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3 Guys Before The Game - WVU Golf Coach Sean Covich Visits (Episode 553) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  It is showtime. Hi, everybody, welcome in. It's time for three
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  guys before the game. No, we have aden day for you. You
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  know our great three guys production staff that schedules all our guests months and sometimes
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  even a couple of years in advance. I don't know how they figured this
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  one out, but they said, you know, May seventeenth, let's get
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  mountaineer golf coach Sean Covid. Sean, why not, They'll probably be coming
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  off an historic run. Probably great to talk to Covid if we get him
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  on May seventeen. Probably let's get the first time they've made it to the
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  Oh. By the way, we have a major announcement to make as
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  well. Major announcement and just coincidentally that the Mountaineer Golf coaches here. We've
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  got a three guys live event that we are announcing here today and it's gonna
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  happen soon. Did you tell Kerchibal about this yet? He's in I have
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  to confirm for his availability. I mean, we'll talk more about it later.
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  But what we're gonna do is we're partnering with the WVU Cancer Institute and
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  on Saturday, June eighth, we are going to take part with the folks
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  from the Cancer Institute with a golf tournament. Coach Kovich nice Stonewall Resort.
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  You've played there. WVU Cancer Golf Classic dot Com is the website WVU Cancer
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  Golf Classic dot Com. The lay of the land is this. There's a
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  golf tournament at the resort's Arnold Palmers Signature course, and that's during the day
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  and then later in the afternoon we're going to feed you and do a three
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  guys live show and various other things. We'll get into that a little bit
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  later on this website. Website is WUVU Cancer Golf Classic. Cool date Saturday,
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  eight June. That's coming. We got a special week. We've got
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  a special guest that's coming to what we got a special guest. Special announcement
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  yet, is this one of your things where you really like, No,
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  we have a special guest who's going to be with us that day. I
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  thought that was coming out later. Do it now? Is it firm?
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  Don't say it. If it's not firm. Firm's never stopped us on this
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  show. Well, that is true. Garrett Green will be our special guest
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  that day at the course. He plays football over at the college. He
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  plays golf, plays golf, golful lot what what what have you seen?
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  Have you watched him at all? Oh? Yeah, give me swing analysis.
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  All I can tell you is like when we qualify, he'll play behind
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  us and he'll say there's no way. You guys shot the scores from that
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  tea box, Like, yep, that's so. But he has a good
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  time. He's you know, he's an athlete. He competes, he could
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  could he be on the team. Uh, you know, we need a
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  good hype guy. You know, we need a guy that's gonna fire him
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  up. And uh yeah, it'd be great. Grip it and rip it.
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  He's a gripp and rippid guy. I get him in there. I
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  mean, you know, not everybody can start. So that's that is confirmed.
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  You know that. That's in all seriousness, Yes, he's You've got
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  that because and I'm not messing around, but in all seriousness, because you
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  know, when we've had him on in the past, he does things for
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  us. He's a buddy of ours. But he'll do no ni l on
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  this. He's not getting paid to be there. He's getting paid because he
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  has a very very strong heart for cancer and to help anything he can do
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  to battle cancer. And there's a young lady whose story will be told that
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  day, by the name of Kate from here in West Virginia, who he
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  has befriended, went and visited her when she was receiving treatment the very day
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  after the Houston Hell Mary game. He was there to see her. Incredible
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  and she is battling and she's doing really well. And this is something near
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  and dear to his heart. So Garrett will be there. Good, Okay,
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  fair enough, we'll have fun with him. I retract my criticism of
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  you saying something early though. Thank you dude, Are you kidding me?
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  I mean, are you freaking kidding me? Wow? Huh? What a
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  what a what a run? It was a it was an incredible run.
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  Yeah, I'm still, you know, trying to remember everything that happened,
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  but just proud of the guys. And uh, it was. It was
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  a pretty special, pretty emotional day too when we got it done, and
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  uh, yeah, here we are. We might as well keep playing golf.
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  This is year nine. So you, like Nicky is O Brown,
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  are the only two in the program that started programs from scratch. Obviously we
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  hadn't had women's soccer until Nicky, but let's face it, Mount near Mountaineer,
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  Uh, golf had been long gone. It wasn't like you program had
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  been off for a year or two and all of a sudden you resumed.
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  I mean, you started it from scratch, as well, and here you
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  guys go, and it's been a fun watch because you've done what every team
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  and every coach ever wants to do in the course of a season. You
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  just keep incrementally getting better about it. Now, Brad and I take a
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  great deal of credit that it was really when we became starters at the Mountaineer
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  Invitational that you guys exploded and since then you're looking back. Here's an analogy
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  that popped in my head this week for our basketball fans out there, what
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  your golf team is experiencing right now is the kind of a late run that
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  Joe Alexander had in the month of March in his last year. What do
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  you think of that like, which we often say was the greatest month in
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  Mountaineer sports history, right, it impelled him up into the lottery. Yeah,
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  so you're saying this run by the golf team and Seawan is it's the
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  Alexander's Joe Alexander March. Put into perspective of the numbers that you guys are
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  putting up in comparison to where you've been in the past. Well, I
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  mean, it's it's been real consistent play. I think out of the entire
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  lineup. I think there's two storylines about our season. One is the exceptional
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  play, the consistent play, the outstanding play by Max Green who's a junior.
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  And then just everybody else playing a role, and most recently, yes,
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  probably Todd Duncan you know, probably Jackson Davenport. But in the fall,
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  Todd didn't even start in a stroke play event for us in the fall
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  at all. He was a non factor, but then he came on in
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  the spring. Jackson was out of our lineup in March, like playing in
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  an individual event at Texas or at Tennessee Tech, while we were at the
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  Hoodie at Bulls Bay or Georgia Southern Sermon. So that meant other people stepped
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  up. And I've been coaching I think eighteen years, and I've never seen
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  the way it played out this year of his people's up and up at different
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  times, and then it all kind of came together. Like I said,
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  for our home event, that same five, well honestly it wasn't the same
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  five because we had some a couple other guys in there. That just proves
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  my point more that they stepped up at the home event. We took a
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  different five to Big Twelves got it rolling there and just kept it rolling.
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  So it's definitely been a team effort this year with that asterisk of Max Green
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  quietly having the best season in school history individually. You know, coach that
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  as I was looking at your scores and that was the first thing that came
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  to my mind was consistency. Because when you see a golf tournament and you
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  see a good golf like, oh my gosh, he's plus six. He
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  was just off, and you guys were two eighty five, two eighty two,
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  eighty. Max Green was seventy one, sixty nine, sixty nine,
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  Kickleb Wilson seventy five, seventy one. I mean that that's that's really kind
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  of unusual. Usually somebody's like hot and somebody's not right. But in our
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  format, where you play five guys, you count four scorers. You can
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  you can have one guy kind of off and still survive, but you want
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  to have that insurance policy of all five guys playing well in case something goes
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  crazy. You know, with one guy, you're like, okay, if
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  we you know, we'll still be okay. And that's what happened the final
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  round that we threw out a seventy two at the Farms Golf Club and that
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  club played well over par all week. There's only one team under par,
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  you know, for the week. So the fact that we you know,
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  our worst score that day, we didn't even need it was a seventy two
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  just shows the depth of the consistency that these guys are playing. And every
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  golf course is going to ask different questions of you, and that's what makes
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  our sports so unique. There there's not a uniform you know, playing surface.
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  It's all different, all crazy, you know, different designs, grass
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  types, weather topography. But this golf course specifically asked you have to drive
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  the ball well. You have to hit in the fairway every single hole.
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  There was no bailout. So I think that's where going back to playing Pete
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  Die Golf Club and some things we did in qualifying, we made it very
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  difficult and so to get through qualifying he had to drive it well. But
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  when we got there, it was just kind of a continuation of yeah,
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  you have to drive it well to be able to score. Mentioned Max this
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  season this year, Let's talk about him for a second. Expectations when he
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  arrived on campus to what he's grown into. Tell us a little bit about
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  Max. Yeah, keyword has grown into I remember his freshman year. I
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  always joke with him when he walked around around the weight room when we first
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  got there, he looked like one of those deer that could barely you know,
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  stand and so you know, doing squats and whatnot, like you just
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  do the bar and he was like shaking. And now he's really filled out.
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  He's really mature, developed and he does what you know, most college
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  golfers who they come in, they average seventy four to seventy five, and
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  then next year it's like a seventy three, and then this year it happens
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  to be right around seventy. Like he's just gotten better and better and better
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  and learned. He's always been real concer distant, but he has gotten stronger,
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  he has gotten bigger, he's developed, so he's hit the golf ball
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  further. But just uh, you know what a what a great kid,
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  just real consistent in his personality and his golf game kind of match up,
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  you know, Like I said, he's quietly had the best season in school
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  history because he's kind of a quiet kid and he kind of matches up.
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  What about the mental makeup of being the one? Is that it's a different
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  mindset for you when you're the one going against other ones. Yeah, I
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  think he likes it. I think he you know, he he's always had
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  confidence. He's won twice in college. Uh not many people have done that.
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  You know, one more win and he'll tie Mark Getz for the most
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  wins you know, individually. But yeah, it is a different mindset.
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  But he's always he's always felt like kind of maybe like West Virginia, like
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  we're underappreciated or we're under respected. He feels that same way as a player,
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  like why am I not up for these awards? You know, like
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  I'm pretty much beaten. Everybody up played all year, you know, I
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  average whatever. So he kind of he he likes the opportunity when we get
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  paired with these big teams and they have their best players who are PJ Tour
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  ranked you know whatever, or PJ Tour you ranked. He likes that,
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  and I think he at the end of the round, they turn around to
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  go, this kid beat me, you know, and I think he likes
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  that. So hopefully we keep that roll in at the National Championship. You
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  mentioned the word mindset, and earlier you said that in the fall, Todd
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  wasn't part of what you guys were doing. Jackson went out and played at
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  an individual event. So I love those kind of stories because those would be
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  easy stories for those guys to say, like I'm mad, I'm upset,
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  I'm not playing see you later. You had the opposite happen. Why did
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  that happen with those particular two and how do you make sure that they know
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  that there is a rainbow still with the opportunity for them to get it.
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  Yeah, we talk a lot about long term and taking the wider view of
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  things because players tend to worry about am I starting next week? That's it,
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  That is their whole life. They can only see the next tournament.
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  And when they don't see themselves in a lineup, that to me, that
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  is the most important time in a player's career. Is what do you do
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  with that disappointment? When we leave and go to Puerto Rico in February and
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  you're stuck going to a biology lab while it's snowing, How are you going
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  to handle that? Because we don't take everybody like other sports, you only
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  take five or six. So how did Todd, how did Jackson or anybody
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  out of our lineup? How do they handle those situations and they use it
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  as fuel, you know, luckily, and not as excuses or well,
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  I want to go somewhere else where I know it can play and you know
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  all those things you hear about in this transfer portal world. And again I'm
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  very upfront like, if if that's the way you want to be, then
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  that's probably in the program for you. You know this not every program.
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  This is going to be for everybody. But Todd and Jackson are special players,
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  special people obviously this school. Uh, being a mountaineer means more to
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  Todd and probably most in our team for being honest, because he grew up
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  shady Spring Tiger. Yeah grew up so of course great. Yeah, he's
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  a great athlete, but it means a ton, I think for him to
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  represent as well. So uh, you know, he had he had those
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  moments and anytime he's out of lineup, like he's not happy but it but
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  he uses it in a positive way to hey, when I get my chance
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  to qualify, like you, I'm leaving you no doubt, like I'm going
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  to earn my ticket. And that's what he's had to do a bunch and
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  it's made him better and I think when he gets to a tournament, that
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  might be the easy part because he knows he's here, he knows he's traveled,
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  he knows he can tee up in the tournament, rather than am I
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  even going to be there? Golf is such an individual game, but you're
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  but at this level it's a team sport. So when you're coaching him up,
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  are you are you coaching? Wow? You got a show down with
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  Oklahoma State or this team or this particular golfer. Or is it against the
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  course? You know, who are you? Who are you competing against?
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  Yeah? I mean golf golf is you compete against yourself, You compete against
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  the golf course, you compete against mother nature. Sometimes you compete against other
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  teams. But I think with college golf, would I try to get our
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  guys to focus on and when we go to a tournament, say it's a
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  you know, a big event, some of the marquee regular season events.
