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- 0:16Hey, everybody, welcome in. It is time for you say it,
- 0:20I say it, we all say it together, three guys before the game.
- 0:23Thanks so very much for being with us. This is our WVU spring
- 0:28football game preview plus with a little something something, a little lanyap throw onto
- 0:37that we got basketball recruit news and a breakdown I think fair to say most
- 0:45comprehensive breakdown analytically that anyone has senator and his elves working tirelessly over the evening
- 0:56hours, did not go to sleep, pulled an all nighter just to get
- 0:59these digits on Toby o'conne, newest member of the Mountaineer basketball team. Why
- 1:04are you looking over there like that? Like why, I'm just like everybody
- 1:07else, I'm anxious to find out. Yeah, this new world's wild?
- 1:11Because is this called the spring football preview? Is that what we call this
- 1:12episode? Yeah? We lead with basketball. Well, it's that time here
- 1:15things happen. Is that time of your means it means it's any time of
- 1:19year exactly, there's no The agent period opens. Adrian he Adrian Warzanowski reporting
- 1:26and guys are on waivers and wojbomb you know three guys he released because a
- 1:32salary cap heh, you get a little bit of that. Yeah. Three
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- 1:46Comac's business equipment when they're putting these numbers together? Actually they do. I
- 1:49thought so they do for real? That is confirmed. I know. Three
- 1:52guys brought to us by Gomart. Go for good times, Go for Gomart.
- 1:57I'm bummed out by the way that I did not get a picture made
- 2:00with the clerk when we came through the Gomart there in flat Woods the other
- 2:04night. She got pictures. She's too busy opened she was in eminem packet
- 2:07and drinking it. She was incredibly nice. I needed to get a picture.
- 2:09Do you know who you were? No idea, which is good.
- 2:12I like that three guys brought it. Didn't tell her. I didn't bring
- 2:16it up. Three guys brought to us by lou Wendell. I used it
- 2:19once, she said that. One said that once to somebody who busy eating
- 2:22the M and m's. What do you know who I am? I used
- 2:23it once? Really once? Did it go? Well? You got it
- 2:28done? Three guys before the game. Brought to us by who I Am,
- 2:31She know what and she gave me setting you on fire? She gave
- 2:35me no, and I went, but you're gonna find out. Oh really
- 2:38it was a little dungeon. It was. It was a tough situation I
- 2:40was going into. I needed to ad some bad customer service. Yeah,
- 2:44we fixed it. Three guys also brought to us by lou Wendell Marine Sales
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- 2:53Remnds of men yell at me and say, I'm gonna be a treat
- 2:57as I get older. You're going to be an absolute Oh my gosh.
- 3:00Well you say I'm gonna and you're and you're not wrong about me. I
- 3:02probably will be too, I'll be more crotchety. But oh you're staring down
- 3:06the barrel too, So right, fair, fair, accurate on target?
- 3:13You can you can take the lou Wendel thanks, I say. So.
- 3:17The thing was I was going I was flying out of the country and and
- 3:23I the only way I was going to have any money availability was by using
- 3:29my debit card. Okay, so when I get over there. I need
- 3:34to know one hundred percent that my debit card is going to work because you
- 3:38have no money. And I started working on it like three or four weeks
- 3:40earlier. Hey, can you get me? Can you make sure that this
- 3:44is going to be approved? Got so well, I make just the last
- 3:49just before getting onto the plane. Hey, I'm calling again to make sure
- 3:53that it says that this can be used overseas. And I just got like
- 4:00bad service. Yeah, and so you already hyped up anyway, anxiety was
- 4:04high because I land, I'm not going to have any money. You had
- 4:10no backup. No, I had no back I didn't get any I didn't
- 4:13get any rubles or drachmas to take them there with me, and so got
- 4:16bad. I got bad attitude. So you launched quickly. I just said,
- 4:21I'm not scamming you. I said, okay, this is who I
- 4:25am like. And just like she gave me to turn, that turned it
- 4:29even worse. I said, okay, so you were trying to say who
- 4:31you were as evidence that you weren't some scammer. You weren't a Nigerian prince.
- 4:35All due respect for the Nigerian princess, you weren't that that's exactly.
- 4:40You weren't trying a big time. You were just saying, look, I'm
- 4:42like, here's who I am. Like you can look, I'm not I'm
- 4:44not scamming. I'm not yet. Go ahead, this is and it turned
- 4:46it the other way like you got got even worse. I went, okay
- 4:50because she took it as you were big time there. Yeah, I said,
- 4:54okay, not a problem, I'll take care of it, thank you.
- 4:59Okay, that that sounds called somebody else up. No, that's the
- 5:03only way I used it. Did it work debit card work? Yeah?
- 5:05I got in there, pulled nervous where the first time you stepped the super
- 5:10nervous, especially if it took the card, I couldn't give the card back.
- 5:15That's exactly right. Then you go like, anyway, we move on
- 5:18off the tracks early. Okay, So this is the spring football game preview.
- 5:24However, we need to get into some basketball because, as expected,
- 5:30the roster is starting to grow, you know, step by step, putting
- 5:34pieces together. And so we had the two young fellas from Illinois joined the
- 5:40ranks earlier this week, and now another player who played in the state of
- 5:46Illinois but not at the University of Illinois but instead at Illinois Chicago who likes
- 5:51to be known as you I see University of Illinois Chicago. And in the
- 6:00oa's West Virginia connection department, Toby o'connie played at ui C. And he's
- 6:06a good player. And Brad's gonna have the analytics and break down his game
- 6:10here in just a little bit, and you can start to see the beginning
- 6:14of a trend what Darren Devrez is trying to do roster wise, and we'll
- 6:17get into that. But o'conne began his college career, he was a three
- 6:23star. Began his college career at Duke Caine where he played for Keith Damrock,
- 6:29Keith hard nosed coach, so you gotta be hard nosed. And then
- 6:33he transferred to u C. But before that, his hometown is Orange,
- 6:39New Jersey, Orange, New Jersey, hometown of one of the all time
- 6:45mountaineer talented, memorable point guards, Mike Boyd. Remember that name was Mike
- 6:50Boyd. He was from Orange Jersey, Orange Jersey, And this is where
- 6:56this young fella comes from. So what is West Virginia getting Brad that's going
- 7:00to have those numbers, But what they're getting is a man they're getting a
- 7:04man. He's got one season of eligibility remaining. He is twenty two,
- 7:10he'll turn twenty three in October. So, as we oftentimes say on this
- 7:15program, man's basketball. So nowadays, can you be a man? When
- 7:20we often say the twenty three year olds, doesn't matter how talented your eighteens
- 7:26are. If I'm twenty three, I'm gonna man you and be a man.
- 7:30And that is a couple of these ways that they're going here that's going
- 7:35to do. Now. This is an unofficial Spreads one stats brought to you
- 7:42by Hopy Kirchible and interesting numbers on this dude. Right. Also, you're
- 7:47going glasses right now. I just make sure I get this right. Third
- 7:51leading scorer on Illinois Chicago double figure score eleven points per game. So he
- 7:57did get some buckets. But I think what jumped in me more, hop
- 8:01was the defensive side of the ball for o'connie. An excellent rebounder. He
- 8:05was top five percentile in both offensive and defensive rebounds per game. What was
- 8:09an issue West Virginia had last year rebound These are in the country, top
- 8:13five percent top five percentile. Yeah, okay, so he's in there.
- 8:16So what that means what you're talking about is like a Ken Palm does rankings
- 8:20on I think it's roughly twenty three hundred players, So that kind of gives
- 8:24you the number of range that you're looking at there. He was a tremendous
- 8:28shot blocker at his level, So take that with a grain of salt.
- 8:31See how that translates up. But thirty second nationally overall in blocked shots per
- 8:35game, which was really good, and then top ten percentile nationally in steels
- 8:41per game. So you're getting a really good rebounder, a guy that blocked
- 8:43shots, and a guy that was good with steels. So I think you're
- 8:46getting a guy defensively there with some length that's six' seven that you like
- 8:50that going against guys what have we seen in this league? Really elite wings,
- 8:54right? You see a lot of six' five to six to eight
- 8:58really talented offensive players in this league. This feels like a guy maybe that
- 9:01could match up pretty well against some of those. So we'll get you some
- 9:05buckets, but we'll come in and certainly play some defense, get some rebounds
- 9:07for you, which clearly this team is going to need. Phill is a
- 9:11spot, right, I mean Phil is a need. I mean, of
- 9:13course he got a bunch of needs. But that's like, okay, now
- 9:16we got a defensive guy that can take on their best guy. Now you
- 9:18got a guy, right, Yeah, the bulk of his shooting, Now
- 9:20he puts some threes up, but the bulk of his shots came in the
- 9:24lane, not even at the rim, just in the lane, so we
- 9:26can get inside there. Did shoot well from the top of the key from
- 9:30three, although he didn't take a ton of them, just sixteen to ten.
