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3 Guys Before The Game - WVU Football vs Oklahoma State Game Preview (Episode 741) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  Speaker 1: I know that song. It's got a beat that you
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  Speaker 1: can dance to, doesn't it? No, not real. Not we can.
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  Speaker 1: Not really.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe somebody can.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody. It's time to go. Showtime, as they say.
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  Speaker 1: It's West Virginia and the Cowboys of Oklahoma State. And
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  Speaker 1: this is Three Guys Before the Game, episode number 741.
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  Speaker 1: The band is in, and we're ready to play for you.
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  Speaker 1: way into the stadium this weekend. Three guys brought to
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  Speaker 1: providing value beyond the numbers. See that new logo they got? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I do see that. That's pretty nice. New branding there
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  Speaker 1: for them. Oh, yeah. I'm sure they'll be the folks
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  Speaker 1: that come. That probably costs a lot of money to
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  Speaker 1: get a new logo. You know those logo people that
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  Speaker 1: make logos, they charge a lot of money for nothing. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: that one looks good.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 1: They do. They do. How much is the logo going
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  Speaker 1: to cost? Oh, well, you go, seriously? Anyway, now I've
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  Speaker 1: got the graphic artist mad at me.
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  Speaker 2: The graphic artist.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's just like plugging into AI. Now your wife
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  Speaker 1: hates me, huh? Oh, yeah. And three guys brought to
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  Speaker 3: Correct, sir.
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  Speaker 1: I've been wrestling with this microphone the last couple of shows.
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  Speaker 1: It kind of does its thing. Anyway. All right, so
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  Speaker 1: let's jump in, man. This is going to be fun.
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  Speaker 1: Saturday night. These are the games that, you know, you
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  Speaker 1: think about, that you romance about, that you look back.
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  Speaker 2: What is going on?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, what is this?
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just making mic noise. Didn't even shut it off.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just making mic noise. These are the games you
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  Speaker 1: think about when you think about a football season, right?
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  Speaker 1: When you think about a football season, you think about,
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  Speaker 1: High stakes games, West Virginia undefeated, Oklahoma State with a
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  Speaker 1: victory over number eight, Oregon. It's your Big 12 conference opener.
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  Speaker 1: The folks on the television side said, you know what?
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  Speaker 1: Let's not play it when the sun's out. Let's play
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  Speaker 1: it at nighttime. And by the way, I noticed last night,
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  Speaker 1: it was 7.09 last night. It was dark.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it gets dark early. It was dark.
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  Speaker 1: Don't like it either. Next week, dark at 5.02. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to have snow in the next couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure it'll be coming down there. But anyway, it
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  Speaker 1: does get dark. So it's going to be under the lights.
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  Speaker 1: And what more do you want if you're a football
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  Speaker 1: fan and it's on your home field? So this is
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  Speaker 1: what you hope for.
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  Speaker 2: It is.
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  Speaker 1: That's my obvious observation.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's obvious. But I'll tell you this, that maybe
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  Speaker 2: it's just me, but I feel like I'm sort of
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  Speaker 2: like the coaches in that at about 24 hours, I
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  Speaker 2: felt relieved about Virginia. Like, oh, you know, the joy.
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  Speaker 2: Then I started to get anxious. And I started. So
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  Speaker 2: now I'm just wracked with anxiety about this game.
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  Speaker 1: Really?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, which I will get to in obvious observations. But, Brad,
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  Speaker 2: you've got to celebrate. You've got to put that win
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  Speaker 2: behind you pretty quickly.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but you know what? It sure was fun. And, Tony,
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  Speaker 3: I think you're dead on. And it's been interesting listening
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  Speaker 3: to some of the national talk this week that, oh, hello, everybody.
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  Speaker 1: We're here.
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  Speaker 3: Guess who has slid into the national conversation? And some
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  Speaker 3: of it's because this is a really good game. This
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  Speaker 3: is one of those games– that when you spend all
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  Speaker 3: your time talking about the Big Ten and SEC, there's
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  Speaker 3: a few people left out there that still say, I
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  Speaker 3: tell you what, you know what's a good game? This
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  Speaker 3: is a fun game. This is an attractive game, as
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  Speaker 3: you like to say a lot. And West Virginia and
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  Speaker 3: Michael Hawkins have put themselves back on the national radar again.
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  Speaker 3: You've got a national stage to do this and a
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  Speaker 3: night game, as you guys mentioned, with a game that
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  Speaker 3: means something. The winner's likely ranked. The winner is in
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  Speaker 3: a position where you're talking about, oh, hey, you're four
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  Speaker 3: games in, but you guys Shot to contend for the
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  Speaker 3: Big 12 title. There's a lot of things that come
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  Speaker 3: with this one if you find a way to get
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  Speaker 3: a win.
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  Speaker 2: Brad, you're right. After everybody finishes talking about the SEC
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  Speaker 2: and the Big 10, there is a national narrative because
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  Speaker 2: of West Virginia. Oh, three and a hook. Rich Rod
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  Speaker 2: might be turning things around. And the fact that Oklahoma
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  Speaker 2: State beat Oregon. So that adds to something like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: I want these guys.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: Each team comes in with two of the better wins.
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  Speaker 3: They own a ranked win. The Oklahoma State over Oregon
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  Speaker 3: is one of the biggest surprises, I think, of the
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  Speaker 3: early college football season. So, yeah, I think you're right.
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  Speaker 3: That's part of what adds to the attraction is both
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  Speaker 3: of these teams have proven it against other really good
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  Speaker 3: teams so far this year.
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  Speaker 1: When it comes to storylines for the TV folks or
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  Speaker 1: for anybody that's following this game, you can't script one
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  Speaker 1: better than this at the quarterback position. Yeah. You've got
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  Speaker 1: Michael Hawkins, who has imploded nationally. And people are going like,
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  Speaker 1: wait a second, have you seen that guy? And then
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  Speaker 1: you just take a look at the numbers.
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  Speaker 3: Exploded.
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  Speaker 1: Exploded. Imploded.
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  Speaker 2: Exploded. Freudian slip.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, listen, I was half right with ploded.
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  Speaker 2: He's exploded.
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  Speaker 1: Ploded was down. He exploded. He's exploded, right? And so
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  Speaker 1: people are going, oh, did you see this guy in
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  Speaker 1: West Virginia? Did you see that guy? And then, right,
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  Speaker 1: you've got the marksman, Drew Mestemaker, who a year ago
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  Speaker 1: people were raving about him as a freshman who as
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  Speaker 1: a former walk-on freshman, and now here it goes for him.
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  Speaker 1: His first date on the road in a Power Four
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  Speaker 1: stadium under the lights at West Virginia, the same holds true.