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  They want to know who's in the field. You know, it's Florida,
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  There is Arizona State there, Texas A and M there, and so I
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  always reveal the field and it's they get tired of this joke, but I
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  go all right, here's who's playing, and here's who's our competition, and
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  it'll just be the golf course. I go. I don't care if wake
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  Force is there. I don't care if Texas is there. I don't care
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  if Marshall's there. We are playing the golf course. If you don't play
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  the golf course, you it doesn't matter. You know who's playing. So
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  that's that's to try to answer your question, like, we just try to
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  focus on the course, playing as good as we can and then see where
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  it shakes out. Okay, on that then, so you want to coach
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  them to the course, And then I've covered a couple of tournaments at Greenbrier
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  and then golfers golfers talking about the course fitting their game or their game fitting
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  the course. So do you look at the course and know your golfers and
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  say, oh, okay, this is not gonna fit or this is a
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  good fit, and you know going in, yes, certainly. I mean
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  that's that's kind of how we chose our lineup for this event. Because the
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  golf course is so tight, it demanded a lot out of your your driving
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  skills. So we felt like we took the best drivers we could. But
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  at the end of the day, good golf is going to travel. And
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  if our guys are playing well, they can kind of play, you know,
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  any golf course because they have a lot of confidence. And when you're
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  playing golf well, like you feel like you'll never struggle again, and when
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  you're playing and when you're playing bad, you feel like you'll never play good
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  again. And neither one of those are true, but it's uh. It
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  kind of helps you determine your line up a little bit based on where you're
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  going. But at the end of the day, if a guy's hitting the
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  ball where he wants to, he can he can play anywhere. Let's talk
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  mentally for a second, as we have been here, it seems to me,
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  and I know you're a big baseball guy too, golf and baseball have
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  some similarities in the amount of downtime you have. There's a lot of thoughts
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  that can creep in, no more so than golf. So two part question
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  here, how much mental work do you do? How do you do your
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  mental work? And then on the course, your job as the head coach,
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  how are you managing that? Do you try and see every player a
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  little bit? Do you follow one player for a round? Then jump somewhere
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  else. What do you do on game day? Well, I think it
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  goes back to you know, practice and qualifying and all this stuff that people
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  don't see, like you try to make that as difficult and maybe uncomfortable as
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  possible and throw them a few surprises, you know, like for instance,
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  normally we we kind of ride in carts like in qualifying, mainly because a
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  pace of play and I don't want to hold anybody up behind this like when
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  we're qualifying. But for regionals, first of all, we qualify for regionals.
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  Not many teams do that. So that made out guys uncomfortable because they,
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  well, I thought I was going, well, who's going to go?
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  Second thing as I spur the moment, like right before we teet as,
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  oh, by the way, we're walking today, so uh and they're
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  like what. I'm like, Yeah, we're gonna have to walk at regionals,
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  so why not? And it just threw them for a loop. So
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  I think the more you kind of do that, you make it uncomfortable,
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  we make it challenging, and then when you get to the tournament, you
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  turn into kind of mister a nice guy, and you know, like it's
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  it's a reward for all the things you did to get here, So I
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  try to free them up to like go enjoy it. I mean, why
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  do we do those workouts, Why did do we do these qualifyings? Why
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  do we practice so hard to get to this moment? So you better enjoy
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  the heck out of it, you know, and you better be confident.
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  So that's kind of the mindset I try to have as far as specifically mental
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  work. I mean, some of our guys have you know, sports psychologists,
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  some of them don't. You know, we don't force anything on them.
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  If they want some help, we'll get it, get it for them.
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  But I think my job as a coach is really just to kind of
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  free them up to have fun, enjoy it, and then I'll do whatever
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  they need. I mean, this this tournament, specifically, the regional I
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  was my plan was to be on the part threes, and that's what I
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  did the first round and it worked out great. And then about midway through
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  the second round, I saw Max Green struggling. I think it was four
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  over through first nine holes, and I'm thinking he's going to play a part
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  in this, like if we're going to advance, Like he's got to get
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  it together. So I went and saw him, you know, and kind
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  of walked with him and his da. His dad is great, but he
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  was he was like, you know, I'm worried about his mindset, blah
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  blah blah, Like we just need one good we just need one good thing
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  to happen, and he'll be fine. So he birdies his tenth hole and
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  I text his dad, I said, he's locked in. And he made
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  three straight birdies and then he made a few more and he shot at thirty
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  on his final nine, which may have been the difference. You know,
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  that's keeping us in the mix there. So you kind of have to feel
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  it out, you know, based on how things are going. Tournament golf
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  is like for you live TV. You know, you just gotta you just
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  gotta go with it. Sometimes you got to teleprompter and then it breaks down
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  and you just go with it. And sometimes that's that's coaching. So it's
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  but it's almost all psychology at that point. You're not giving a lot of
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  swing advice. I would imagine in the actual event. I hope I'm not
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  giving swing advice the entire season, to be honest, because most of these
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  guys have their swing instructors, so when you talk about technique, you talk
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  about fundamentals. Yeah, there's some of that. There's certainly some of that
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  throughout the year. But we're more about developing skills that will translate to tournament
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  golf, skills that would translate to playing under pressure. And I think that's
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  our goal what we try to coach our guys on and develop that skill of
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  playing under pressure. Because all these guys, if you came out to a
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  practice, I'll be like, pick our five starters, Like, I don't
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  know, they're all hinted better than me. You know, they can all
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  do whatever they want with the golf ball. That's how they got here.
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  It's really can you do it when it counts? Can you do it under
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  pressure? And so that's we try to design practice and everything to get ready
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  for that. So fair to say that a very high percentage of your job
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  is between ears more than anything else. Yeah, I I like to say
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  I coach people that happen to play golf. Is kind of my viewpoint,
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  my philosophy on coaching, because if I can make sure that they're being the
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  best, you know people, they can be best students, they can be
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  best athletes, then the golf will kind of naturally take care of itself.
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  So yeah, it's probably annoying to the guys they're freshman and sophomore year,
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  then maybe by their junior senior and go okay, I kind of get it
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  now, you know, because they all want the quick fix like swing tip,
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  and I'm not here for that. I'm here to make Are you going
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  to class? Are you showing up on time? Are you representing this well?
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  You know? Are you doing those things so I can trust you when
• 21:36
  I take you on the road. Those are things I kind of coach,
• 21:40
  so I yes, mental, but really like coaching the person you know to
• 21:44
  be the best person they can be, and then golf will happen. So
• 21:45
  I put them in a healthy environment and try to teach them what a healthy
• 21:49
  environment is, and then you'll get the residual benefits as a result of doing
• 21:53
  the right thing. Yeah exactly. I feel like how you do one thing's
• 21:56
  kind of how you do everything, and you know, to achieve greatess,
• 22:00
  you're gonna have to do stuff you don't want to do when you don't want
• 22:03
  to do it, but you you have to do it then and teaching them
• 22:06
  that's really the secret is doing all the things you don't want to do when
• 22:11
  it'd be easy to do something else and that will pay long term dividends.
• 22:15
  Is conditioning a factor, Yes, certainly, And that's why there's another reason
• 22:18
  I made him walk, you know, that day, because I'm you know,
• 22:22
  it's funny like in qualifying they want to ride, and then when we
• 22:25
  get to the tournament, like obviously we got to walk, it's like,
• 22:26
  well, we need to walk here and train. And really it came from
• 22:32
  and I turned it around on them when they were complaining because one of our
• 22:34
  guys at Big twelve Championship, and that championship is seventy two holes in three
• 22:38
  days you have to walk, plus the practice round. So you're looking at
• 22:41
  ninety holes in four days that you've got to walk, and that is a
• 22:45
  mental and physical and sometimes spiritual, you know, drain on you, especially
• 22:52
  with all that being on the line at Big twelves. And one of the
• 22:53
  guys late in the round and we had a great performance, you know,
• 22:56
  we finished top five, he's like, man, he's like I'm tired,
• 22:59
  Like I feel like maybe we need to walk a little bit more, and
• 23:02
  I went okay, and then he kind of forgot about it and everybody's happy,
• 23:04
  Oh, we're going to regionals. And and then I got I make
• 23:07
  them walk in there complain. I was like, you know, this is
• 23:08
  actually your idea. They're just like, yeah, you're right. You know,
• 23:12
  you see that. You see the pros and he used to it in
• 23:15
  the old days. You know, twenty years ago you'd see the craigstaddlers and
• 23:18
  stuff. But now you see these golfers and they're in perfect shape. You
• 23:22
  know, their hips are like this, their shoulders are like this. After
• 23:23
  they play eight, after they've practiced and play eighteen, then they work out.
• 23:27
  I mean they're at the pro level. The conditioning is is incredible.
• 23:32
  Yeah, the last what twenty years, I think, since you know,
• 23:34
  Tiger came on the scene, everybody's been going in the gym trying to get
• 23:37
  faster, and there's been some some data based on you know, what's the
• 23:42
  most important thing in golf. We always used to hear putting shore game,
• 23:47
  you know, drive for show, putt for doe, as they used to
• 23:48
  say. But they're really showing that driving the golf ball is probably the most
• 23:52
  important thing. And the further you can hit it, the closer yard to
• 23:56
  the whole Uh, the lower you're gonna score, right, I mean sounds
• 23:59
  simple. Now, So a lot of people are training speed, they're training
• 24:02
  conditioning to hit the golf ball as far as they can, and that's going
• 24:07
  to lower the golf scorer. So I mean, yes, we do work
• 24:08
  out a lot. We work out three days a week throughout the season at
• 24:11
  six am. And but that's something that you know, most most college teams
• 24:17
  do, most junior golfers do. But that has become a very important thing.
• 24:22
  It was not a thing when I was coming up playing college golf.
• 24:25
  It was like, you know, weights are bad, you're gonna do this,
• 24:27
  You're gonna get injured. But now it's it's completely different. I view
• 24:32
  it as your training and athlete that have to play golf. Yeah, yeah,
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  guys, special coach. You're from Meridian, Mississippi. Just looking up the
• 26:34
  golf courses here. Did you play Briarwood, Northwood, Lakeview? Wow?
• 26:41
  Wou'd you play? Yeah? Well I played all of them. But my
• 26:44
  dad was the golf professional at Briarwood, which is a very blue collar golf
• 26:49
  club. I learned a lot about life out there, gambling and some other
• 26:53
  things. Only kidding second grade. The knew what was Yeah, show up
• 27:00
  with twenty bucks in your pocket, pay play for fifty. It's it's pretty
• 27:03
  intense, but yeah, Brian, I know what you have. You were
• 27:08
  hustling people. That's what you were doing, fifteen year old kid, right,
• 27:11
  Brad, taking people's money. That's you gotta you gotta compete at that
• 27:15
  point, man, Then Northwood was that was I thought that was the Augusta
• 27:19
  National and Meridia, Mississippi, like they that's where all the doctors and lawyers
• 27:23
  and people with you know, jobs played, and that's where I worried.
• 27:30
  I actually worked out there, cleaning cards, picking up you know, range
• 27:33
  balls, eventually work my way into the pro shop there. So, but
• 27:37
  man, I thought that was Augusta. Yeah, so that's where I played.
• 27:41
  I played at all of them. Yeah, bush Wood ever played well.
• 27:45
  Briarwood was closed, Bushwood, Bridwood, same thing. So when you
• 27:48
  show up here, as Tony mentioned, the program had been dormant, and
• 27:52
  you look back at that time after you got here it started to get settled.
• 27:56
  What was the one thing where you went, oh, might be a
• 28:00
  bigger hurdle than what I thought it was going to be when I took this.
• 28:03
  Uh, there was a lot of those, a lot of those.
• 28:04
  Most you know, it's uh, it's like when you get married and you
• 28:07
  don't notice a lot of things and then kind of oh, wait, that's
• 28:11
  weird. So but no, it was you know, you have the honeymoon
• 28:15
  phase of you know, being the head coach here and and you know,
• 28:18
  it was it was a great opportunity. Loved it. But then when things
• 28:23
  started to go I would say, like the winter winter time, because I'm
• 28:27
  not being from Mississippi, I used to winter, you know, snow ice.
• 28:33
  I don't know where the sun goes for six months out of here,
• 28:34
  goes on vacation. Yeah, so that that was definitely probably the hardest part
• 28:41
  is like, wow, how are we even gonna you know, compete recruit
• 28:45
  because it's just so cold and there's nowhere to play and it gets dark at
• 28:48
  three thirty in afternoon. It feels like yeah, so uh that that part
• 28:55
  was difficult. But uh, you know, I it's funny that I'm sitting
• 29:00
  next to you. I guess I can share the story, but like I
• 29:03
  want to say, it was our second year. First, Oh boy,
• 29:07
  here we go. You did something doing when you were in the department.
