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- 0:09Speaker 1: Let's do this thing.
- 0:10Speaker 2: Hey, everybody, welcome in. It is time, finally, finally, to
- 0:16Speaker 2: do the last bastion of rhetoric on West Virginia and
- 0:22Speaker 2: Penn State. This is three Guys before the Game, the
- 0:25Speaker 2: Penn State game preview.
- 0:27Speaker 3: This is our episode that has Penn State preview in it.
- 0:30Speaker 3: We've had say it in May in May preview.
- 0:35Speaker 1: Next week we'll probably do two shows like a post
- 0:37Speaker 1: game shows right nexton.
- 0:40Speaker 2: Well, the Penn State recap is coming up on Sunday.
- 0:42Speaker 2: I will say that, Well.
- 0:43Speaker 3: I haven't had those Nitney lines in Morgantown for a while.
- 0:45Speaker 3: We might as well run with it.
- 0:46Speaker 2: Weas in the sponge out of them getting everything else.
- 0:49Speaker 2: Here we go. Let's do this thing. Thanks for being
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- 1:35Speaker 2: we are all together here, ladies and gentlemen, kind of
- 1:37Speaker 2: like the preacher says before the marriage ceremonies. We've all
- 1:41Speaker 2: come together here today. Some of us have had more
- 1:44Speaker 2: sleep than others. Brad just got home six minutes ago
- 1:49Speaker 2: from the Independence Herbert Hoover High School football game.
- 1:52Speaker 1: That was game just ended.
- 1:54Speaker 3: WHOA.
- 1:55Speaker 2: It was delayed by unbelievable weather which caused a lot
- 1:59Speaker 2: of power outages in Knaw County. But you guys kicked
- 2:03Speaker 2: off after nine o'clock nine thirty ishues.
- 2:05Speaker 3: Yeah, it was about nine to thirty nine forty before
- 2:08Speaker 3: we finally got underway. Just a lot of lightning in
- 2:10Speaker 3: those storms. As you said, that went through but ended
- 2:12Speaker 3: up being a great game to start the high school
- 2:14Speaker 3: football season. Hoppies. Right, think the last pass came down
- 2:16Speaker 3: to a fourth down play last play the game. I
- 2:18Speaker 3: think it just got batted down about four minutes ago.
- 2:21Speaker 3: We're ready to go. Great started.
- 2:22Speaker 2: You didn't go to any go Marts. Did you on
- 2:23Speaker 2: your way?
- 2:24Speaker 3: I think I hit every Go Mart. I mean there's
- 2:26Speaker 3: a billion of them across the state. I think I
- 2:28Speaker 3: was in every one. I hit the gas Away, Go Mart,
- 2:31Speaker 3: hit the Elkview Go Mart. Yeah okay, And then swung
- 2:34Speaker 3: through World headquarters at the Flatwoods Gomar about one forty
- 2:37Speaker 3: am last night or this morning. So got a good
- 2:40Speaker 3: Go Mart run.
- 2:40Speaker 1: Somebody the overnight person was there and checked a box.
- 2:42Speaker 2: Okay, Bridge Braden bradsaid, So the excitement, as we had
- 2:47Speaker 2: anticipated for this game has done exactly what we thought
- 2:51Speaker 2: it would do. It's ramped up. I thought traffic started
- 2:53Speaker 2: to get bad yesterday, which is a rarity on a Thursday.
- 2:58Speaker 2: And I came through campus this morning where we're courting
- 3:00Speaker 2: early Friday morning, and I saw the setup for the
- 3:03Speaker 2: staging for Pat McAfee show, and so it's it is on.
- 3:09Speaker 2: I would say this a couple of different things here.
- 3:12Speaker 2: If you're coming in and you're going to do this thing,
- 3:17Speaker 2: you be er, you be e er. I think the
- 3:19Speaker 2: big four letter word, I mean traffics a sue getting
- 3:23Speaker 2: to our food court on University Avenue. That probably is
- 3:28Speaker 2: the best way to do it, or just simply walk
- 3:30Speaker 2: like park far away. May go to the old mall.
- 3:33Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe go to the old mall. Park
- 3:34Speaker 2: a old mall, Right, go to the old mall. But
- 3:37Speaker 2: I'm just thinking, like you're seeing uber, just walk.
- 3:40Speaker 1: If you get the three guys shuttle.
- 3:43Speaker 2: Your feet are going to be your best friend. If
- 3:47Speaker 2: you just it's tough anyway, that's my thing. We'll talk
- 3:51Speaker 2: more about the food court and all of that stuff
- 3:53Speaker 2: coming up on this episode. We want to get into
- 3:56Speaker 2: We've brought you some analytics over the last couple of episodes,
- 4:00Speaker 2: keys and things like that, but today we do want
- 4:03Speaker 2: to focus on the specific keys to the game. You
- 4:07Speaker 2: never know how these things play out, but there are
- 4:10Speaker 2: certain things that you can look at as milestones during
- 4:13Speaker 2: a game to say like this is happening, this isn't happening,
- 4:17Speaker 2: and that either means good or bad, depending on what side.
- 4:22Speaker 2: Health Wise, the Mountaineers are in, as Neil Brown said
- 4:26Speaker 2: last night, we're in good shape. And you might think, well,
- 4:29Speaker 2: what's the first game of the season. Why wouldn't you
- 4:32Speaker 2: be in good shape? Well, because you just practiced for
- 4:35Speaker 2: a month and overall this has been a really good
- 4:40Speaker 2: preseason in that regard they're not going to hit today.
- 4:43Speaker 2: Today is fast Friday is what they call that. They
- 4:46Speaker 2: get their heart rates up today, but there is no banging,
- 4:49Speaker 2: no smashing going on until the game goes tomorrow afternoon at.
- 4:54Speaker 3: Twelve oh five.
- 4:55Speaker 2: So they've come out of that and they seem to
- 4:57Speaker 2: be in a good place to go play the game,
- 5:00Speaker 2: and now we'll see what happens. Senator, Now, when did
- 5:04Speaker 2: you prepare these keys to the game?
- 5:07Speaker 3: July over the last couple of last years comes together,
- 5:12Speaker 3: you kind of knew what the what the keys I
- 5:14Speaker 3: think are going to be for this West Virginia team.
- 5:15Speaker 3: But then as we've talked about this game over the
- 5:18Speaker 3: last couple of weeks, I think it's crystallized into a
- 5:21Speaker 3: couple of different buckets. So we'll niche it down. I
- 5:23Speaker 3: won't go as deep into the weeds on some numbers.
- 5:26Speaker 3: I'll I'll give you a few coming up here in
- 5:27Speaker 3: just a minute, but we'll kind of package that together
- 5:29Speaker 3: with what I think are just a couple of keys.
- 5:31Speaker 3: Not going to go crazy with those, but a couple
- 5:33Speaker 3: of key points.
- 5:33Speaker 2: Happy you were down at the Green Brier for the
- 5:35Speaker 2: business was literally over a thousand people are there the
- 5:39Speaker 2: twelve hundred in that big ballroom. Did you feel an
- 5:44Speaker 2: unusual amount of buzz or interest in a game compared
- 5:49Speaker 2: to any other regular season opener? Oh yeah, you're feeling it?
- 5:52Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I mean clearly there is, and it just
- 5:57Speaker 1: because of the opponent, because of how you last year,
- 6:01Speaker 1: the anticipation is higher. And then at the food court
- 6:05Speaker 1: last night, I mean, people are you know what happens
- 6:08Speaker 1: is the optimism.
- 6:09Speaker 2: See how he's slid in that he was at the
- 6:10Speaker 2: food court. Not immediately though.
- 6:12Speaker 1: Listen, don't.
- 6:13Speaker 3: I don't blame him as much as as much as
- 6:16Speaker 3: grief as he gets for leaving our previous events early,
- 6:20Speaker 3: which he did, in fact, just slip out. When he
- 6:22Speaker 3: shows up, he's gotta he's gotta get it a little bit.
- 6:24Speaker 3: I get it. I understand.
- 6:25Speaker 1: The optimism builds, right, sure, the optimism builds. And I
- 6:30Speaker 1: think that's a situation you have. Can West Virginia can
- 6:33Speaker 1: the team reach that level of optimism, because sometimes the
- 6:37Speaker 1: optimism gets a little ahead of the practical and you
- 6:41Speaker 1: hear people, yeah, you know, yeah, I think they shift
- 6:44Speaker 1: the West Virginia. So, I mean the general comment is,
- 6:46Speaker 1: if West Virginia shows up, they can win this game. Now,
- 6:50Speaker 1: that's again that's just a generalization, but it reflects the
- 6:54Speaker 1: optimism that exists going into the game. I don't hear
- 6:58Speaker 1: people talking about you got no chance. I don't hear that.
- 7:02Speaker 1: I hear people saying, you know what, I think they
- 7:05Speaker 1: could win this game. So there is this optimism that exists.
- 7:09Speaker 1: The question is Brad can West Virginia's performance match that optimism?
- 7:13Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's it's wild too, guys. I was
- 7:15Speaker 3: sitting there last night during that delay of the high
- 7:16Speaker 3: school game, checking scores across the college football landscape, and
- 7:20Speaker 3: there were some big twelve teams in action. But it
- 7:23Speaker 3: struck me again just the imbalance of schedules across the country.
- 7:28Speaker 3: West Virginia opening against a team that if this team
- 7:31Speaker 3: in Penn State doesn't get to the playoff. You outline
- 7:34Speaker 3: this and I think our last show will be a
- 7:35Speaker 3: massive disappointment and there will be some heat on James
- 7:38Speaker 3: Frank and although the contract prevents anything from really happening,
- 7:41Speaker 3: but this is a team that thinks it has to
- 7:43Speaker 3: be in the playoff this year, and rightfully so. And
- 7:45Speaker 3: yet that's who West Virginia opens the season with. And
- 7:49Speaker 3: yet you look around the league, Utah who's already won
- 7:51Speaker 3: the Big twelve title. Apprightly congratulations with them in their
- 7:55Speaker 3: first year winning a title. Playing Southern Utah, Cam Rising
- 7:59Speaker 3: throws for five touch in the first half. Colorado, now
- 8:02Speaker 3: they struggled and it's a very good FCS program in
- 8:05Speaker 3: North Dakota State. But it's all due respect. Is North
- 8:07Speaker 3: Dakota State FCS. George Sanders shows for four hundred and
- 8:11Speaker 3: fifty yards. Travis Hunter went, but they struggled with FCS opponent. Right,
- 8:16Speaker 3: they're not playing a power five, right, Kansas played Linda Wood.
- 8:20Speaker 3: Devin Neil goes for one hundred yards. So it's it
- 8:22Speaker 3: was interesting driving back late last night and you listen
- 8:24Speaker 3: to the national narrative that's out there and it's ah Utah, looker,
- 8:28Speaker 3: all Kansas is off and running again, all due respect,
- 8:32Speaker 3: but are they You.
- 8:33Speaker 1: Really don't You don't know, well, I don't know that.
