better defenders. But that's it feels like West
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: Virginia's starting to find its groove a little bit offensively.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: Hopefully you can continue that defensively. You did what you
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: had to do against a team that you figured was
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: going to struggle at that end against You held them
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: to thirty three percent shooting, didn't give up a three.
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: I was surprised there was more turnovers in the game
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: forced by West Virginia. They get surprise that was that
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: was by far the biggest sprise. Mississipi Valley State was
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: last in the country in turnover eight. West Virginia one
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: of the better teams in the country at that and they,
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: the Delta Devils, did a nice job of only turning
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: it over where they have nine during the game.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: M hm.
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: So that surprised me a little bit. Outside of a
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: stretch from sixteen thirty six to eight twelve in the
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: first half, so about an eight minute stretch, West Virginia
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: dominated this one as expected. You were minus three points
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: in that stretch. Other than that, you controlled this game.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: This is where it was won. You hear football coaches
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: talk about the middle eight a lot, the last four
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: of the first half, first four of the second half.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: How about the middle ten for West Virginia plus twenty
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: two points over the final six and a half minutes
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: of the first half, and then in the first four
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: to twenty three of the second half jumped it up
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: and added to that plus twenty two. So plus twenty
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: two over that ten minute stretch to end the first
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: and start the second. Forty percent of West Virginia's points
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: came in that ten minute stretch, so just overwhelmed them
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: at the end of the first half. And to start
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: the second half, you had thirty points on catch and
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: shoot jumpers. That's the most all season. You got fifteen
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: points out of your guarded catching shoots. You got fifteen
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: points from your unguarded catch and shoots, which you had
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: more of than were guarded. So pretty good job there defensively. Defensively,
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: West Virginia was efficient off its turnovers one point five
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: points per possession off live ball turnovers, two of three
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: from three point land. What's interesting, and I'll come back
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: to this. This is something to watch as you get
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: into conference play. As I mentioned, as that defense gets better,
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: those defensive players get better hoppy, and you're trying to
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: find space. West Virginia continues to be elite from three
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: off of turnovers, shooting forty six percent from distance. That's
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: a ninety first percentile nationally. So is that something that
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: you can get in rhythm? Get some turnovers in these
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: games and find a way to make some threes in transition.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: I was gonna give you a stat here, Well, let
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: me ask you guys something. Let me ask you, is
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: that one of the things you guys talked about was
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: having that time off before the game, more time to
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: try to see what pieces fit where. Brad, did you
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: get a sense last night that he's still searching for
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: that or that that's starting to come into focus now.
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: I think you'll. I think you'll continue to search. I
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: think it's continually a work in progress to see what
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: groups play well together. We saw a lineup night we
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: hadn't seen all year, so I think it's still just
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: some some trial and error. Let me go back to
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: threes in transition. I found this to be really interesting.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: In West Virginia's losses this season, just one of two
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: from three point land off live ball turnovers, just one
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: of two. I just mentioned they're really good in that category.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: Just one of two in the four losses off live
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: ball turnovers, ten of twenty two in wins. So it's
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: if you're looking for like a niche down in the
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: weeds marker as games are going on, If West Virgin's
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: creating turnovers and getting threes off those, that's generally been
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: a pretty good sign. Go ahead, you're gonna say something, Tony, No.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: I was just looking at honor who You'll get into
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: here in a second. But I mean his rate of
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: three point productivity is the best. This is I would say,
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: I would venture to say best ever in school history. Really, well,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: think about this, in the last five games, he now
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: has twenty seven to three pointers in five games. So
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: he's averaging five threes over the last five games. No
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: one's ever done that.