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  Speaker 1: So from a quarterback standpoint, head-to-head, you might have one
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  Speaker 1: of the best matchups of the week.
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  Speaker 3: And it's a great story. And it's also interesting, you
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  Speaker 3: don't get this very often, Mestemaker comes in carrying the
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  Speaker 3: July Heisman trophy that he won, which congratulations to him.
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  Speaker 3: Hawkins counters by getting off the bus, walking into the
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  Speaker 3: locker room with the September Heisman that he can put
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  Speaker 3: a complete bow on with a good performance. So, Two
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  Speaker 3: early Heisman winners in this game, Hoppy, which will be fun.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: I love being prisoner of the moment.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think Geno Smith left him the September Heisman?
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  Speaker 3: He kept his.
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  Speaker 1: He kept his September Heisman.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, this is a new one. New year, they do
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  Speaker 3: a new trophy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Downtown Athletic Club has a lot of money. They
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  Speaker 3: can do a new trophy each time.
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  Speaker 1: The game going to be a lockout. Have they announced
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  Speaker 1: it's sellout yet?
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  Speaker 3: I don't think it's announced, but they're close.
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  Speaker 2: And it's a gold rush.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, gold rush. Weather's going to be idyllic.
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  Speaker 2: Hold on.
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  Speaker 3: You don't need to announce that. You just need to
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  Speaker 3: know that. because you didn't abide by the whiteout the
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  Speaker 3: first game. You had to get bailed out by Phil
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  Speaker 3: over at Daniels. So you don't need to say on
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  Speaker 3: air that it's a gold rush. You just need to
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  Speaker 3: take care of yourself with.
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  Speaker 1: A gold rush. Do you have a gold shirt yet, Skippy?
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  Speaker 2: Well, a little bit of information on that is when
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  Speaker 2: I found out... This will be good. When I found out,
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  Speaker 2: whatever day it was, earlier this week, that it's a
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  Speaker 2: gold rush, I immediately made a panic text to find
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  Speaker 2: looking Phil. Because I don't have any gold... Like, I
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  Speaker 2: have one gold shirt... It caused a whole thing domestically,
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  Speaker 2: which I won't get into.
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  Speaker 1: What do you mean? I'd like to know about this. No,
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  Speaker 1: you don't want to know. What did your wife say?
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  Speaker 2: You don't need another shirt from Phil's.
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  Speaker 3: Quick side note, everybody else might need a new shirt
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  Speaker 3: from Phil. He dropped some new Peter Pilar gold, exclusive,
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  Speaker 3: never before used on a West Virginia shirt. What does
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  Speaker 3: it look like? It's more of a muted, almost more
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  Speaker 3: in the old gold family.
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  Speaker 1: It's more muted.
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  Speaker 3: There's quarter zips. There's knits. Literally just unboxed it yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: I had to go in. I worked a rare Wednesday
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  Speaker 3: shift to help get them unboxed and get on a
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  Speaker 3: mannequin there. You can order online or in-store. Side note,
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  Speaker 3: PSA there.
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  Speaker 1: So you will have a gold shirt, Hoppy?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I will.
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  Speaker 3: So you won't pull a Kerchival and forget your gold shirt.
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  Speaker 1: What about all your college buddies? Are they going to
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  Speaker 1: have gold? Hoppy's got a big college buddy weekend. All
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  Speaker 1: these knuckleheads that lived together 200 years ago downtown.
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  Speaker 2: They're all coming in by... No, we.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, coming in by train.
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  Speaker 2: By train.
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  Speaker 1: Sleeper car. That's the way we came to school when
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  Speaker 1: we went to school, so we're going to come back
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  Speaker 1: in and go through Grafton. It's a wonderful train town.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, more on that maybe after the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's do this.
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  Speaker 3: He's got thoughts that sound brand new.
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  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 3: But they're things we already knew.
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  Speaker 1: Already knew it.
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  Speaker 2: He's got his whip already.
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  Speaker 1: Heaven knows. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Let's make it quick before his bladder blows.
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  Speaker 1: No pee-pee breaks here. The bladder blow would be an implosion. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that would be an implosion.
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  Speaker 2: I set the alarm, guys, at 545 and woke up
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  Speaker 2: and that song was in my head.
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  Speaker 1: I like that. That's good. Like an earworm.
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  Speaker 3: It was game day.
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  Speaker 1: You were ready to go.
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  Speaker 2: I was ready to go. Okay. The biggest opponent this
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  Speaker 2: week is relief syndrome. Relief syndrome.
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  Speaker 1: Explain further.
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  Speaker 2: Sure. West Virginia against Virginia had one of their best
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  Speaker 2: performances ever. everybody can agree, in a long time, all
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  Speaker 2: three phases of the game. I know Rich Rod complained
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  Speaker 2: about a couple of things, but really solid performance. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the question is, can you replicate that performance in this
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  Speaker 2: big game? I'm going to quote Coach Nick Saban, who
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  Speaker 2: said this, success is not a continuum. It is momentary.
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  Speaker 2: There's always a next challenge, a next game. And it's
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  Speaker 2: Saban who coined the phrase relief syndrome. Here's the rest
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  Speaker 2: of his quote. Relief syndrome, which is human nature, when
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  Speaker 2: you have a big win, you're kind of relieved. And
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  Speaker 2: you let your guard down a little bit. You think,
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  Speaker 2: I should have the opportunity to celebrate my success. And
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  Speaker 2: you let that carry over into the next challenge. It
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  Speaker 2: starts affecting you. habits and performance. Now, Rich Rod and
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  Speaker 2: his crew, I think, are very good at focusing on
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  Speaker 2: the task at hand. But that is real, the relief syndrome.
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  Speaker 2: And we've seen examples over the years. You have a
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  Speaker 2: big win, then you have a letdown. Last year, you
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  Speaker 2: beat Pitt, and then you got whacked by Kansas in
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  Speaker 2: the next game. 2022, you beat Oklahoma. The next week,
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  Speaker 2: you lost by 17 to K-State. 2018, you were 8-1.
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  Speaker 2: You rolled over TCU 47-10. You're in the hunt for
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  Speaker 2: the Big 12 title. Then you lost to Oklahoma State 45-41. Now,
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  Speaker 2: there are other circumstances, too, avoiding a letdown. 2003, the
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  Speaker 2: team started with losses to Wisconsin, Cincinnati, and Maryland. Then
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  Speaker 2: you stunned Virginia Tech, who was ranked third at the time,
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  Speaker 2: and they went on to win a bunch of games.
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  Speaker 1: What year was that?
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  Speaker 2: That was 2003.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: 2003. So to me, Brad, the relief syndrome is real.