• 29:08
  What did he do? No? No, Yeah, so this has been
• 29:11
  our second year of competition and things were not going well. Had a difficult
• 29:17
  conversation with a player, you know, and we were just it wasn't going
• 29:22
  well. And I go to the Mexican restaurant by our house and I'm by
• 29:27
  myself because Kate was out of town. We're leaving the next day for a
• 29:30
  tournament which I'm sure we're going to get dead last in. And so I'm
• 29:33
  at this Mexican restaurant going, you know, like I could have been in
• 29:37
  the sec still being an assistant. Like you know, we're assistant. Everybody
• 29:41
  loves you, it's great. Uh, you know, it's it's fun,
• 29:45
  and now everybody hates me. We're terrible. Uh, this is you know,
• 29:48
  not having fun. So I'm sitting there by myself, and then Brad's
• 29:51
  there with one of your girls and he's like, hey, coach, like
• 29:55
  come over here and sit with us. And I'm just in there, lamenting,
• 29:57
  you know, just like this is you know, hard, like had
• 30:02
  you know, what should I do? And blah blah blah, and Brad
• 30:04
  Brad was like, look, you know, you're just getting started, like
• 30:07
  things will get better, you know, people will want you to succeed,
• 30:11
  like it will, you know, just hang in there. And I'm like,
• 30:15
  all right, fine, I won't quit tomorrow, you know. So
• 30:18
  the next day we go to East Carolina. It was East Carolina Tournament.
• 30:22
  We go down there and we won the tournament. We won the tournament.
• 30:25
  It was our first win since bringing the program back. And then the next
• 30:30
  year we went to a regional and then the next year we were, you
• 30:34
  know, top forty in the country. So I always credit him. You
• 30:37
  know, the Mexican restaurant eating cheese dip, cheese dipping chips Friday. He
• 30:45
  only goes on Friday. It was a Friday. Yeah, so you need
• 30:48
  to be cured. Get the chips and cheese dip makes everything better. Yet
• 30:52
  another miles, Yet another milestone in three guys history. Because I don't know
• 30:56
  if you know this or not. Sean Hoppy hired Dan Stratford. So Brad
• 31:02
  talked you out of quitting that Friday night. No, he talked to you
• 31:06
  out of quitting save the program. If it wasn't for Brad Howe, he's
• 31:11
  back down there in South working at Bushwood and Rawood. But well Bushwood's from
• 31:17
  Caddy Shack. I think it's same thing. And uh so there you go,
• 31:19
  you guys, I have done nothing in that regard. Yeah. Anyway,
• 31:23
  Shawn's being very kind of overstated. They did the work. I didn't
• 31:26
  do any Yeah, he talked him, offered him some chips. He talked
• 31:29
  him off. I offered some chips. Caso, I mean Caso saved Mountaineer.
• 31:32
  Golf stuff is magic scoring. Next week you leave Tuesday to attend the
• 31:37
  championship round. There are thirty teams. Last time West Virginia played in forty
• 31:41
  seven, they took forty teams. West Virginia finished thirty ninth. Anyway,
• 31:47
  you won't finish thirty ninth. I'll guarantee you that. How's this thing score?
• 31:51
  Uh? You mean the format and everything, So it goes slowly here
• 31:55
  because there's a lot of things happening here. Go slow with this, right,
• 31:59
  It's not like putt. Once this competition starts. So all thirty teams
• 32:04
  are there, we have obviously we have a practice round, but once the
• 32:07
  first round starts, it will be stroke play. So just kind of like
• 32:10
  what we did last week. We're going to play fifty four holes. All
• 32:15
  thirty teams will play fifty four holes. At the end of fifty four holes,
• 32:19
  they will make a cut in half. So it goes from thirty to
• 32:22
  fifteen. Okay, those fifteen teams will continue their competition just eighteen more holes,
• 32:30
  so they will end up playing seventy two holes. At the end of
• 32:34
  that, that'll be the end of stroke play and they'll say, okay,
• 32:37
  who are the top eight teams after seventy two holes a stroke play and then
• 32:42
  they will start all over in a match play format, the Elite eight or
• 32:46
  whatever you want to call it. They'll go to match play and then you
• 32:51
  get you go eight four two in your champion. So that's how it works.
• 32:55
  So there's two formats. You're hoping to, you know, play as
• 32:58
  much golf as possible. That's the goal. First make the cut, right,
• 33:02
  Yeah, you have to make the cut, be in the top fifteen,
• 33:06
  and then be in the top eight over how many days? Oh wow?
• 33:09
  Four, five, six, six days? Yep, they get all
• 33:14
  that done. Six days. You got a pack. You got a pack.
• 33:16
  Yeah. We just felt like you're just gonna take one night. You
• 33:19
  got to pack close, right. I told the guys, I did not
• 33:22
  book a return flight, did not We're just gonna stay as long as we
• 33:25
  can. So each of those cuts, when it goes from eight to four
• 33:28
  to two, those are all separate days. Uh, there's one day where
• 33:30
  they do play two matches. I think it's from the four to the two.
• 33:36
  It is the one course. One course, yes, one course,
• 33:38
  Omni LaCosta Resort. It's been under renovation in preparation for this tournament. Or
• 33:46
  the women play the same tournament, then the men play the same turn or
• 33:50
  the same course. And if you and then if you do one day or
• 33:52
  the morning flight next day or the afternoon flight. Correct, we tee off
• 33:57
  on Friday morning, first round. We te off on Saturday afternoon for the
• 34:00
  second round, third round based on your score. Right, yep. We
• 34:05
  got TV on this, Yes, golf channels starting either. I think it's
• 34:08
  some Monday. I think Golf channel started Monday. When you say courses been
• 34:12
  on the renovations, no one's been on the course till the the women's tournament
• 34:15
  comes to you. Guys, you're the second group that's been on this course.
• 34:17
  Again, something that feel like is lying up in our favor. I
• 34:22
  don't know. I just felt like that way the last month. And one
• 34:25
  of those things is this golf course. Nobody's played it like, there's no
• 34:29
  previous championship that's ever been held here, so nobody has any course knowledge.
• 34:34
  Obviously, we can do our research to drone flyovers. And look at the
• 34:37
  yards books, but nobody has actual experience playing. So I feel like that's
• 34:45
  to our advantage. You know, we show up where nobody else has that.
• 34:47
  How much advance do you get on the pin placement? Usually the night
• 34:52
  before they will they'll send out the whole locations, and that gives you a
• 34:55
  little idea of you know, how to play that hole. And this golf
• 35:00
  course is redesigned by Gil Hands, who did all the kind of the US
• 35:04
  Open renovations like it, you know, Wingfoot or lacc And he's got a
• 35:08
  certain style and his greens are very intricate and complex. He's usually generous at
• 35:15
  the tea, but around the greens he does a lot of little nuances.
• 35:20
  So the whole locations will be a big factor. I think this golf course,
• 35:24
  not to overstate it, but what does your performance this week mean to
• 35:30
  your recruiting going forward? Significant? Minimal help, not help? What?
• 35:37
  Well, it doesn't hurt. But I don't think it's going to change anything
• 35:40
  overnight, so to speak. And and that's because we've already you know,
• 35:45
  got commitments for next year and the year after that. But I think it
• 35:50
  just validates, you know, kind of what we're doing. But again,
• 35:53
  I think our program hopefully will always be this way that we develop. You
• 35:58
  know, we develop our guys on and off the golf course. That's why
• 36:00
  we're here. We're not here because we recruited you know, so and so
• 36:04
  and they came in instantly and just everything was easy. It's because Todd Duncan
• 36:07
  went through all those hard times and became a better player. Because Max Screen
• 36:12
  developed slowly and now he's one of the best players in the country. Because
• 36:15
  Jackson Dadport had no other offers and developed and here he is. That's kind
• 36:21
  of our story. And we have guys that you you know, you're not
• 36:24
  seeing their name, but they're they're working hard, they're getting better, and
• 36:27
  they're going to show up their junior or senior year and hopefully be doing the
• 36:30
  same thing. And so that's kind of our goal. Keep developing guys so
• 36:35
  we don't have massive drop offs if somebody's not happy and leave. We probably
• 36:38
  haven't talked enough about the new facility that just opened down Pete die Off one
• 36:45
  difference maker, game changer. Yeah, and that's more for you know,
• 36:47
  team morale and player development, and you know, how we practice day to
• 36:51
  day certainly is going to help recruiting. There's no doubt about it that that
• 36:54
  would play a big part in that. But just our guys being able to
• 36:59
  hang out more, being able to practice a lot more, have a dedicated
• 37:01
  spot if it is raining, like today, it's raining, so you just
• 37:05
  open up the doors and you still practice, whereas we never had that opportunity.
• 37:08
  So, yeah, we opened that up the day before our home tournament
• 37:12
  and we've been on a pretty good run since. Was it you guys that
• 37:15
  were good luck or the facility, I don't know, that's the same,
• 37:16
  probably probably us. Yeah, we didn't take our own walkthrough. I hope
• 37:21
  you don't mind. We did. We did go in doors over there,
• 37:22
  and I get security notifications, so I did see that. Yeah, the
• 37:27
  door was prop told we got to take a look at this thing. We
• 37:30
  went in there, we went like, holyw The garage door feature is like
• 37:32
  the best ever, Like they say range, Yeah, it's not like garage
• 37:36
  doors like grit. I mean, they're glad, they're beautiful. They open
• 37:38
  up, They've got a nice tea area there and you can whack that thing
• 37:43
  all. You got heaters above you, so in the middle of the winter
• 37:45
  you could just be whacking that thing out there where you normally wouldn't be able
• 37:49
  to do that. I know, that's huge because we we've been you know,
• 37:52
  nine years without that ability, and a lot of other programs have had
• 37:55
  that for for a long time. Even teams in the South have it.
• 37:58
  I don't know why. I guess the idge of thunderstorm every now and they
• 38:00
  don't need it. But so, yeah, that was we've been building this
• 38:06
  thing without that. So that was kind of the final piece of the puzzle.
• 38:08
  You know, when I got here, obviously it was a sheet of
• 38:10
  paper senior in the golf coach, but I didn't have I didn't have a
• 38:14
  golf ball, didn't have an office, didn't have a player nowhere to practice,
• 38:16
  didn't have a tournament set up, so we kind of had to build
• 38:21
  all those things. I had a list of things I wanted to get done
• 38:22
  in the final piece, and it was a huge piece of the puzzle was
• 38:27
  getting a dedicated practice facility for our guys that anytime of day, anytime of
• 38:31
  year, if you want to get better at golf, you can, And
• 38:35
  we finally, you know, we finally had that in place. So coach
• 38:37
  it it does beg the question and you're from Mississippi. You got a call
• 38:43
  and you you took the job. You said, you didn't have a golf
• 38:45
  ball, you didn't have an office, you didn't have any players, didn't
• 38:47
  have a schedule. Why the heck did you come? Because I was the
• 38:51
  only one crazy enough to take it, you know, take the job.
• 38:52
  But now, seriously, I mean, why are you an assistant coach?
• 38:55
  It's to be a head coach one day. So you have that part of
• 38:59
  it, you know, you have the opportunity to finally be a head coach.
• 39:01
  The second thing is it was so unique and different that I thought,
• 39:06
  I mean, you you have to take that. And the other part of
• 39:09
  it was it's West Virginia. And yes, I'm from Mississippi. I grew
• 39:14
  up in SEC country. But when you turn on the TV and you saw
• 39:17
  the Mountaineer night games or or Pat White playing in Bowl games, or you
• 39:23
  know, even back to Major Harris, like, there was a brand there
• 39:27
  that if you know anything about college athletics, you know about West Virginia,
• 39:32
  you know about Mountaineer Nation and the fans, and I thought that would be
• 39:36
  so cool to be at a school that had that kind of passion, that
• 39:38
  support that history and then the fact that you had a blank slate, you
• 39:44
  know, to you know, go do something. Try to do something cool
• 39:46
  at a at a what I consider a national brand and a very unique place
• 39:53
  that you know, might not have the money, might not have the you
• 39:59
  know, population as other places, but the support and the passion is unmatched.
• 40:02
  Uh So I thought that'd be kind of a cool, cool thing.
• 40:07
  There's another Pat White recruit right there right that helped surprise. I don't must
• 40:14
  say major Harris more than you know, Pat, but I remember all those
• 40:16
  guys earlier this week when you we had you on sports Line and we're glad
• 40:22
  you did sports Line and the New Talk Line, two of the three.
• 40:28
  He normally tries to grab sports people. I do stories. I can't stories.
• 40:32
  So one of the things he said, Hoppy, if you were tuned
• 40:36
  in, which I'm sure you weren't, was the number of Mountaineer fans that
• 40:40
  were there in California. That surprised you, right right, well surprised everybody.
• 40:45
  So we're we're you're just like Bowl games and show up. We I
• 40:51
  think it was probably the second the second round when we teed off because we
• 40:54
  were paired with San Diego one in the rounds. University of San Diego.