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: So couple that with and I'll be fascinated to watch
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: these big twelve teams. Now that Trey Eagles staff has
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: started to produce offensively over the last few games. And
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: I thought last night he was tremendous and again one
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: of the best players on the floor there. So he
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: had a ton of confidence. He was really aggressive offensively
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: because he had a ten minute stretch there in the
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: second half, from about the seventeen minute mark to the
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: seven minute mark, he had about three excellent defensive rotations
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: that stopped possessions for the Delta Devils. He had three
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: consecutive rebounds during one of those stretches. He had sixteen
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: points just in that ten minutes. And he did it
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: from everywhere. He hit threes, drove to the basket, pulled up,
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: hit shots. Thought he had a really good game. Starting
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: to see his offensive skill come through. And here's part
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: of the reason why, guys. He has twelve unguarded threes
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: in the last three games. He had nine in the
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: first seven games. Those are attempts. Wow, those are attempts.
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: Twenty one points scored on those. In the last three games.
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: He had twelve points on unguarded threes in the first
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: seven games. So he's starting to get some more looks here.
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: As these games go on, is again, as teams start
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: to pay more and more attention to Honor Huff, it's
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: creating opportunities for others and Trey's starting to starting to
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: capitalize on those. And that's critical guys, moving forward, you
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: start to get a second wing shooter and score available
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: to you. Then you add in chance more's ability to
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: get to the basket. Now you should start to see
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: that offense continue to mature a little bit. He has
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: thirteen of his nineteen threes on the season if come
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: in the last five games. Trey so a guy that
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: as we've gotten deeper into the season and he started
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: to get more comfortable with what he's doing, the offense
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: in the shooting is starting to come along a little bit.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: Continues to do things other than just play on the
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: offensive end. He matched his season high with eight rebounds.
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: It's the third time this season that he's had eight
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: rebounds in a game. That's going to be important to continue.
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: He's a guy like a mer or Jasper when they're
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: in there, if they can grab the ball off the
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: glass and start the break the other way, that helps
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: get down there and maybe get a little number advantage
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: as they go down. Trey's defensive win shares continue to
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: be in the ninety seventh percent out nationally, so he's
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: doing some things to affect that game, not just on
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: the offensive end. This was a number that it was
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: kind of a wow to me. Twenty two percent of
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: Trayson's points have been on second chances. That's in the
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: ninety first percentile nationally. So that doesn't just mean offensive rebounds.
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: That means someone else may be getting the offensive rebound
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: and kicking it back out to Trey for a shot.
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: So that kind of surprised me. Almost a quarter of
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: his points have come off of that. One of the
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: things I think is you start to again, what can
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: you project forward? And I'm talking a lot about Tree
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: because I think he's an important part of this team
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: as they go offensively, especially into Big twelve play. The
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: next step is going to be for when teams run
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: him off the three point line, to utilize that mid
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: range game and that finishing at the basket. He's got
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: size at six to six, He's got some strength that's
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: going to be needed in the Big twelve guys. He's
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: going to have to go to the rim, absorb that
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: contact and be able to finish over that. He's got
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: a fifty seven percent three point two temp rate right now,
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: so almost sixty percent of his shots have come from three.
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: That's going to change certainly. These Big twelve teams are
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: going to really get up with some press coverage on
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: him and Honor and see if they can do things
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: other than shoot from the outside, one area where hopefully
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: Trey can continue to rise up or match maybe what
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: he's done in the past. Last year, he was in
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: the ninety fourth percentile nationally and fouls drawn, and he
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: averaged five free throw attempts per game. This season averaging
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: just one and a half free throw attempts per game,
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: so again that matches that high three point attempt rate.
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: I think in Big twelve play he's going to get
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: an opportunity to get in the lane. He's going to
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: absorb some contact. If he can get some calls and
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: get to the line as a good free throw shooter,
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: that could help this offense as well.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think going forward with him, fundamentally he can
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: get it all done that he needs to. Offensively, his
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: defense has just absolutely been a one point eighty from
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: what it was to what it is. But to me,
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: it's right here for him as you get ready to
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: go in league, he's got to walk on that floor
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: and basically say I'm a bad dude like he cannot be.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: You cannot be hesitant when you're in conference play. You
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: have got to say, I'm a really good player and
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: I'm just going to grind you. If he has that mentality,
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: which he had last night, then he can be productive.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: And that's the key for.