- 9:31So this to me feels like a guy he'll get some offensive rebounds and
- 9:35put him up. But this is going to be a defensive presence for the
- 9:37Mountaineers. Who couple numbers. Man, he is a bad free throw shooter
- 9:43fifty seven percent. That doesn't work. However, in his audition performance against
- 9:50Darren Devrees February the twenty eighth of this past season, so not all that
- 9:56long ago, they lined up played Drake and he had thirty one in that
- 10:03game when ate out of sixteen from the field, hit three threes. Check
- 10:09that made five threes, five out of eight from three, three out of
- 10:13eight from two pointers, and blew it up at the phone at the free
- 10:18throw line. I just said fifty eight percent free throw shooter fifty seven.
- 10:22Actually he went ten of eleven from the free throw line. So Devirees when
- 10:26he was got this new job, thought, remember that guy that burned us
- 10:31normally? How that does work? That's how it does work. So,
- 10:35as I said, he's a dude older and he fills a need for West
- 10:41Virginia. He had I'm just trying to look carry it. Seven double digit
- 10:45rebound performances this season. It'll take that one job absolutely. First game of
- 10:52the year, played big twelve FO Cincinnata lined up, had twenty points and
- 10:58eleven rebounds Againstincinnati in their opening game back in November of last season. Gave
- 11:05you four double doubles on the season, points and rebounds. So good.
- 11:09I like it. You know, addition, but how valuable is your guy
- 11:11that can play defense. I mean, if can play defense, can give
- 11:16you nine to ten rebounds eight nine ten eleven rebounds, eight ten, twelve
- 11:20points, that's valuable, right, Yeah, so it is in need.
- 11:24You don't need him to score twenty eight. No, So if you were
- 11:28just to do his numbers based on what he did this past season, if
- 11:33you were just going to do his numbers. If he could come in here,
- 11:37he averaged eleven and seven last year. Could he give you seven?
- 11:46Yeah, it's reasonable, seven and four. I'd like a four, seven
- 11:50and five. Give me you want five point three, give me a five
- 11:54point five, give me seven and six. Yeah, because you're gonna because
- 11:58that's gonna be one of your things. We need go rebound, So you're
- 12:00gonna your foot, you're gonna be more niched in. Don't you just score?
- 12:03Just go get go, get the ball, get those rebounds up a
- 12:05little bit. So five realistically five offense? Indeed, no, you gotta
- 12:11get more than five. You don't know who the five is yet, right,
- 12:16you don't know who the five is. And I'm just saying, if
- 12:18you get a really nice five that's gonna get your rebounds, then he can
- 12:20get you five. That's fair enough. And Tucker can rebound. Tucker's rebounded
- 12:24wherever he's been. So that's another guy along the front line. Hands Burial
- 12:26gets few, Okay, so you'll be all right with that. Okay,
- 12:28fine? Double two double doubles on the air. You want two double level
- 12:33double doubles? How I could do that? So it's Tuesday number plus.
- 12:37Her mind is two double doubles if you want to and a half. You
- 12:39want a big twelve comp? Yeah, just based pure analytically. I'm not
- 12:43saying style of player, and just pure analytically across all categories. A big
- 12:48twelve comp. Who is he Dan Skillings Cincinnata. Oh if he turns into
- 12:54that again, you're you're comparing guy that was at U I c versus a
- 12:58big twelve to get So take that for what it's worth. How does it
- 13:01translate? But pure number wise, he's he's similar Skilling's numbers. Skilling has
- 13:07heard us. Yeah, he heard us pretty good. Okay, So that
- 13:11together, Yeah, that's what's happening. I think you're going to see,
- 13:16most likely, you're going to see more players join this roster before you see
- 13:20any other assistant coaches join the roster. I think the assistant coach thing.
- 13:26You know, maybe at some point you get another assistant, but I think
- 13:30right now they're looking at they basically have three and they're operating that way.
- 13:33Well, whoever's left in Illinois, I mean kind of that pick that tree
- 13:39over there in Illinois, anybody else, whatever, somebody from Centralia, I
- 13:45mean, get him in here. S I U you want you want a
- 13:48sluki, bring us in at Okay coming up on Saturday, Mounts near spring
- 13:54football game. We're gonna break down some things that we can take from the
- 13:58spring game, some things that you need to know. But first to reminder
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- 15:11let's get an up to the minute weather projection as we go inside the
- 15:16three guys before the game. Weather center now calling for fifty percent chance of
- 15:22showers. But don't be afraid, seventy three degrees as you're high so comfortable.
- 15:28I take seventy three degrees and a fifty percent chance of rain over some
- 15:33of those absolute ice cold, yucky spring games that have gone by in years
- 15:39past. Because here's the thing that milso means fifty percent chance it doesn't rain.
- 15:43And when it doesn't rain, and there's seventy three where you're giddy sitting
- 15:46there in the stadium, I'm going under. Can I bet the under on
- 15:48the weather under fifty I'm taking. I'm taking the I'm taking no rainfall,
- 15:54rainy fading in the media always, that's what I'm out of their computer.
- 16:00I don't believe your computer. You know. It depends to whether it's looks
- 16:04like it's gonna rain. It could be like shaw or is it a thunderstorm,
- 16:07which is a whole different animal. Sure passing animal, right exactly.
- 16:10Okay, so just focus on the seventy three degrees seventy six trees, So
- 16:14just a couple of notes. Free parking around the areas blue lot isn't particular
- 16:19those main blue lot areas. They're hospital for this game. So free parking
- 16:26just basically pull it in wherever, wherever you see enough space to put it
- 16:30in somewhere. Just land it there and you don't have to So there's no
- 16:36tickets when you go in. You got to get a ticket in advance,
- 16:38but it's free. Yes, go to WVU game dot com and just put
- 16:44your deal in. You get a free ticket and then you can make a
- 16:45donation. The money goes to WVU Medicine Children's Did you talk all about this
- 16:49with the head coach on your talk show the other day? I did.
- 16:52I ran through that. But if it's Neil up to speed on that he's
- 16:56got, he's busy. I didn't ask him about the tickets or the parking.
- 17:00I mean, I mean, God's got a number. Yeah, he's
- 17:03rer in place. But he did say something interesting, well several things interesting,
- 17:08but uh, one is that they're gonna have what surprise celebrity coaches.
- 17:14Oh really, I think he said that, so that would be interesting that's
- 17:19interesting. That is obvious. Must be a surprise. I hadn't heard about
- 17:22someone calling in right now or blowing up. Are they okay? Yeah,
- 17:26I'm all right. The I mean the phone calls. Yeah, I think
- 17:30if I recall correctly, I thought he said you know who they are.
- 17:33No, he didn't say it in nask because he said surprise celebrity. I
- 17:37think he said that. So there's that. Is it true that the new
- 17:41uniforms are being debut too? Is that true or is that just an urban
- 17:45legend. I think that's true. Okay, that's true. Clear bag policy
- 17:49is in effect. Clear bag policy isn't effects. So don't be bringing in
- 17:53like a big old nap burlap knapsack. Can't do that. It's got to
- 17:56be a clear bag. They're having a concert, free concert. Uh hue
- 18:03mack hweiye. Mac starts at eleven that's correct. He's going to know he's
- 18:07going to perform from ten thirty to eleven thirty on the east side of the
- 18:11stadium over by the light blue and tea a lot. If I'm not mistaken.
- 18:15Yeah, excuse me. He knows that stuff. He's got all the
- 18:18colors and so Huey Mack is going to perform ten thirty to eleven three.
- 18:23I didn't know this till yesterday. Remember he used to be a rapper,
- 18:26he's not now doesn't rap country? Huh sings country? Really? Yeah,
- 18:33didn't know that either, did I Till yesterday someone told me that. Okay,
- 18:37And so he's a Morgantown native and uh, I've been involved in a
- 18:41music video with him. Of course you had excuse me. You remember that,
- 18:45right, Remember when we produced that song, Morgan tat's on youtubes.
- 18:51It's on the youtubes. He came in and did a cameo, he did
- 18:53a key. You don't remember that. How we did it at the VAQ
- 18:56studios. Well, you do have a history of being a music producer.
- 19:00Yeah, it was not a good one, not a good h Harris rap
- 19:03coach Neilan's still mad about that. Still made Creedy responsible for that. Yeah,
- 19:07don's gonna get over it. It's no, no, no, no,
- 19:11not well, not not over it. Along with the kickoff concert almost
- 19:15having Village Fan experience, fans will have the opportunity to pick up pick up
- 19:19an exclusive schedule poster, enjoy food trucks. No, that's not a bad
- 19:23thing. It's a good idea inflatables, a DJ yard, games, photo
- 19:29opportunities, balloon artistry, face painting, and appearances by the WV Spirit squads.