• 40:59
  This is their home, their Top fifty program, you know, they they
• 41:01
  have a lot of good things in the world of golf. Uh, but
• 41:06
  we're playing at their regional and one of their players said, you guys have
• 41:10
  more people here than we do, and I was like, yeah, I
• 41:14
  guess we do. And and part of that was our our parents that they
• 41:17
  were great, they're supportive. My family was out there. But but randomly
• 41:22
  the final round there was a handful of like these fans that I talked to
• 41:29
  two guys. Two guys were from Fairmont, and I said, over,
• 41:35
  yeah, I thought that you know they would live in the area. I
• 41:37
  said, where do you live? Oh, we live in Fairmont? Okay,
• 41:42
  I just checked my Google maps on we we are in California. But
• 41:45
  they were they were working in California, so they took the day off.
• 41:50
  How about that? They said, Well, they said, we can just
• 41:52
  work longer on Thursday to make up for it, but we want to come
• 41:54
  out here and watch you guys, And they watched every hole. We had
• 41:59
  a couple by other guys too, wearing the flying WV out there, and
• 42:02
  actually I text one of them today because I didn't get a chance to you
• 42:06
  know, thank him because it's so crazy at the end, but he actually
• 42:08
  lives out there, and he was like, hey, I'll see at LaCosta.
• 42:12
  Sure. Yeah. So it was, uh, does it make a
• 42:15
  difference somebody around somebody's trying to putt or t off or like hear people saying
• 42:20
  let's go now. They were they were very respectful and cheered, cheered us
• 42:24
  on. But uh, but honestly, I I feel like, uh,
• 42:29
  one of our competitive advantages this past week was our families being out there,
• 42:35
  because as soon as we got done with the round, we would practice for
• 42:37
  a little bit, but then they they some of the parents rented a house
• 42:40
  instead of staying in an hotel. We went and just hung out with him.
• 42:44
  We went to the swimming pool, We played basketball like Keenan played Todd
• 42:47
  in basketball, you know, and ke and then we uh, you know
• 42:52
  those card games, friendly card games going on, and you know, music
• 42:55
  going and pizza and just we we didn't talk anything about the situation. We
• 43:00
  didn't overanalyze the golf course. We just hung out with our parents, with
• 43:04
  our families. We had fun. It was a celebration of the whole year.
• 43:07
  And then it was so good. We're like, why not keep it
• 43:09
  going? So I think that that helped our guys relax and you know,
• 43:14
  not get too anxious about the golf tournament. And I would imagine the airbnb
• 43:19
  has been located at the next destination, there'll be another house. Well that's
• 43:22
  what we talked about, but like, hey, let's get this exact house.
• 43:25
  Yeah, because it was only fifteen miles from the National Championship golf course.
• 43:30
  Unfortunately it's books, but they're working on another one. But I think
• 43:34
  that that's a great advantage and something unique that West Virginia does that A lot
• 43:38
  of other programs don't do. You know, sometimes they just take it a
• 43:42
  little too serious. Where you know, I think relaxing and understanding you're gonna
• 43:45
  be loved and supported whether you play good or bad. Freeze you up to
• 43:50
  play some great golf. Oklahoma State Perennial Power National champion in the past.
• 43:54
  You guys are right there with them. What's that say about where you guys
• 43:58
  are from that Mexican conversation that you had with Brad at the Nacho bar,
• 44:05
  I did really, I mean you saying that out loud. I still can't
• 44:07
  really fathom it because of where we came from and being able to just hang
• 44:14
  in there with those kind of programs and you know, beat Arizona State,
• 44:17
  who some had penciled in to win the national championship or you know, other
• 44:22
  programs out there. So it means it means a lot. Proud of the
• 44:28
  guys for getting there, to be on equal playing field with national championship programs.
• 44:34
  And it just shows what, you know, if you believe in yourself
• 44:37
  and work hard, like why not us? You know? Why not?
• 44:39
  You've also made the point though, and we've talked about a lot on our
• 44:43
  show. The Big Twelve is a great league across a bunch of different sports,
• 44:46
  maybe none as great as in golf. I mean, that's as good
• 44:50
  at golf league as there is. And you've made the point before you go
• 44:52
  into the Big Twelve Championships, all right, that's that's basically like a regional
• 44:55
  that played itself out with Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, and West Virginia all being
• 44:59
  in the top and teams, right, So that's prepared you for this moment
• 45:02
  too. You're already playing championship level golf during the year and at the Big
• 45:07
  Twelve Championships, And that's what I told the team after the final hole at
• 45:10
  the Big twelve Championship, I said, if you can finish top five here,
• 45:15
  I guarantee you can finish top five regional, and regional might even be
• 45:17
  easier in our conference because there are some great teams and we you know that,
• 45:22
  you know Baylor's going Texas Texas Tech. I mean, the list goes
• 45:25
  on and on. How many people are still going to be playing at the
• 45:29
  national championship from our conference and some just barely missed out at regionals. But
• 45:34
  if you can, if you can finish top five Big twelves, I promise
• 45:37
  you a regional is definitely doable, which it was as we record, and
• 45:42
  details will be a lot more public by the time this heirs. And that
• 45:47
  is the Scottie Scheffler story that broke today this morning as he was getting ready.
• 45:53
  But you told us a little story there from years gone by, when
• 45:58
  you literally were starting the program. I went to a Big twelve event and
• 46:01
  you met I met the first handshake with Scottie Scheffler because I show up by
• 46:07
  myself. I don't have a team yet. We were starting competition the next
• 46:10
  year, so I show up. There's a big table at Southern Hills Country
• 46:14
  Club, which hosted the PGA Championship a couple of years ago. But it
• 46:16
  was hosting the Big Twelve, and I'm there by myself. They had a
• 46:20
  table for nine for West Virginia. I'm like, I don't even have a
• 46:22
  player yet, so I'm eating by myself. And John Fields, the head
• 46:27
  coach at Texas, who I kind of knew, He said, coach,
• 46:30
  come over here, sit with me. I want you to sit by yourself,
• 46:31
  and I want you to meet somebody. This is Scottie Shake Kansas,
• 46:36
  Scotti Scheffler. Then he had another guy who ended up playing on tour,
• 46:38
  Doug gimm who's playing on tour. He also had Victor Hovlin in that room.
• 46:42
  He also had Matt Wolf in that room. And so I go and
• 46:45
  watch her by t off on number one, the entire every single team,
• 46:49
  every single player of the practice round and watching t off Southern Hills, and
• 46:52
  it was very impressive, and I thought, do I really want to do
• 46:57
  this, because you know, we had a couple of guys on campus that
• 47:00
  we're red shirting that you know we're They were fine, but I mean,
• 47:05
  just to tee off right Then at Southern Nails, I was like, we
• 47:07
  have a long way to go, but I guess we finally got there,
• 47:12
  which is nice. You did. It's kind of it makes you like Texas
• 47:15
  longhorns a little bit more right. That was awful, nice but very nice.
• 47:20
  But also we've learned that the coachin's of beating eating by himself a lot,
• 47:22
  which is a lot that is true. There is an update on that
• 47:25
  story. Scheffler's attorney, Steven Rominz tells CNN scheffer was headed to the golf
• 47:31
  course getting ready for an early tea time. Quote. Due to the combination
• 47:36
  of event, traffic and a traffic fatality in the area, it was a
• 47:38
  very chaotic situation. He was proceeding as directed by another traffic officer and driving
• 47:45
  a marked player's vehicle with credentials visible. In the confusion, Scotti is alleged
• 47:50
  to have disregarded a different officer's traffic signals, resulting in these charges. He
• 47:55
  stopped immediately upon being directed to and never at any point assaulted any officer with
• 48:00
  his vehicle. We will plead not guilty and litigate this matter as needed,
• 48:06
  says his his attorney. You know a wild story, isn't it just a
• 48:08
  wild story? This has been good, hadn't it? It's been good?
• 48:14
  How often do you play? That's a good question. I play a decent
• 48:21
  amount during the summer when when I can, and actually my game is is
• 48:25
  probably better now. I probably shouldn't say this because the players are they might
• 48:30
  do this method, but I don't practice a ton. So when I go
• 48:32
  out there, I think my expectations are so low that it that it helps
• 48:37
  me just, you know, go out there and play. But I am
• 48:38
  playing in the member member at Pete Die this weekend, as I had it
• 48:42
  scheduled, and I'm like, you know what, why not? You know,
• 48:45
  I know it's busy and chaotic, but you probably win the thing.
• 48:46
  Now, So what do you hit? Do you utilize that? We?
• 48:51
  Will you? I know it's not been there long enough. Will you utilize
• 48:53
  like this winter? Will you go down and hit balls? Cool for you?
• 48:57
  No? You know, I spent so much time down there, probably
• 49:00
  not. You know, my vacation most people not their vacation, but their
• 49:02
  release is going to the golf course. But that's actually my job, and
• 49:07
  so I like to do other things, you know, travel and maybe go
• 49:10
  to a concert or take kingan somewhere. Baseball games baseball games. Yeah,
• 49:15
  and so we like to do that stuff during summer. So, but I
• 49:19
  do like to play, and I think it's important as a coach to keep
• 49:22
  playing, keep competitive because you kind of feel the emotions and the nervousness that
• 49:25
  you guys do. How far is you drive? Oh? I don't drive
• 49:29
  it very far at all. But I never miss a fair way? Are
• 49:30
  you That's it? That's the key? Are you scratch? Uh? No,
• 49:35
  not anymore. It's like a one point eight, you know, so
• 49:37
  at one point it just terrible. Hit it straight, chip on the green,
• 49:42
  two put right. Hoppies golfing next week for the first time in twenty
• 49:45
  years? Is that true? Hoppy? Yeah? What, I'm golfing next
• 49:49
  week for the first time in twenty years, in fact, in Florida.
• 49:52
  In Florida, maybe before coach leaves. Give me a lesson. Well,
• 49:57
  I've recruit good players and then stay all the way so well, somertible won't
• 50:00
  qualify. I'm already disqualified exactly. You mentioned you'd like to go to concerts
• 50:07
  that don't hurt yourself. Cost doesn't matter, travel doesn't matter. Namely,
• 50:10
  three concerts you would love to see. Can I go back in time?
• 50:15
  Or anything you want to do. Three concerts, Well, I would go
• 50:17
  to Madison Square Garden two thousand and three. I think it's in the summer,
• 50:22
  and very specific. Pearl Jam. I think so Pearl Jam peaked,
• 50:28
  I think as a live band in two thousand and three would have been amazing.
• 50:31
  So that would be a good one. Probably go back and see Tom
• 50:37
  Petty. I have to go see Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers sometime in the
• 50:40
  eighties or nineties. I would love to go see him. I had he's
• 50:45
  not here with us anymore. And then, you know, I feel like
• 50:50
  they they had a brief run, but it was a great run. Would
• 50:52
  be the Eagles probably late seventies earlieries. Yeah, go go see them.
• 50:57
  But those would be be my three pro billion that order, although I might
• 51:00
  put Tom Petty ahead of Pearl Jam if I had to me. And so,
• 51:06
  yeah, that's really good. Food Wise, all we've gotten so far
• 51:09
  is chips in a Mexican restaurant. Any particular foods that you love, any
• 51:15
  sort of yeah, seafood, golf cuisine, you know, growing up in
• 51:20
  Mississippi, it's it's right there by, you know, Alabama, Louisiana,
• 51:24
  Mississippi. They all have this golf kind of you know thing. So any
• 51:29
  kind of gumbo, little spice a little bit, yeah, like shrimp,
• 51:34
  anything with shrimp, chicken, yeah, wash it down with a tall cool
• 51:38
  kersaveil. Yeah, I can't get it. Anyway. Last week we were
• 51:44
  on the Caravans Tour and Chad Scott, Mountaineer offensive coordinator, takes great pride
• 51:52
  in cooking seafood, and his claim is he's the greatest crawfish cooker in the
• 52:00
  world and had an apron that basically said greatest crawfish chef in the world.
• 52:07
  They brought up one hundred and sixty pounds from Louisiana and he cooked them for
• 52:14
  the kids when in the last couple of three weeks they just boil them or
• 52:17
  he fixed them whatever. I don't know how he did it, but I
• 52:20
  mean I think it was he said they were hot, so there was some
• 52:22
  perspiration that was coming off there. Yeah, we used to have big crawfish
• 52:25
  balls. You know, it could be the whole community, or it could
• 52:30
  have been you know, somebody's driveway. You just get live crawfish, boom,
• 52:34
  boil them, usually some corn potatoes in there. Yeah, you know
• 52:37
  Tony's or any kind of Cajun spices in there and then you just dump it
• 52:42
  out all on the table. Yes, yes, I have at it.
• 52:45
  So we need that here. We need to do those kind of things.
• 52:47
  Just something on some brown paper that you just roll out. I'm for that.