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  Speaker 2: The letdown potential is real. The question is, can you
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  Speaker 2: avoid it?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it avoids the definition of a letdown spot, though,
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  Speaker 3: because you're at home at night in front of a
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  Speaker 3: big crowd. That should help. But I do think, Hop,
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  Speaker 3: to your point, I think consistency is the hardest thing
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  Speaker 3: to get in sports. I think that is really what
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  Speaker 3: you're striving for every day to be able to Pick
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  Speaker 3: up your good performances and move them forward. In fact,
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  Speaker 3: just yesterday at basketball, Ross Hodge did his post-game circle
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  Speaker 3: speech on this and talked about.
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  Speaker 1: Did you lean in on that?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You went right in? Yeah, I love the way he
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  Speaker 1: does that. You in the circle all the way in?
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  Speaker 3: No, I stayed on the outside. About five steps back.
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  Speaker 3: I was getting a walk-in on the treadmill there, but
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  Speaker 3: I stopped so I could hear the speech. But he
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  Speaker 3: talked about that's the game. It's not the magic of
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  Speaker 3: a three-point shot or an alley-oop dunk. It is the repetition...
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  Speaker 3: over and over and over and over of the simple things.
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  Speaker 3: And so can West Virginia do that? It did all
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  Speaker 3: of those things the other night. To your point, all
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  Speaker 3: three sides of the ball, as some used to say,
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  Speaker 3: did all of those. Can it pick that performance up
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  Speaker 3: and do it again with limited mistakes and success running
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  Speaker 3: the inside zone and then running the inside zone and
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  Speaker 3: then running the inside zone and throwing the ball down
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  Speaker 3: the field? Consistency over and over.
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  Speaker 2: And we've seen times, too, because I do think that's
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  Speaker 2: the key. And we've seen times, too, where it wasn't
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  Speaker 2: replicated and you tried. And what's the explanation?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: It just wasn't there. We had a great week in practice.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. And so those things happen. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: saying it will, but I'm saying that's something we should
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  Speaker 2: be aware of going into this game.
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  Speaker 1: I think so, too. I think these guys, these guys
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  Speaker 1: being the coaching staff and Rich as the head of it,
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  Speaker 1: does a very good job. of not letting them think
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  Speaker 1: they've accomplished anything. As Rich often has said in the past,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if he still uses this line. He's
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  Speaker 1: got a series of lines that, Brad, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if you've ever noticed it. He'll bring a line back.
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  Speaker 1: But he is a strong advocate. I never pat him
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  Speaker 1: on the fanny because they'll poop in your hand. And
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  Speaker 1: what that means, that's translated to, you guys haven't done
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  Speaker 1: anything yet. And he's really, really good at letting them
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  Speaker 1: know that. And so They'll be ready to go. It
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  Speaker 1: won't be a past. It won't be, hey, they weren't
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  Speaker 1: ready to go.
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  Speaker 3: Some of this, guys, some of the lack of consistency
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  Speaker 3: has to do with the opponent as well. Sometimes opponents
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  Speaker 3: you match up better against than others. I think this
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  Speaker 3: is a challenging matchup for West Virginia's defense this week.
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  Speaker 3: Not that last week wasn't, but I thought what Virginia
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  Speaker 3: did and maybe more importantly couldn't do played into your hands.
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  Speaker 3: This week may be different. But you know who else
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  Speaker 3: is looking for consistency?
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Oklahoma State. Now they have to pick up their Oregon performance.
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  Speaker 3: and put it in the plane and bring it here
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  Speaker 3: in front of all these fans going crazy and hope
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  Speaker 3: to replicate that. That's not an easy task either. Not
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  Speaker 3: a letdown necessarily, but tough to replicate the consistency.
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  Speaker 2: For Oklahoma State, I think they're all still wearing name
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  Speaker 2: tags there to know who's who because they brought in
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  Speaker 2: 90 players and 40 staff members.
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  Speaker 3: Believed to be the biggest roster turnover in the history
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  Speaker 3: of college football.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, bigger than Colorado.
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  Speaker 3: In the world.
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  Speaker 2: When Colorado brought in 87. And, Brad, as you talked about,
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  Speaker 2: the loss to Tulsa in the opener. But they had
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  Speaker 2: four turnovers in that game. Four turnovers. Turnovers matter. And
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  Speaker 2: then they had 554 yards in the win over Oregon.
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  Speaker 2: So you're right about the whole consistency issue. Against Virginia,
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  Speaker 2: the story was West Virginia stopping the run, and they
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  Speaker 2: were very successful. And I know, Brad, you're going to
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  Speaker 2: talk about this, but the focus here probably is on
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  Speaker 2: stopping Drew Mestemaker. And one of the challenges there, you know, Tony,
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  Speaker 2: in that in that Virginia game, West Virginia was really
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  Speaker 2: effective at pressuring the quarterback and bringing pressure. Zach Alley
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  Speaker 2: bringing pressure from a lot of different places. So he
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  Speaker 2: didn't know where it was coming from. So you try to,
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  Speaker 2: I guess, replicate that. But Mestemaker gets rid of the
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  Speaker 2: ball really quickly. I think Rich Rod said in the
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  Speaker 2: news conference, like, less than two seconds.
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  Speaker 1: 1.8's the number that they've been using.
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: 1.8 becomes this week's contain. I think a couple people
• 14:58
  Speaker 3: have maybe mentioned that maybe 1.8 has been out there
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: a little bit.
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: They do have a good running back, Caleb Hawkins. I'm sure, Brad,
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: you'll talk about him. Had 4.8 yards per carry and
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: a win over Oregon. I watched the opponent's press conference.
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: I watched the coach's press conference, and I... This is
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: interesting to me, I look for nuggets, that when you're
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: not very good, the press just asks about your team.
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: But when you got something going, they ask the coach
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: about the other team. So there were a lot of
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: questions in the very beginning of Coach Morris' press conference
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: about Hawkins. So that to me is a good sign, right?
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: They're not just asking about your guys, your guys, your guys,
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: What are you going to do about Hawkins?
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: I thought of that differently. When I watch the same thing,
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: you know what I thought?
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: What?
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: That's a group of media that's tuned in. I mean,
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: they're an educated group. They know the opposing team. They
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: know players on the opposing team. They get it. They
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: understand it. I thought it was just a little bit
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: more in-depth is what I kind of saw it as.
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: All right. I saw it as a positive.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. I mean, they're concerned.
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: They don't ask any questions about your team. Yeah, that's
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: what you're saying. Okay. Yeah. We talk about Brad, Tony,
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: you guys talk about regression to the mean. How about
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: the fact that the Cowboys have won the last five
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: in Morgantown? That's a weird series.