- 8:35Speaker 3: I respect the first win. Let me get let me
- 8:37Speaker 3: versus what West Virginia is going to have to go
- 8:39Speaker 3: out and do. Now West Virginia wins that, and we've
- 8:41Speaker 3: talked about that, they will enter the top twenty immediately,
- 8:44Speaker 3: maybe the top fifteen. It'll be off and running. But
- 8:46Speaker 3: it just shows. I think one of the great challenges
- 8:49Speaker 3: across college football is that the schedule strengths are so
- 8:52Speaker 3: vastly different in the non conference.
- 8:54Speaker 1: Mad You mentioned the narratives, and one thing you can
- 8:56Speaker 1: pick up on is that what has been one of
- 8:59Speaker 1: the dominant narrative leading up to the season. Who will
- 9:01Speaker 1: be the twelve teams? Right? I mean hear that all?
- 9:04Speaker 1: Who are the twelve teams? Who are the twelve teams?
- 9:05Speaker 1: Who are the twelve teams? And Penn State is in that?
- 9:08Speaker 1: And everybody's mentioned almost every one of them is in there.
- 9:10Speaker 1: So if Penn State and look at what happened to
- 9:12Speaker 1: Florida State. If Penn State loses, West Virginia will get
- 9:16Speaker 1: some national love, but the national narrative will be, oh,
- 9:20Speaker 1: what does Penn State have to do now to be
- 9:23Speaker 1: in the playoffs? There's no room for era. That story
- 9:27Speaker 1: will dominate West Virginia's win. The story the national narrative
- 9:31Speaker 1: will not be West Virginia one watch out for them.
- 9:33Speaker 1: There'll be some of that, but most of it will
- 9:34Speaker 1: be Wow, what a loss. What does Penn State need
- 9:37Speaker 1: to do to stay in that top twelve? Because there's
- 9:39Speaker 1: such a focus on those twelve teams.
- 9:43Speaker 2: And that's that's college football as a whole. I don't
- 9:46Speaker 2: think there's any sport that is more critical and to
- 9:51Speaker 2: a degree ruthless in its post game comments than college football.
- 9:55Speaker 2: Like everything is the overreaction. I can already tell you
- 10:00Speaker 2: what the text line is gonna say if West Virginia
- 10:03Speaker 2: were to lose on Sunday, on those texts, it's gonna be.
- 10:09Speaker 2: I sat in the stands with a guy. He called
- 10:11Speaker 2: every play, he knew every play there. Okay, cornerbacks are
- 10:16Speaker 2: playing too deep. Okay, like it's just like printed out annually.
- 10:22Speaker 2: It's the same, same same thing, and okay, whatever you get,
- 10:28Speaker 2: you get your part. But my point to all that is,
- 10:31Speaker 2: like it's a game. Don't lose your mind one way
- 10:35Speaker 2: or the other. If you win, set you up real nice.
- 10:38Speaker 2: If you lose, get ready for the next one. Just
- 10:40Speaker 2: play on. I was saying in the last episode, this,
- 10:44Speaker 2: this infatuation, this compulsion to talk about this college football
- 10:48Speaker 2: playoff before you freaking even put the ball into the air,
- 10:53Speaker 2: just drives me crazy. But it is. But it is
- 10:56Speaker 2: this with the the story. Let the freaking teams play
- 10:59Speaker 2: the month of September and then see who's who. Then
- 11:02Speaker 2: start talking about it instead of making easy.
- 11:04Speaker 1: Well, I tell you that these crazy things, I tell
- 11:07Speaker 1: you I understand and I agree with you and Brad
- 11:10Speaker 1: and I talk about this all the time, like there's
- 11:12Speaker 1: gonna be great game Saturday that get no national attention,
- 11:15Speaker 1: but they're great games because that that's the broad that's
- 11:18Speaker 1: the broader appeal, that's the clicks, who's in, who's out,
- 11:22Speaker 1: and now it the expanded playoffs. It just is a
- 11:24Speaker 1: dominant storyline. And you can't change that. You cannot change that.
- 11:27Speaker 2: Oh, I know, I can't change And I understand what.
- 11:30Speaker 2: I turned the volume down, like all the all the
- 11:33Speaker 2: pregame stuff and all that, like I don't like, I
- 11:35Speaker 2: don't listen to I care well we do four hours
- 11:37Speaker 2: of no I'm talking about like on TV, Like it's
- 11:40Speaker 2: just a nauseum. It's just that same old, same, Let
- 11:43Speaker 2: the thing happen. Here's what's gonna happen. You know what's
- 11:45Speaker 2: gonna happen in college football this year. There are gonna
- 11:47Speaker 2: be some teams that are picked to do extremely well,
- 11:50Speaker 2: and you know what, they're gonna have really bad seasons.
- 11:52Speaker 2: And there are some teams like West Virginia a year ago,
- 11:55Speaker 2: there was picked dead last in its league and they're
- 11:57Speaker 2: gonna finish in the upper portion of their league. It's
- 11:59Speaker 2: gonna happen. Happen, So that to me is like, let's
- 12:02Speaker 2: see who they are, Let's see how it happens before
- 12:05Speaker 2: you lose your mind. You're right, though, Florida State loses
- 12:09Speaker 2: to Georgia Tech, and like the whole the whole narrative
- 12:13Speaker 2: this week is how's Florida State gonna get back? What's
- 12:14Speaker 2: Florida But Florida State needs to get to the Florida
- 12:17Speaker 2: State needs to get to the a SEC Championship game.
- 12:19Speaker 2: They can still get anything. It's it's not even September.
- 12:24Speaker 1: I think.
- 12:24Speaker 3: I think you are right. I think that would be
- 12:26Speaker 3: the national narrative. But but West Virginia will get some pop,
- 12:29Speaker 3: will get boy and quite frankly, at that point, I
- 12:32Speaker 3: won't give two bleeps about Penn State, right. I think
- 12:35Speaker 3: for this fan base, you win that game, yeah, and
- 12:39Speaker 3: you're really cooking with gas, you're rolling, and.
- 12:42Speaker 1: Then it will then it will take care of itself.
- 12:45Speaker 1: But I was just talking about the national project.
- 12:47Speaker 2: I get it, man, that's what they have to do.
- 12:49Speaker 2: And it's just the self generation of of the interest
- 12:54Speaker 2: in the.
- 12:55Speaker 1: Like Ben Kirschivill CBS Sports dot Com. They they related.
- 13:00Speaker 1: Huh are you related to him? You know, distant cousin.
- 13:03Speaker 1: You know what they have to do every day every day?
- 13:08Speaker 1: What did Dion Sanders say, you watch Colorado Weston? I
- 13:12Speaker 1: sure standards is pretty good, He's pretty good. But you
- 13:15Speaker 1: know what they struggled. They struggled, couldn't stop. Anybody can't.
- 13:19Speaker 1: But what did Deon Sanders say today? And why do
- 13:22Speaker 1: they do that? Why do they do that story, Brad?
- 13:24Speaker 3: Because it gets listens, it gets clicks, it gets views,
- 13:27Speaker 3: whatever it is. And that was again last night driving back,
- 13:29Speaker 3: listen to that, they played three, four or five clips
- 13:32Speaker 3: from from that press conference. Dane, Yeah, yep, all right,
- 13:38Speaker 3: do we solve anything there?
- 13:39Speaker 1: No?
- 13:39Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we think we go.
- 13:41Speaker 3: No, here's what we here's here's all that we did.
- 13:43Speaker 3: I'm gonna make this statement. I'm probably gonna say it
- 13:45Speaker 3: every week, but I'm preaching to the choir with this,
- 13:48Speaker 3: this fan base and the group that listens to us.
- 13:50Speaker 3: But this, to me, what's going to happen here on Saturday?
- 13:54Speaker 3: That's really college football? The national narrative can be all
- 13:57Speaker 3: about the SEC in the big ten. I get it.
- 14:00Speaker 3: There are great events happening on college campuses all over
- 14:03Speaker 3: the country that you're not going to spend some time
- 14:06Speaker 3: talking about a national platform. Now tomorrow just happens to
- 14:09Speaker 3: be a national platform is going to come in and
- 14:12Speaker 3: it's going to be a ton of love for West
- 14:13Speaker 3: Virginia before the game. Now, you just hope if you're
- 14:16Speaker 3: the team, you go out and you match that because
- 14:18Speaker 3: you're going to have some momentum starting today as this
- 14:21Speaker 3: thing really ramps. You're going to have an infomercial for
- 14:23Speaker 3: West Virginia on Patch Show throughout the day with all
- 14:26Speaker 3: of the West Virginia guests that are coming in. Now
- 14:28Speaker 3: it's about time to hand the baton to the team
- 14:30Speaker 3: and say, Okay, you've got all of it behind you,
- 14:33Speaker 3: Now go get it.
- 14:34Speaker 1: And what is the from an entertainment standpoint for Fox?
- 14:37Speaker 1: What is the build up? The build up cannot be.
- 14:40Speaker 1: The build up cannot be. Penn State's a nine point favorite,
- 14:42Speaker 1: you know their favorite. The build up is, Oh, you've
- 14:44Speaker 1: come to Morgantown and this place is crazy and you
- 14:48Speaker 1: better watch out when you come here. That will be
- 14:50Speaker 1: the storyline for Fox, and that's good for West Virginia. Sure, absolutely,
- 14:55Speaker 1: because it's a it's true and b it audience builds. Oh,
- 15:00Speaker 1: we better watch this thing. See what happens. You gotta
- 15:02Speaker 1: have a story, Yeah, you got every store. You have
- 15:04Speaker 1: to have a story.
- 15:04Speaker 2: Every game has to You must have an attraction, have
- 15:07Speaker 2: the attraction, Must have an attraction.
- 15:09Speaker 3: Your favorite opening question. Yeah, what's the attraction? Tracks?
- 15:12Speaker 1: What's the attraction?
- 15:12Speaker 2: Here's the attraction? This right here, we'll just go right
- 15:16Speaker 2: to the numbers.
- 15:17Speaker 3: There comes a heater.
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- 16:13Speaker 1: Did they come up with the episode number.
- 16:16Speaker 2: And we're efforting on that five or seventy something, I
- 16:20Speaker 2: don't know, talk about that later in the program during
- 16:22Speaker 2: intextual healing. It is to ask, all right, keys's just.
- 16:26Speaker 3: Do a couple. Do a couple, because I could do fifteen.
- 16:30Speaker 3: I'm gonna try it. It's into just a couple of
- 16:33Speaker 3: these with some numbers. I think first and foremost the
- 16:36Speaker 3: biggest one, and this is a season long key, but
- 16:39Speaker 3: it's especially important coming up on Saturday. It's can West
- 16:42Speaker 3: Virginia's offensive line move Penn State upfront? And can West
- 16:47Speaker 3: Virginia run it when and where it wants to run?
- 16:50Speaker 3: And I think specifically that starts as we talk last
- 16:53Speaker 3: game inside can you run between the tackles so successful
- 16:57Speaker 3: at that last year, which then opens up that out
- 17:00Speaker 3: side game. Now the motions and the shifts become really
- 17:03Speaker 3: difficult to handle if you're able to run inside. Secondarily
- 17:08Speaker 3: for this game, because of those great edge pass rushers,
- 17:11Speaker 3: if you can have success inside, which then allows you
- 17:13Speaker 3: to get on the outside, maybe that slows those guys
- 17:16Speaker 3: down for a beat or two so that when you
- 17:18Speaker 3: drop back to throw, you have a little extra time.