• 52:52
  That's a board that's here in the soil well, I mean in West
• 52:53
  Virginia. Like if someone one of our listeners said, Hey, come to
• 52:57
  my driveway, We're just gonna dump out a bunch of food. Food there
• 53:00
  comes on a table, I'd be more than happy to do that. I
• 53:04
  held that at Stonewall. I've been blown away really at the at the Italian
• 53:07
  food h here in West Virginia's. But those guys, those guys over at
• 53:12
  Pete Dive befriend you. Yet, those guys that hang around live out there
• 53:15
  a little bit like Alvarez, he would call you like they they have like
• 53:21
  garages that are just made for food. Like, what's that you put your
• 53:24
  cars in there? Nah? We cooking there? I mean, what do
• 53:28
  you mean, Nah, commercial kitchen in there, We're just cooking. Yeah,
• 53:30
  it's I've been blown away really when we moved here. Again, we're
• 53:35
  coming from kind of that golf cuisine we come up here and you know the
• 53:37
  but the Italian food is so much better here than it is, oh back
• 53:40
  home or in Mississippi. So been been definitely impressed with that. All right,
• 53:45
  So your phone hasn't stopped blowing up since you guys, probably the minute
• 53:51
  the last ball was shot in California. Your phone's been blowing up, which
• 53:57
  means you got a lot of stuff to do, plus you're still tired,
• 53:59
  plus you're so we're gonna we're gonna give you the super thank you. We're
• 54:02
  gonna give you the super duper best of luck, and as you know,
• 54:07
  we're closely watching as stuff takes place next week. But Hoppy, I think
• 54:12
  he's been a wonderful guy. Wonderful, I mean wonderful. I don't know
• 54:15
  why you haven't had him on sooner. He was on once before, but
• 54:19
  it was on the phones via phone? Was that COVID might have been right?
• 54:22
  Is that probably what it was? Yeah? Probably so, I know.
• 54:24
  But the guys's been here nine years. I mean, well, we
• 54:28
  we haven't done much. No, I'm kidding, no, we I do
• 54:30
  say that the twenty nineteen team, we were really close. People probably forget
• 54:35
  we were goin sixth we were Yes, we were the first team out,
• 54:38
  you know, from advancing. That would have been really really cool. I
• 54:42
  think we're three shots, three shots from advancing, and we had a ball
• 54:45
  plugging the bunker on eighteen. We had to get four point eighteen and we
• 54:50
  had lost ball in eighteen and so I felt like the golf gods owed me,
• 54:52
  owed me one and I think they paid me back tenfold this last month.
• 54:57
  So thank you to them. But it's good to get to get to
• 55:00
  the National Championship. And it's it's really cool to seeing that flying WV gonna
• 55:05
  pop up, you know, on the Golf channel amongst all these great golf
• 55:08
  schools. One last last thing is we talk so much about portal. Let
• 55:13
  me talk so much about nil and the other sports, football, basketball,
• 55:17
  and you know in other sports. Has that got into your world yet?
• 55:22
  It's in the world. But you know, as a coach, you kind
• 55:23
  of dictate your culture, hopefully a little bit, and we the portal has
• 55:28
  just not been a thing as far as kids exiting, which I think is
• 55:30
  a great sign. And yes, we've had a few that we've we've picked
• 55:35
  up via the portal, but if I have to talk a kid into coming
• 55:39
  here solely based on money, then it's probably not gonna be a good fit.
• 55:44
  Now, if I can assist and help out a kid that's doing the
• 55:49
  right things, that's already here, that's a good teammate and great player,
• 55:52
  good student, and top him off with that, that I am one hundred
• 55:55
  percent for that. But as far as a recruiting device, probably not gonna
• 56:01
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• 57:00
  to say goodbye to Sean. Okay, watch us, it's gonna be magic.
• 57:04
  We're gonna go textual healing, and then he's suddenly going to disappear.
• 57:07
  Thanks brother coach, congratulations, appreciate it. Thanks Sean Covich. Ladies and
• 57:09
  gentlemen. On three guys before the game, you know to say, it
• 57:24
  feels like with a lot of these Olympic sports that we're in this golden era
• 57:30
  almost. I mean, maybe it's it's too much to call it a golden
• 57:34
  era, but but boy, there has been a lot. No, you're
• 57:37
  right to be soccer about. Yeah, ye, the soccers. The baseball's
• 57:43
  the what he's doing now, and I don't want to scamp anybody out there.
• 57:47
  And we're also on the verge of going to be very good in time.
• 57:52
  In volleyball. J Jen Greeney, the newly named volleyball coach, will
• 57:58
  be with us next week. I'm three guys before the game when someone else
• 58:02
  is fishing and it's it's really it's really cool to meet coaches who are not
• 58:09
  from here but then come here and part of the attraction is they know about
• 58:16
  what it is, what what it is involving mountaineer nation and fans support and
• 58:23
  all that, and they get that and they want to be a part of
• 58:25
  that and they come here and they're becom ingrained in that. That's uh.
• 58:29
  And sometimes I think sitting here, you know, you can't see the forest
• 58:32
  for the treets. You take it for granted, and that's that's a that's
• 58:36
  a good thing. I mean that that's a healthy thing to have for an
• 58:38
  institution, that kind of image, that that is a national perspective. Absolutely,
• 58:46
  that people know about things are good. Yeah, we'll get into that
• 58:49
  in just a second. What do you mean you'll get into that in just
• 58:51
  a second. There's some text about that. Oh okay, okay, it
• 58:54
  is just setting. Yeah, yeah, whatever. Some people have some people
• 58:59
  are green with you. That's what I met. What's the problem. He
• 59:01
  seems feisty today, Yeah, very defensive And listen, dude, we're your
• 59:07
  friends. We're not those politicians that you've been screaming at all week with all
• 59:09
  this stuff going on. We're your buddies. I don't know why, and
• 59:13
  I always take special care not to attack you at all. I know better
• 59:20
  than that this is like, this is like vipers here, like a pit
• 59:22
  of vipers. Hey, let's do this thing again. I started the show
• 59:28
  and I told you that we're going to do a live event. Here's the
• 59:30
  deal, Saturday, June the eighth Stonewall Resort. We are partnering with wv's
• 59:38
  Cancer Institute, and this is different than what we've done in the past.
• 59:44
  So this is a day long event. If you would like to make it
• 59:45
  a day long event, you can play in the golf tournament and then sit
• 59:51
  and watch our live show and eat. Or you can don't worry about the
• 59:55
  golf and just pay a separate fee and come and watch the live show and
• 1:00:01
  eat. All of the money goes to the WVU Fund. And what fund
• 1:00:09
  is it? This fund is called Live Like Brent Comfort Fund. Who is
• 1:00:15
  Brent. Brent is a former WVU student who passed away from a blood cancer
• 1:00:23
  after a tremendous, valiant fight, and the Live Like Brent Comfort Fund takes
• 1:00:30
  these dollars and they help support those that are receiving treatments for blood disorders.
• 1:00:37
  From a varied things like it could be gas for family to get there to
• 1:00:43
  see that person, it could be for wigs, it could be for all
• 1:00:47
  different kinds of things that families and patients need. And WVU alum Brent Evans,
• 1:00:55
  began this and so not only do they do WVU cancers involved, but
• 1:00:59
  they've got all these other facilities, hospitals on the eastern side of Pennsylvania where
• 1:01:04
  he's from, like penn and Temple and all those other kind of hospitals out
• 1:01:07
  there. They also do fundraisers for that. This one would be specific to
• 1:01:13
  WVU special guest appearance. He'll be with us that day, Garrett Green.
• 1:01:17
  Don't know if he's golfing or not, but Garrett's going to be with us
• 1:01:22
  during the live portion of the show, and the three of us will be
• 1:01:25
  there and we'll do this to you, Okay. So this thing isn't just
• 1:01:30
  about golf for football. It's a chance to do what we like to do.
• 1:01:36
  We like to focus on businesses and help businesses in West Virginia. We
• 1:01:38
  also like to focus on things that help community and people. And this is
• 1:01:45
  a huge deal. So here's what y'all have to do for tickets, visit
• 1:01:51
  WVU Cancer Golf Classic dot Com WVU Cancer Golf Classic dot com. The cost
• 1:01:59
  of the of event, the cost of the event without playing the golf,
• 1:02:05
  just to come in and watch the show and eat is one hundred and sixty
• 1:02:08
  American dollars. And if you go to the website the golf thing, you
• 1:02:15
  can put a fivesome together or force them together. You could also just play
• 1:02:19
  separately and then get put into a team. But it's on the Arnold Palmer
• 1:02:22
  of course. We'll talk more about it. For some is a good deal
• 1:02:29
  and then you get the whole show and get everything that's good. Let's sell
• 1:02:32
  this thing out. Ye be great to see everybody. What's the address again,
• 1:02:37
  w well address that you were talking about the course, WV I can
• 1:02:42
  find it, but just tell me WUVU Cancer Golf Classic dot Com. WV
• 1:02:46
  you Cancer Golf Classic dot com. If you go there now, Hoppey,
• 1:02:51
  you'll see your smiling face. Oh can we use your picture? Thank you?
• 1:02:55
  June eight eighth of June on a Saturday. I love to have you
• 1:03:01
  guys there. That's all we're doing this summer. We're not doing any live
• 1:03:06
  events. I think this is it. They'll be v you cancer golf.
• 1:03:09
  Those people in Myrtle Beach talked a good game, then they never came through
• 1:03:13
  with any details. Yeah, what happened with the Yeah you know? Oh
• 1:03:17
  there it is Merle's inlet. You're clipping right along where Summer's over. I
• 1:03:22
  mean, let's face that getting darker early. I feel the same way fun
• 1:03:29
  of him for years per saying that I do. I mean it's done,
• 1:03:30
  that summer's over. Well, yeah, pretty much. Think about this.
• 1:03:35
  In ten weeks it's August. I'll say that again. Ten weeks it's August.
• 1:03:39
  Look, here's the here's the thing about summer. For what we do.
• 1:03:43
  You can enjoy May, you can enjoy June. Then it's over.
• 1:03:47
  Hey, you know who you know who's at fourth it's over. You know
• 1:03:51
  who else is going to be to enjoy June because it's already middle of a
• 1:03:52
  Maze's almost over. By the way I do see it is that website is
• 1:04:00
  up and operating. You know who else is going to be there that day?
• 1:04:02
  Who we're doing something else? What? Well, Blaine Stewart, Karen
• 1:04:10
  Stewart are going to be there because we are going to need this is really
• 1:04:14
  neat. We're going to dedicate that day a bench on the golf course where
• 1:04:20
  the late Bill Stewart suffered his fatal heart attack. And the bench is there
• 1:04:27
  right now, but it's never been dedicated. So what better day to do
• 1:04:30
  it than this day? And with Garrett being there and Karen and Blaine are
• 1:04:35
  going to be there with us that day and Coach Stu, we're going to
• 1:04:40
  dedicate that bench which will sit on that Arnold Palmer course going forward. So
• 1:04:46
  we got a lot of stuff going on. That's a lot of things in
• 1:04:49
  one day. Might be more. What does that mean there might be more?
• 1:04:55
  Well, it might be an auction. Do you know that? Yeah?
• 1:05:00
  Go ahead? What now? What now? We are going to be
• 1:05:02
  the auction at the event. I might assume you're the auctioneer if you know
• 1:05:09
  there's going to be an auction. Yeah, So we're going to see your
• 1:05:12
  auctioneer skills live. We're gonna get some stuff, gonna get some stuff.
• 1:05:15
  Okay. Do you know that Stu's been going fourteen years this month? Yeah,
• 1:05:21
  this month May twenty first, yep, May twenty first. I remember
• 1:05:25
  that working working that day and we got it was in the morning we got
• 1:05:28
  word. I was sitting in the parking lot at United Bank Parkersburg, getting
• 1:05:33
  ready to go into the shareholders meeting there because we were doing the video for
• 1:05:39
  that event, and Travis Jones called me and said, hey, I went
• 1:05:44
  You gotta be kidding me. Yeah, that's awesome that Blaine and Karen will
• 1:05:47
  be there. Yeah, that's tremendous. You're ready to do some textual healings.
• 1:05:51
  Sure. Uh. By the way, at some point in this we
• 1:05:58
  got we got a bad situation that got to reveal. Is what, man,
• 1:06:00
  You've got all kind you're kind of weird stuff. Today you got a
• 1:06:03
  bad situation I got to get into. It's gonna be did your time publicly.