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: Five and two overall in what? It's eight out of ten?
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: Eight out of the last ten meetings?
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: West Virginia's won two of the last three.
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but the thing in Morgantown, that kind of surprised me.
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: The series, West Virginia's won in Stillwater in an unusual
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: clip compared to Oklahoma State winning in Morgantown in an
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: unusual clip. In this series, that's kind of been weird.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: Texas Tech used to be like that. But, you know, anymore.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: So watching Rich Rod's press conference, Coach Hunter asks, Coach,
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: are you worried about all the carries that Mike Hawkins
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: and Cam Cook are getting? After all, he didn't say
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: this is a great answer. After all, coach, they had
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: 48 of the 51 carries in the game. Rich Rod's
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: answer without skipping a beat. They're on scholarship. They're getting paid.
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: He went further, too, which I thought was really interesting.
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: He went further in his answer, and it was one
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: of those if you're watching him and looking at him,
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: like you could tell it was he was being forthright.
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: He was stunned. He claims he has no idea number
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: of carries. He's not worried about workload. He's never turned
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: to the running back coach and said, how many carries
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: does so-and-so have? He's just trying to get the next
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: first down were his words, which as we've talked for
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: many years, if you've watched Rich's offense at all, You
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: can believe that to be true. He's not counting carries.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: Who do I trust? Who is producing?
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: You're going to get the ball. It's as simple as
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: that with him.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: He's a bit myopic in his approach. The only thing
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: he cares about is the next play. And then when
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: that plays over, how do I go get more yardage?
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: How do I score? That's what he thinks about. And
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: who can best do that? Yeah, and if a position
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: coach comes to him and says, hey, coach, so-and-so, you know,
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: I got it. And he'll say, okay, fine. But like,
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: if he's got a green light, he's going to go
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: through the intersection. He said that.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: And it was fun. It was, that's why I love
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: to watch these things because you get a lot of
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: coach speak. Then you get some nuggets. And it was
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: a good question by, by coach Hunter, but in the
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: Rich Rods, Kendra, where he just said, you know, guy,
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: you could tell he was like thinking, he said, I
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: don't think any time in my career as a head
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: coach I've ever worried about workload.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: Surprise, surprise.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: We could have answered that for him.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: But I thought that was just like, you want to
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: know Rich Rod? You want to know him and him
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: as a coach? There it is, right?
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: If it works, I'm doing it again.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Why stop? Actually, do you ever watch games and
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: a team is just controlling it and they do something
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: different and you go, what? Why did you do that?
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: Well, we did our show on game days for a
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: decade plus with Steve Dunlap, former defensive coordinator. Tony, he
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: would lose his mind every week multiple times about offensive
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: coordinators that would do just that. Something's working. Why would
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: you go away from it? And frankly, I talked about
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: it on Monday's show. Virginia did that, guys. They were
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: running successfully on first down. They inexplicably decided to throw
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: it a few times. I think it cost them.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Like, oh, let's explore the playbook. Rich is going
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: to explore the playbook.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: We talked last show about night game atmosphere as opposed
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: to a game at night.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: And you would expect.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: With the 3-0 record, with the night atmosphere, you're going
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: to have a good environment there, Tony.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Like I said, it's scripted, right? The weather's going to
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: be nice during the day, not too hot, not too cool.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: It'll be a fantastic environment.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: And finally, Gold Rush. If you want to be exact
• 19:41
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• 19:44
  Speaker 2: with this from his days in marketing, The color is
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: PMS 125. is correct. PMS124C. WVU is very specific about
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: its branding when it comes to colors.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: You think?
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: In fact, the official colors, of course, are gold and blue,
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: not blue and gold. And they actually, if you look
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: on their website, they say this. Please reference... The bullets
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: below bullet points, when using WVU colors, please refrain from
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: referring to WVU's colors as blue and gold. Don't refer
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: to gold as yellow. Oh, no. That would be a
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: criminal offense.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 20:23
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• 20:27
  Speaker 1: PMS 124C. Right. If you've got a PMS chart at home,
• 20:31
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• 20:35
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• 20:35
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• 20:55
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• 21:01
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• 21:05
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• 21:18
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• 24:53
  Speaker 3: We'll go big picture and niche it down here into
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: the weeds a little bit. This is a fun matchup
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: because it's kind of counterintuitive here.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: What does that mean?
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: Well, Eric Morris, an air raid descendant, but he doesn't
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: throw it all the time, right? It's not the old
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: Mike Leach, kind of like Dana Morphin. Do you remember
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: how Dana... was originally just throw, throw, throw, then started.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: To run it a little bit more. All those guys.
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: The new age air raid guys understand the run game.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: So it's 54% pass, 46% run for Oklahoma State, which
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: I think would be surprising right there. It's also, here's
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: also why this is an odd mix. So MestaMaker's the headliner,
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: and rightfully so. He can really sling it. But Oklahoma
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: State's rush offense has been more impressive analytically.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: Hoppy, analytically. All right.
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: Pick six previews. Has them number eight nationally, the Cowboys,
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: in per play rushing offense. Number eight nationally. So you're
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: going to have to stop the run a little bit.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: The passing offense is 54th on a per play basis.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: So you think of them as throw first, but the
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: run has been really important to them. Flip it over
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: to the other side. West Virginia is the exact opposite.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: Rich Rodriguez and this offense known for running it. And
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: certainly they run it much more than they pass it.
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: But these passing metrics are just outrageous. And guys, I
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: think that's been a huge key to the season so
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: far and has to continue. If you're going to be
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: able to big play and hit these explosives in the
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: pass game, you've got a heck of a problem defensively
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: trying to figure out what to do. So can you
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: continue these passing metrics if you're West Virginia? Again, to
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: quote pick six previews, West Virginia fourth nationally in passing
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: offense per play. Air rich. 15th in rushing offense per play.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: So again, offense has been clicking. All those numbers, of course,
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: adjusted for opponents, which makes them even more impressive. It
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: factors in.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Who you've played.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: As we've mentioned, both of these teams have really good wins.
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: Let's get into Oklahoma State's offense here just a little bit.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: I mentioned 54% of the time they've been throwing it,
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: but just 9% of their passes have been deep balls.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: And that's part of the 1.8, the quick release. He
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: gets it out fast, but certainly you're not having a
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: ton of time to sit back there and throw it deep.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: So they're very judicious about when they go deep a
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: lot underneath. So I'll get back into that in a
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: little bit and in one of our keys. They have
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: an almost identical success rate so far to what UVA had, 53%.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: Just to put that in comparison to you, Arizona leads
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: the Big 12 at 62% success rate. These guys are
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: right around that 53% mark.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: Define success rate.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: Success rate is just your per play success. Is it
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: first down do you gain at least four, second down
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: do you gain four more yards, third down do you convert?