- 19:36Now that open, uh almost having village will be opened three hours before
- 19:40the kick so at nine am, and it will close thirty minutes before the
- 19:44kickoff at eleven thirty. So if you're going over the game, check out
- 19:47all that kind of stuff. Seems to be a lot of stuff going on.
- 19:49Okay, great, Nol. Can we talk about the football? Oh
- 19:52yeah, fine, how'd you break this about food truck? I want to
- 19:56talk about Gerrett Green? How duh ah? Well, I'm just gonna say
- 20:00you have any obvious observation. Obvious observation, Yeah, I'll give you a
- 20:03couple. One is one of them was who these celebrity coaches are going to
- 20:07be if I remember correctly. The second is that you talking about Garrett Green.
- 20:11But be interesting to see how Nico does. I mean, we've we've
- 20:15seen flashes of him and he's gonna look, he's gonna play. I mean,
- 20:19it's just not you can't go a whole season with Garrett Green and not
- 20:25at some point probably get banged banged up. Have to have Nico in there.
- 20:29So like to see Nico. Would like to see guys, you know,
- 20:33an offensive guy the receiver position, make make a play, make plays,
- 20:37you know, see them in the open field, sure and get open
- 20:41and make a play. The biggest thing I think is not not who you
- 20:45see, but after May one, who you don't see? Excuse me,
- 20:48after May one? Who you don't see? And I think Neil Brown's pretty
- 20:52confident about the roster and where things are going to be. But look he's
- 20:55he's gonna be sweating it until May one. So who is in that spring
- 21:00game that you don't see? Brad after May one? Now they've done a
- 21:04great job. I think of solidifying that roster and also bringing in guys.
- 21:10But you worry, You have to worry that by May one if somebody's gone
- 21:14that figured prominently in the spring game. So who you don't see after May
- 21:18one is to me more integral. Okay, I spend some time over there.
- 21:22I'm gonna ask you three players you gave us one there, I'm gonna
- 21:23ask you three players you're most interested in seeing coming up Saturday. Here in
- 21:26just a minute, couple overarching themes here. One is is not so much
- 21:33spring game specifical. It kind of is, but it's more season season base.
- 21:37And it happened last year, and I'm not sure we appreciated it enough.
- 21:40You know what, I think one of the great things in sports is
- 21:45what thank you tell me Tony was tuned out due because he wasn't paying attention.
- 21:49I was, Yes. One of the great things in sports is when
- 21:52you as an athlete, which doesn't happen for most of us a lot,
- 21:56or you're a fan of a team or a visual that has a skill that
- 22:00is so elite that it really just can't be stopped and you kind of giggle
- 22:06at the other team about it. They know it's know what's coming, can't
- 22:10stop it? That why fastball pitcher that can just stand up on the mountain
- 22:12says that right here, there's a signal for fastball. Here it comes,
- 22:15can't hit it. Garrett Green at times last year, right and Jaheim White,
- 22:19that combination and that offense when it got going with those variations off the
- 22:25same set behind that offensive line, there were times. Now I'm not saying
- 22:30it was Pat White and Steve Slayton. You have work to do before you're
- 22:33that, but you know, John Antoni had an article out the other day
- 22:36showed those guys in terms of numbers haven't been replicated by a duo since Pat
- 22:41White and Steve Slayton. When we talk about White and Green, and Garrett
- 22:45had a little bit of that to him, didn't he those third and sevens
- 22:48that we talk about when he just took off and you had it bottled and
- 22:51he just knowes hahi, I giggle, laugh, haha, couldn't stop that.
- 22:53Right, We've seen that for years. So I think that's one of
- 22:56my favorite things in sports, and offensively as we head into the spring game
- 23:02and the next year, I feel like this offense has a little element of
- 23:04that to it. This is going to be an offense that I think produces.
- 23:07Yes, I want to watch how this offensive line jails. Yes,
- 23:11I want to watch which receivers step forth and turn into legitimate Big twelve all
- 23:15Big twelve type receivers. A couple of them. I want to watch that.
- 23:18I think the running back room, I think you know what you have
- 23:21and I think from a Garrett Green perspective, health notwithstanding, I think you
- 23:26know what you've gotten that guy, right, You've got a real playmaker.
- 23:29So offensively, I really like this team to me, it's about the defense
- 23:33on Saturday, and this becomes one of the tricky parts of the spring game,
- 23:36is it, Oh, no, is your offense not as good or
- 23:38is your defense really good? Or is your offense super elite or your defense
- 23:41really bad? So we won't have those good answers. So it's one of
- 23:45those This is going to be a weird thing to say. Hop for a
- 23:47game and a person in me, I love offense, right, I like
- 23:49the fireworks. I like big plays. I like now this offense, right.
- 23:53I think you want to kind of have a little bit of a stalemate
- 23:56situation on Saturday. I think we want to come back in Monday and say
- 24:00there were some individual plays offensively, Hudson Clement looked really good, you say,
- 24:04I catch by Preston Fox, I mean Rodney Gallagher, how about that
- 24:07one thing? You want to come back and lifted dead. Got to tell
- 24:11you what that defensive line going in there a couple times in flush. So
- 24:14I think, as boring as that may get on Saturday, I think team
- 24:18performance wise, if you come out of there with some give and take right,
- 24:22a couple of big pressures, but then a couple big plays on the
- 24:26back end, if there's some give and take stalemate stuff. I think we
- 24:29come in Monday and go, Okay, his team's got a chance to be
- 24:30good, so you're fair enough, absolutely fair. So one of the guys
- 24:34I'd like to see make some plays like Rodney Gallagher because you all last year
- 24:37they were getting him the ball and you think, okay, he's right there,
- 24:40he's right there, he's gonna break one. But you also don't want
- 24:42to see him catch the ball and nobody be near it, go seventy yards
- 24:45and we go. I thought we had some good defensive backs. Where all
- 24:48those guys right? So yeah, you want to see sprinkles of some good
- 24:52plays that show you that Rodney Gallagher's taking a step forward. But you want
- 24:56to see Aid Garnes get in there and knock a couple deep balls down.
- 25:00Then in a game you'd be like, oh, but now you're going,
- 25:02okay that defense. Defense might have a little right. So does it create
- 25:06for the most dynamic or fun air quotes game? Because I know it's not
- 25:10a real game, but I think from a from a projecting a team performance,
- 25:14you want some plays on both sides here, and you want some of
- 25:15those guys defensively to really stand out. I think correct. Don't disagree,
- 25:21don't disagree. Yeah, yeah, great. So what do you got for
- 25:22players? Okay, I'll give hopy. The four of you had a minute
- 25:26there to digest. Yeah, three players, so specifically, niche it down
- 25:30three guys that you want to see, and I'll allow you some leeway because
- 25:33I'm gonna go be on three. But so go ahead. Three. I
- 25:36mentioned I mentioned Gallagher because you feel like he's right on the right on the
- 25:38cusp there. It's gonna be good to see Trey Lathan back on the field.
- 25:41He was such an impact player until he got hurt. So it's gonna
- 25:45be good to see him back out there and run around. Uh, Nico,
- 25:48I talked about how about uh Noah Brahim? How about no Brahim?
- 25:52Oh? So he he puts them in that category of like who's who's forty
- 25:56good? You know? How about yeah, how about him in that tied
- 26:00end spot? I mean, is he ready to start getting some playing time?
- 26:03Those are my guys and all those and I don't know all their names,
- 26:07Brad, you know all those new defensive backs, three or four new
- 26:11fence backs in there. Okay, I'll give you one because he's on my
- 26:12list that I mentioned him. Maiden Gardens transfer from Ducaine. I want to
- 26:17watch him. He's high on the Brown mentioned index coming out of street right,
- 26:19so that's that's one. Keep an eye on him. Talk about his
- 26:22speed and his ability, so that's what you want to see. Hudson Clement
- 26:26can motor, Gallagher can motor break and run. Those receivers can all run.
- 26:30How's Garns match up against a couple of those guys. That'll be fun
- 26:33ones on ones if we get that. I'm going to stay on the defense.
- 26:34And you said it earlier, Josiah Trotter has to be at the top
- 26:37of this list. We've been waiting to see him for two years. He
- 26:41is also high on the Brown mentioned index. Also off record from a couple
- 26:45of guys over there, you get wait till you see this Trotter like he's
- 26:48he's a dude. So Josiah Trotter, I hope he can make some place
- 26:52stay defense for a couple more guys. This where I'm going to lump two
- 26:55in pass rushing up front, hop right, you got to have some back
- 26:59end to cover. But what helps you cover on the back end? There's
- 27:00some pressure up front. There's two guys that I think the coaches think can
- 27:06really help this team, but they've got a little ways to go yet because
- 27:08they're trying to play up. And we've talked about him a lot ty.