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: Him on the defensive end. And again from what he
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: was asked to do to where he's come defensively, it's
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: a remarkable transformation. His defensive rebounding percentage has doubled since
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: last season. His block shot percentage is up almost five
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: times from where it was previously, and this is a
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: down in the weeds stat but I think it shows
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: how well he's played on that end so far, again
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: against teams that he has just for the most part,
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: been better than as a player. But his blocks per
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: personal foul are in the ninety six percentele so he's
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: been playing it without he's been playing good defense without
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: having to foul. So that's a little bit on Trason
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: some other guys from last night. I thought below was
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: really really good. Had a team high five assists in
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: the game last night, so I thought that was encouraging.
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: The Biggs continue to be an important part of this
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: offense as they pass. That is going to be an
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: important aspect of this team as well, because you're going
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: to get some one on one opportunities down the post,
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: so you're going to ask Brendan Laurian to score. Harlan's
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: going to need to score, but they're going to continue
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: to need to pass well out of the post. Found
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: this of interest. Of the top six assisters two scorers
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: combinations for West Virginia. Okay, so the number of people
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: that assist to score assist to a scorer top six combinations,
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: three of them have been Big too. Big talked a
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: lot last night in the game about the success on
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: the short roll or that free throw line area where
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: West Virginia's shooting about eighty one percent on that shot
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: inside the lane, just inside the free throw line. Well,
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: they're not only making shots from there, but that high
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: low big to big has been an effective combination. Beload
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: to Harlan, beload to DJ Harlan into be low are
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: three of your top six assists to score combinations. You
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: did it last night successfully. And again I know you
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: had a size and athleticism advantage, but I counted up
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: seven different combinations last night when you went high low,
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: either from the wing or from that high post into
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: the low post. You scored every time. You scored every
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: time on those and one time you didn't get a
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: field goal, you went to the free throw line. That
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: included a kickout to Tracon in the corner for three.
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: So that's something to watch moving forward. Westernest bigs have
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: been very good and willing passers. They're going to need
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: to continue to be as we get into Big twelve play.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: It's good stuff. Good report onnor Huff now with four
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: more threes, has fifty three on the season, which is
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: the nation's best fifty three, and it'll be interesting to
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: see in league play what he's going to get night
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: in and night out. How do they want to do this?
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: We're getting close to teams are just going to have
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: to face guard him and take him out. Now, Big twelve,
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: you may have a better opportunity to stick with him
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: than some of these other teams have. But he's produced
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: against the power four teams you've played. It's not like
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: this has only been against the Mississippi Valley States. He's
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: done it against every opponent and been lights out. Let's
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: talk two defensive things or one defensive thing, one more
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: offensive thing, real quick, and then we'll move on. Point
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: Guard play has been very good here in the non
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: conference for West Virginia. Both Jasper and Emr are in
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: the top ten percent of players nationally in assist rate.
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: A Mirror is top twenty nationally in steel rate, Jasper
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: is seventeenth nationally and steel rate talking out of twenty
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: three hundred players, Jasper seventeen to top whatever that is
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: one percent there. So both point guards doing what they
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: what you ask them to do, distributing the basketball and
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: playing some good defense. Steel rates very high. Defensively. Last night,
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: Mississippi Valley State took nine catch and shoot jump shots.
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: Zero of them were unguarded. West Virginia continues to be
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: very good and getting better defensively, fourth nationally in fewest
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: on guarded catch and shoot field goal attempts per game
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: if you follow me, there so not allowing a lot
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: of open shots. I continue to talk that shooting percentage
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: on those ship continue to drop, but West Virginia hasn't
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: been allowing many. Can you keep that up in conference play?
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: If you can, that'll go a long way to getting
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: wins when you get against these teams in this league.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: Okay, there we go.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: Tell me this, guys, is that my understanding is with
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: coach Hodge in defense, it's not just intensity, it's strategy
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: how you defend, so which is not it's it takes
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: a while to figure out what you're supposed.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: To do the concept of schematics.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so where do you think they are in understanding
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: how to play an increase in a more complex defense?