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: So success rate is based on those metrics. are you
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: successful on a play-by-play basis? Here's one of the numbers, Hoppy.
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: You mentioned that defensive pressure that West Virginia got against Virginia.
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: When they wanted to throw, when Pribula dropped back to throw,
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: someone was in his face and were delivering hits. That's
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: going to be a harder ask against this Oklahoma State team.
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: Just a 2% sack rate against them. They take on
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: a pressure rate of just 27%. So that would make sense.
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: For a team that unloads it quickly, it has been
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: hard to get home here. So This seems to me
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: like it's one of those, it's going to have to
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: be situational. Can you dial it up on a big
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: third down? Can you dial it up on some first
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: downs and get home to set up some second and longs?
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: You're probably not going to be able to get consistent
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: all-night pressure against this particular group. We'll get into their
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: offensive line here in just a second, though, because that's
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: something to keep an eye on. They're dealing with some
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: injuries along that front. Let's talk about the rush offense
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: for a second. Averaging nearly six yards per carry. They
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: run a ton of outside zone. So this is an
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: outside zone team versus a West Virginia team that loves
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: to live on the inside zone. The Cowboys are 47th
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: out of 68 power four teams in EPA per rush
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: and 39th in success rate. So again, those numbers are
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: lower than what you would expect for an offense that
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: is really good.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: Okay, wait, time out. Yeah. Speak English. What's that mean?
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: Okay, I'm getting there. Just give me a second. West
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: Virginia has been very good against the run, as we know.
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: They're 21st among power four defenses in expected points added
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: per rush. So that means each play, how much did
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: it add to the points you expect to score on
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: that drive? So one of the reasons, and this is
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: what I was going to get to next, one of
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: the reasons Oklahoma State's success numbers are high, but EPA
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: looks a little bit lower, is they haven't had a
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: ton of explosives. And they haven't been explosive in the
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: past game. So they're successful down to down in moving it,
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: but their expected points added for per play doesn't jump
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: a ton because you don't have a big 30-yard pass
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: play 50-yard pass play that changes the EPA number a
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: bunch right if you go from your own 30 to
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: the other team's 35 your expected points on that play
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: took a massive jump up we'll get to that when
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: it comes to West Virginia because West Virginia's EPA numbers
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: are through.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: The roof And they've struggled.
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: Follow me there.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and these guys have struggled on third downs, which
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: was interesting.
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: We'll get to third down in a second because I
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: think that's also another massive key on this. Here's one
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: to watch.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: Is this one of those wows?
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: This was, I don't know if it was a wow,
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: but it's a number to pay attention to. Oklahoma State
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: ranks 14th among power four teams in rush yards before contact.
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: They're getting about two and a half yards per clip
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: before someone's making contact with them. West Virginia's defense ranks
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: 66th out of 68 when it comes to yards before
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: contact allowed, giving up almost 2.7 yards per rush before
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: you hit somebody. Which of those numbers comes true? Does
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: Oklahoma State continue to have success getting yards before they're hit,
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: or can West Virginia shrink that number down a little bit?
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: I thought that was a, maybe not a wow, but
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: I thought that was a really interesting number right there.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: That's relevant. That's a big, that's a woo, it's a
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: woo at least.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: Offensive line injuries that Oklahoma State's dealing with. Game one
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: starter Jacob Sexton, a tackle, was lost for the season
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: in the opener. Another they expected to be a starter
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: but hasn't played this year is listed questionable in the
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: injury report. Sounds likely that he won't play in Braden Nelson.
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: He came with Morris from North Texas, where he was
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: an all-conference player. So there's a couple guys already. Their
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: right guard, Joseph Hansen, also appeared on the injury list
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: as questionable. He was their highest graded offensive lineman, but
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: sat out the Murray State game after getting injured against Oregon.
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: So a couple things with that offensive line. One, just
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: the injury situation. And they're down into their backups there.
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: How do they feel about their depth, number one. And
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: number two, Tony, you mentioned Mestemaker coming into a power
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: four road game for the first time. He's only played
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: one power four opponent in his career. That was Oregon.
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: Pretty good one. And pretty impressive win. So these guys
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: are really talented. They're not going to come in here
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: and melt down in front of your stadium. but can
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: you get an atmosphere bump out of this? And by that,
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: I mean, is there some miscommunication along the offensive line
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: in a couple key moments on a third down on
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: a missed blitz assignment that they, they think they've got
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: it communicated, but they either can't hear well enough or
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: it's these newer guys, these backups that are in. So
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: you're not going to probably overwhelm Oklahoma state, but can
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: you get some key moments where the crowd and miscommunication
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: help you? I think that's critical. Does it lead to a,
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: A blitz and then a fumble by Mestemaker. Does it
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: lead to a miscommunication on the hot route and you
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: get a pick because the linebacker jumps the route? That's
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: what I'm looking for. More than a meltdown. These guys
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: aren't going to meltdown.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: I agree.
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: Totally talented.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: You need you need.
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: Can you have strategic like strikes that get mistakes that help?
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: Can you have two to four miscues during a course
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: of an important drive where now they're going to have
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: to punt it because you just jumped and it was
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: third and one? And now it's third and six and
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: you don't convert on third and six. And so now, OK, yeah. Yeah.
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: And I think for an offense that can get it
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: rolling and get some momentum behind it and then go
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: super fast like Rich wants to go. These are two
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: of the fastest offenses in the country. You need something
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: that breaks the momentum at times. So can there be
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: some key strategic mistakes that come your way? Oklahoma State
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: defense for a second. They have stopped the run game
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: really well and got pressure. So those are two things
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: to watch right away. Can they handle West Virginia's running game?
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: And can they get home on Hawkins? So far, those
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: have been keys that West Virginia has been good, certainly,
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: to run against teams that have been good against stopping
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: the run. They have four sacks against Dante Moore of Oregon.
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: They really got after him. They lead the nation on
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: third down. This is if you want a stat that
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: you're going to keep an eye on. And again, a
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: lot of third down is predicated on early downs. Is
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: it third and four? Or is it third and seven
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: for West Virginia? Changes the playbook significantly. But Oklahoma State's defense,
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: opponents are converting just 16% of third downs against it.
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: That's really good, 16%. Conversely, West Virginia is one of
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: the better teams nationally, converting 50% plus on third down.
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: Which of those numbers stays true? Is it closer to
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: West Virginia's number, which is an impossibly high number to
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: continue with? But can you get closer to that? Or
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: does Oklahoma State's defensive number ring true?
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: 16% is also unrealistic, too, going forward.