- 27:11French, the Gardner Web transfer, who really looks good athletically. When he
- 27:15figures out what he's doing pass rush wise and his keys, he has a
- 27:18chance. And then TJ. Jackson from Troy has really impressed as a pass
- 27:23rusher as well. So there's a million others. I mean, I could
- 27:26name twenty guys Sean Martin, you're gonna be excited to watch from a pass
- 27:30rushing standpoint, but I think French and Jackson because they weren't on this team
- 27:33last year. I'm gonna assume some of the guys you saw last year will
- 27:37take a step forward. But those are two new guys hot that if they
- 27:41come in and their dudes. Now, French is a two time All American
- 27:44at the FCS level, not expecting him to be an All American, but
- 27:47if he can be a productive big twelve player with pass rushing that helps his
- 27:51defense, immediately agree. You just agreed, and you don't need to see
- 27:53Sean Martin do anything, because you know he can just don't get hurt.
- 27:56Correct, go out there, get a couple snaps, you know, knock
- 27:59a few people around and get on the sideline. So you're saying that we
- 28:03have gotten to the point within this program we returned to the hey wait till
- 28:11you see. We finally got back to wait to see. We're back to
- 28:15wait till a drought of no one was coming around going and wait till you
- 28:21see. I got multiple of those. You got several wait to you set
- 28:23multiple. It was the last one prior to I don't know if I can
- 28:30remember an individual, but you know those those have an extremely high hit rate.
- 28:34C. J. Donaldson at the end, at the end, at
- 28:38the end of camp in August of his true freshman See, they'd come around
- 28:42and go, hey, would you see what they did with that tight end
- 28:45running bout that about that guy? Yeah, maybe he wasn't do anything.
- 28:51That's that's right, because they were talking about that, and and you got
- 28:55kept getting mentioned, and we kept going, what are you talking about?
- 28:56Well, that's not good. You're hanging your hat on a tight end.
- 29:02Moving the running back. You know, the holdie comes out and almost wins
- 29:04the heisman against Pitt. You know, Pat White was a wait to you
- 29:07see the one that always Will Greer to me, I got a call early
- 29:11on Greer. I mean, I'm not sure the ball had left his hand
- 29:15for the first time that year he set out, and I got a call
- 29:18saying, you are not going to believe this. I know you've heard about
- 29:21it, wait till you see it on it on Greer. So it's generally
- 29:25those have pretty good success rates. I want to go back really far.
- 29:27You want to know who had a full season of Wait t you see Mike
- 29:32Gansey. Remember when Mike transferred, you had to sit out a full year
- 29:36and he would practice and they would go like, dude, you've seen this
- 29:40Gansey, Wait till you see this dude man. And that was like Will
- 29:42because Will was tearing up the scout team. They're like, Gangy does the
- 29:47same thing. There's also a list of great spring players. Look at this
- 29:52guy. This guy's unbelievable. You can see what he done to spring game.
- 29:55That's generally not a off the record watch. That's usually a spring dude
- 30:00that puts up one hundred and sixty three yards receiving and then he and he
- 30:04doesn't do anything. Yeah, so that Yeah, there is a long litany
- 30:07of that as well. So hey, this is more of the behind the
- 30:10hand. I tell you what, got a real chance? That's what you
- 30:11want. You know? Who I met Monday? Who I've set his name
- 30:15two hundred times. I've never met him before. Judah Price. I love
- 30:21Judah Price. He's a great dude, isn't he. Yes, Yes,
- 30:23he's great, a great young guy. Dependence. Yes, Kennedy player,
- 30:26they are right. He was state record. Neil did something really interesting,
- 30:30he's awesome at the scholarship dinner in Charleston on Monday. So student athletes go
- 30:37and normally they're known people to go down there, right, well, he'll
- 30:41bring it like he brought Judah Price because he's an en State kid. You
- 30:45know who else he brought. He brought kids that just can't true freshman that
- 30:51just came in January, and he wanted them to see what this whole thing
- 30:57is like, to get your first idea, get your first taste of what
- 31:00it's like when you go down to Charleston and just five I don't know how
- 31:03many people, they're five six hundred people there and you're sitting at a table,
- 31:07like just get to get feel what this thing is and what it means
- 31:11to people and what this is like. So that was really good. That's
- 31:15a really good idea. Yeah, and he called him out, brought him
- 31:18up, said, Okay, and I'm thinking, I'm watching these kids.
- 31:19They get to stand up in front of all these folks, and I'm thinking,
- 31:22these kids were in high school in December and now they're here. That's
- 31:26a great thing. That's a why. That's an eye opener. I mean,
- 31:30Neil Brown once again just checks. He creates new boxes and then checks
- 31:33them. I figured out what now he's gonna be at the NFL draft.
- 31:37Oh, for zach Uh, I think he thinks he's getting drafted. Neil
- 31:41thinks he's going. Neil thinks he's gonna like with the thirteen selection in the
- 31:45opening right now, wide receiver, Neil Brown. Yeah, Western Kentucky.
- 31:48He's going there, Connecticutors. It's become like this annual thing where a group
- 31:52from West Virginia goes and becomes they watch the draft and he's going with a
- 31:57group of people. You know he's not gonna be at the draft is Yeah,
- 32:01he's in the room. He there, Yeah, he's there, he's
- 32:04there. But there's a group of folks that come from West Virginia. Ever
- 32:06year they make it an annual track. Heard of prediction yesterday. I know
- 32:08there's been a lot of talk about Zach, but he would be one of
- 32:10the top two centers, correct. I think in the second round that seems
- 32:14to be. That seems to be consensus. I mean there's some that say
- 32:16twenty something, there's some that say forty. So it's somewhere in there.
- 32:21It'll be fun for him. It might be nerve wracking for him, but
- 32:23it'll be fun when they're saying you potentially could go from twenty to forty's.
- 32:28Well, here's why this is interesting. This is always called lying season,
- 32:30right, because you're always trying people are in thisdirection. It's interesting if you
- 32:35listen to some of those NFL folks, they've said the NFL has put out
- 32:38actual notice to teams to knock it off with the leaking of where you're going
- 32:44and who you're going to pick. And they specifically said, we want this
- 32:46to have a bigger surprise element as the TV show part of this. So
- 32:52if you go into like the betting markets, for example, which are very
- 32:54popular around the draft, this is as chaotic as it's ever been because people
- 32:59that generally have information, can get information, have stuff, they just simply
- 33:02don't have it this year. So a lot of those mocks are our way
- 33:07off. That's why you're saying, Tony, there's a big gap in what
- 33:09people are projecting here because quite frankly, very few people, if any,
- 33:13no outside the organization. So I was on the Dave Weekly Show Wednesday,
- 33:19which I guess was yesterday, and did I hear him say they're estimating three
- 33:24hundred thousand people? I heard that. I heard him say that, like,
- 33:30what in the hell has this thing become? That's why they started taking
- 33:32it on the road. I get that to be a celebration party and everybody
- 33:37shows up. What do you do to get three hundred thousand people? What
- 33:39at at a venue? I mean around the whole area, like coming in
- 33:45for it, and Nashville is like six hundred, seven hundred and fifty thousand.
- 33:47They set the record. Big party. That's amazing, big party I
- 33:52turned into an event. I struggle with that. It's an event. I
- 33:55mean, I get it. I mean I just struggle with it because you're
- 34:00not NFL predicts around three hundred thousand people will attend the event, which is
- 34:05I mean, I'm not I wasn't questioning Weekly. I don't think you never
- 34:07got anything wrong hoppy question. I just I just double checked it if wekly
- 34:13second. You don't think Weekly double checked it. I don't know why it
- 34:16was on air. I mean, I think Weekly double choll. I you
- 34:20don't trust ave Week, I trust Weekly. I think it's more likely that
- 34:22Tony misheard or forgot. When did this rift between you and Weekly start?
- 34:27Hoppy? Depending on weather conditions, attendance could possibly approach the record of Nashville
- 34:31in twenty nineteen, when six hundred thousand people as first reported on this show
- 34:36thirty seconds ago. You said six hundred thousand. I said six hundred and
- 34:39seven to fifty something like that. Yes, all right, well six hundred
- 34:43thousand. It's really you know this really this show most times is three individuals
- 34:47just talking to themselves of the camera like there there. People think there's conversation
- 34:52going on here. Everybody's nobody's really listening. Here's why I was listening.
- 34:55I just nobody's really listening, just talking about Here's why I think that numbers
- 35:00crazy. And you said six hundred thousand in Nashville, right, so you
- 35:04said, that's what he said. I don't don't know what I said.