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: Guys?
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: Getting there? Getting there still a work in progress. I
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: think it's going to be a work in progress most
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: of this season because now it kicks into a new gear.
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: Some of the teams are going to face now or
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: most of the teams are going to face now, are
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: going to do things that not everybody you face so
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: far could do just from a athleticism standpoint, and more
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: better shooters on the floor at one time. So still
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: a work in progress, but there were some things over
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: the last couple of games, and I thought, just go
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: back to Ohio State. Never mind what you did last night,
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: because you did this a bunch last night. But Ohio State,
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: for the majority of that game, you were almost right
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: where you want to be defensively, with rotations making it difficult.
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: Especially in that first half. Ohio State had so much
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: trouble getting shots in the lane. They figured it out
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: in the second were able to take advantage of you
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: a little bit. That's where it still has to grow,
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: that clogging of the lane, that rotating over that not
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: allowing somebody into the paint where then they can drive
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: and kick down low or kick for a three. That's
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: still a work in progress, but getting there absolutely getting
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: there right.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, piece by piece, piece by piece, strong report, Well done,
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  Speaker 2: Really, I mean it's nice day to day is that data?
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: Last night they were victorious over the Wildcats of Davidson,
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  Speaker 1: and after the game, coach Bill Self said that Peterson's
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  Speaker 1: family does not want him to return from injury until
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  Speaker 1: he's as close to one hundred percent as possible.
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: Oh, here we go.
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: So it's first time that the families.
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  Speaker 2: Here we go.
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  Speaker 1: You know the family is now obviously, and self says,
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: I'm completely good with it. I totally agree. Don't want
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: him out there if he's not one hundred percent. But
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: it's this, This could be a season long deal because
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  Speaker 1: right now he's projected right at the top one two
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  Speaker 1: three and yeah, one two three, And if he's done
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  Speaker 1: enough at this point and then you might see him,
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  Speaker 1: who knows. It would not be crazy to think that
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  Speaker 1: you'll see him less than you see him more. Does that?
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  Speaker 1: Does that work for you?
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  Speaker 2: That makes sense?
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: Makes sense? You might see less of him than you
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: see more of him during the course of the season.
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: Only played in four games. Yeah for the jay Hawks
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  Speaker 3: this season.
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Bill Bill self is, uh, he's dealt with that
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: before me.
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: We'll see the Kansas is. They'll be coming in here
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  Speaker 1: pretty soon. You're gonna go to a game.
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  Speaker 2: Can I sit behind you, guys?
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: I mean I don't have any access to those. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you can press Doug the security guard. Dug
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: the security guard. I asked last night, if you're going
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: to go to a home.
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: Game, if I dressed like a chicken or something.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: He did want you to dress a certain way.
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: But anyway, I'll just say, I'll try to get set
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: up a press road.
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: You're going to Houston. You're gonna be on the road
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: at Houston.
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: I gotta I gotta check on that. I might have
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: a conflict.
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: Dude.
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: See, I want to go. I want to I want
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: to go. I want to go.
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: See this is this is what he does. You see
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: what he does? Right? You see what I'm talking about?
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: Wait a minute, what puts it out there? And then
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: we've spent time facilitating this and now I got well,
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: I gotta, I gotta go to the.
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: Penis said, I wanted to go, and you said you
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: can't go.
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: Well, the seats were gone.
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: Okay, we'll get together.
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: Lead he's getting more and more. He is getting difficult.
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: What do you mean I'm available, I'm around.
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: Said the man who said, I don't think I'll be
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: able to go to the Houston game because I won't
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: be available or around.
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: O I have some other commitments to.
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: No, that's totally good. I'm good with it. I'm good.
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: I like to go.
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: That is one team I will not have to be
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: conflicted about.
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: It isn't it amazing that I was thinking again last night,
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: you've played You've played what fourteen games now thirteen games,
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: so you just played your college football season, and we're
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: talking about like kind of just getting started here with
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: college basketball. Still learn it's about time to go. A
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: lot of games left. You got twenty games left. But
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: it's just wild the difference in how fast a college
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: football season goes and how few opportunities you actually have
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: to watch that team play different versus basketball.