- 17:21Speaker 3: So I think this revamped and experienced offensive line for
- 17:24Speaker 3: West Virginia. What I say last show, they returned three
- 17:27Speaker 3: thousand plus snaps for the starters up for It's not
- 17:30Speaker 3: like thirty three hundred snaps come back. So very veteran guys.
- 17:34Speaker 3: They've been in this program. They've been in the weight
- 17:36Speaker 3: room for four and five years. Now it's time for
- 17:38Speaker 3: Jaqueh Hubbard and Nick Malone to step into that starting
- 17:40Speaker 3: role and then can the young guys come up behind
- 17:43Speaker 3: them and assist. So this remade offensive line, can it
- 17:47Speaker 3: run it when it wants to run it and where
- 17:49Speaker 3: it wants to run it. Last year in this game,
- 17:51Speaker 3: West Virginia average is three point seven yards per carry.
- 17:55Speaker 3: Now what's different what we just said. I think Garrett
- 17:58Speaker 3: Green's a much different quarterback. I think the playbook is
- 18:01Speaker 3: much more wide open than it was in Game one.
- 18:03Speaker 3: Last year. He did not have Jeheem White, which turned
- 18:06Speaker 3: into your most dynamic rusher by the end of the season.
- 18:09Speaker 3: So that to me, we can debate. These are discussies
- 18:13Speaker 3: as we go. I think that's first and foremost. This
- 18:15Speaker 3: team's identity was built last year around running the football.
- 18:19Speaker 3: They want to do that again. That opens up everything else.
- 18:22Speaker 3: If West Virginia can run it where and win it.
- 18:24Speaker 1: Once agreed, And that's so important because Jaheem White needs
- 18:27Speaker 1: to get a step or two pass the line right
- 18:30Speaker 1: to do what he does best. Correct.
- 18:32Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean yeah, to bust your line and then
- 18:36Speaker 3: he can start. Yeah, that's what you're saying.
- 18:37Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, and maybe Donaldson can bust it up
- 18:40Speaker 1: in there and get you some tough yards.
- 18:42Speaker 3: Here's what's interesting. Just three point seven yards per carry
- 18:44Speaker 3: for West Virginia last year, but this was last year's
- 18:48Speaker 3: game against West Virginia was the worst run defense grade
- 18:50Speaker 3: for Penn State for the entire season. Excuse me, worst
- 18:53Speaker 3: run defense grade per Pro Football Focus for Penn State
- 18:56Speaker 3: was West Virginia. The run defense grade not just raw number,
- 19:00Speaker 3: but worse grade. It was the worst tackling grade for
- 19:03Speaker 3: the Penn State defense for the entire season came against
- 19:06Speaker 3: West Virginia. This was interesting. Third worst coverage grade for
- 19:11Speaker 3: Penn State for the entire season. Michigan and Ohio State
- 19:16Speaker 3: game were worse for Penn State. So you know it's
- 19:19Speaker 3: one of those. After you got mid third quarter, you
- 19:21Speaker 3: could tell Penn State kind of had control of that game.
- 19:24Speaker 3: As Neil mentioned, they made more winning plays. West Virginia
- 19:27Speaker 3: couldn't convert on some key third and fourth downs. But
- 19:30Speaker 3: you look at those and you stay off the raw
- 19:32Speaker 3: numbers for a second and you say, okay, now again
- 19:36Speaker 3: standard disclaimer. I shaid don at the beginning, all these
- 19:38Speaker 3: numbers that I'm giving right now really don't mean anything
- 19:41Speaker 3: because it's different players, or if it's the same players,
- 19:44Speaker 3: they're back for a year. So take those with a
- 19:46Speaker 3: grade assault. But West Virginia did show some things last
- 19:49Speaker 3: year against Penn State. They have to be on the
- 19:50Speaker 3: lookout for.
- 19:51Speaker 2: When you to your point, West Virginia coaches say there
- 19:54Speaker 2: were passes there last year on that field, There were
- 19:59Speaker 2: receivers that were there. They were unable to make the
- 20:02Speaker 2: throw at that point, couldn't get it to there. Now,
- 20:06Speaker 2: what's a year difference make Let me throw a story
- 20:09Speaker 2: at you. John Raby, you know from the Associated Press,
- 20:12Speaker 2: has been around for many many years. He wrote a really,
- 20:16Speaker 2: really super good story that got released earlier this week
- 20:20Speaker 2: from the Associated Press. If you want to look this up,
- 20:23Speaker 2: the headline is a Penn State alum took Jaheim White
- 20:26Speaker 2: into her home. The West Virginia running back calls her godmother.
- 20:31Speaker 2: And it's this fascinating story about when he moved from
- 20:37Speaker 2: Florida to York, Pennsylvania. He has this acquaintance with this
- 20:44Speaker 2: teacher who was a sixth grade teacher named Amanda and
- 20:48Speaker 2: her last name is Poff Poff and she had to
- 20:54Speaker 2: go back to teach because she was a cancer survivor
- 20:57Speaker 2: and needed it for medical reasons at her health insurance. Anyway,
- 21:01Speaker 2: long story, and I'm not gonna do it justice, but
- 21:05Speaker 2: I do encourage you to read it. Where she befriends him.
- 21:09Speaker 2: He's really super quiet and she notices that, like he
- 21:14Speaker 2: gets on the Internet and he's always looking up running backs,
- 21:17Speaker 2: and so it starts this conversation about football and she
- 21:20Speaker 2: says she's a huge Penn State fan, and she showed
- 21:23Speaker 2: he didn't know who Saquon Barkley was, and so she
- 21:27Speaker 2: starts showing him and he's like blowing him off, saying
- 21:29Speaker 2: he's no good. He's like he's no good. Then he
- 21:31Speaker 2: moves back to Florida and then he reappears like I
- 21:35Speaker 2: don't know how much longer later, and she and he's
- 21:38Speaker 2: got a lot of stuff going on family wise. So
- 21:41Speaker 2: he starts. They get him into basketball with their daughter
- 21:45Speaker 2: playing aau type stuff. He starts living with them, and
- 21:50Speaker 2: so he says, this is my godmother. Without her, you know,
- 21:54Speaker 2: I wouldn't you know, they helped me tremendously. Hear she
- 21:56Speaker 2: and her husband took him in, added a piece out
- 21:58Speaker 2: of their house for him to stay. Hell of a store,
- 22:01Speaker 2: it is. It's a great story. And so I bring
- 22:04Speaker 2: all that up. Not only is it a neat thing,
- 22:06Speaker 2: but he didn't play in last year's game against Penn State,
- 22:09Speaker 2: and this will be his last chance to play because
- 22:11Speaker 2: the series isn't happening anymore in the foreseeable future. So
- 22:15Speaker 2: like to him, like not that he needs any extra motivation,
- 22:20Speaker 2: but like, what does that do to him? CJ. Donaldson,
- 22:24Speaker 2: you were really not yourself all last year? And he
- 22:27Speaker 2: admits I didn't have a good year, even though he
- 22:28Speaker 2: put up you know, a lot of yards, but he
- 22:30Speaker 2: just he never felt right. Yeah, Garrett Green, He looks
- 22:34Speaker 2: at that tape from a year ago at Penn State, and.
- 22:35Speaker 3: Says, I'm I'm not that guy, not close to that guy.
- 22:39Speaker 2: I'm not close to that guy and all of that.
- 22:43Speaker 2: So to me, it's this great intrigue. I think that
- 22:48Speaker 2: you're in there, your position yourself to slug it out
- 22:50Speaker 2: with them. I think the crowd will have a massive factor.
- 22:55Speaker 2: Like you can be experienced, you can play a lot
- 22:58Speaker 2: of football together, but when that crowd gets up, there
- 23:01Speaker 2: are just certain times when you're gonna need to communicate.
- 23:04Speaker 2: You know, as Penn State on that field, there are
- 23:06Speaker 2: certain times you're gonna need to communicate where you will
- 23:09Speaker 2: have a very difficult time to communicate, whether even they're
- 23:12Speaker 2: using silent count or not a lot defensively, if you're
- 23:15Speaker 2: making a call, if you're if you're you're you're yelling
- 23:18Speaker 2: out something. I mean, there's an electricity there. I don't
- 23:21Speaker 2: care what you say. That makes a difference. Can it
- 23:25Speaker 2: make enough of a difference two to impact negatively them?
- 23:30Speaker 2: And can it rise West Virginia's level of emotion to
- 23:35Speaker 2: a level where they play better than perhaps they really are.
- 23:37Speaker 1: Well, you said the word can earlier, you said will,
- 23:40Speaker 1: Then you said ken, And the question is ken because
- 23:43Speaker 1: those things are symbiotic. I mean, the crowd can help
- 23:46Speaker 1: the team. The team can help the crowd. Sure, so
- 23:48Speaker 1: it's got it's it's got to be like that. I mean,
- 23:51Speaker 1: the crowd will the crowd will start, the crowd will
- 23:53Speaker 1: be jacked up, but the team has to do its
- 23:54Speaker 1: part right and then the team and then vice versas.
- 23:57Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's why I said earlier the taking of
- 23:59Speaker 3: the baton the crowd stuff starts today, quite frankly, is
- 24:02Speaker 3: when that's going to get cranked. So entering that stadium,
- 24:05Speaker 3: in the start of that stadium, it will be bonkers.
- 24:07Speaker 3: Then it's turned over to the team has to give
- 24:10Speaker 3: this crowd enough to get going. And so Green rips
- 24:13Speaker 3: off a big run. Jaheem White gives you a highlight
- 24:16Speaker 3: reel run. Clement or Ray behind the deal. I mean,
- 24:19Speaker 3: that's the thing with this West Virginia team. It's not
- 24:21Speaker 3: like four years ago where you were going, well, who's
- 24:24Speaker 3: going to make the exciting play?
- 24:25Speaker 1: Now you know you've got guys.
- 24:26Speaker 3: This is an offense that has playmakers and has big
- 24:29Speaker 3: playmakers on it and has the ability for explosive play.
- 24:32Speaker 3: So you're going to have to do that. You do
- 24:33Speaker 3: that and get the crowd going. Now you're in a fistfight.
- 24:36Speaker 2: If you're Penn State, it was anyone's game last year
- 24:38Speaker 2: at halftime. It needs to be anyone's game at halftime again,
- 24:42Speaker 2: right it does. You cannot afford getting down two or
- 24:47Speaker 2: three scores in the first half because that will take
- 24:51Speaker 2: the absolute life out of that crowd. Because they like us,
- 24:55Speaker 2: like the team. They all have expectations, and if the
- 24:57Speaker 2: expectations don't happen the way that they want want them
- 25:00Speaker 2: to go, then they pull back. And Neil Brown talked
- 25:04Speaker 2: about that. He said, look it I need you guys
- 25:06Speaker 2: to be there even when things get bad. That's when
- 25:09Speaker 2: I need you to be there, like re energize, refire up,
- 25:12Speaker 2: like don't sit on your hands if something isn't going away,
- 25:16Speaker 2: do your part to get us charged back up so
- 25:18Speaker 2: that we can make a run. So I think that's Keith.