- 35:06I didn't saying it's up here talking. I'm just underscoring what you said.
- 35:09Dudegeval said it. He looked it up, didn't believe a hop. You
- 35:13know what, the estimated attendance at Woodstock was, what four sixty to five
- 35:17hundred thousand, So the the NFL draft is out drawing Woodstock. Well,
- 35:22I tell you what, NFL draft is better organized than Woodstock. More toilets,
- 35:28more toilets, more facilities. Although Joe Cocker will not be just thinking
- 35:34of Joe cock. I literally was thinking of joke just before you said it.
- 35:37Is that one of the all time great performances, absolutely no question,
- 35:42one of the all time great live performances. The way Joe Concker and one
- 35:45of the best of Woodstock clerks, they pushed it. They pushed him out
- 35:47on stage. He wasn't supposed to play that early, and they pushed him
- 35:51out early. Said here, man, go ahead out there. I always
- 35:52love looking at those oh the camrangles from behind the stage when you walk out
- 35:58there, and that's like, let's see it people. And also what's interesting
- 36:01too, how much things have changed is that when you see them performing,
- 36:05Let this be some random guy back there, like leaning on an amp,
- 36:08you know, like drinking a beer, like cleaning on an amp. It
- 36:12just was Yeah, shout out, by the way, speaking of large performances
- 36:15and venues, shout out to our guy, Charles Wesley Godwin. So he
- 36:20just did the second stop on that stadium tour. And he was in Buffalo
- 36:24Orchard Park last weekend where the Bills play, and a little cold, so
- 36:30he had a Buffalo Bill's starter jacket on and uh so he uh, he
- 36:37performed there. He's in California this week. Uh Solona, Yeah, Solano,
- 36:43Solano Beach, California tonight and last night. He's there for a couple
- 36:49of nights. And so he's bouncing back and forth like he's doing some of
- 36:52his own shows. And then he's doing the Luke Comb shows. Check this
- 36:57out. So the show tonight, the venue could to is six hundred.
- 37:00The show tomorrow night is in Indio, California. Venue capacity ninety thousand.
- 37:07Yeah, so that's part of the stadium towards you. Hey, by the
- 37:10way, if I could, since it's called the Spring Football previou can I
- 37:13interject a spring football thing here. Sure are we saw on woodstockause I haven't
- 37:16been listening for a while. We saw on Woodstock. I'm gonna tell you
- 37:20some Joe Cocker all this episode about Woodstock, not about springs, but talk
- 37:27about Joe Cocker, Garnett, Hollis, Jeim, Joseph. For two guys.
- 37:30You mentioned you want to see some defensive backs. Those are the two
- 37:31Northwestern transfers. You want to watch them, Garns. I mentioned the transfer
- 37:36from Duquane, So there's some defensive back guys to keep an eye on.
- 37:39Neil Brown seemed to relax this week when I talked to him. I think
- 37:42he feels good. Well he is, and he isn't like you said that
- 37:45may one deadline that's kind of like getting on his nerves. Yeah, like
- 37:47he just wants to go get through that and to say, Okay, who's
- 37:52leaving? Who's who do I need to go get? What positions do we
- 37:55need to go get? Okay, let's go. I think that's where he
- 37:58is. Here's the best thing. So they lose EJ. Horton this week,
- 38:01Okay, receiver receiver And I was thinking about this, so what e
- 38:10J. Horton was five on the depth chart. So that's his issue.
- 38:15He's worrying about a five on his depth chart. Like that's gonna be a
- 38:19good point. Go ahead, that's a that that tells you where this program
- 38:22is now. Where like you're going like, ah, dog Gonett, you
- 38:25know, wouldn't necessarily want to lose the kid five on the depth chart there,
- 38:30Like you're not talking about the one. Yes, that's the good news.
- 38:35When you're starting to talk about the five guy who thinks, you know
- 38:37whatever, he thinks that he wants to go catch more balls or make more
- 38:40money or do whatever, that you're in a good position. Absolutely when you're
- 38:44stressing over your fifth guy on your depth chart, that's a good position.
- 38:46That's a great point. That's probably the point right now because I find myself
- 38:50on some of these guys saying you'd rather have them than not. Right,
- 38:52did it with Mike Lockhart on the defensive line, Rather have him than not?
- 38:55Because you saw him performance, saw and perform. Well, you'd rather
- 38:58have them with you. But okay, if they feel they can better themselves,
- 39:00and sometimes that doesn't happen, but if they feel they can better themself,
- 39:04fine, Now you go in the portal because you've got command of the
- 39:06portal. You instantly know five guys right now that match up with EJ.
- 39:09Horton, bring his speed, do what he does, all right, go
- 39:12out and make the offer exactly right. So it does feel like and and
- 39:15Neil said that to us, right, he said that they feel now a
- 39:19few years into this chaos, that they at least understand the process of the
- 39:22chaos so much better so they can go attack now. Rather than you're back
- 39:27on your heels going, oh my god, what's dropping next? What's dropping
- 39:29now? It's like, okay, really you're out, Okay, thanks,
- 39:30appreciate you. Boom. Now we got three guys lined up for visits?
- 39:34Are we as opposed to losing? You know, two or three defensive back
- 39:37starters? And on the show, that was a non repeatable event what happened
- 39:44in the early days of that. I will still go on record that's a
- 39:46non repeatable event. What happened there. There were circumstances surrounding that. That
- 39:52was a flood in one area. That is that is not likely to be
- 39:54repeated again in this chaos so far, it hasn't men. Yeah, agreed,
- 40:01six hundred thousand you said flooded in that area, right, Yeah,
- 40:06well, if you ever get ever get caught in high water, lou Wendell
- 40:08Marine cells and take care of you. But it was perfect. Lou Wendel
- 40:12Marine Sales happens to be the single largest pontoon boat dealer in their state of
- 40:15West Virginia and voted as you can see right and if you're watching, and
- 40:20they're best in the valley, best in the world. Lou Wendel Marine Sales
- 40:23the official pontoon boat dealer of three guys before the game. Let me show
- 40:28you if take a little family photo tour, Let's go into lou Wendell.
- 40:31If you don't mind there it is. There is an avalon try Tune twenty
- 40:37twenty three Venture eighty five c R twenty three footer, just a dandy dandy
- 40:42pontoon. It's a try tune gets you that smoother ride. And if you
- 40:45go to lou Wendell in person, they're located in St. Albans, you
- 40:49will be looking at these types of craft and right now the selection is as
- 40:54high as it has been and will be the entire year. You put your
- 40:59hand on that, they'll put a red probably put a little red sole dow
- 41:01that if you go in there and put a red soul because it takes as
- 41:05much as six months to get these boats ordered and then manufactured. So the
- 41:09selection right now is as good as it gets. And if we've worked anything
- 41:14out for you guys on that in or two that you're looking to go we
- 41:15have, well, maybe we'll make a call next week. Yeah, Michael,
- 41:19take care of us over there, Lou Wendell. Sure, absolutely great
- 41:22selection to respect to Chuck's used one that's in the garage, understood, Yeah,
- 41:25the one that's got the rot. No, if Chuck has it.
- 41:29Let me say one thing. Chuck takes care of his stuff. Yes,
- 41:31yeah, right, yeah, so listen, hoppy Chuck not one, it
- 41:36would be it would be a very good show. There's no question. Again,
- 41:37That's why I said all due respect, appreciates it, but would prefer
- 41:40a new one from understood friends. Yeah, no problem. There's Chuck can
- 41:45take care of his tools. He can go sharpen his his his uh screwdrivers
- 41:49and like and clean him off with chrome whatever he wants to do. If
- 41:52it's an inflatable item, you're going to get potential dry rot in there.
- 41:57He's going there and like you have dry rot, but you're trying to give
- 41:59him him a thing, a tube from like an old tractor tire. He's
- 42:04gonna take that thing out to check. There's the thing. If we did
- 42:07not have such good friends at lou Wendell Marine, I may listen more to
- 42:10the offer of Chucks. But we've got access here to one of the all
- 42:15time greats in the States. I'm gonna pursue that avenue and we've dispared with
- 42:19Chuck necessarily just because lou Wendell Marine is gonna have a little nicer one,
- 42:22a little nicer the best in the world. Visit lou Wendell Marine Sales in
- 42:25St. Albans lou Wendell Marine Sales Dot. Go back to that last picture,
- 42:30Zach if we could, because there's also a might be in need of
- 42:32a new life jacket as well. We head down that way anytime soon.