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: Well, it feels like it feels like we've been into
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: basketball season for six months. That's what it feels like.
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: It really knows like football doesn't stop anymore.
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: November.
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: I mean it's been two full months, not November. It's October.
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: It's October.
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: I mean they played scrimmage in October. They had the
• 43:11
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  Speaker 2: I'm with you talking to the other day that's mentioned
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  Speaker 2: that about you, Tony, about over promising stuff. Somebody came up.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just thinking it came up organically. But go ahead.
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  Speaker 1: But do they get the did they get do they
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  Speaker 1: get the stick? They don't get? They thought it was
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  Speaker 1: for real?
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  Speaker 3: Well, what kind of half is three quarters is? Yeah?
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: I don't like either of you, two guys.
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  Speaker 2: They'll be it.
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: Merry Christmas. From the text from the text line college
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: football playoff fodder. Last year Tennessee got beat as badly
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: by Ohio State as the two group of five teams
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: got beat this year, So to me, those games prove nothing. However,
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: I think the rule needs to be a group of
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: five team gets in only if they're undefeated and beat
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: two power forward teams that are required to be on
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: their schedule in order to qualify. If we don't let
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: undefeated teams in, you never know, you never know. He said,
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: they absolutely, They actually might have been the best team
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: in the country. But if they losed even one game,
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: then they're very weak regular season conference schedules and that's
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: on them. What do you say, No, you can never
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: say you have to be undefeated and you have to
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: have two power forwards. Is this it's all going to change,
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: It's all going to change.
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: It does feel like narratives are being established though, yes, right, yes, there.
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: It feels like there are clear agendas being pushed.
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: Yes, nationally, this thing to talk to a guy in
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  Speaker 1: volved not Ren Baker, but a different person involved over
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  Speaker 1: the weekend Saturday. So this thing's going to twenty four teams.
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: Really, you know what, before you do any to any
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: of that, fix the calendar. Fix the calendar first.
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: I might help. Yeah, from the text line, we need
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: to correct something I said last show. I said Chris
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: George played at Bridgeport the all time leading receiver who
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: broke Jerry Rice's record, But he actually played at RW
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: Roosevelt Wilson, the President's a gentleman, says, I love the
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  Speaker 1: history theme that ran through episode six 't eighty four.
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: One thing that I think needs clarification. Chris was from Clarksburg,
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: not Bridgeport. Chris graduated from our w in nutter Fort,
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  Speaker 1: not Bridgeport.
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  Speaker 2: You do not want to get in the middle of
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  Speaker 2: that Bridgeport question.
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: Now they get all they get all uppitty about that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's fine, So Craig and Oakmont, we stand corrected. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you very much. Cel. Also thank you for correcting us
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: on that. Gentlemen. If it was not for an occasional
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• 47:11
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• 47:15
  Speaker 1: how about we get this guy at the table for
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  Speaker 1: an episode so we can all officially meet him, the
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  Speaker 1: often imitated, never duplicated, notorious Homeless Dave. I hate to
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  Speaker 1: put it off to the summer series, but I'll take
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  Speaker 1: what I can get. Curtis and Portland. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: he would do it.
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: The thing is it would remove some of the aura
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  Speaker 2: if he were here.
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: And yeah, I mean he's got an open seat, But
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: I don't think he would do that. That's that's not
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  Speaker 1: his Shtick's he's behind the scenes. Yeah, but he does exist.
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  Speaker 1: He does. Jim from Clarksburg. On Sunday, I was watching
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: some of the Pitt Penn State basketball game. West Virginia
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: hasn't played Penn State since nineteen and ninety one. Has
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: there ever been any talk of playing the Nitneyes in
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: basketball again. It was like, wasn't Brad last year? There
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: was some talk, not this current staff, the last staff.
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: I think they were talking, possibly of Penn State.