- 25:21Speaker 1: Now.
- 25:21Speaker 2: Conversely, if things do go well for you and you
- 25:26Speaker 2: look around, like middle of the second quarter and you're
- 25:28Speaker 2: having success running the ball and you got a couple
- 25:31Speaker 2: of points on the board, and you're going like, hey,
- 25:33Speaker 2: guess what, not only did we want to win this game?
- 25:36Speaker 2: Like this thing is very doable, now let's go, Then
- 25:40Speaker 2: you've got that magic sauce that you need to happen.
- 25:44Speaker 3: Flip over to key number two. Let's go to the
- 25:46Speaker 3: defensive side for West Virginia and this is kind of happy,
- 25:49Speaker 3: a two pronged key to the game.
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- 27:21Speaker 3: You know they've got those two talented running backs that
- 27:23Speaker 3: I think overall Western did a pretty good job against
- 27:26Speaker 3: last year, but that opened up that passing game. Drew
- 27:28Speaker 3: Aler throws for three hundred plus yards the three touchdowns.
- 27:31Speaker 3: So one of the things I'm watching here from the
- 27:34Speaker 3: West Virginia perspective, and I'll give you a very specific key.
- 27:37Speaker 3: I think Sean Martin is massive tomorrow, literally and figuratively. Right,
- 27:41Speaker 3: We've talked about him before. That's your NFL guy up front.
- 27:44Speaker 3: That's who the scouts have been coming to watch all
- 27:46Speaker 3: fall camp. He's healthy as well. Talk about a guy
- 27:49Speaker 3: that's finally healthy and ready to go in Game one
- 27:51Speaker 3: if he can look like an NFL player on Saturday
- 27:55Speaker 3: and that Penn State offense has to adjust and slide
- 27:57Speaker 3: a second guy over to help on him. Now you're
- 28:01Speaker 3: really opening it up. Now we'll get to see what
- 28:04Speaker 3: Ty French can bring er a t J Jackson or
- 28:06Speaker 3: a Trey Lathan or a Josiah Trotter, one of those
- 28:09Speaker 3: second dairy guys that can get some pressure, because isn't
- 28:12Speaker 3: that a massive key and Drew Holler make him get
- 28:15Speaker 3: off his spot and move Westrays didn't do that enough
- 28:18Speaker 3: last year. So to me, it's not only about getting
- 28:21Speaker 3: to the quarterback and applying pressure when they pass, but
- 28:23Speaker 3: it's also Sean Martin specifically, I think because he's got
- 28:26Speaker 3: the most upside on that team, he's got the physical capabilities,
- 28:29Speaker 3: he's your NFL guy. He's got to go it ties
- 28:33Speaker 3: In and we've talked about this before, so I won't
- 28:35Speaker 3: go too deep. New offensive coordinator Andy Kotelniky, what's that
- 28:39Speaker 3: offense look like? Do they try do they react to
- 28:43Speaker 3: the criticism from all of last year? About not being
- 28:45Speaker 3: creative and not being explosive enough and try and do
- 28:48Speaker 3: some things to show, hey, we are Does that give
- 28:51Speaker 3: them out of their comfort zone? How up to speed
- 28:54Speaker 3: is his Penn State offense on new terminology and a
- 28:56Speaker 3: new offense the explosive play part of it. If you
- 28:59Speaker 3: look at last year in this Penn State offense, his
- 29:02Speaker 3: average depth of target the average throw, right, what's the
- 29:07Speaker 3: average depth of where the target is? Because you were
- 29:08Speaker 3: gonna ask, well, you're gonna ask what the definition? One?
- 29:11Speaker 2: Why'd you Bobby bowed me on that? You said the
- 29:13Speaker 2: average depth throw? It's the average depth of the distance
- 29:16Speaker 2: of the throw. Now, that is how far he throws
- 29:18Speaker 2: it on average. Now that's not as longest one. That's
- 29:23Speaker 2: the average throw.
- 29:23Speaker 3: For the first time in our five hundred and however
- 29:26Speaker 3: many episodes, he got a definition and now he gets loud. Right,
- 29:30Speaker 3: see he pulls that. He actually got one right, and.
- 29:33Speaker 1: He knew usual.
- 29:34Speaker 2: I'm not saying it's the shortest of the longest. I'm
- 29:36Speaker 2: saying it's the average of the throw.
- 29:39Speaker 3: The average depth of target for drew Hour last year
- 29:42Speaker 3: was eight yards, Okay, is that the average eight yards? Now,
- 29:45Speaker 3: that would be the average depth of where the target is,
- 29:47Speaker 3: where the receiver is the target, then that would be
- 29:50Speaker 3: the target's the receiver.
- 29:51Speaker 1: I mean the Penn State fans grumbled on the checkdowns, grumbled.
- 29:56Speaker 3: Now here's what you want to watch total Key's offense.
- 30:00Speaker 3: Last year at Kansas they were third in power five
- 30:05Speaker 3: and average depth of target at twelve point three yards.
- 30:08Speaker 3: So what changes? What change now? He certainly Alur certainly
- 30:13Speaker 3: has a capability of all downfield? Right, So how much changes?
- 30:16Speaker 3: What changes? What does that Penn State offense look like?
- 30:20Speaker 3: And how comfortable are they in it? So again, much
- 30:23Speaker 3: like it's the crowd's job to help the team along,
- 30:25Speaker 3: team's job, it's west Forrey's defense job to keep them
- 30:28Speaker 3: uncomfortable and not quite sure what they're doing?
- 30:31Speaker 1: Right?
- 30:31Speaker 3: What about?
- 30:31Speaker 1: What about this? As much grief, and the grief was
- 30:34Speaker 1: oriented around the Ohio State and Michigan losses where they
- 30:37Speaker 1: didn't make big plays. But if you have a great defense,
- 30:41Speaker 1: which their defense was elite last year, thirteen gave up
- 30:44Speaker 1: thirteen points a game. It's like okay, and Alar had
- 30:47Speaker 1: two interceptions, Like okay, don't make mistakes, no doubt, don't
- 30:51Speaker 1: make mistakes, no doubt. So that seemed like it was.
- 30:55Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's why I think that I can't wait
- 30:58Speaker 3: to see what happens here. Do you just try and
- 31:00Speaker 3: beat West Virginia as straight up as you can and
- 31:02Speaker 3: take a quarterback that's obviously very good at avoiding mistakes
- 31:05Speaker 3: and try and play it as vanilla as you can
- 31:08Speaker 3: and just get the win. Or do you react to
- 31:11Speaker 3: the criticism that you've been getting and say, no, no,
- 31:13Speaker 3: that's what we're gonna look to do something. We're gonna
- 31:15Speaker 3: do some different things. Do you try an RPO with
- 31:18Speaker 3: Drew Hour that he's not comfortable doing and the ball
- 31:20Speaker 3: pops up in the air because you run into the
- 31:22Speaker 3: running back and your timings off a little bit. Things
- 31:25Speaker 3: like that. So I'm really anxious to watch this ben
- 31:27Speaker 3: State offense.
- 31:29Speaker 2: Possessions over under eight and a half, that's a good one.
- 31:36Speaker 3: That Florida State Georgia Tech game was seven each. Correct.
- 31:39Speaker 3: If you look at what's happened so far, very small
- 31:42Speaker 3: sample size, you wonder if the in helmet communication is
- 31:46Speaker 3: actually slowing the pace of games because coaches want every
- 31:50Speaker 3: second they can have to talk into the ear of
- 31:53Speaker 3: the quarterback. So some of this tempo that you see
- 31:57Speaker 3: may not be as fast as it's been in past. Now,
- 31:59Speaker 3: generally Andy Kuttle Nicky's offense isn't one of the fastest
- 32:02Speaker 3: in the country. West Virginia will will step on the
- 32:04Speaker 3: gas and pull back off of it. But that's probably
- 32:06Speaker 3: a pretty good number I might go under to start
- 32:10Speaker 3: because each so think, if you're inticliding, you're gonna want
- 32:13Speaker 3: to talk to Drew Howler as long as you possibly
- 32:15Speaker 3: can in a new offense. What does Neil do with Garrett?
- 32:19Speaker 3: Does he turn him loose and let him go a
- 32:21Speaker 3: little bit more? Because West Virginia's tempo may be an
- 32:23Speaker 3: advantage if you can get it rolling.
- 32:26Speaker 2: I don't think Penn State wants to have him a
- 32:29Speaker 2: lot of possessions in this game.
- 32:30Speaker 3: I wouldn't think they don't.
- 32:31Speaker 2: They don't want West Virginia. It'll be limited possessions. Yeah,
- 32:36Speaker 2: so everyone will be super important. Yeah, okay, that's what
- 32:40Speaker 2: I got. I got one hundred more. But those are
- 32:41Speaker 2: the two you're leaning one way or the other.
- 32:47Speaker 3: I'm all over the place I am the longer the
- 32:52Speaker 3: more I'm I'm a winding road here. I can absolutely
- 32:55Speaker 3: sit here and easily build your case for West Virginia.
- 32:57Speaker 3: Walking out of that stadium a winner. I don't think
- 32:59Speaker 3: this is something where you just looking to cover the spread.
- 33:02Speaker 3: My gut tells me this is gonna be a game.
- 33:07Speaker 3: One last number I'll give you. Couldn't help yourself, Okay,
- 33:10Speaker 3: I can't help myself because it ties into this. Because
- 33:12Speaker 3: we can easily build our case for West Virginia here.
- 33:15Speaker 3: I think that's reasonable to say that West Virginia could
- 33:18Speaker 3: walk out that stadium with win. But you're facing a
- 33:21Speaker 3: really talented, terrific Penn State team in Penn State program.
- 33:26Speaker 3: James Franklin, this is not my number. This is from
- 33:28Speaker 3: Ralph Michael's wager talk. This is absolutely This is from
- 33:32Speaker 3: Ralph Michael's wager talk. I heard it when Chris Filika
- 33:35Speaker 3: from Fox Will be Here Tomorrow brought this up. This
- 33:38Speaker 3: is this is a startling number, and I'm not ending
- 33:41Speaker 3: out a high note. If you're West Virginia, hang on
- 33:44Speaker 3: a second, right, go ahead. And this plays into last
- 33:49Speaker 3: year's game when James Franklin there was six seconds left,
- 33:52Speaker 3: thought they needed that one last touchdown. That may have
- 33:55Speaker 3: affected some people's enjoyment of that game a little bit more.
- 33:59Speaker 3: Change the spread, change the over under two. Since two
- 34:02Speaker 3: thousand James Franklin is the head coach when favored by
- 34:06Speaker 3: seven to twenty four points, that window seven to twenty four,
- 34:11Speaker 3: which we're sitting in that window now as we record
- 34:13Speaker 3: seven to twenty four points. Franklin's teams are sixteen oh
- 34:18Speaker 3: and one against the spread. Cool, you talk about a
- 34:22Speaker 3: whow now again, you can say, what's that have to
- 34:26Speaker 3: do with this year's team? Has absolutely nothing to do, right,
- 34:29Speaker 3: But that that tells you a couple of things. Part
- 34:31Speaker 3: leads into the mindset of why he wanted to cover
- 34:33Speaker 3: that game last year. You can you will not convince
- 34:35Speaker 3: me that he didn't know the score of the game,
- 34:37Speaker 3: doesn't know the spread, that that matters. That number's been
- 34:40Speaker 3: out there all week. But that's if you're West Virginia,
- 34:43Speaker 3: that's where you that's where you got to. You gotta
- 34:45Speaker 3: take note.