- 42:37Yeah, we are. We are going down there next week. We could
- 42:39stop down in there. Got our event coming up? Well? We got
- 42:43the CPA event, Yeah next Friday? Oh what what we got that CPA
- 42:47event? Are you're not riding with us, right? You're fine? So
- 42:52over there I might need some stut Can you make sure your truck has room
- 42:55in the back. We got room and have some stuffch let me tell you
- 42:59upon tune back, let me tell you something. Let me tell you a
- 43:01little something something here about our event. Okay, we talked about it on
- 43:06Monday event. Yeah, so we're going to be speaking at the West Virginia
- 43:10Society of CPA's only six hundred thousand going to be there next next Friday.
- 43:15But listen to this. Hope Joe Concker's playing this. This is once again
- 43:22just another outreach. You guys said that I had bad relations with the CPAs
- 43:27well. You listen to this. You did at one time. That's one
- 43:30of the all time great repair jobs in history. Judy who runs the whole
- 43:34Judy who runs the whole show over there is terrific reached. She is.
- 43:37Any of your three guys listeners that are interested in attending our event can sign
- 43:45up while tickets last, even if you're not a member of that distinguished group
- 43:52of CPAs. That's a heck of a deal. All you have to do
- 43:54is do this website wv s CPA dot org. So it's West Virginia w
- 44:04v s CPA dot org. Go to live events, select three guys.
- 44:08You can sign up as a guest they'll leave registration open until the seats are
- 44:14full. There you go, that's nice of them, that's great. And
- 44:19you can sell me some non CPAs, which which is really good for you
- 44:22because that'll lower the temperature in the room, which will be nice. What
- 44:25does that mean, Box, I don't we're walking into You've offended an entire
- 44:30group of hardworking professionals. She wrote through me a text and she said,
- 44:34uh right, yes he did. She said, this, don't be nervous.
- 44:37This is not a setup. We've opened registration. We've opened registration to
- 44:44people outside of our organization. Two for the remaining seats. Not gonna be
- 44:47many remaining seats. You have just said, last show got about eight or
- 44:51nine ballrooms I think lined up down there. P one listener Jennings was looking
- 44:54for a way to get and he was a fantasy football. Now he's gonna
- 44:57hit. He's gonna he's gonna hurt his hands. He's gonna hit the keyboard
- 45:00so fast. WUV SCPA dot org. Whatever time you were thinking about leaving,
- 45:05we might have to go earlier. I need an inter tive. So
- 45:07what that is, By the way, that's a live show. That's a
- 45:09live show. We're doing, but we're not recordingfety equipment he won, Jennings
- 45:14would be he'd be putting on like a waiter's outfit and sneaking in one of
- 45:16the doors. Seriously, Server didn't have to know he's in. He's in.
- 45:22I don't know. By the way, Charles Wesley Godwin's going to be
- 45:23at the West Virginia State Fair in August. Yeah, that's the closest we're
- 45:29going to see him. Closest he's going to be unless you run into him
- 45:31over at he's over the bridge over there in Westover. Well, he was
- 45:35about six feet from your office today. He didn't know that either, Well
- 45:37I didn't. I would. But other than that, closest he will be
- 45:40he will be at the state at the state Fair, other than right outside
- 45:44your office and you didn't know it. That was good tonight. I love
- 45:49I'd love to see his face because I said, hey, hop, do
- 45:52you see Charles? He goes, we are you talking about? I said?
- 45:53He came in, he autographed those, he autographed a couple of guitars
- 45:57for us there. I said, didn't you see him? He goes,
- 46:00no? Why didn't someone tell me? I said, I mean no,
- 46:04no, I wasn't told he goes. I've never I've never met I never
- 46:12met him. Tell you what, Charles, Charles, Charles a big coffee
- 46:19guy, right, he's a big mountaineer roasting guy. In fact, I
- 46:22saw him, We saw me. He he goes and gets coffee when he's
- 46:25in town over game or gets a game day grind or wherever he's drinking over
- 46:29there. And so he texted me yesterday and just sent me a video.
- 46:31Did I say to this video? I didn't send this to him. So
- 46:36he sent me this video. I should have dog gone. So is he
- 46:40drinking game day grind? No? It was a shot from inside of his
- 46:45dressing room somewhere on the road. And what he did was he went out
- 46:54and bought themselves a portable day. He got a big daddy espresso machine.
- 47:01And to see underneath the see the bottom of it, it's a it's a
- 47:05case, it's a it's a it's an anvil case, self contained, self
- 47:08contained. So they just when they pass that, they put it on the
- 47:12they put it on the bus or whatever they Why didn't we get him some
- 47:14game day grind to put on there. Oh we can, Yeah, we
- 47:15can, I said, dude, that thing is sweet. He said,
- 47:21I thought you'd like that, and he said straight from the motherland in Italy,
- 47:24Milan rocket espresso and Milan cost. Yeah, so that's what they do.
- 47:30So when he goes on the road, now he's probably gotten yet.
- 47:32No, I have a new one for that. I got a new one
- 47:35for the new house. But I don't have that. That's pretty hammered.
- 47:38A. You haven't been drinking much coffee on set lately, No reason I
- 47:45need to do that more. Yeah, just need to do because you started
- 47:47it. Now I've been doing it. Finished off game day grind right there.
- 47:50I had a morning. I had a morning. I'll be up till
- 47:52three am with the afternoon coffee. Then I had a morning meeting today,
- 47:54So where I went and had the meeting, I just got a extra cappuccino.
- 47:59So I thought that's probably probably enough stuff for today. All right,
- 48:05let's do this thing. Six hundred thousand. This is textual healing, brought
- 48:16to us by episode eight hundred dot com. There's a lot in fairness,
- 48:21there's a lot going on. People are throwing out a lot of information.
- 48:22If you miss something, occasionally you miss something. Somebody says, dude,
- 48:30you're coming on I'm on a like you know how major League Baseball players like
- 48:35they get into they get into slumps. Yeah, I'm mean, I mean
- 48:37I'm in a slump recently. Right, I've been giving I've been saying things
- 48:40incorrectly, so I view that incorrect. I mean, I've always prided myself
- 48:47on like not making mistakes, and like recently I've been hit by like a
- 48:52series of mistakes. I'm going like, what is this? Like it pisses
- 48:58me off? It really does. It's like, who's Charles touring with?
- 49:01Like Zach Brin, Zach Charles, Zach Smith, Zach James Brown. I
- 49:08don't know. So I've tried to I had that issue, and then I
- 49:12get attacked on other various fronts. Well, sometimes you you invite it,
- 49:16and sometimes you do things they invite them inte. Well we'll get into that
- 49:20here, got more people coming at me on this edition of episode eight hundred.
- 49:28Dot com is our sponsor. You can get all of our stuff there.
- 49:32Last episode, Hoppy gave an impassioned reason when I asked the question why
- 49:37was country roads a global viral phenomenon? And several people gave answers as to
- 49:45why this person said country Roads is viral because everyone wants to belong and everyone
- 49:52wants to go home. Correct. Another person said this is Chris and Nashville.
- 49:59As a fan of Manchester United, I wanted to provide some possible context
- 50:02on why Country Roads was played when they won their FA Cup game. One
- 50:07of their crowded chants in that stadium is based upon the song Country Roads.
- 50:14Their lyrics are take me Home, United Road, to the place I belonged
- 50:19to Old Trafford to see United, take me Home, United Road. So
- 50:24they changed the lyrics. But that's it. Yeah, sure approval texter said,
- 50:31yes, hey, fellas. Since international interest in Country Roads was brought
- 50:37up on your last episode, I thought i'd share my story. In my
- 50:40twenties, I lived in New York City and I was dating a girl originally
- 50:45from the Philippines. We decided to take a trip to her home for perspective.
- 50:50This is a tiny village of bamboo huts on a tiny island. When
- 50:54we arrived, all of her uncles busted out a five gallon bucket of coconut
- 51:00line called Tuba and proceeded to try to get the white boy drunk. They
- 51:05must not have realized that I I well I grew up in Preston County,
- 51:09and I spent my high school years drinking shine and partying in Morgantown. And
- 51:15also, even though I'm average height in America, I was about a foot
- 51:19taller than everyone else there. I drank the entire extended family under the table,
- 51:24and I was then accepted with respect for the rest of the trip.
- 51:29Anyway, I don't speak a word of Tagalog, but every single time the
- 51:34entire month I mentioned I was from West Virginia to someone, they would immediately
- 51:39break out in a chorus of country Roads. You know. We even rented
- 51:44a karaoke machine for the village one night, and it was the most popular
- 51:47song. I think there's just something universal about the wistful longing for home that
- 51:53it expresses. There's nothing more special in college football than whaling that slong at
- 52:00the top of your lungs, arm in arm with sixty thousand other people after
- 52:04a victory. Thank you for all you guys do, Derek in Oregon.
- 52:08It is a great tradition. That's a fantastic that was well done. That
- 52:13was well done. It's up there with the naval academies after the Army Navy
- 52:17game, right that's a good one. That's country Rest for me, Texter,
- 52:24I understand that. I'm just saying that's another one that is well done.