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  Speaker 3: I can't remember that.
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  Speaker 1: I think I think there was a little mention. I mean, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it'd be all right, it'd be fine. It's amazing. It'spenson's
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  Speaker 3: That's surprising, it's.
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  Speaker 1: Crazy, it is. Text are interesting nugget from Matt Campbell's
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  Speaker 3: Then you continue on there spend so much quote was
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  Speaker 3: spending so much my child.
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there we go, spending so much of my childhood
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  Speaker 1: and Carmichaels. My great grandfather who worked in the coal mines,
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• 48:47
  Speaker 1: around the family discussions was coach Paterno in the toughness
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: and the character of the Penn State program.
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: Rocco headed there.
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: I don't know, what do you think?
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: That's a good question. I don't know. I don't know not.
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: Dug into that story.
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: Last night at the game, got a picture made with
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: the Jim and Jackie and they had their Mountaineer sweaters on,
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: their Christmas sweaters on, and uh there they go, yeah
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: they go. You know, you know, you know, Jim and
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: Jackie are terrific. They brought us treats, fantastic treats, which,
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: by the way, I got home and had about three
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: of those cookies.
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: A couple of ginger snaps.
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: Would you like to see their Christmas card this year?
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: Take a look at their Christmas card? There's their Christmas card?
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: Oh, I had ball. Coach made it in.
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: Says we were wishing for a Bowl game, but will
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: wish you a merry Christmas instead. There's coach Rod came
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: by Rich. I wonder if Rich has been another Christmas
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: cards in the past.
• 49:42
  Speaker 3: That good question.
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: Had his debut on the car.
• 49:43
  Speaker 3: That's a good question. Probably has been in others.
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: Hey, speaking of coaches, how was the Neil and birthday party?
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: Fantastic? Was it? Oh?
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: My gosh, you want to name drop some folks or yeah,
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: so explain what it was. I mean, he turned ninety.
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: So Don is turning ninety on January one, So This
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: was perfectly pulled off by Jeff Hostetler and Vicki, Don's daughter,
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: and Jeff Hosteler and so coach, as you well know,
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: like he doesn't like to be anywhere too long.
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: No, does not.
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: He don't like to be anywhere too long. He likes
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: to get up tony. So Jeff said about two weeks ago, Hey, coach,
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: someone just gave this crazy amount of money to WVU Hospitals,
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: forty six million dollars.
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: It's the children the naming right.
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: No, he just made it up. He just made it up.
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, he said.
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: And the folks at WVU Hospital would like you to
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: come because we're going to have a we're going to
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: have a meet and greet with them and we're going
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: to thank them. They just want to meet you just
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: for we won't be there long. So he gets them
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: over there and he's he's I later talked to Jeff
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: and to Don and and Don was saying, like, you
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: know what, I don't want you know, do we have
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: to do this, Coach? And he goes, I know you
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: hate doing this, Coach, I know you do, he said,
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: But he goes, we got He goes, all right, fine,
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: and he goes, all right, I'll do it. Let's not
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: stay long. And so there were there was every bit
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: of there was every I'm bad at one hundred and
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: fifty people at least, and they and he got us
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: all over on the one side of the room and
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: here comes down and touchdown Terrace and Jeff bring him
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: in and he walks and he just kind of turns
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: and he looks and everyone says surprise, and he went like,
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: whoa his just his shoulders just dropped. My goodness. So
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: many great former players that were there. So Dave McMichael
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: for him out in your assistant first time in years. Yeah,
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: so Steve Dunlapp, Dwight Wallace. I mean, I'll forget players,
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: Charlie Bauman, Dave Oblack.
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: Really so Dave.
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: Came from Florida and I was talking with coach and
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: Dave came up and and sere is it could be.
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: He said, Coach, He said, I just want to thank you.
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: He goes, you you changed my life. And Don doesn't
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: miss a beating that Don's gonna be ninety. He says,
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: let me tell you about this guy. He said, we're
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: getting ready to play Maryland. He said, we had lost
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: two noseguards. We got nobody, he said. We get done
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: with practice. I go into training room and there he
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: is sitting in there on the table and trainer says
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: to me, coach, ain't no way he's going this week.