- 34:46Speaker 1: Let me I'll give you two excuse me up. Well,
- 34:49Speaker 1: one comes from Christian Miller.
- 34:51Speaker 2: Well, let people know who Christian is. I mean, you
- 34:53Speaker 2: just can't say Christian.
- 34:55Speaker 1: Christian Miller is the manager of our stations in Morgantown,
- 35:00Speaker 1: big Mountaineer fan, and he said Neil Brown is oh
- 35:04Speaker 1: to nine in season openers against FBS opponents. He's beaten
- 35:08Speaker 1: a couple of FCS schools and openers, but has then
- 35:11Speaker 1: followed up with losses to the first FBS opponent of
- 35:13Speaker 1: the year. So this goes back to Troy, so oh
- 35:15Speaker 1: and nine against FBS opponents and season openers or when
- 35:19Speaker 1: they've played their first FBS teams. So at West Virginia,
- 35:23Speaker 1: that's losses to Missouri, Oak State, Maryland, pitt and Penn State.
- 35:27Speaker 1: Now on the other side, Penn State has under James Franklin,
- 35:32Speaker 1: has had a couple of season opening losses. Twenty fifteen,
- 35:36Speaker 1: Temple the Raging Owls beat them twenty seven to ten
- 35:41Speaker 1: in twenty fifteen. In twenty twenty, Brad Indiana beat Penn
- 35:45Speaker 1: State and a season opener thirty six, thirty five and overtime.
- 35:49Speaker 1: What does that mean? Like Brad likes to say, I
- 35:50Speaker 1: don't know nothing, just to stat to keep in mind. Yeah,
- 35:55Speaker 1: Neil has had some victories too. Well, he was at
- 35:57Speaker 1: Troy during the time. Oh yeah, I mean he down there,
- 36:00Speaker 1: I got a little he made his name and beating
- 36:03Speaker 1: teams that he wasn't supposed to beat. Yeah, I don't know.
- 36:08Speaker 1: Let's play see what happens.
- 36:09Speaker 3: Play the game.
- 36:10Speaker 2: So Christian is the same. This is the same Christian Miller.
- 36:12Speaker 2: He if there was a fourth guy on four Guys
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- 36:20Speaker 1: I have to get to the game and make a difference,
- 36:23Speaker 1: which is good. I mean he's a superfan. Yeah, he
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- 37:50Speaker 2: Digital phone services are what Comax does as well, from
- 37:53Speaker 2: one line to one thousand lines, all ready to go digital.
- 37:58Speaker 2: And the the ability and the services now that business
- 38:05Speaker 2: phone systems can provide are absolutely like whoa, it's gone
- 38:09Speaker 2: a long way. We've gone a long way since. Excuse me.
- 38:11Speaker 2: I'm gonna put you on hold and then go get
- 38:14Speaker 2: a pink slip. Brad's not in the office right now,
- 38:16Speaker 2: but I'll leave this for him when he gets back in.
- 38:18Speaker 1: I have an ok Dota printer.
- 38:20Speaker 2: You can, you can, You can get communication at a
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- 38:28Speaker 2: As far as those phone systems go, rent it, buy it,
- 38:32Speaker 2: lease it, whatever you want to do, they can work
- 38:34Speaker 2: with you. Competitively priced COMAXWV dot com. We've had a
- 38:39Speaker 2: lot of fun over the last couple of nights, really
- 38:43Speaker 2: have it's been. It's been a been a challenge because
- 38:46Speaker 2: we've been bouncing all over different places, but we have
- 38:50Speaker 2: opened up food court on a university avenue next to
- 38:54Speaker 2: Daniel's Men's Storm, and we've had a heck of a
- 38:59Speaker 2: time meeting, greeting, chatting with three guys fans, three guys
- 39:06Speaker 2: before the game. Textual Healing is brought to us by
- 39:09Speaker 2: episode eight hundred dot com. You can get our merch shirts,
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- 39:22Speaker 2: episode eight hundred dot com. All right, so let's jump in.
- 39:26Speaker 2: We start off with this picture. Receive this one. Good morning,
- 39:31Speaker 2: great morning. There it is. You are looking at the
- 39:40Speaker 2: barbecue trailer and the food court at night while it's slept.
- 39:47Speaker 2: If we were going to tape this in the dark
- 39:48Speaker 2: house that you are looking live at the so anyway,
- 39:51Speaker 2: so yeah, there it is. Congratulations to Parkersburg Brewing Company,
- 39:55Speaker 2: says Kathy and Washington, West Virginia. Favorite spot for me
- 39:58Speaker 2: and my husband and three guys bringing a new beer
- 40:00Speaker 2: to the market. I'll finally have access to a three guys. Beer.
- 40:04Speaker 2: Also hats off Travis Jones. Remember he delivered the beer
- 40:06Speaker 2: to us on our last episode. Yeah, my three kids
- 40:09Speaker 2: are all Parkersburg Catholic alums, and my high school chemistry
- 40:13Speaker 2: teacher is in Hoppy's home place, Jefferson Cottage. Their daughter
- 40:17Speaker 2: now teaches there Jefferson County. As a connection, Hoppy got
- 40:21Speaker 2: kicked out of chemistry at Jefferson. He put a couple
- 40:25Speaker 2: of beakers together that weren't supposed to go together. All
- 40:28Speaker 2: of a sudden there was a strong, strong smell and
- 40:33Speaker 2: they had asked copy to leave. Yeah, and Jeremy from Cooperstown,
- 40:37Speaker 2: New York. It's that time of the year again. Boys.
- 40:40Speaker 2: I'm sitting in the Detroit airport waiting on my connection
- 40:43Speaker 2: to Pittsburgh. I'm picking up my brother in South Point
- 40:46Speaker 2: this evening, who flew in from Houston, and we're driving
- 40:49Speaker 2: to Clarksburg to meet our sister who flew in from
- 40:51Speaker 2: Arizona to have dinner with our dad, aunt and cousin. Tomorrow,
- 40:56Speaker 2: my brother and I are going to play Pikewood Nationals
- 40:59Speaker 2: Hey with more cousins. One flew in from Clearwater, another
- 41:02Speaker 2: drive from Charleston. We will all be in the Blue
- 41:05Speaker 2: lop by nine am Saturday, Winner to lose. I love
- 41:07Speaker 2: how the Mountaineers brings us home in the fall. Let's
- 41:10Speaker 2: go oh and I do like us to win this
- 41:12Speaker 2: thing twenty seven to twenty outright, good guys. Garrett goes
- 41:15Speaker 2: off to announce his presence with authority.
- 41:18Speaker 3: That's pretty wild. So coming from Detroit, Houston, Arizona got
- 41:22Speaker 3: all of a big twelve country covered there. Detroit in
- 41:25Speaker 3: the Big twelve, Michigan in the Big twelve.
- 41:27Speaker 1: Yeah, when he's not the only one central Michigan.
- 41:29Speaker 2: Wait a second, he failed to put in his no
- 41:31Speaker 2: relatives and spoke can we need a spoke? Can relative?
- 41:34Speaker 2: And they to hit the league Lado Gonzaga gets in one.
- 41:38Speaker 2: Charlie from mid Lothian Rights and Hoppy referenced Matt Moehler's
- 41:41Speaker 2: football career Tuesday. Did Matt start at Lee High and
- 41:45Speaker 2: end at Lafayette or did Hoppy misspeak?
- 41:48Speaker 1: Oh you did say both of this, did I?
- 41:51Speaker 3: Yeah? You remember which one? It was? Lehigh or Lafayette?
- 41:55Speaker 1: Lee High?
- 41:57Speaker 2: The engineers, Yeah, Lee High they were. Then now they
- 41:59Speaker 2: had a change because they offended the right. They changed,
- 42:02Speaker 2: didn't they? Then someone changed? They were the engineer offended.
- 42:05Speaker 2: The engineers looked that up. Lee has not the engineers anymore, Lee,
- 42:08Speaker 2: it was it was Lee High. I'm sorry, sorry, Matt, Jeez,
- 42:12Speaker 2: my bed, my bag. This guy wanted to know what
- 42:15Speaker 2: Charlie also wanted to know if you were up at
- 42:17Speaker 2: Michael's to buy thread to monogram your Hankees. Apparently not,
- 42:22Speaker 2: Texter efforting fellas great Beard cheers to a great weekend
- 42:26Speaker 2: in a West Virginia win against the invaders. Kyle, Kyle,
- 42:29Speaker 2: and Morgan. Have you ever met him?
- 42:31Speaker 3: Yeah, we know Kyle.
- 42:31Speaker 2: Well, Kyle's a good dude. There he is. He got
- 42:34Speaker 2: a snoot full gat dude.
- 42:36Speaker 3: Three guys cup too.
- 42:37Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, they're out there. Eric and Cheat Lake rights delicious.
- 42:45Speaker 2: Can can't take that.
- 42:47Speaker 3: Is a sweet can right? Look at that's a nice
- 42:49Speaker 3: good job on the picture right.
- 42:50Speaker 2: There, Davy writes in brought in the I brought the
- 42:54Speaker 2: entire town of Jumping Branch with me. It was great
- 42:57Speaker 2: to see old Hoppy being such a social butterfly. The
- 43:00Speaker 2: connection three to oh four beer is fan fantastic and
- 43:04Speaker 2: very drinkable. Now let's go be Penn State. Yeah there
- 43:06Speaker 2: that was late at the night and there he is
- 43:08Speaker 2: with Hopey earlier in the evening. Yeah, looking good.
- 43:11Speaker 1: I had a great time. And everybody there.
- 43:14Speaker 2: There's Steve and Davey, their brothers. They're celebrating their six
- 43:19Speaker 2: pack that they were able to commandeer.
- 43:21Speaker 1: And they have his brother's married to a young lady
- 43:25Speaker 1: from Jumping Branch. Yes, correct, I met her parents. Yeah,
- 43:28Speaker 1: the Jumping Branch. Jumping Branch was well represented.
- 43:31Speaker 2: I banged them too. I overwhelmed them with information. Like
- 43:34Speaker 2: they call like Jumping Branch. I said, Summers County used
- 43:39Speaker 2: to be hitting Lady Bobcats won about two thousand games
- 43:42Speaker 2: in a row. Blew them away.
- 43:44Speaker 1: They used to be the engineers at Lehigh, but there
- 43:47Speaker 1: was a student based movement to come up with a
- 43:49Speaker 1: quote unquote suitable mascot.
- 43:51Speaker 2: Thank you.
- 43:52Speaker 1: Now they're the Mountain Hawks.
- 43:53Speaker 2: That works well. I mean what engineers not? Nah, you
- 43:57Speaker 2: don't want to offend them. Episode three Guys, Good Luck
- 44:01Speaker 2: with a Beer. I was in West Virginia for my
- 44:02Speaker 2: high school reunion. I stopped off to see fine looking
- 44:05Speaker 2: Phil and picked up a few of the Peter Malar shirts.