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: Both of those numbers are probably unrealistic season-wise. They love
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: their defensive end. Ends, plural. James Williams, their highest graded
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: among that group. Jahlil Johnson is another. He leads them
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: in quarterback pressures. Dave Hunziker, their play-by-play voice, told us
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: last night on Sportsline, guys, they've been rotating in 12
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: to 14 defensive linemen. We talk a lot about West
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: Virginia's depth and trying to find defensive line depth. Oklahoma State,
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: 12 to 14 different guys. All right, let's jump into
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: a couple of the keys. I mentioned one. I think
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: that winning the line of scrimmage defensively for West Virginia
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: in that yards per contact is massive. West Virginia Hoppy
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: succeeded against Virginia in making the Cavaliers one-dimensional. They could
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: only run. Now, some of that was because of Pribula
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: and his limitations and their confidence in him. They didn't
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: feel great throwing it. This is a different deal. Oklahoma
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: State feels comfortable throwing passes. They feel comfortable running it.
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: But can you put them in a position where they
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: have to throw? Maybe then you can get some pressure
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: on them. So watch that line of scrimmage in the
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: yards before contact. Number is something we'll keep an eye on.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: Number two.
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: I mentioned it earlier. Can West Virginia stay explosive, especially
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: through the air? And here's a couple numbers that jumped out.
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: West Virginia's offense from the passing side of things is
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: number two nationally in explosive pass rate. So they haven't
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: thrown it a ton. When they have, a big number
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: of those passes have been what is considered explosively. Add
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: in that West Virginia is third nationally in EPA per pass,
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: excuse me, and second in yards per attempt, meaning they're
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: pushing it down the field right there.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: Matriculating it down the field.
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: So again, opponents coming into this know they're going to
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: get a heavy dose of run and know they've got
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: to deal with Cook and Hawkins. What I guarantee they
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: did not expect at this point in the season is
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: that they had to worry about an offense that's one
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: of the most explosive in the country through the air.
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: Keep that in mind. Can you keep it up? Here's
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: one of the wows. Oh. Here's one of the wows.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: This is it.
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: Oklahoma State has given up explosives through the air. In fact,
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: nearly one in five pass plays by Cowboy opponents have
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: been explosive. One of the worst rates among Power Four teams.
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: Only six teams have given up a higher percentage of explosive.
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: Define explosive. 20 yards or more.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: 15 yards or more. So 20% of the pass plays
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: they give up.
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: 15 or more.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: 20% of the pass plays they get up go for
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: 15 or more yards.
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah. So again, if you're looking for what stats can hold,
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: what consistency carries through, because consistency can be good and bad, right?
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: Which of those holds true? Can West Virginia continue to
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: big play through the air, which as we know, loosens
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: the box and now lets Hawkins and Cook go to work?
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: Or is that a trend from Oklahoma State that they
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: will get corrected and fixed and not allow the explosives
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: this week. So I think that one, if I was
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: picking a key, third down conversion is obviously one because
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: both of these teams want to keep the chains moving,
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: but we know that's a big thing for Rich. I
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: think explosive pass plays are massively important to West Virginia's offense.
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: I think that has been the number one most critical
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: thing here. Hawkins has been elite, guys. That goes in
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: your obvious observations. The fact that, knock on wood, has
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: had no interceptions.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: You don't need to tell him what needs to go
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: in his obvious. He knows what's obvious. You don't need
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: to tell him what's obvious. He knows that.
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: No interceptions so far this season. If that can continue
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: for another week, I think you feel pretty good about
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: where you are.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: The Mestimakers thrown four?
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: Correct. Yeah.
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: Correct.
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: Okay, hold on. Can I give you one more? Sure.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: Is this a wow?
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: This was pretty wow.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: Ready? Yeah.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: I'm in. West Virginia.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: Has allowed pressure on 46% of its pass plays. That's
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: the highest rate of any Power Four team. So teams
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: have been getting pressure. Yet WVU ranks first among all
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: Power Four teams in EPA per pass. So teams have
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: been getting pressure, and West Virginia has absolutely been torching
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: that pressure. Again, the EPA number takes into explosives. You
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: get extra credit for explosive plays. That's why that comes along.
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: But that was a wow to me. Very rarely are
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: you last in that rate pressure and first in EPA. Normally,
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: if you're getting pressured, you're having trouble throwing the football.
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: West Virginia has thrived in that area. Oklahoma State ranks
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: only 44th out of 68 power four defenses in generating pressure.
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: So which of those holds true? Do they get home
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: to Hawkins and does that number start to flip? Are
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: you playing with fire if you're West Virginia allowing this pressure?
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: Or can you, one, pick it up and allow a
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: cleaner pocket for Hawkins? Or two, can you just continue
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: at the rate you have, which, all right, get some pressure,
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: but we're going to get it out more quickly and
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: hit you in big play offensively. So that was a
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: little bit of a wow number to me.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: What also I find interesting is that these two staffs,
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: quote unquote, have gone against each other in the past. Now,
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: not Eric Morris, but Skyler Cassidy is their defensive coordinator.
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: He faced off against Rich and Rick Trickett when they
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: were at Jacksonville State and he was at Sam Houston.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: And so that, you know, for both sides, right? So
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: Cassidy has seen what Rich wants to do. And West
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: Virginia has seen how Cassidy wants to develop. what Rich
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: does now a little bit of a difference right even
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: though Rich had a very talented quarterback at Jacksonville State
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: Michael Hawkins has a different level of elite speed which
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: obviously as we've seen changes a lot of what you
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: can do yes so that to me is an interesting
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: game of the cat and the mouse and Uh, you know,
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: the same could be said, you know, Zach Alley has
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: seen a lot of air. I shouldn't say air, right?
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: The new version V2 of what air rate is nowadays.
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: This is, this is another similarity. That's pretty wild. Both
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: coaches admittedly don't have super deep playbooks. They're not tricky.
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: They're just going to do what they do. So yeah,
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: they can, do you know what Rich is going to do?
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: Sure.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: You do.
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: Can you, okay. Now you still got to stop cam
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: cook Hawkins and Epps and brain everybody else. So it's
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: one thing to know it's another to stop. The reverse
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: is also true, much like Dana was, where the offense
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: wasn't a deep playbook. In fact, they bragged about the
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: simplicity of it. It's the same with Eric Morris and
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: Oklahoma State. It's not overly tricky. It's the execution, both
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: for West Virginia and Oklahoma State, that gets you one
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: last number. And we talk about this a lot. It's
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: been a key to West Virginia's fast start. Oklahoma State's
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: been over to overcome it. The turnovers. Which team can
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: win this? Oklahoma State's averaging two plus per game, 102.