• 1:06:08
  I don't know anything. No, everything he said to that, I
• 1:06:10
  don't know anything about. That's about the only thing I do. And he
• 1:06:14
  knew the golf coach was coming in. I didn't know that. Other than
• 1:06:16
  that, we're all just we're all just learning about You know what a great
• 1:06:19
  thing about this, We are learning about these things at the same time you
• 1:06:24
  are. I'm gonna send a quick text message in with my thoughts on but
• 1:06:29
  he's decided for us. I'll just say this, it's unfortunate the news that
• 1:06:33
  I'm going to have to bring is unfortunate. That's all I'll say. I'll
• 1:06:38
  get to it shortly. Professor Vinnie here, So I know it's ridiculously early,
• 1:06:42
  but I saw some sporting betsites putting out win totals. West Virginia apparently
• 1:06:45
  at six and a half, that's a little low, no returning to a
• 1:06:49
  lot of talent starting QB nine win season. Did I miss something, Senator,
• 1:06:54
  Yeah, A lot of people think cher Vinnie's thought there that that was
• 1:06:57
  maybe a win too low. I think and I would agree with that assessment.
• 1:07:00
  I think what you're looking at there, if I'm trying to build the
• 1:07:03
  case for why the books did that. If you look at the Big twelve,
• 1:07:05
  there's a bunch of teams hobby that are bunched up in seven and a
• 1:07:10
  half as their win total. So I think West Virginia probably gets knocked down
• 1:07:13
  a peg because of that difficult non conference. It's different than those other teams.
• 1:07:16
  So seven and a half probably would have been the number. If if
• 1:07:20
  the Penn State off or take a pit off there, slide somebody else in,
• 1:07:25
  you probably would have been right in that group of whatever there is six
• 1:07:27
  or seven schools. Because right now listen and Neil would say the same thing
• 1:07:30
  to you. And we say this every year right now, So we sit
• 1:07:33
  here in May with this particular big twelve. When you try and go in
• 1:07:38
  and tell me who's going to finish third through fifteenth, good luck? You
• 1:07:42
  know how many teams are there this year in the league? Sixteen? Yeah?
• 1:07:45
  I think they played Gonzaga one Wednesday night. The you know, Brad,
• 1:07:48
  I think you're exactly right, and the Penn State does knock you down
• 1:07:50
  from seven and a half to six and a half. And also I'm just
• 1:07:53
  thinking about this last night, is that it is so the margin, the
• 1:07:58
  margin here is so tight that the difference between like I think this team will
• 1:08:02
  have obviously winning season, but the six to nine, you know, you
• 1:08:06
  know how narrow it is in the sixth. But that's the same for Kansas
• 1:08:14
  State, Kansas BARRASONA, and TCU in Texas State. Right that's when you
• 1:08:17
  go down this league, and that's why a lot of this you get in
• 1:08:20
  this position. We love a lot about this West Virginia team, which we'll
• 1:08:24
  get into over the summer here, but you also you don't know what your
• 1:08:28
  injuries are going to be and what the other team's injuries are going to be
• 1:08:30
  when you play them in that moment. So just so many variables. It
• 1:08:32
  is hard to do win totals in college football right now. But I'm with
• 1:08:36
  Vinnie. That seems a tableau. But my guess is that's the reason why.
• 1:08:41
  Caleb Caleb from cyclone, West Virginia texts in good morning, long time
• 1:08:46
  listener, first time I've texted. Took my first trip to can Coon this
• 1:08:50
  week. I'm walking down the street. What I am surprised to see?
• 1:08:56
  Gomart. As I walked in, I asked for a fly Rods, Slimjim
• 1:09:00
  and a five pound reci Soon realized I wasn't in West Virginia anymore, and
• 1:09:05
  the lady at the cast register looked at me well as if I had three
• 1:09:10
  heads. I explained how in West Virginia there are Gomarts and they're running joke
• 1:09:15
  of the slim gym in the rec I believe I have laid the groundwork for
• 1:09:18
  these items to be sold there. Now. Maybe if we can get you
• 1:09:20
  guys involved in the efforting, we can make this happen. PS. As
• 1:09:26
  we sit in the lobby on Tuesday night, it was my pleasure to teach
• 1:09:29
  those people down there in can Coon the true words to Sweet Caroline. Thank
• 1:09:33
  you very much, Caleb. Actually, that's the second time someone has sent
• 1:09:36
  us well a gomart from over in the can Coon. I did not know
• 1:09:41
  gas away to can Coon first. I've heard it. Unbelievable, tremendous.
• 1:09:45
  Got to stock those slim gyms in Reces though. Yeah, I'm probably going
• 1:09:49
  to get some shrimp. Here's a situation, you know. Here, here's
• 1:09:55
  the story. I want to tell you. Good afternoon, Good afternoon.
• 1:10:00
  Heard you heard you? I heard you had the most handsome and brilliant coach
• 1:10:06
  in the world on today. Just so happens, he happens to be my
• 1:10:11
  husband. He's simply the best. Makes me a better person every day,
• 1:10:14
  Our family and every player and coach he's ever had the privilege to work with
• 1:10:16
  is truly better because of him. Could you tell him how much I love
• 1:10:20
  him? Can't wait to listen to three guys, the Leslies are looking forward
• 1:10:25
  to a wonderful year. Let's go. And so that's from Jordan's wife,
• 1:10:30
  Fan, who's terrific. Let me tell you how nice she and Jordan are
• 1:10:35
  so. Last Sunday I got a text. Oh I do know about this
• 1:10:40
  I'll do you. I got a text from her really unfortunately, and she
• 1:10:44
  uh from Jordan. From Jordan, and he said, hey, man,
• 1:10:48
  I remember Jordan talked at the end of the episode about chicken chili. Yes,
• 1:10:53
  yes, yes, get that very detailed description. Yes. So she
• 1:10:56
  said, hey, we're making it today, and he sent me a video
• 1:11:00
  of him stirring up that chicken chili. Oh, she goes, would you
• 1:11:03
  like some? No, no, no, no, no, she didn't
• 1:11:05
  say that. Then she came back and she said, hey, Jordan just
• 1:11:09
  left recruiting this week. He made you some. I'm going to bring you
• 1:11:14
  guys some chicken chili. Okay, I said, cool. Now I knew
• 1:11:16
  I was going to be in Charlotte on Monday. I said, sure,
• 1:11:19
  just bring it to the building, you know, hit the bell, someone
• 1:11:25
  will come out there. Just give it to him. They'll take care of
• 1:11:27
  it. Cool. So I come home Monday night from Charlotte. Tuesday morning
• 1:11:32
  early, I'm going through my email. About five am, I'm going through
• 1:11:38
  emails. I see an email from the president of our company. So he
• 1:11:45
  says, hey, just want to let you know from George. Yeah,
• 1:11:48
  George, he says, just want to let you know. I was walking
• 1:11:51
  through the lobby yesterday at work there was a young lady there and she had
• 1:11:57
  a gift for you, a bag. She said, it needs to be
• 1:12:00
  warmed up, so I know what happened. I left it on your desk.
• 1:12:11
  So I came in tuesday and there it was three beautiful plastic containers,
• 1:12:17
  one for Harvey, one for Brad and one for Tony hold on one side
• 1:12:23
  in a beautiful bag. She did a great job decorating. Now talking to
• 1:12:27
  you for a second, yeah, super big thanks. We owe a huge
• 1:12:30
  thanks to the Leslies. Yes, because when he was negotiating that deal,
• 1:12:33
  if you'll remember, he was only negotiating on his back. Of course,
• 1:12:36
  he was only talking to Jordan about getting some for himself and trying to cut
• 1:12:42
  us out as he often does. So thank you to the Leslies for thinking
• 1:12:45
  to us. Thank you very much, because we don't get that from Tony.
• 1:12:48
  I don't know if I don't know if she regularly listens, but I
• 1:12:51
  haven't. I did not have I did not have the ability to contact her
• 1:12:56
  this week because I was embarrassed that it went that way. But this is
• 1:13:00
  what I'm going to do. So we didn't get taste of the great chili.
• 1:13:02
  Well, we can have botulism. Well, I saw it. I
• 1:13:06
  saw it sitting in the kitchen. I didn't know what I didn't know.
• 1:13:11
  Don't put this on me, Yeah, yeah, no, this is not
• 1:13:15
  on me. It's not on anybody. Poor George. You probably thought it
• 1:13:17
  was brownies or something. I mean, George wouldn't have done that, Georgie,
• 1:13:23
  had he known, he would have known to put it in the fresh
• 1:13:24
  Absolutely, this is sad. So I'm gonna make it. I'm going to
• 1:13:29
  make some thought. I'm gonna make some bread for the Leslies, of which
• 1:13:31
  you two will get none, and I will make that for I will make
• 1:13:34
  that for the leslie. Don't get an anyway about that. Yeah, that's
• 1:13:39
  not a shock. Have I ever given you bread? Yes, you have
• 1:13:42
  actually ever given you bread? Yes you have, thank you, Brad.
• 1:13:45
  No, you've given my daughter bread, But you're not. You have given
• 1:13:48
  me bread. I apologize text her, Hold, can I go back one
• 1:13:51
  second for this because that took a turn at the end that I did not
• 1:13:56
  think was happening. I thought that text was going to actually be from miss
• 1:13:59
  Kate heke Covich. No, I thought was texting in having the coach on
• 1:14:03
  today. Oh, yeah, no, this was last week. Well it's
• 1:14:06
  not just not a live show, so she wouldn't be You knew that she
• 1:14:10
  wouldn't be able to text right away. I didn't book Covid ten minutes ago.
• 1:14:13
  I mean I booked him previously. We knew he was coming in.
• 1:14:15
  Oh, I'm saying I thought she had sent that ahead to be read.
• 1:14:19
  It was going to be. We need some We need greater organization in no
• 1:14:25
  seven years. You don't want to start it now. Gary and Beckley writes
• 1:14:28
  in organization we were we have the most topical guest in Westernine sports history.
• 1:14:31
  I know, but we but we we Now we screwed up the chili.
• 1:14:35
  We did screw that. We don't have much infrastructure on this program. It's
• 1:14:39
  kind of if one of the three of us doesn't touch it, it ain't
• 1:14:42
  getting done. So the infrastructure, where was Dave on that chili? We
• 1:14:45
  didn't have somebody to receive our food that's coming in the can someone be dedicated
• 1:14:50
  to receiving the food that comes in Jumping Jack, if he was here,
• 1:14:54
  he would have taken care of it. Just Gary and Beckley. The infrastructure
• 1:14:58
  startup, Gary and Beckley right in Jordan Leslie was a five star interview.
• 1:15:01
  Yeah. Another person writes in I love the Jordan Leslie interview. Great voice
• 1:15:06
  and accent. Anyone else hearing Elvis, Huh, we have to go back
• 1:15:11
  and sample that. Andy and Amarillo Elvis with him A lot is right in
• 1:15:15
  that area two below Yeah, Yeah, Andy and Amarillo writes this may be
• 1:15:19
  too late for airtime, but please let Charles Wesley Godwin know that a West
• 1:15:25
  Virginia boy is taking his fifteen year old West Virginia born daughter too, was
• 1:15:29
  very her for first concert to see him and his band. We'll be in
• 1:15:32
  there ready to sing country roads in the heart of Red Raider Country. Chuck's
• 1:15:35
  out there in Texas. He'd been out in Texas working the Texas thing still
• 1:15:40
  Yeah, Texter. By the way, Yeah, when as part of our
• 1:15:48
  fundraising for that event that we're doing on June eighth, Yes, we're gonna
• 1:15:55
  do Where'd that go? The week for the event, We're going to do
• 1:16:00
  an auction item on the podcast and give everyone a chance to bid on a
• 1:16:03
  great item from Charles Wesley Godwin, signed guitar and one of our bourbon barrel
• 1:16:11
  lids for the Hope Group. More to come in the next few weeks,
• 1:16:15
  so those that can attend will have a chance to participate. Good items.
• 1:16:20
  Yep, sore you go. Meanwhile, always a West Virginia connection and playing
• 1:16:27
  golf. Last week in Saint Louis, fellow in the threesome I was paired
• 1:16:30
  with Notice my flying WVU cap said that he was retiring at the end of
• 1:16:34
  the month. He is training his replacement, who is a thirty seven year
• 1:16:39
  old man from West Virginia. This man has two sons. Their names are
• 1:16:47
  Major and Nielan. This from Max in Missouri. My guy has two boys.
• 1:17:00
  And now he's not talking. Now he's not talking about his labrador's named
• 1:17:04
  Max or humans. Yeah, human beings? Wow, who that's classic?
• 1:17:10
  It is Chris cape Coral, Florida used to live in Mullins. What a
• 1:17:15
  difference of year makes. Last year we were in turmoil, lost our women's
• 1:17:18
  basketball coach, hugging situation. Neil Brown was a walking dead man, and
• 1:17:25
  we didn't have a lot of home. Ren Baker has done a phenomenal job,
• 1:17:30
  not only of calming the storm, but renewing hope. Talk about a
• 1:17:32
  guy earning his keep from Chris and Cape Coral, Florida talked to him yesterday.