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: And he looked at me and he said, coach, he goes,
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: I'm playing. And then the trainer said, he ain't gonna
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: be able to go. He goes, I'm playing. He goes.
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: You know what he played and he was dominant, dominant.
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: So Andrew was there, Aaron Brian Jo's sorry, I'm gonna
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: miss names, but there was a ton Scott Barrows was there,
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: and Dave McMichael told me it was the first time
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: in forty years he had seen Scott Barrows. Really Scott
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: Barrow set the block. Set the block that opened up.
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: You have to be in state. Yeah, that's neat. So
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: it was a wonderful Uh, it was a wonderful night.
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: Just so many Uh, you know, old acquaintances through through
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: a long, long time ago is fantastic.
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: Don give you hey, this is great, but it's getting late.
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: No, he was in man, he was like he he
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: also had they had this little thing set up where
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: you have your picture taken and he sat in the
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: chair and he had the grandkids, the great grandkids, and
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: it was just a flood of kids.
• 53:28
  Speaker 3: I got their picture made with the got their picture made.
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: You know that that event and the event where he
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: was honored at at Myland Park. It how must it feel,
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: Brad when you at the at the twilight of your life.
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: You know, later later in life, and we hope he
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: has many more years ahead when all those people come
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: up and say you made a difference changed my life.
• 53:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean, how pretty well? Because if you
• 53:54
  Speaker 3: get one person to say that to you have done well?
• 53:56
  Speaker 3: Yes right, how many was pretty neat?
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: Charlie from Midlothian rights looking forward to conference playing getting
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: some Quad one wins. On a lighter note, it's been
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: confirmed there are now three guys from mid Lothian who
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: text to your show, myself, Jay and now Brock. We're crushing.
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: We absolutely crush mid Lothian. Probably should do us, Probably
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: should do a show out there in mid Lothian. Well,
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: it's good to have more than one guy in mid
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: Lothian because one of these days Charlie's gonna get arrested
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: for stealing that gas. I'm true, I mean he's got
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: that card thing there he's got he's got a convoy
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: of cars. He's in there just changing those pumps out there.
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: Off those pipes might get banned, but I don't know. Yeah,
• 54:39
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• 54:48
  Speaker 1: not all of them when you think about the scope
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: of the work and Santa's crew when they do deliver
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: those gifts, they will use a Lou Wendell pontoon to
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: the hard to get places. You know, some people live
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: on the water. Hoppy, I'll just come in there, dock in,
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: run up there to hell they say, the hell with
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: the chimney.
• 55:04
  Speaker 3: Just Santa's scope of work.
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: Now, it's the perfect time to visit, Lou Wendley. You
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  Speaker 1: might say, we wait a second, as cold as went. Yeah,
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• 55:18
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• 55:21
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  Speaker 1: wrapping up right? Yeah? Is that?
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: I don't want to get too malkys here, but here
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: we're coming up on Christmas in New Year's and one
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: of the great joys in my life is doing this
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: podcast with you guys and the camaraderie.
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: Right, can you repeat that? Say that again?
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: One of the great joy said, one of the great
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: joys of my life professionally.
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: UH.
• 55:59
  Speaker 3: In that now we're how the qualifiers are coming. You
• 56:01
  Speaker 3: were good, Just keep going with where you were.
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: Listen. This is the greatest thing that I do in
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: this building on Tuesday, twice a week. Yeah.
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: One of the great joys of my life is the
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: UH is doing this podcast with you guys and the
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: fellowship and the interaction with folks, whether it's by text
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: or in the tailgate parties, Brad, when we meet folks
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: and we're going to Charleston, South Carolina. It is for
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: a guy who is, let's face it, at the tail
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: end of his career. It has been a wonderful pivot
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: for me and I truly enjoy it and I value
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: our friendship.