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: and 26 nationally, near the bottom of the national rankings
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: in turnover margin. West Virginia averages less than one per game,
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: 26 nationally. West Virginia needs to continue to be clean,
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: and if it is, this is a really hard defense
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: to contain. Or offense, excuse me.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: You know how you force turnovers, Hoppy?
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: How do you force turnovers?
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: Pull a little more tape on.
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: Oh, that'll do it.
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: Pull a little more air into your helmet. Right, Brad?
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: That's how you do it?
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: By the way, I love that pregame speech. I love
• 41:12
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• 41:13
  Speaker 1: You probably like that 7-on-7 line, too. They want to
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: go 7-on-7.
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: I wonder if the word for the week in Stillwater
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: was contained.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: Nah, I don't think it was. I don't think it was.
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: It's a great matchup.
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is.
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: It's a fun matchup.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: The league should be... I think this could do some...
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: I don't know what else is against it, but this
• 41:32
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• 41:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 41:33
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• 41:34
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  Speaker 1: as we record, so it'll be over by the time
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: you hear this, a huge day for WVU athletics in
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: the courtroom of law because this is the day that
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: West Virginia's Brennan Laureant and Javen Buchanan We'll hopefully hear
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: good word regarding their potential eligibility for the coming season.
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: It is a massive decision involving the roster for West Virginia.
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: You get these two young men eligible in this world
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: that we're living in, and it will make a significant
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: difference to the roster at one particular position for West Virginia. Yesterday,
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: you saw a court ruling involving Jacory Thomas, the transfer
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: from Georgia, and so He now has been green-lighted. And obviously,
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: it'll be a bit before he gets into the fold
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: for the Mountaineers. But you'll have him in the back
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: half of that defense as you get into the month
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: of October. So huge news. You'll hear about that, obviously,
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: in the next day.
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: You know, one bit of bad news out of that
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: Indiana court case. Taman Lipsy, Iowa State three-time all-conference performer,
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: was also included. Looks like he's returning to Iowa State
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: for a fifth year, given they had An injury to
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: Killian Torre, one of their great young players. It's going
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: to keep him out for a couple of months. They're
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: getting Lipsy in there to provide some depth, which is
• 47:12
  Speaker 3: a great add for Iowa State, not.
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: For the rest of the league. He's one of their
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: legendary guys. Texter, the line on the game is like one,
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: one and a half. The Texter says the books have
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: not adjusted to account for hard edge. Let's go, Mountaineer.
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: It's flipped significantly. Oklahoma State was a two and a
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: half point favorite just a week ago before the Virginia game.
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: That flipped it back over to the West Virginia side.
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: Over under yesterday, sitting about 60.
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: And a half.
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: Timothy in Barbersville, unless I missed one when checking old schedules,
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: last time West Virginia was 3-0 or better and hosted
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: a night game in Morgantown that we won was all
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: the way back 1996, beat Maryland 13-0. Could that be
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: 36 years ago?
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: I think, well, qualifying at the start. 3-0 start.
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: 3-0 plus a night. Yeah.
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: Texter, Bud in Lexington.
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: The Athletic, he lets us know, has WV ranked 23rd
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: all the way up from 65. Yeah, it's interesting.
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: And there's a bunch of folks out there that do
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: those rankings from what has happened in 2026, which is
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: a really novel concept that you would do this season's
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: rankings based off what you've done this season. It's something new.
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: Wait a minute.
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: Is that more accurate than before games were played?
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: It is absolutely groundbreaking that you would base it on
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: the games that have actually been played rather than what happened.
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: It's amazing. But anyway, West Virginia, yeah, regarded among most
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: top 25, top 20, top 15 in some.
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: And Rich Rod was asked about that. He gave it
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: a good old-fashioned pshaw. I mean, just.
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: What did he do?
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: Well, I say he didn't actually say pshaw, but I mean,
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: just like... Don't worry about that yet. I mean, we can.
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: No, I totally agree. It's fun to keep track of it,
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: but just... My thought on that is this. There is
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: a poll. It's called the Big 12 Conference Standings. That's
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: your poll. Win your games, and don't worry about anything else.
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: Just win your poll in your league, and you're going up.
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: Don't worry about it.
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: In fact, in this point, it probably would hurt you
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: because it's a motivational point for the other team. Like, oh,
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: you're playing a ranked team.
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: Sure. This was interesting. A gentleman sent us the cumulative
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: stats for West Virginia quarterbacks of the past through three games. Oh.
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: And so just to kind of give you a little bit,
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: Will Greer after three games was 1,120 passing yards, 13 TDs,
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: three interceptions. Geno Smith after three was 1,130 yards, 13 TDs,
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: identical to Greer as far as the TDs, and no interceptions.
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: And then he had Skylar Howard's numbers, and he had
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: Pat's numbers as well. And Michael Hawkins fits kind of
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: into the middle of all that, but 799 pass yards,
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: 11 touchdowns, zero interceptions. So he's right there with superb
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: starts by Will Greer, Pat White, Geno Smith, and Skylar Howard.
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: Pretty good company.
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that is good company. This was kind of interesting.
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: Josh from Heiko. I'm a first-time texter. Never thought I'd
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: send you guys a text, but I've got to get
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: something off my chest. I want to sincerely apologize to Mr.
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: Zach Alley. I consider myself a glass-half-full fan, always trying
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: to find positives when the Mountaineers let me down. But
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: after the first Virginia possession lost my mind, I thought,
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: here we go again with receivers running open down the field,
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: running backs running through holes the size of Lou Wendell
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: pontoon crafts. You wouldn't believe what I did next. I
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: made the classic Facebook post about him. And boy, did
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: I let him have it. So he just trashed them.
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: Nobody does that.
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: Not anymore. But then he said, then it happened. Everything changed.
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: Coach Alley had dudes flying around in perfect position to
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: make plays. I really think it was one of the
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: best defensive games I've seen called all the time. I
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: thought maybe we should just simplify in defense instead of
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: having so much going on. Moral of the story, what
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: the hell do I know? All in capital letters. I'm sorry, Zach.
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: I never doubted you. You guys are awesome. And I
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: can't wait for the next episode.
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: Hey, Tony, when I gave the presentation at Sheppard University.
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: The 84 slides, yeah.
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: The 84 slides. One of the slides was about this.
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: What can we do to kind of lower the temperature?
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: And that is do not react immediately emotionally to something
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: that happens. And that sounds obvious.
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it makes sense. But, I mean, seriously.
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: Because just wait. Because with social media, you can react
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: to me like, I tell you, son of a. Just
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: hang on a second. Just wait. Just wait and see
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: how you feel and gather a little more information before you,
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: and then respond.
• 51:42
  Speaker 3: That doesn't happen a lot in sports. Maybe in life,
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: but it doesn't happen.