• 1:17:38
  He's busy, Chris no wren. Oh, he's got a lot going
• 1:17:44
  on with all these changes brand, they're going to be coming through the n
• 1:17:48
  C two A and who's gonna get money and who's got to get paid?
• 1:17:53
  And what I mean, ground is shifting constantly, not going on. Do
• 1:17:58
  you never mind just the day today stuff? Yeah? Yeah, I mean
• 1:18:00
  yeah, never might not. This next story is pretty wild. Last year
• 1:18:05
  I wrote in to share my experiences on TV and film sets in California regarding
• 1:18:11
  the flying WUV wonder Woman confusion. Remember this, I remember this guy works
• 1:18:15
  on film sets out there, and when he wears his flying WV, people
• 1:18:19
  say, hey, is that wonder Woman? Well, in March, I
• 1:18:21
  took a job on the East Coast and I ordered gear from episode eight hundred
• 1:18:25
  dot com for my new job. I've discovered a similar issue with three guys
• 1:18:30
  hats. At the beginning of a shoot, I was repeatedly asked if burger
• 1:18:34
  quality was declining since two guys have apparently been fired, so they went from
• 1:18:40
  five guys to three guys, so they're trying to be funny. I would
• 1:18:44
  explain, no, three guys is this? And I described the podcast after
• 1:18:48
  learning about three guys before the game, and it's West Virginia sports coverage.
• 1:18:53
  A few of the crew members responded with a comment about Kevin Pittsnagle. After
• 1:18:59
  three months, when those same crew members see my three guys hat, instead
• 1:19:01
  of making a burger comment, they asked me to not pittsnoggle. Then,
• 1:19:06
  since it's a film set and not a basketball court. I'm not sure what
• 1:19:10
  they mean, but if it keeps them quiet when we're rolling, I'll take
• 1:19:14
  it. Signed by dB. Good to know we're out there in the film
• 1:19:17
  and film in the industry. We're efforting to get more national. Kind of
• 1:19:20
  a niche podcast right now, though I talk about West Strange sports, Joe
• 1:19:26
  Mack and South Parkersburg rights. Hey guys, I'm Hoppy's age, so forgive
• 1:19:30
  me if I seem a little off in Senile as well. Did the lady
• 1:19:35
  in the last seat by the WVU dugout have a wardrobe malfunction when JJ hit
• 1:19:41
  his monster Homer against Penn State Wednesday? When she jumped in the air and
• 1:19:45
  threw up her arms. Seems like her off the shoulder blue dress lost its
• 1:19:48
  bearings. What a great night to be about here. I have nothing to
• 1:19:51
  know. I know nothing about that. What is that about? I don't
• 1:19:54
  know. Someone got it? Okay, ps Tony. You and I met
• 1:19:58
  one day in the cafeteria. Yeah, at the DuPont Washington work site.
• 1:20:01
  Well, upon hearing your place you place your order at the cafeteria, I
• 1:20:06
  commented that you sounded just like Tony Krety. You replied, yeah, that's
• 1:20:12
  my brother. It wasn't very nice of you. Your brother doesn't sound like
• 1:20:16
  you, though. He sounds different. He sounds completely different what you're Oh,
• 1:20:20
  yeah, your brother does, yes, unbelievably different, very western New
• 1:20:26
  York. Yeah, very Hey what are you doing? I don't know what
• 1:20:30
  are you doing? How's happy? Kerchiefal hoppy doing good? That's it?
• 1:20:40
  That's it? Oh happy? How are you? He's the best? Oh
• 1:20:46
  boy, well, I see he's about a once a year guy. He
• 1:20:50
  just shows up this this stealth. He comes in stealth, he does.
• 1:20:56
  And you don't know what. I guess you know, but I don't know.
• 1:20:58
  I don't know. Seriously, Like about four or five weeks ago,
• 1:21:03
  four or five weeks ago, it was a Sunday. It was a Sunday.
• 1:21:06
  I get a text picture from him. Yeah, it was a picture
• 1:21:13
  of the port John at the house. We're building your house. Yeah,
• 1:21:18
  just shut up, check out in Oregontown. You want to see the work.
• 1:21:23
  He had no idea, like, at least I know he was in
• 1:21:25
  Florida, so he just showed up and yeah. So like so me knowing
• 1:21:29
  like he likes to be the big surprise guy. I don't respond perfect perfect,
• 1:21:33
  It's just like okay, Jack, like you're here, I'm not responding
• 1:21:36
  to you. And so then I get the call, Hey, what are
• 1:21:40
  you doing? I said, what are you doing? He goes, do
• 1:21:43
  you get that text? I said, no, you send me something.
• 1:21:51
  I want to check out the wire and he said I wanted to come back
• 1:21:55
  coming up from Florida. I wanted to stop and see he did retire?
• 1:22:02
  Did he? Yeah? Okay he did. Hey, three guys, Jeff
• 1:22:08
  from Lumberport here. I've got a question. I can't see him find an
• 1:22:12
  answer to him. Recently, my friend, my family and I attended a
• 1:22:16
  Brandon Lake concert an Austoin awesome Christian concert. Even better guy at that school
• 1:22:24
  up North's basketball facility. So up there at the Peat he went and watch
• 1:22:28
  one of them concerts. Traffic sucked, to say the least, traveling in
• 1:22:31
  that city is awful. That got me to thinking about capacities. Pitt's capacity
• 1:22:36
  twelve five eight thousand seats for a concert, West Virginia's capacity at the coliseum
• 1:22:43
  fourteen thousand traffic a lot better to maneuver in Morgantown. Capacities, larger facilities,
• 1:22:48
  nicer. I'm sure it would be a revenue maker for the university.
• 1:22:53
  I know Ren has talked about rastland. Not a fan anymore, bring back
• 1:22:58
  the nineties and other events. My question is, do any of you know
• 1:23:00
  if there's a reason West Virginia does not schedule concerts or other large events in
• 1:23:04
  Morgantown. Is it laws, regulations, or anything like that sort. I
• 1:23:09
  appreciate hearing about this. I love the show. Let's go out hears ps.
• 1:23:13
  I'm still waiting on that hanky. So I think all of that is
• 1:23:17
  in discussion phase. I think that is something that they want to get into.
• 1:23:21
  But quite honestly, I did recently hear from someone and they said when
• 1:23:27
  they hung the new basketball scoreboard, which is now getting ready for like three
• 1:23:30
  year three or year four, it impacted the ability to go in and hang
• 1:23:36
  to fly stuff, to fly stuff. Yeah, the lighting and the grids
• 1:23:40
  and all that kind of stuff. So they're figuring that stuff out and that's
• 1:23:45
  what they would like to do some stuff, but at this point they're trying
• 1:23:46
  to figure out how they can do that kind of stuff. I would love
• 1:23:51
  to go to a WWE event, but Brad, I want to be backstage.
• 1:23:58
  I want to see what's going on there. Want to see those guys
• 1:24:00
  interacting, Like is the immedia credential? He's a wrestling gun. I've done
• 1:24:03
  that. I've been backstage of wrestling. Have you really yeahs big guy?
• 1:24:08
  How'd you get back there? People? Yeah? Would that be cool?
• 1:24:12
  Yeah? This it was. I was begging to it. I know.
• 1:24:15
  You get the T shirts the whole time, gather, big group of us
• 1:24:18
  would gather for every pay per view. Have you seen the wrestling movie?
• 1:24:23
  No, what's the von Erics one? Yeah? Have you seen it?
• 1:24:26
  That's big? That's big Ren's big movie there. Because those guys are graduates
• 1:24:29
  in North Texas, the von Ricks are they? Yeah? Yeah, same
• 1:24:33
  as one been kurachable the I watched that last week. Was it good?
• 1:24:40
  Yeah? It was good. I heard it was good. It was good.
• 1:24:41
  I heard it was good. Chuck from Lumber pragic tragic, tragic story
• 1:24:47
  Oh I didn't know that. Oh yeah, Chuck from Lumberport. I looked
• 1:24:53
  at the Bleacher Report AFT this afternoon had an article on best running backs in
• 1:24:57
  each conference. R two double backs weren't even talked about. I hope they
• 1:25:02
  read that article. One thousand yards rushing free each of those guys this year,
• 1:25:06
  and so I leave that apple one. Just listen to this show.
• 1:25:09
  I'm pretty sure we'll talk about Jahem and CJ. Lott, Yes, Tony,
• 1:25:13
  Brad and random episodic Hopy number one. Maybe Hoppy is actually there,
• 1:25:19
  but he has on his Harry Potter's invisibility cloating nice invisibility clik. Number two,
• 1:25:25
  the most recent quarterback transfer, appears to be a pocket passer. I
• 1:25:29
  thought coach Breezy Brown had learned that you need a dual threat quarterback to win
• 1:25:32
  in the Big twelve. Number three is Javon Small not signing his contract a
• 1:25:41
  legitimate concern? Tony, I'll do three, then Brad can do two.
• 1:25:45
  You and you do two three, A couple of things I can do one,
• 1:25:55
  go ahead. So the short answer is no, they feel good about
• 1:26:01
  that. However, as I said earlier this week on a show that airs
• 1:26:06
  on this network, at six pm each night, six o six. Anyway,
• 1:26:14
  no coach in the country feels good until the kids that they've signed enrolling
• 1:26:18
  classes. So until they literally are signed in as a student and a ten
• 1:26:26
  day class, no coaches solid, but they feel good. Javon small June
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  third. June third is the date when you can start again here June third,
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  that's but no, they feel good about it. But again, it's
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  like it's like flying. Uh, it's like attack attack people a right,
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  people are just circling, like they're circling and circling, trying to get kids
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  because if they lost kids, they're trying to come back and get kids.
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  But knock on wood, these guys enroll and then it gets started. The
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  desperation always makes you nervous. Yes, yeah, that's the way to look
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  at this part, just like the desperation now is gotta worry about it.
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  One hundred years ago, a night before football signing started, coaches literally would
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  take kids and bring them to hotels so other coaches couldn't go to the kid's
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  house and sign them. And I'm not saying that's happening now, but it's
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  kind of sort of similar, which is wild back then because what were they
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  pitching the different majors that they they had on campus. Some schools getting kids
• 1:27:29
  to flip went to the Institution for the Command. Didn't know they offered biology.
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  Young men were not aware of that. Did not know accounting. It
• 1:27:35
  was an area of study that we could get into. Found that out before
• 1:27:38
  Shinny Dad decided to flip. Now, Billy, you're gonna sign here at
• 1:27:42
  State U because Pastor Barnes just found out we're getting a new paved parking lot.
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  Yeah, boy, what about the quarterback? Yeah? I mean again,
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  at this point, I trust Neil to know what he wants in a
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  quarterback. It looked to me and you're just going off high school for film
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  at this point it's highlights. I get it. But he can take off
• 1:28:02
  the new signee quarterback from b Yu, he can take off and run a
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  little bit Burton RD. Yeah. I think going forward, what they're saying
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  is we're not looking for Pat White, but we're also not looking for the
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  statue of Liberty. You want mobis threat mobile? Yeah, can you get
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  up out? Can you extend to play and get out of danger? You
• 1:28:23
  don't necessarily need to be Pat White or Major Harris, but can you move
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  your legs, get out of the pocket, extend to play. That's what
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  they're looking for. Texas says, I think John Flowers would be a great
• 1:28:31
  summer guest. He would have some Best Virginia info and tons of good stories.
• 1:28:36
  I'm sure we already had John on three Guys, and he no longer
• 1:28:42
  is involved with that Best Virginia. Chase Harler has assumed the general managers ship
• 1:28:47
  of that squad. Yes, uh, Texter says, I'm listening to Hoppy
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  tonight on Metro News about election night. This must be like seeing Belichick or
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  Brady on Super Bowl. So is that your super Bowl election nights? Yeah,
• 1:29:02
  you get ramped up? Yeah, yeah, I mean there's so many
• 1:29:05
  things that have to go right, and the on air is just sort of
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  you know, Brad, It's like everything else you do leading up to it,
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  and the on air is just the culmination and if if if the other
• 1:29:19
  stuff goes fine, then the on air will be fine. But it's a
• 1:29:23
  total team effort. Cliche bit true. And Kelly aersman from upstairs administrative assistant
• 1:29:28
  does a fantastic job. Kelly's terrific, She's terrific. How was the food?