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: Why do you have to get serious? I mean, I
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: don't get serious, hoppy. I just find it funny that
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: you said you spent how many years as a journalist,
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: and what happened then? What happened then you started doing this?
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: And how are you recognized? Now?
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: Three guys?
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: I mean, but I did.
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: I went from hate mail to pounds of meat and
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: candies and things.
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: So it was a nice transition in that sense, dude.
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: I mean it just wait, wait, wait, wait, we got
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: to do one thing. We got to do one thing.
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: I was at Tony, I was at your house, and
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: you should to bring.
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: All I was going to talk about this. Go ahead.
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: So this this is unbelievable, man. So a while back,
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: Nathaniel the world's greatest cattle farmer foggy Dale Farms in Ellenborough,
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: which is in Richie County, and Nathaniel Mason is the owner,
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: and he brought us he sent to us, you know,
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: I think several different cuts of meat. So we got
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: him very much. So I get a phone call last
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: week and I was in the midst like I was
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: up to my elbows and like sauce making sauce, and
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: Dale Spuck says, hey, can you be over here in
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: twenty minutes? I said, what do you got? He says,
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: just come? He goes, uh, Nathaniel is going to bring
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: us more. He's got more meat. I said, okay, fine,
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: So I sent I was crazy busy. So I and
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: Junior over. Junior happened to be in there. I don't
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: know what he does. He comes in, steals food, does laundry.
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: Don't know exactly what he's doing back there. I said, hey,
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: go do me a favor. Go over to Dale Sparks.
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: He's got meat for us. He comes back. He comes
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: back and you'd think what he's going to get a
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: steak or something. He brought us three whole prime rib roasts.
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: Whole prime rib roast they weigh between eighteen and twenty
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: pounds each, eighteen So when he was alright him and
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: I said come here, I said, come here, how much shirt?
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: Eighteen to twenty pounds each? So you can make ribb
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: eyes out of that or you could cut it into
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: three different pieces and have prime rib roast. So we
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: have that. So you guys, there's a handling fee. Now
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: it's in my freezer. I mean you guys, you guys
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: better step it up or there'll be a surch charge.
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: Wow, I saw it when I was at your house.
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: I mean it's gigantic.
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: We're gonna have to it's awful nice, it's dramaticus So
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: thank you very much. I can't wait to get into
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: that before h music.
• 59:03
  Speaker 3: One quick shout out met Jim Frame last night from Gasaway.
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, exit sixty two.
• 59:09
  Speaker 3: You said hello too, Yeah, big big listener said shout
• 59:12
  Speaker 3: out to Jim Merry Christmas and his girlfriend Kathy recovering.
• 59:15
  Speaker 3: Kathy Porter doing some recovery right now, rest and recovery.
• 59:18
  Speaker 3: Wish her the best.
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: Which guy was this? Where was? When was it? Before
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: the game? After for the game?
• 59:23
  Speaker 3: How you talking? Okay? Jim from Gasaway? Cool, good to
• 59:26
  Speaker 3: meet you.
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: He's at sixty two, just sixty two, soth.
• 59:29
  Speaker 3: He's had any good thoughts?
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: Absolutely all right? Special thank you to our producer extraordinaire
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: doctor Jake. He'd been hitting it all. So what are
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: we doing you guys? Decided when I went on, what
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: are we doing that way?
• 59:41
  Speaker 3: It's alumni weekend today. Jack Carlson back, so congratulations.
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: Graduated, graduated, laughed at him. Three and a half years.
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: I said to him, yesterday, I said, Jack, four, Oh
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: this semester? He said yes. I said, did you ever
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: get below a four to zero on any of your semesters?
• 59:57
  Speaker 3: Know what?
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: He said? No, Ay, Stip, we went in there, so
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: we'll tell you what we're gonna do. We're gonna get
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: a four.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 3: Roh.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: Every semester graduate through a perfect game, get a job
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: the next day, graduated a semester early. Just laughing at him.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 3: Good see him.
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  Speaker 1: Episode six eighty five is complete. We'll see you