- 44:08Speaker 2: As I flew back to Texas, I wore one of
- 44:09Speaker 2: them halfway between Austin and my hometown in Horseshoe Bay.
- 44:13Speaker 2: I decided I needed a snack, so I pulled into
- 44:16Speaker 2: a local eatery in Bee Cave, Texas. Yes, it has
- 44:19Speaker 2: bees that live in caves. And I'm walking out, I hear, Hey,
- 44:23Speaker 2: you don't see many flying wv's in these parts. Turns
- 44:27Speaker 2: out the guy was from Maryland, graduated from West Virginia
- 44:30Speaker 2: a few years before me. Always is a West Virginia connection.
- 44:33Speaker 1: Final looking Phil was there last night. He stopped buying.
- 44:37Speaker 2: Yeah, and he beat everyone in a dress off, didn't
- 44:41Speaker 2: he Yeah? He was best dress dress, best dressed guy
- 44:43Speaker 2: out there, because before he goes home, he's still dressed
- 44:46Speaker 2: for work, dressed for success. Again, if you're gonna head
- 44:50Speaker 2: over to the food court, strongly encourage you to walk
- 44:53Speaker 2: in it. Don't try to park. It's just it ain't
- 44:57Speaker 2: worth it. Texas says. I'll be back this weekend, hopefully
- 45:02Speaker 2: watch another win over Penn State. We don't have many,
- 45:04Speaker 2: but I was there in eighty four and again in
- 45:05Speaker 2: eighty eight. Great year to be a WVU student.
- 45:08Speaker 3: Hey, real quick, Austin, can you put up that picture
- 45:11Speaker 3: I sent you this morning? Speaking of eighty four? If
- 45:14Speaker 3: you want a little omen shout out to Sam Bossio
- 45:18Speaker 3: here in Morgantown.
- 45:19Speaker 2: He saved.
- 45:20Speaker 3: Sam gets a lot of criticism for maybe holding onto
- 45:23Speaker 3: items too long. Wow, look what he pulled out here
- 45:27Speaker 3: a cup from eighty four. It's got the Dominion Post
- 45:32Speaker 3: headlines and article on the cup from when West Virginia
- 45:35Speaker 3: won that game back in eighty four. Just discovered it
- 45:38Speaker 3: here in the last twenty four to forty eight hours. Yeah,
- 45:41Speaker 3: and it reappeared unearthed it right there?
- 45:44Speaker 1: Wasn't was it in like the cabinet And Pam was saying,
- 45:47Speaker 1: why is that still in the cabinet?
- 45:49Speaker 3: Well, I don't necessarily know that, but it's credit to
- 45:52Speaker 3: Sam who tells you a lot of crez, it's a
- 45:54Speaker 3: lot of grief, brings it out. Might be a potential
- 45:57Speaker 3: moment omen as you head into the weekend.
- 45:59Speaker 1: Yeah, anything, just latch onto anything you can.
- 46:03Speaker 3: It's kind of wild, it is.
- 46:05Speaker 2: Ben and Roanoke writes in I'm looking forward to Saturday.
- 46:08Speaker 2: What will be an incredible atmosphere. I get the privilege
- 46:11Speaker 2: of taking my buddy from Norway to his first ever
- 46:15Speaker 2: American sporting event. We debate all the time on which
- 46:18Speaker 2: football is superior, and I'm efforting to win him over.
- 46:21Speaker 2: I believe he will fall in love with Mountaineer Nation,
- 46:23Speaker 2: which will be awesome because we both live in Hokey Country.
- 46:26Speaker 2: I believe that we will get to sing country roads
- 46:28Speaker 2: and that a member of the Mountaineer family. Let's go
- 46:30Speaker 2: mountain in the ear So bring someone in from Norway
- 46:33Speaker 2: for the game.
- 46:35Speaker 1: Have fun.
- 46:36Speaker 2: Hey, three guys, it's Ali and Clarksburg. Always love listening
- 46:39Speaker 2: when I'm on the road, whenever I have time. You
- 46:41Speaker 2: guys know I'm a big basketball guy, but Mountaineer football
- 46:44Speaker 2: is my first love. I've watched great Mountaineer teams over
- 46:47Speaker 2: the years, but I believe this team can do it.
- 46:48Speaker 2: Great things are in their spot in the Big twelve.
- 46:50Speaker 2: All aboard the Garrett Green Heisman campaign.
- 46:53Speaker 3: Thank you Alli.
- 46:56Speaker 2: Our next Texter Randy from State College. We're coming in
- 47:01Speaker 2: on Friday just so I can gorge myself on REVCVS
- 47:04Speaker 2: barbecue again. His food is amazing. I was also excited
- 47:07Speaker 2: for the new beer until Brad talked about it on
- 47:11Speaker 2: the last episode. He spent most of his time talking
- 47:14Speaker 2: about the can design and not the beer. Feels like
- 47:17Speaker 2: I'm being set up for a blind date and everyone
- 47:19Speaker 2: is talking about her personality. Either way, I'm all in.
- 47:22Speaker 1: I tell you everybody, I talked to everybody.
- 47:25Speaker 3: Hold on, now, Randy checked out with us, then check
- 47:28Speaker 3: back with us. What do you mean, oh, Randy out
- 47:30Speaker 3: there taking a shot saying we didn't talk about the
- 47:32Speaker 3: actra go have the beer and then get back to us.
- 47:34Speaker 1: See if he likes it. I asked everybody last night,
- 47:37Speaker 1: and maybe because you know, what are they going to say,
- 47:39Speaker 1: like it sucks? I mean no, but everybody said they
- 47:44Speaker 1: really liked it and enjoyed it and gave their own
- 47:48Speaker 1: description of the beer. And Jim was there from Parkersburg
- 47:50Speaker 1: Brewing and it was just good.
- 47:52Speaker 3: I mean since I got Wednesday when I was in there.
- 47:54Speaker 3: Now again, those those holes we did live, they're certainly
- 47:58Speaker 3: not scientific.
- 47:59Speaker 2: What are they anecdotal?
- 48:01Speaker 1: I had one in a third, Piers didn't drive, made
- 48:07Speaker 1: Chuck drive tasty. I think it's fantastic.
- 48:10Speaker 2: I lost the dude good. He's fantastic. You're a big fan,
- 48:13Speaker 2: huge fan. Yeah, we're happy with that. Hoppy, he's happy, Texter.
- 48:18Speaker 2: I don't recall anyone confirming your number of episodes completed,
- 48:21Speaker 2: but I do recall Hoppy poking fun at it again
- 48:23Speaker 2: on the last episode. According to Apple Podcast, there it is.
- 48:27Speaker 2: Your channel has five hundred and seventy two episodes as
- 48:31Speaker 2: of twenty eight August. Yeah, but there's a couple in
- 48:37Speaker 2: there that really don't constitute episodes, Like I think the
- 48:41Speaker 2: Mike Gansey special that we did that wasn't an interview
- 48:44Speaker 2: with Mike, but was that kind of an audio documentary.
- 48:48Speaker 1: I think that got pick a number. Let's just pick
- 48:51Speaker 1: a number, and that's then the number. He says.
- 48:54Speaker 2: I'm also efforting to get your you get a koozy.
- 48:57Speaker 2: These guys want that koozy.
- 48:59Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go.
- 49:01Speaker 2: Hello three guys. John from Alabama, Hey, Tony, no pressure here,
- 49:05Speaker 2: as you're the best at setting the scene. But I
- 49:07Speaker 2: think WV nation might have to set a game day
- 49:10Speaker 2: tradition tradition of drinking an ice cold connection three h
- 49:13Speaker 2: four while listening to your scene setter, what do you say?
- 49:16Speaker 2: Side note? Given the opposing fans this Saturday, Sweet Caroline
- 49:20Speaker 2: could be the loudest ever. Can't wait love the show.
- 49:22Speaker 2: Let's go Mountaineers. Andy and Burlington. Doesn't say if that's
- 49:27Speaker 2: Virginia or West Virginia, because there is a Burlington, West Virginia,
- 49:32Speaker 2: Lington Vermont.
- 49:32Speaker 1: I say for Burlington, North Carolina Northeast Burlington could be
- 49:36Speaker 1: the Burlington codefact Burlington, Dakota hey Fellers, New Mexico.
- 49:41Speaker 2: I know I'm late getting this up, but hopefully not
- 49:43Speaker 2: too late. Going back a couple of episodes, Tony's talking
- 49:46Speaker 2: about Romney peaches. Dang diddles, are they good? Impossible to
- 49:50Speaker 2: eat one without a paper towel or a handkerchief. Anyway,
- 49:53Speaker 2: Tony had gotten a pack. Everyone was wondering what a
- 49:55Speaker 2: peck is. A pack is a quarter bushel twelve to
- 49:58Speaker 2: fourteen pounds. A bushels around fourt eight to fifty two pounds.
- 50:01Speaker 2: There's there's some educational content for the show. I absolutely
- 50:04Speaker 2: love you guys. Makes my day when I see a
- 50:06Speaker 2: new episode pop up. Andy from Berlin. Burlington's in Mineral County. Yeah,
- 50:11Speaker 2: I know that.
- 50:12Speaker 3: I've been there.
- 50:13Speaker 2: Oh you have, yes, When were you there? There is
- 50:16Speaker 2: a the Burlington.
- 50:19Speaker 1: Old Fashioned Apple Festival.
- 50:20Speaker 2: Nope, there's a there's a kids home there. Oh, let
- 50:24Speaker 2: me check. There's a kids home there. And we did
- 50:26Speaker 2: a video there.
- 50:28Speaker 3: Received word yesterday we got a delivery of peaches. What arrived?
- 50:33Speaker 2: We had a situation there, so I went to go
- 50:35Speaker 2: get them because they were deposited over at Daniels.
- 50:38Speaker 1: Here we go peaches.
- 50:39Speaker 3: Listener dropped off, Oh wow, nice.
- 50:42Speaker 2: And then by the time I got back over to
- 50:44Speaker 2: the food court where they were put was locked up
- 50:49Speaker 2: so I couldn't get them.
- 50:50Speaker 1: So I thought you were going to say you ate
- 50:52Speaker 1: them all. So that's that's an acceptable excuse on your part.
- 50:54Speaker 3: We'll work on that. They're there. Thank you for they're there.
- 50:57Speaker 2: Whomever, do you know what?
- 50:58Speaker 1: Do we know who it is?
- 50:58Speaker 3: I don't know. There's a note inside with the peaches
- 51:00Speaker 3: that we were gonna read on the show.
- 51:03Speaker 2: Kudos to the team for an amazing marketing and products.
- 51:05Speaker 2: My son in law and I intend to partake in
- 51:08Speaker 2: the Baylor game. If Tony's around, I'm gonna give him
- 51:10Speaker 2: some of the good, pungent Italian provolone, which I doubt
- 51:14Speaker 2: he gets in Morgantown. Great shows always are ready for grace.