• 1:29:31
  Who's good, who's good? Although there was it was two feedings,
• 1:29:36
  two feedings. However, there was a little bit of an issue about,
• 1:29:40
  you know, who's really good on her election coverage? As coach Hunter hurt
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  him. He's really good, I know he is great job on those precincts
• 1:29:47
  and projecting. Well, he goes, what what did he tell us hot
• 1:29:50
  What did he tell us Brad like happy? He was encouraging Hoppy to call
• 1:29:56
  one it was the governor's race and you didn't want to do it. That
• 1:29:59
  e nervis, I remembers, tell me, look, undred what Hunter does
• 1:30:02
  is I mean, he's the numbers guy. And so I said, focus
• 1:30:05
  on the race for the public nomination for governor because we knew it was going
• 1:30:09
  to be close, right and it was and it was and it was.
• 1:30:11
  And so he's looking at and looking at it, looking at it, looking
• 1:30:14
  at you, looking at it. He goes, Morris, he's going to
• 1:30:16
  win. I said, are you sure? Little like just before we're going
• 1:30:20
  on after break, I said, are you sure? He goes yes,
• 1:30:24
  And there was about sixty percent of vote in, so you know you're still
• 1:30:27
  a bit tight on that, you know, And he goes, yeah,
• 1:30:30
  I'm confident. I said, okay, we'll go. He did it and
• 1:30:32
  it was all right. Yeah, he knew you pulled a Stywalt. Uh
• 1:30:36
  yeah, Star Starwalt's call of Arizona was a little bit bigger, got him
• 1:30:43
  called before Congress. This is just going to get you called to three guys.
• 1:30:47
  Yeah. Uh Texter says, you know our number for if you'd like
• 1:30:53
  to Texas three oh four four four forty eighty three. He says, as
• 1:30:56
  always, you can text three guys at three billion, forty four million,
• 1:30:59
  forty one and eighty three. That's our number. So someone has more time
• 1:31:03
  on their hands than they know what to do with. Uh Texter. Here's
• 1:31:08
  an always West Virginia story. I had to travel to Philadelphia for my child's
• 1:31:13
  surgery. I was wearing my dou WVU hat and I consistently got comments like
• 1:31:17
  let's go Mountaineers and West by God. However, waiting in the line at
• 1:31:21
  the hospital food courts, someone commented on my WV hat and we started some
• 1:31:26
  small talk. Turns out we're both WVU football season ticket holders. Of course,
• 1:31:30
  we're both hyped for the season and we can't wait to ruin Penn State
• 1:31:34
  season in week one. Let's go Mountaineers, Ben from Roanoke. I hope
• 1:31:40
  the surgery went well. Yes, I was thinking Brad last night for some
• 1:31:45
  reason, I really had football in my mind last night. Is that West
• 1:31:47
  Virginia will be a home dog against Penn State. By there's a line that's
• 1:31:53
  already out. So what do you think? Six? It's almost two touchdowns?
• 1:31:58
  He's really last I looked, I haven't looked in a few days and
• 1:32:01
  a half. Yeah, really, yeah, I might take that today and
• 1:32:06
  I don't bet. What do you think? It seems like that seems it
• 1:32:11
  seems hot. Home dogs, home dogs, man home dogs. Yeah,
• 1:32:15
  but I mean two touchdowns? Thirteen? Do you think that's high? It
• 1:32:18
  fell a little high, felt a little high. I mean Penn State's gonna
• 1:32:23
  come into preseason top ten team though too, so you're gonna, yeah,
• 1:32:26
  James, a tad high, though you're not alone. A lot of Mountaineer
• 1:32:28
  fans of textas, where would you put it if I were doing that one
• 1:32:32
  right now? That's the thing you got to see what happened during summer,
• 1:32:35
  And yeah, that seems like a big number, Tony. I would have
• 1:32:40
  liked to get the fourteen and a half instead of thirteen and a half,
• 1:32:45
  and I'll say this as we get as we get closer, I do think
• 1:32:48
  that's one of the that will be a really challenging game. Obviously, right,
• 1:32:51
  there's captain obvious. I think West Virginia should feel like it has a
• 1:32:55
  legitimate chance to win that game. I don't know, Su, you will
• 1:32:59
  be a unbelievable win. And you talk about a springboard too really set in
• 1:33:02
  the tone for that season. But I think that particular group of Mountaineers should
• 1:33:06
  walk into that building on that Saturday feeling like they've chanced to win. That
• 1:33:11
  a very different vibe than a year ago or when you got new quarterback and
• 1:33:14
  you got to go up there. Yes, right, yeah, yeah.
• 1:33:16
  Can we talk about that game, Tony? It's only how many weeks away?
• 1:33:19
  I think we'll probably have enough time to sneak one about it. Craig
• 1:33:24
  from Winfield Real Name, just a question about coach Devrees. Close to eight
• 1:33:29
  weeks from Isray and other than the introductory press conference and his travel with the
• 1:33:33
  fundraising activities, when would a reasonable amount of time have pass to hear more
• 1:33:39
  from him in the form of interviews or visiting your podcast. I for one
• 1:33:44
  feel like it's an excellent higher, but I think fans are ready to hear
• 1:33:46
  from him in more more, in some way sooner than later. At least,
• 1:33:53
  I am thank you for all you do. Ps. I love the
• 1:33:56
  coach Leslie visit. I would say that after being with him six out of
• 1:34:05
  eight days in the last week, that he's going to develop a wrestler's cauliflower
• 1:34:14
  ear. He is trying to absolutely wrestle against an octopus right now of putting
• 1:34:21
  together players. Obviously staff his phone stays on his ear. It wasn't off
• 1:34:29
  of his ear unless unless we were in the air. Really that's the only
• 1:34:33
  time. And so he was dealing like from seven in the morning to like
• 1:34:38
  one, but the West Coast time. I mean, it's NonStop, it's
• 1:34:41
  agents, it's everything in anybody, player, reps, players, trying to
• 1:34:45
  get people to visit. So it's coming, I would say, in the
• 1:34:48
  next couple of weeks. I mean, we've got our We've got our.
• 1:34:51
  When do you leave for Europe? When does he leave for Europe? Like
• 1:34:55
  the last day or two of July. Oh yeah, we'll get him in
• 1:34:58
  here. You shut your mic off, Johnny, go ahead, shuffle around.
• 1:35:02
  We want to make sure he gets his roster set that's more important.
• 1:35:05
  Yes, the number one thing he needs to do is get these players locked.
• 1:35:10
  Once that happens, I think then he will go into all right time
• 1:35:14
  to coach. But until if you if you don't have players to go to
• 1:35:16
  the dance, yes, forget about it. You gotta get players. It's
• 1:35:24
  coming. This is this question is to mister spread's what's a success rate for
• 1:35:28
  WV on two point conversions? What's the average for power fives of two point
• 1:35:32
  conversions? How do you? How do the Mountaineers rank? So what I
• 1:35:36
  have I've not done that by percentages, but I will just give you total
• 1:35:42
  overall two point conversions? Does this sound right? West Virginia had two of
• 1:35:45
  them last year? Yes? A right, These numbers have low. That's
• 1:35:47
  twenty seventh nationally in just overall raw numbers of two point conversions. The nation's
• 1:35:53
  leader was Oregon only had five. Those seemed loaded. The five and fourteen
• 1:36:00
  games for Oregon, shoot from West Virginia. Two for West Virginia in the
• 1:36:06
  what did it play thirteen games last year? Yeah? Hm, so those
• 1:36:10
  seemed kind of low. That's what the numbers are showing me. But I
• 1:36:13
  haven't done that by percentage. It's obviously a low percentage. Will you offer
• 1:36:16
  that? What about is he ask him about success right? Is that think
• 1:36:18
  he's doing success right? That was just number that they had, So I'll
• 1:36:21
  try what were we in our two? Were we good? I don't know
• 1:36:26
  that that's what he's asking. That's last text. Hey, Tony, this
• 1:36:30
  is post Office Jonas here. I want to start off by reminding you I
• 1:36:34
  entered the transfer portal from the downtown High Street post Office and I finally finally
• 1:36:39
  made my choice. He's going to transfer to the Morgantown Annex, the main
• 1:36:44
  facility. He's going to work there with Adam. Adam sure, he said.
• 1:36:46
  Adam did a heck of a job recruiting. With that being said,
• 1:36:48
  I'm sorry you won't be able to get to the great service you deserve for
• 1:36:51
  me, but the rest of those guys down there are great. I also
• 1:36:55
  wanted to share you something I think you guys really enjoy. Will send pictures
• 1:37:00
  with About a month ago, my grandfather passed away. My mom was cleaning
• 1:37:03
  out his house stumbled upon a scrap book he made of Jerry West. In
• 1:37:09
  the scrap book many newspaper articles about Jerry and also tickets from the field house,
• 1:37:13
  including a game I never knew existed. Take a look at the board
• 1:37:16
  boys the LA Lakers versus the Cincinnati Royals at the WVU Fieldhouse Jerry West against
• 1:37:25
  Oscar robertson Monday in February five, nineteen sixty and two eight pm. The
• 1:37:31
  ticket cost two dollars. I looked up the stats way robbery looked. I
• 1:37:38
  looked up the stats for that game. Oscar had thirty with eleven boards,
• 1:37:41
  eight assists. You want to know what Jerry had? He had forty six
• 1:37:45
  h H. Lakers went at one thirty four to one twenty eight. Thanks
• 1:37:49
  again for choosing and trusting the post office. Hopefully to see you around soon.
• 1:37:54
  That's awesome stuff. Various sources estimate the success rate of the two point
• 1:37:59
  conversion at the college level success rate to be between forty and fifty five percent.
• 1:38:03
  That's at fifty five gets you right up on that border do it or
• 1:38:08
  don't do it? Doesn't it? That's a debate. Yeah, that sounds
• 1:38:14
  that almost sounds high. That sounds about right. That's about right. That
• 1:38:18
  sounds about right. I could see that it's pretty wide spans there. I
• 1:38:21
  don't know if you need to call Rex repassing forty. It's be a difference
• 1:38:26
  of fifteen percent variation. Who is the author of the metro? Who's West
• 1:38:32
  Virginia Pole? Sure? Uh so you're gone next week? Yeah, so
• 1:38:38
  we are going to have Jen Greenie. You didn't know that? Oh yeah,
• 1:38:42
  fly boy Jen Greenie the new WV volleyball coach. She's got a great
• 1:38:45
  story. Yeah, you talk about taking a leap of faith, lived her
• 1:38:50
  entire life on the West coast well and now is here, and she has
• 1:38:58
  a mind. She had a lot of success us at Washington State eight straight
• 1:39:00
  NCAA tournaments. When she went there, they had won zero pack twelve matches
• 1:39:08
  packed ten back then probably they have been packed off. And now she's taken
• 1:39:12
  over a dou WVU program that has won two big twelve matches in the last
• 1:39:15
  two years. Yeah, that'll be fun. So that's next week. Next
• 1:39:18
  week, at some point we're going to do that Monday or Thursday. Pack
• 1:39:21
  twelve demise helped benefiting West Virginia, it helped. Yeah, tragic though.
• 1:39:27
  Yeah, it's sad. But also the golf tournament and our live event at
• 1:39:31
  stone that's a great place. Stone Wall Resort June eight. You can get
• 1:39:34
  all the information you'd like, the whole deal at dou WVU Cancer Golf Classic
• 1:39:41
  dot com. WVU Cancer Golf Classic dot Com. We'd love to have you
• 1:39:44
  there. We love to see out there. Golf or no golf, you
• 1:39:46
  can do it either way. Come on out either way. You can have
• 1:39:50
  fun, you can have food. You can have fun, you can have
• 1:39:53
  food, and we're going to raise money for cancer, blood cancer disorders and
• 1:39:58
  the folks that are receiving treatment. So it's a good deal. Nice picture.
• 1:40:01
  There are the three guys. See, yeah, it is very nice.
• 1:40:05
  Hobby Hoppy is going to be there by the way at this event.
• 1:40:10
  Yes, we coordinated with her. Yeah. Three guys brought to us.
• 1:40:13
  We picking me up sometime of that day. We'll take it. You refused
• 1:40:16
  to ride with us when we went to Charleston. That was I had scheduling
• 1:40:19
  issues. Will you come? Will you drive with us? I'd like to
• 1:40:24
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  But it is what he'll also do. He'll also bring he'll use his
• 1:41:08
  shirt on the ride that he's not gonna wear at the event. Then he'll
• 1:41:12
  let the seatbelt hit that what I do now, I usually just wear a
• 1:41:14
  second sho where's the second shirt? Then when we get there, he'll change
• 1:41:16
  the shirt. My man's packing two packing two packing double all right. Thanks
• 1:41:23
  to Austin Right our producers. Special thanks to Sean Kovich for stopping by and
• 1:41:27
  visiting. Talk to you again next week. Three guys before the game over
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  and out see him