- 52:30Jeuz, six hundred thousand, Texter. Three guys, John from Nashville,
- 52:37Tony. During the last episode, you wondered why Country Roads has become
- 52:42such a global phenomenon. Hoppy accurately speculated that it is. It's a home
- 52:46song. It's a longing for a place. To lend credence to this thought,
- 52:52I have three older brothers that served in the Vietnam conflict. Each one
- 52:57will attest to the fact that in the early nineteen seven that was the number
- 53:00one song of all Vietnam veterans, no matter where home happened to be.
- 53:07So boom, I think that's it. It's the universal home song, even
- 53:13though the lyrics say country Roads for everyone, it's home, three guys.
- 53:16Based upon the gravity of changes taking place in college football, is the Penn
- 53:22State Game a must win? Big twelve schools have to start winning meaningful games
- 53:27to remain in contact with the Big two. No. I think must win
- 53:35is often overused. Would it be a nice win for the league, Would
- 53:38it be a really really good win? Absolutely? Must know you don't get
- 53:45booted. You don't get relegated if you don't win, but it certainly would
- 53:47help the league. Well, you start with one there strap in. If
- 53:52you win, it's gigantic. If you lose narrowly, it's kind of like
- 53:57a bad It's kind of like a basketball loss, you know, to a
- 54:00good team. If you get blowed out, it's bad. Yeah, Texter
- 54:05says, guys, what has happened to Josh eilerd and his staff? Thank
- 54:07you? I mean to follow up on that. I haven't heard anything.
- 54:10Well, to this point, none have been officially hired. I heard that
- 54:15obviously. All these guys are just talking with folks and I think they're closing
- 54:19in on stuff, but nothing has been publicly h official. Hey, three
- 54:25guys, I'm late to the state outline game, but I am interested.
- 54:30Here's a couple that I bought in Nitro years ago. Unfortunately that company is
- 54:35no longer in business. We will be relocating soon, and since these are
- 54:38embedded in the fire pits and the sidewalk, I'll need a couple of new
- 54:42ones for our home. I like that, so there's no question you could
- 54:45do that with the one that we had on set and So to update you
- 54:49on that, we are currently in talks with the folks that make those and
- 54:53we'll have details coming soon. Tony, you could put that in your new
- 55:00estate. I already have one of those. What a fire pit? No
- 55:05the state? I know, I'm saying you can fire the fire pits being
- 55:09constructed, Yeah, Texter, Tony, against my better judgment, I let
- 55:16an egregious air slide two episodes ago, here we go. I assumed that
- 55:22there would be a correction in the textual healing segment. Not only was there
- 55:28not a correction, but you doubled down and made the error several more times.
- 55:34You screwed this one up. Whatever it's going on. Geez, you
- 55:37don't call a cake flour, so you also don't call concrete cement. Cement
- 55:45is a component of concrete, like flour is a component of a cake.
- 55:50Great friend of his show, Charlie Mitchell, is a world renowned concrete expert.
- 55:57I just pray that he hasn't given up hope and stopped listening due to
- 56:00this blatant air signed by Pete in Mooresville, North Carolina. So you're saying
- 56:05the state outline is not made of cement? Well, I wrote back to
- 56:08Pete, and I said, Pete, there may be a possibility, on
- 56:13an occasion or two during this program that I may say a word intentionally incorrect
- 56:19just to kind of get a rise, try to get kind of a reaction,
- 56:23like I just did. So I know that cement is a component of
- 56:30concrete. With all due respect to Charlie, and uh, sometimes we just
- 56:35say a word so we can internally giggle. Cement is a binder, a
- 56:39chemical substance used for construction that sets, hardens, and adheres to other materials.
- 56:45Yes, you didn't believe Pete either, double checking in. I don't
- 56:49know why I take a shot at Pete there, Moresville, North Carolina.
- 56:52Try to be a loyal listener, Charlie Mitchell, don't believe anybody. No,
- 56:54no, don't know. But you ever notice that sometimes people when they
- 56:59are looking concrete will go like, well, I told him that put that
- 57:02semen over there. You know some contractors going, IM, not's wrong with
- 57:08you concrete? I thought his cake flower analogy was good, tremendous. You
- 57:13don't call the cake flour. And then he explained it very well, yeah,
- 57:15very concise. It was well done. Most of those people in Moorsville.
- 57:19They know what's going on for good Pete. Yeah, it was hello
- 57:22from Ethan and Hamlin, West Virginia. I was watching a YouTuber by the
- 57:28name of Destroying. He now plays in the XFL for the San Antonio Brahamas
- 57:34on his uh Bramas on his Bramas on his YouTube video. He was focusing
- 57:39on the team specialists Lo and Behold. One of the specialists was former mountaineer
- 57:45Rex Sunahara, always a West Virginia connection long snapper. Also Tony back to
- 57:51an episode a few weeks ago about seeing a guy in a coffee shop watching
- 57:54you guys on his computer. Tony, you don't need to say computer after
- 57:59lap top. We all know that a computer, the laptop is a computer.
- 58:04Ha ha ha ha. I love the show going off the rails laptop
- 58:07computer cement. Sometimes you just wait, here's it are we are? Let
- 58:15me ask you this are we running out of material? Because it's getting real
- 58:19nitpicky around here, like, oh, it's a nice day to day.
- 58:22Well it wasn't that nice. I mean actually it was a couple of cloud
- 58:25It's a little ring. I mean, it's very nitpicky. I think this,
- 58:30I mean, isn't it isn't it. Don't need to say laptop computer.
- 58:36I'll come over there. I'll say this once. I'll just say this
- 58:40once. Like folks like sometimes we say things that we know are like incorrect,
- 58:50or we add syllables, or we add things like YouTube's Illinois, the
- 58:55Cricinnati, the Kroger Like we're we yeah, we know, we know.
- 59:01We're just doing it just to I don't know, make ourselves laugh internally or
- 59:07some of you get it, some of you don't get it, some of
- 59:07you take it personally. We're just sticking around, is what we're doing here.
- 59:15But we are open to collapssolutely of factual areas, factual airs, yes,
- 59:23scope spreads and the dean. This is Brian from Williamstown. I have
- 59:28an interesting question relating to the discussion around an employee model like coming to college
- 59:34sports. If so, which of those do you think is more likely to
- 59:37happen? Salaries and salarycap trades, contracts instead of scholarships, a waiver wire
- 59:45franchise tag. If this is truly like the NFL Tony, you might finally
- 59:51get your ten year franchise player. Thoughts. That's the one that I find
- 59:58unbelievably intriguing as to what the new model will look like, and there will
- 1:00:01be a new model, there will be something. There's going to be it's
- 1:00:05going to have to be collectively bargained in a sense like Okay, what do
- 1:00:09you want and what do you understand you're not going to get anymore? And
- 1:00:14ideally, what's what's the best brand? What's is the best deal? The
- 1:00:17best deal is that each side benefits. Okay, each side gives up something,
- 1:00:22but each side to get something like this is important to us. For
- 1:00:25coaches and for schools, this part is really important, and for players,
- 1:00:29this part is really important. And then you work things out. Tenny,
- 1:00:32It's it's funny because you started that ten year franchise. You's always said,
- 1:00:36what would it be like if if each school to pick a player for ten
- 1:00:38player for ten years? Which is this an awesome June sports radio talk show
- 1:00:43topic. But it's funny because that may come into play here at some point
- 1:00:47from this standpoint, and I don't think it's this first round of collective bargaining.
- 1:00:51Certainly got bigger issues, but why would you be limited to four years
- 1:00:54of eligibility as long as you're making progress toward academic degree? Or why is
- 1:00:59there even matter anymore? What if it caps it at six years? What
- 1:01:01if you agree it's to six What if I can take cash in more cash
- 1:01:07in lieu of representing your brand, which is your school. Yeah, there's
- 1:01:09some talk out there of that that the separation from an academic part of this
- 1:01:15starts to come, that this is not so inconceivable like it was when you
- 1:01:19brought it up all those years ago. Thank you. I'll be considered to
- 1:01:22be your time. That will definitely be as first reported. You can give
- 1:01:24it. When that happens, you get absolutely credit on as first report.
- 1:01:29Thank you. Yeah, thank you very much. Franchise tag. Hey three
- 1:01:32guys, Jim from Preston County. I finally got a bingo on my three
- 1:01:37guards bingo card. I was using the free middle square along with three longs
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- 1:01:47and finally by the powers vested in me by lou Wendel, Marine Sales,
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- 1:01:58Things are looking really good for the future of the old Golden Blue Great Hires.
- 1:02:00As you pointed out last episode, excited to have all the sports looking
- 1:02:04like they're strong. Thanks for all you clowns do we really do appreciate it.