- 51:16Speaker 2: It's rich in Satellite Beach, Florida. There's nothing better than
- 51:20Speaker 2: super strong provolone. Sitting at an airport, Frankie writes in
- 51:25Speaker 2: in Charlotte heading home for Penn State West Virginia. Guys
- 51:29Speaker 2: sitting next to me apologizes for talking so loud on
- 51:32Speaker 2: the phone. I said no worries. We both found out
- 51:35Speaker 2: we're heading to Pittsburgh for the game, to a wv's game.
- 51:39Speaker 2: We were disappointed we couldn't snag a three or four
- 51:41Speaker 2: connection or kerchavel at the bar. Come on, guys, let
- 51:43Speaker 2: the effort and be harder. Get our beers nationwide.
- 51:46Speaker 3: Hop get on that efforting, Frankie.
- 51:49Speaker 1: It just I mean the three h four rollout is
- 51:52Speaker 1: I mean it takes a little while.
- 51:54Speaker 2: Yeah, it will be. It'll be out there. It will
- 51:56Speaker 2: be at the Gomart in flat Woods. It is right now,
- 52:01Speaker 2: how long as it lasts.
- 52:02Speaker 1: Yes, you saw it last night, brad Well, I did
- 52:04Speaker 1: not see I did.
- 52:05Speaker 3: I didn't see it last night at one twenty two
- 52:07Speaker 3: am when I was there, but we did get a
- 52:09Speaker 3: text with a picture this morning. They saw it in
- 52:11Speaker 3: the store at Flatwoods. Flatwoods Gummar, which is that's the
- 52:15Speaker 3: World Hidewater.
- 52:15Speaker 2: Yeah, world have a center. So again, it's just coming
- 52:19Speaker 2: out now. They're making more there. There literally is new
- 52:23Speaker 2: batch in development right now. It's fermenting. So get it
- 52:27Speaker 2: while you can, but we'll be back with it. Don't worry.
- 52:30Speaker 2: This is gonna this is not going to be a
- 52:31Speaker 2: short run. We're running this bad boy. You know and
- 52:34Speaker 2: from where in to Wilch Martinsburg to mate wand and
- 52:36Speaker 2: all points in between.
- 52:37Speaker 1: Here's here's one of the great things about connection through four.
- 52:40Speaker 2: Like you.
- 52:41Speaker 1: You have beers or have a drink in celebration, usually
- 52:46Speaker 1: an event, and you're with friends and you know, Brad,
- 52:49Speaker 1: like if you're at our event here at the food
- 52:51Speaker 1: court where you meet people and you make the connection.
- 52:54Speaker 1: Because West Virginia, what, there's always a connection. So I
- 52:56Speaker 1: think it's a conversation starter. You know, it just fits
- 53:00Speaker 1: with everything that we do as West Virginian's great point.
- 53:03Speaker 2: Yeah, you talk to the Jumping Branch people about jumping
- 53:06Speaker 2: branch right that kinds.
- 53:07Speaker 1: They say, you know what, they say, it's jumping manch.
- 53:09Speaker 1: You say, where is it? They say, it's forty five
- 53:11Speaker 1: minutes from It's always like forty five minutes from someplace. Yeah.
- 53:15Speaker 3: Well, that last text from Frankie was to your point,
- 53:17Speaker 3: two guys know each other, sitting by a plane. They're
- 53:19Speaker 3: coming back to West Virginia. They just made it, made
- 53:21Speaker 3: the connection. Always in connection.
- 53:23Speaker 2: Hey, guys. After listening to the last episode, intrigued by
- 53:25Speaker 2: the question about what's more likely a national championship or
- 53:28Speaker 2: a president from West Virginia, Hopey announced his candidacy. However,
- 53:32Speaker 2: with him not being born in West Virginia, would he
- 53:35Speaker 2: still be eligible to run as a true West Virginia
- 53:37Speaker 2: Fair point?
- 53:38Speaker 1: Hey, speaking West Virginia. So I'm at the business summit
- 53:41Speaker 1: and I interviewed the head of the Federal Reserve in
- 53:45Speaker 1: Richmond who was there. Wow, but is PR guy like
- 53:49Speaker 1: set it up? So I'm talking to him and he said, well,
- 53:52Speaker 1: you know in Pittsburgh and I live in Richmond.
- 53:53Speaker 2: I said.
- 53:54Speaker 1: He said, but all of my grandparents are from West Virginia.
- 54:00Speaker 1: I said, of course they are. Why wouldn't they be h. Hey, guys,
- 54:04Speaker 1: this is Greg from Montegeer County. My wife and I
- 54:06Speaker 1: just got back from Revkev's food truck. That was the
- 54:10Speaker 1: best brisket we've ever had. We went back and bought
- 54:12Speaker 1: two more pounds for Saturday to snack on while were
- 54:14Speaker 1: listening to the World champ Mountaineers beat Penn State. Oops,
- 54:18Speaker 1: had to grab my handkerchief to clean up.
- 54:19Speaker 3: A little sauce another handkerchief.
- 54:22Speaker 2: Guy dug in Sutton Rights for what It's Worth, which
- 54:25Speaker 2: unfortunately for you, is zero dollars. Three Guys is currently
- 54:29Speaker 2: the only podcast I would pay money to listen to
- 54:32Speaker 2: signed by Dougie Sutton.
- 54:34Speaker 1: Yeah, home much. David was there last night working hard.
- 54:37Speaker 2: It's unbelievable, unbelievable, truly unbelievable. Yeah, Professor Vinnie writes, I
- 54:42Speaker 2: just realized that you guys rarely, if ever cursed during
- 54:45Speaker 2: the podcast, and I'm talking about the granddaddy of curse words,
- 54:49Speaker 2: the mighty F word. Is this done on purpose? Do
- 54:52Speaker 2: you want to keep it family friendly? Are you not allowed?
- 54:54Speaker 2: Like it's an FCC regulation. I actually have an F
- 54:57Speaker 2: word policy in my classes that I teach. Were in
- 55:00Speaker 2: myself and my students are allowed one per class. The
- 55:03Speaker 2: F words don't transfer either. I mean, you can't wait
- 55:06Speaker 2: till the end of the semester and unlesia toring of
- 55:08Speaker 2: F bombs. Students seem to like the freedom. I don't
- 55:11Speaker 2: mind peppering into there on occasion. It does grab the
- 55:13Speaker 2: student's attention, but if I don't want to overuse it,
- 55:16Speaker 2: you guys should have a similar policy, Tony. I.
- 55:19Speaker 1: I've been known off air sometimes to talk like a
- 55:22Speaker 1: say or I've tried to tone that down frankly, but
- 55:25Speaker 1: when when we're I mean, I think we all considered
- 55:27Speaker 1: those broadcasters, and we just weren't. We weren't brought up
- 55:31Speaker 1: that way, you know, And I've never been. When I
- 55:33Speaker 1: do my show or this podcast, I rarely, rarely inject
- 55:38Speaker 1: a curse word. I just don't think it's necessary going it. Why,
- 55:43Speaker 1: I mean, I don't I have never sworn so well,
- 55:52Speaker 1: I just I don't feel comfortable doing it. What were
- 55:57Speaker 1: we taught about microphones?
- 55:58Speaker 2: Yeah, it's always on, and I just don't feel comfortable
- 56:01Speaker 2: doing it, just based on what I do. I just
- 56:04Speaker 2: can't do that.
- 56:05Speaker 1: And my favorite curse is Jeff Jenkins's. And by that
- 56:10Speaker 1: I mean, and I'm going to define this because Jeff
- 56:13Speaker 1: Jenkins is a wonderful man, devout Christian, and when I
- 56:16Speaker 1: get really frustrated, I give him Jeff Jenkins my goodness,
- 56:20Speaker 1: which I feel so good when I say it, you know,
- 56:23Speaker 1: I feel like I haven't cursed, but I still have
- 56:26Speaker 1: expressed some level of frustration.
- 56:28Speaker 2: Yeah, my goodness. Yeah, we just don't. We don't on here,
- 56:35Speaker 2: three guys. While I'm still waiting on a proper review
- 56:37Speaker 2: of how Game Day Grind went over in Chapel Hill,
- 56:39Speaker 2: its sounds as of the trip went well. Another note
- 56:42Speaker 2: I'm curious about a tradition from the past. I was
- 56:44Speaker 2: talking with one of my young co workers. We mentioned
- 56:46Speaker 2: they had just watched the eighty eight Penn Stay game
- 56:48Speaker 2: for the first time in its entirety. He brought up
- 56:50Speaker 2: the balloon release that happened in the pregame. Surely one
- 56:54Speaker 2: of you, gentlemen, know when or why this tradition.
- 56:58Speaker 1: Ended, Brad, statute of limitations has passed.
- 57:03Speaker 2: Next, I can talk about that, okay, because I mean
- 57:06Speaker 2: Joan was working in the athletic phone back then, so yeah,
- 57:09Speaker 2: that not when it ended. Yeah, that balloon, that balloon
- 57:13Speaker 2: launch was fantastic. It was absolutely fantastic. For those that
- 57:19Speaker 2: don't know. You would buy balloons on your way in
- 57:23Speaker 2: helium filled make a small donation where the money go
- 57:26Speaker 2: bread cancer hospital.
- 57:28Speaker 3: Can't remember hospital at the hospital, and.
- 57:31Speaker 2: Then everyone would hold a balloon and then at a
- 57:33Speaker 2: specific designated time in pregame like everyone let go and
- 57:38Speaker 2: these balloons. It was the It was a spectacular sight. Now, Brad,
- 57:44Speaker 2: you can correct me, but I understand those the balloons,
- 57:48Speaker 2: the balloons headed, the balloons headed east, and there was
- 57:52Speaker 2: some involvement with animals like ducks or fowl that would
- 57:56Speaker 2: eat the balloons and the rubber and had a bit
- 57:59Speaker 2: of a cityation.
- 58:00Speaker 3: Shit true, maybe around it, maybe right around it.
- 58:04Speaker 2: So who called you? Like the Autumn Society or who?
- 58:07Speaker 2: Who got involved in this?
- 58:09Speaker 3: I don't remember A long time ago.
- 58:12Speaker 2: I forgot that until you mentioned that was an awesome sight.
- 58:15Speaker 1: Got in whales?
- 58:19Speaker 3: Well, any reasons I'm sitting over here now.
- 58:23Speaker 2: Got in the trunk of an elephant. What's that coming
- 58:31Speaker 2: out of the elephant's trunk? Just a balloon from the
- 58:33Speaker 2: Mountaineer game.
- 58:34Speaker 3: Anyway, a walkie talkie action to see where the helium
- 58:37Speaker 3: wasn't if the helium need the helium over you may
- 58:42Speaker 3: got the helium tanks need to got to.
- 58:46Speaker 2: Greg and Stewart Virginia since football's here? What football movies
- 58:50Speaker 2: are your guy's favorites? If any a Rudy I mean
- 58:56Speaker 2: Rudy's all time classic, He's all time.
- 58:59Speaker 3: Classes, all the right moves, I think, is mine? Yeah?
- 59:03Speaker 3: Westvirginia reference in that one?
- 59:06Speaker 1: Yeah? What the probably the movie? Maybe the Ernie Davis movie?