- 1:02:07Thank you. What was Santa's booth? Is the stalking was one of
- 1:02:10those? One of those? And ding dong over here, God, neat
- 1:02:16this, it's Santa's boot is in there? Stupid Tony, stupid podcast.
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- 1:03:24Put that over your app You know what I do upstairs during lunch? Right?
- 1:03:28Oh? You put a bib one, I put an apron on.
- 1:03:30It's a good idea. Three guys apron of course, got a three guys
- 1:03:32aprons? Yeah? Can you buy this episode? Eight hundred dot com used
- 1:03:37to be there. I don't know if they're still there or not. Text
- 1:03:39here we go. I'm a sixty year old man. Oh jeez, that's
- 1:03:45always like, that's always ah. I'm a sixty year old man that has
- 1:03:49attended over fifty strawberry festivals and Buckcannon Strawberry Festival, and I feel the need
- 1:03:55to come to your defense. Excuse me, thank you. Information that you
- 1:04:00were given from Chris Wallace is highly accurate. The majority of the strawberries at
- 1:04:05the festival do come from other states, but that's not always been the case.
- 1:04:12I know this is true because I grew up in Buchanan and my dad
- 1:04:15was a long time board member for the festival way back in the sixties and
- 1:04:20the seventies. Typically, strawberries are ripe in West Virginia sometime around mid to
- 1:04:27late June, and in the early years that is when the festival was held.
- 1:04:31However, as time went on, it became more and more difficult to
- 1:04:34get high school bands to come and participate in the parades that occurred during the
- 1:04:40Strawberry Festival week, so the festival was moved to mid May to accommodate the
- 1:04:46bands. But unfortunately that means that the local strawberry crop is simply not ready.
- 1:04:55Hopefully this clarifies things a little bit. I love the show because I've
- 1:04:59been in Ohia for over thirty years now, but three Guys always brings me
- 1:05:03back to my beloved West Virginia roots. I'm looking forward to eight hundred episodes
- 1:05:10plus signed by Kevin in Canton. Now, see that is informational and that's
- 1:05:15valuable. That's not nitpicky, that's like good information. Okay, that helps
- 1:05:19understand. I think the way he presented it was very very diplomatic and it
- 1:05:24was well thought out of well thought and Nick answers the question, does any
- 1:05:28who else is from Buchanan? A lot of people Chuck Chuck? Is he
- 1:05:32really? Yeah, He's from Bucan All rotten tire tube Chuck. Huh,
- 1:05:39rotten inner tube tire Chuck Chuck with a lot of run in the last couple
- 1:05:43of episodes, So what is your relationship? Like how often do you see
- 1:05:46Chuck? A couple times a week? That's big for you to see anyone
- 1:05:50twice a week. And our neighbors, we're neighbors and we're friends. I
- 1:05:54mean usually I'm borrowing something because he has everything. Might go over later day,
- 1:06:00like, hey, listen, do you have an inflatable tube? And
- 1:06:02what does he shape? So? How big? How like how expansive is
- 1:06:06his is his tool? Said? Like, oh my gosh, he has
- 1:06:09everything? Well waste? Does he have a lathe? Well, I don't
- 1:06:13know. I mean I can ask if you want me to find you'd know
- 1:06:15if he's got a laid you'd know that, like it'd bed be necessarily so
- 1:06:18I haven't had to borrow it. Well, I mean if you've got a
- 1:06:21lathe, it's not something he puts up on a shelf. Well, he
- 1:06:24has a big he has a big basement. He has stuff down there.
- 1:06:28He's got a lot of stuff. In fact, table saws you in fact
- 1:06:32right now, I have his bike rack in my garage. You got his
- 1:06:38bike rack? Yeah? Does he know you use him just to use his
- 1:06:42stuff? No? We're good friends once once a year, I have something
- 1:06:45I can loan him, which is great, Like, oh good, I
- 1:06:48can loan you something. The checks basically like he's a rental center. Yeah,
- 1:06:56but he doesn't charge. He does not charge. Good friend text Herpes
- 1:07:00the softball Skipper and the Dean. Jerry Porter is another of those athletes that
- 1:07:04was ahead of his time. The way that Major, Pat and Jerry played
- 1:07:09twenty thirty years ago is being celebrated today. That's true. On the other
- 1:07:13side of the coin, guys like Tim Brown, Robert Sans, Karl Joseph
- 1:07:17played in the exact era that they were supposed to play today. They would
- 1:07:21get flagged walking off the bus for the massive collisions they were about to lay
- 1:07:26out on ball carriers. Well, Robert Sands, that's a name we ever
- 1:07:29heard of. Why he did it? Well, Major and Pat could play
- 1:07:31today as they did back in the day, Robert Carl would have to completely
- 1:07:35change the way they played just to play in today's game. I love the
- 1:07:39show Signed by Doug. They could play, but they'd sit out a lot
- 1:07:43of second hands. Yeah, they'd go they hit a little bit above the
- 1:07:45shoulders, they'd take you out and make sure that your orthodonics were all in
- 1:07:50order. Yeah, all right, So did we finish? Did we solve
- 1:07:56anything? You guys wanted to be out at two o'clock? How about that
- 1:07:59bad boy? I can this thing. I could close this thing on a
- 1:08:00post. He saw any thing. Yeah, we confirmed that they're expecting three
- 1:08:03hundred thousand at Detroite him that there were six hundred thousand national beyond that Spring
- 1:08:06game preview didn't give you much from Joe Cocker in fact, But you guys
- 1:08:14are doing the show Monday, and you'll have a lot to talk. You
- 1:08:15have a lot to wrap up, You'll have a lot to talk about.
- 1:08:18You're out Monday, apparently, are you really out Monday? Stunning surprise.
- 1:08:23I think that's the first one you've missed and at least two or three episodes.
- 1:08:28Hurry up, you got ten seconds. Just got a just got a
- 1:08:30text from a P one listener reacting to the Strawberry information. Is there a
- 1:08:38three Guys episode today so I can plan my walk? I said, I
- 1:08:42said yes, taping send the picture of us in the studio. That's personalized
- 1:08:45attention right there. Yeah, I ask my kid, is it? Yeah?
- 1:08:51Big Mike plans a walk around the he's a big listener he listens to
- 1:08:57this. He listens to sports Line. I think he. I think he's
- 1:09:00like yeah, but I think he listens at like two and a half.
- 1:09:03So I've got to sound ridiculous a two and a half. I've not been
- 1:09:06at one and a half. Yeah, he's like, yeah, he listens.
- 1:09:10Really, you know, you can speed your podcast. I haven't done
- 1:09:12that well doing that to me. I apologize because it will not sound I
- 1:09:15talk too fast as it is, would you say, Tony, I said,
- 1:09:20I usually slow it down half speed. Make sure you can confirm the
- 1:09:27numbers that are being talked about. I like to listen to the program like
- 1:09:31this, like I used to think things sounded when I was in college,
- 1:09:38right, exactly? All right, So you're gone Monday, Yes, sir,
- 1:09:42you're gonna miss the spring recap. I know. I'm sorry about that,
- 1:09:45but you'll be there Friday in Charleston. I'm sorry. What there Friday
- 1:09:50in Charleston? TB no website again because any wu E SCPA dot org,
- 1:10:02w v SCPA dot org. You got to carry that. I'll be nervous.
- 1:10:08I don't know he care at that thing. Yeah, we're gonna have
- 1:10:11fun, yeah, or it's gonna be good, be good, let's walk
- 1:10:15in. You think they're you think they'll be laying in wait for us.
- 1:10:18I heard what you said. You know how hard I work to become a
- 1:10:20certified professional accountant? Do you know how many years it took me to get
- 1:10:24that? And you guys mock us bread. We need to do a little
- 1:10:28side work here. Set up a couple questions for the old host. I
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- 1:11:20We're out. Hope to see at the spring game, or I got
- 1:11:26a big auction this weekend. Two I got really where I'm sorry Saturday night.
- 1:11:30You have an auction where? What? What kind of auction? You
- 1:11:32ready? You've been working on that at all? Are? Uh? Yeah?
- 1:11:35One of the things we're auctioning off is an autographed H. Charles Wesley
- 1:11:41Godwin guitar and a bourbon barrel lid those cement states. I'm doing any of
- 1:11:47the cement states. Got a few other things we're doing, but I'm not
- 1:11:50doing any c met So I'll see it at the I'll see it at the
- 1:11:54auction Saturday, and were gonna be twenty five dollars to anyone to go hit
- 1:11:58say hello Saturday if we see it. Not you, but people, let's
- 1:12:00say hello, Zach krawlcheck our special producer extored there on hand. Episode five
- 1:12:09four nine is completed. Seal h m m hm hm