- 59:12Speaker 2: Really you like that?
- 59:13Speaker 1: Yeah? I like that. I know that. I know West
- 59:15Speaker 1: Virginia was not disrespected. Was it inaccurately depicted? Correct? But uh,
- 59:21Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm not sure. There have been great
- 59:22Speaker 1: football movies, haven't they.
- 59:24Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I remember the Titans was good.
- 59:27Speaker 2: Remember the Titans was fantastic. I'd put that right up
- 59:29Speaker 2: there too.
- 59:29Speaker 3: You didn't like all the right moves it full Tom Cruise.
- 59:32Speaker 1: I don't think I saw it.
- 59:33Speaker 3: Oh, you haven't seen all the right moves as many
- 59:36Speaker 3: movies as you've watched.
- 59:37Speaker 1: I don't think so. Stunned. They are better baseball movies
- 59:40Speaker 1: than there are football movies.
- 59:41Speaker 3: Sure, yeah, all the right moves on your next face.
- 59:46Speaker 2: Okay, okay, from jump, okay, from jumping branch, big and
- 59:49Speaker 2: jumping branch. I want to thank you for your forty
- 59:51Speaker 2: years of effort at West Virginia. My dad used to
- 59:53Speaker 2: wonder what was going through your mind when you were
- 59:55Speaker 2: getting ready to take over for the legend Jack Fleming.
- 59:57Speaker 2: Well you did it well. Thank you for all the
- 59:59Speaker 2: sights and sounds of West Virginia sports. I still today
- 1:00:01Speaker 2: turned the TV play by played down and listen to you, also, Hoppy,
- 1:00:05Speaker 2: thank you for fifty years of efforting. I once tried
- 1:00:08Speaker 2: to earn life Experience college credits because I told the
- 1:00:11Speaker 2: board I listened to you every day. I lost that
- 1:00:14Speaker 2: vote six votes to four. Good Brad, You're awesome too.
- 1:00:17Speaker 2: Thanks to three guys for my life, keeping my life exciting.
- 1:00:21Speaker 2: Thank you very much appreciate that three guys. Despite the
- 1:00:25Speaker 2: outcome on Saturday, it's refreshing to see all the excitement
- 1:00:28Speaker 2: this preseason. I truly think Neil has the program moving
- 1:00:31Speaker 2: in the right direction as players give back to the community,
- 1:00:34Speaker 2: some without even playing a snap for a Shatyarnet Hollis fundraiser.
- 1:00:38Speaker 2: We have so many West Virginia high school players on
- 1:00:40Speaker 2: the roster making an impact. Neil insures all those guys
- 1:00:43Speaker 2: understand what it means to play with the logo on
- 1:00:44Speaker 2: their helmet. I think that gives West Virginia edge Historically,
- 1:00:48Speaker 2: having players from a state gives the players, other players
- 1:00:51Speaker 2: on the team perspective and how much it means to everyone.
- 1:00:54Speaker 2: My only hope is we continued the upward trajectory and
- 1:00:57Speaker 2: finally silence the fans who have sucked the life out
- 1:01:00Speaker 2: of enjoying the game. Made it out to the food
- 1:01:04Speaker 2: court Wednesday night, grabbed a couple of BBQ boxes, a draft,
- 1:01:07Speaker 2: and a six pack of Connection three oh four.
- 1:01:09Speaker 1: Glad I did.
- 1:01:10Speaker 2: The guys from Parkersburg were starting to sweat on the
- 1:01:12Speaker 2: supply and demand. All due respect to my usual course
- 1:01:17Speaker 2: light I know when I'm talking taking to the tailgate
- 1:01:19Speaker 2: Saturday morning. Phenomenal beer and food. Thank you Dean from
- 1:01:23Speaker 2: Parsons now in Fairmont. And there's the efforting sign.
- 1:01:26Speaker 3: Thank you.
- 1:01:26Speaker 1: Jan saw some efforting shirts last night.
- 1:01:30Speaker 2: Yeah they're out there, Brent from Accident, Marilyn. Are you
- 1:01:34Speaker 2: guys efforting to record a Three Guys episode from the
- 1:01:37Speaker 2: food court this season?
- 1:01:39Speaker 3: I would love to do that. I'm just afraid noise
- 1:01:43Speaker 3: would make it an unenjoyable listening experience, not just the
- 1:01:47Speaker 3: folks on the food court, but University Avenue busy right there.
- 1:01:50Speaker 3: It'd be a blast to do that.
- 1:01:52Speaker 1: It would be it would Yeah.
- 1:01:54Speaker 2: I don't know how we would do it because we
- 1:01:56Speaker 2: opened four o'clock on Friday and right I think this,
- 1:02:03Speaker 2: if we were to ever do it, it would have
- 1:02:06Speaker 2: to be after. I don't think you record it. I
- 1:02:10Speaker 2: think you just do it for the people there, and
- 1:02:12Speaker 2: I think you do it like seven thirty eight o'clock
- 1:02:15Speaker 2: and you just open up mics and you just you
- 1:02:17Speaker 2: riff that.
- 1:02:18Speaker 3: That would be good. Are we doing this life?
- 1:02:21Speaker 1: I thought it was life. It's it, you know.
- 1:02:25Speaker 2: We could do it.
- 1:02:26Speaker 1: We could do it, and I don't. I'm not gonna
- 1:02:28Speaker 1: do it Tony Brad and say we're doing it next Friday.
- 1:02:30Speaker 3: But the.
- 1:02:33Speaker 1: Everybody's kind of busy, and it sort of adds one
- 1:02:35Speaker 1: more thing, and it's.
- 1:02:36Speaker 2: Just like, now, if there may be an honorarium involved,
- 1:02:42Speaker 2: I think we might be able to make it over
- 1:02:44Speaker 2: LUs we're there.
- 1:02:45Speaker 1: I mean we're not all there all the time with
- 1:02:47Speaker 1: different schedules, but we have good one on ones with people.
- 1:02:51Speaker 3: That's true. Good point.
- 1:02:53Speaker 2: Text three Guys Tailgate review from day one. First of all,
- 1:02:58Speaker 2: Dave is not homeless, and he's an incredible guy. He's
- 1:03:02Speaker 2: the secret ingredient that no one can replicate in the
- 1:03:04Speaker 2: family recipe. He makes this tailgate awesome. A little rain
- 1:03:08Speaker 2: didn't prevent the brisket pulled pork, mac and cheese to
- 1:03:11Speaker 2: sell out to rave reviews, the chicken was a great consolation.
- 1:03:16Speaker 2: I love supporting revkevs the source. Samuel James played an
- 1:03:20Speaker 2: incredible music set, and I laughed when he sipped a
- 1:03:22Speaker 2: connection three or four connection between songs and enthusiastically stated,
- 1:03:26Speaker 2: this beer is nice.
- 1:03:27Speaker 3: What's good.
- 1:03:28Speaker 2: The other night, a great time was had with old
- 1:03:30Speaker 2: and new friends. Miraculously a six pack of beautiful beer
- 1:03:34Speaker 2: cans are now plotting a Saturday upset in my refrigerator.
- 1:03:39Speaker 3: I don't know if h Wayne knows how accurate that
- 1:03:41Speaker 3: first sentence it is. Yeah, Dave, Dave, He's a secret ingredient.
- 1:03:45Speaker 3: No one can replicate. Yeah, none of this would be getting.
- 1:03:47Speaker 1: No, He's absolutely the Yeah, and there'd be nothing. We
- 1:03:52Speaker 1: would have nothing. We have no, I mean we wouldn't.
- 1:03:55Speaker 1: I mean all the things you talk about Tony and
- 1:03:58Speaker 1: throw out there, I mean, David, David, don't pin it
- 1:04:02Speaker 1: on me. I'm absolutely pinning it on you.
- 1:04:03Speaker 2: Right, Hey, Austin, let's roll through some of those pictures
- 1:04:06Speaker 2: that that Dave sent to us if we could. Here's
- 1:04:09Speaker 2: just some shots for those of you. That is a
- 1:04:11Speaker 2: little bit of a wetness that was from I'm assuming
- 1:04:14Speaker 2: that's day one, right. We didn't have rain last night,
- 1:04:16Speaker 2: so that was day one that was going on there.
- 1:04:18Speaker 2: And then there is Kerchieval front and center, got ball
- 1:04:22Speaker 2: cap on chat. I met those guys too, those guys. Yeah,
- 1:04:25Speaker 2: those were good dudes. Yeah, there's SOB again. SOB Again.
- 1:04:28Speaker 2: Sab hasn't been around in seventy two episodes. Now Again
- 1:04:32Speaker 2: owns the show. It owns the show. Some nice folks.
- 1:04:35Speaker 2: They've got three guys old school shirt right they one.
- 1:04:39Speaker 3: Of again they've been to an event and from one
- 1:04:41Speaker 3: of the events. So there we go.
- 1:04:44Speaker 1: I had the meat balls last night. They were good.
- 1:04:46Speaker 3: There good from the wine bar.
- 1:04:48Speaker 1: Yeh from thee from Duca.
- 1:04:49Speaker 2: Yeah, so there we all go and thank you very much.
- 1:04:53Speaker 2: Posted on Big twelve Facebook Week one schedule. All times
- 1:04:57Speaker 2: are eastern. Look at that? Is that what? I don't know.
- 1:05:02Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 1:05:03Speaker 2: I don't know who put it up, but all the
- 1:05:05Speaker 2: times are eastern on that, which which is kind of nice.
- 1:05:08Speaker 3: How you do that?
- 1:05:09Speaker 2: Yeah, that's kind of nice.
- 1:05:10Speaker 3: That's how you do that?
- 1:05:11Speaker 2: All right, guys, we beat this fricking donkey to death.
- 1:05:17Speaker 2: Let's do this thing.
- 1:05:18Speaker 1: Can do another one tomorrow morning at six.
- 1:05:22Speaker 2: Reviewing the game. I will tell you this. We will
- 1:05:24Speaker 2: be in studio Sunday morning and we will release. Yeah,
- 1:05:29Speaker 2: we will release before noon on Sunday. It will be
- 1:05:33Speaker 2: available to you a round new, yeah, yeah, round new
- 1:05:38Speaker 2: somewhere in that range. If you are coming in, be
- 1:05:42Speaker 2: safe again strongly, man, just walk park far away in
- 1:05:47Speaker 2: traffic is.
- 1:05:47Speaker 1: Going to be uber and the traffic super with that
- 1:05:50Speaker 1: a noonkick with a sellout game brand.
- 1:05:52Speaker 3: I mean, have fun, be responsible, make a difference.
- 1:05:56Speaker 2: If you're here and if you come across any Penn
- 1:05:59Speaker 2: State fans, treat them the way that you would like
- 1:06:02Speaker 2: to be treated till you were at their place.
- 1:06:04Speaker 1: Absolutely, just be cool, be chill, have fun like you've
- 1:06:08Speaker 1: been there, but act like you've been there before.
- 1:06:09Speaker 2: Exactly all right. Thanks to producer Austin for The Boys
- 1:06:13Speaker 2: Back at You Episode something something or something three Guys
- 1:06:17Speaker 2: before the Game, over and out.
- 1:06:19Speaker 1: See y'all,