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: A lot in sports.
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: It's an emotional time.
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: Games are emotional. That happens.
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah. But you get my point.
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: Close the Facebook app, maybe.
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: Next texter identifies himself as Adam from Adamston. I don't
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: think that's his real name. He says he's a listener
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: of 740 out of 740 episodes. You guys have mentioned
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: a few times about dragging them into the deep end.
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: Do we assume that Wren knew what he was doing
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: with UVA neutral site game by setting this neutral up?
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: He literally took the entire program into the deep end,
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: and they proved that they could not swim. Lack of
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: fan support. I think Wren moved the game because he
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: made $ 2 million and didn't go to East Carolina. I
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: think that was the impetus.
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: That was a good— Things worked out well on that trip.
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: Don't know if Ren had any swimming thoughts.
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: Well, that's our second home field now.
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: Yes. Hello, Tony, please yell this like the old days. No.
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: He said olden days. You want me to do it?
• 52:44
  Speaker 3: Olden?
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: I guess if he has. I'll do it. On the
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: olden days. All right, here we go.
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: Go ahead.
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: Where is this guy?
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: Go ahead.
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: Mitch from Buchanan.
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: Hello!
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: It's been a minute since I've texted in. I'm bringing
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: the wife and kids up this weekend for the Okie
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: Light Game, thinking about swinging by the tailgate Saturday. Any
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: chance any of you three stooges, I mean fellas, will
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: be there? I know you all have some work to do,
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: so I doubt it, but I figured I'd ask also,
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: how can I sell it to my wife and daughters
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: that it is worth our time to swing by? What
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: would your elevator pitch be? I'll be sure to let
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: them listen to your response. All right. Thanks, Mitch. You
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: can take care of that for you very well. So
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: the tailgate, First off, let me just do this really quick.
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: Thursday night, which is tonight, if you're listening and it's
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: not Thursday, then don't worry about it. But we're at
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: Buffalo Wild Wings Suncrest Town Center from 6 until 7.30
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: with our live show. Going to have a lot of fun.
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: Jen Greeny, Mountaineer volleyball coach, is going to be there.
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: We're going to do something about spiking the ball inside
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: of a Nerf thing or something like that. So we
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: got that going for us.
• 53:45
  Speaker 3: Free admission.
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: Which is kind of nice. Yeah, just come in there.
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: Come on over. Also, we've got the Hoppies Trivia.
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: Um and just just i mean fun fun just like
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: fun camaraderie.
• 53:59
  Speaker 3: As you've said before it starts the weekend come enjoy
• 54:01
  Speaker 3: it with your fans that's very about the three and
• 54:04
  Speaker 3: a star be giddy about the big game come enjoy
• 54:06
  Speaker 3: it with us.
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: Okay so why should you go to the food court
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: so we're there four until ten friday night it's just
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: it's a super relaxed chilled out non-hostile environment it's kind
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: of like Everyone's really nice. Everybody's chill. There's sweet treats.
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: There's barbecue. There's Connection 304 beer. If you want to
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: have one of those, you could certainly do that, drink responsibly.
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: And it's just like a chilled-out night. A homeless day
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: will probably put those little lines of lights up, and
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: there's live music.
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: You're talking about Friday, which we were there Friday, but
• 54:43
  Speaker 3: he's asking about Saturday.
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: It's the same thing on Saturday.
• 54:45
  Speaker 3: He's swinging by Saturday.
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: Wouldn't you agree it's the same thing on Saturday? Mm-hmm. Yeah. Right?
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: What time do you have.
• 54:53
  Speaker 3: To hang out with Mountaineer fans?
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: What time are we going Saturday?
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: I don't know, TBD. Special guests. But hold on real quick.
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: He's asking if we'll be there.
• 55:00
  Speaker 3: Yes, at different points throughout the weekend we'll all be there.
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: I'll be there earlier because obviously I've got to go,
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: but I'll be there in the morning-ish. What time do
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: we open? Nine, he said.
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: I don't know that yet.
• 55:08
  Speaker 3: It's been nine on the noon games.
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: Ten-ish.
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: I'll be there at 10, 11. Anyway.
• 55:12
  Speaker 3: Poppy and I are usually there most of the time.
• 55:14
  Speaker 3: Most of the time on Saturday.
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: I have a couple other commitments, but I'll... Yeah, no
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: one cares.
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: Anyway, special guest at the food court tomorrow.
• 55:22
  Speaker 3: Don't cut him off. He specifically said, will you be
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: there Saturday?
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: He's asking. We got a big slide presentation. You got
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: to go down there at the library and do it.
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: But let me just say this. McKenna Hope is going
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: to be performer, singer-songwriter from St. Albans. Her dad's a
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: P1 listener. Roots in classic country. She started performing on
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: stage at age eight. Cites Patsy Cline, Dolly Parton, Reba McEntire,
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: Loretta Lynn, among her influences. She's performed along artists including
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: Colt Ford, John Lilly, Hello June, Dan Shea Parmelee. So
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: she's really good. And then also, so she'll be performing.
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: We'll have live music. And also, put this note on
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: your calendar. 7 of October. Not next week, the week after.
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: We're doing this again this year. Moving Mountains Live. in
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: conjunction with the United Way to raise money. The folks
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: from Clear Mountain Bank, the folks from WV Medicine will
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: have student athletes there. WV student athletes were doing it
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: at the football stadium at Touchdown Terrace. For information, scan
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: the code that we've got on there now, and it
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: goes to the United Way. We had a ton of fun.
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: That's where we sold that pig last year. I auctioned
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: off that pig. It was like $ 2 million or something
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: we got for the pig?
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: Not quite, but it was a little under that. A
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: little under that, but.
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: So, hey, listen, Mitch, come on over. Your wife and
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: kid will like it. I'm just saying. Anyway, we're discussing
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: uniforms at work today. My coworker wanted to know if
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: we still even have gold helmets. Three of us do.
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: Friendly wager. Each one predicting the uniform combos and scores
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: the game. Just seeking. Do we have gold? Yeah, we
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: got gold helmets, right? Do we? Right? I don't know.
• 57:01
  Speaker 3: I haven't seen them yet.
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 57:02
  Speaker 3: This year?
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: I don't care. Hey guys, always a West Virginia connection.
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: This is good. I was at my son's hockey game
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: last night and I started talking to some parents. They
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: noticed my WVU hat and mentioned they had a friend
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: who played there. Turns out the mom's best friend is
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: the mom of none other than Mountaineer great NFLer Keith Tandy.
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: Had a great conversation. They've got nothing but respect for
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: the university and the team. Unfortunately, I won't make the
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: game this week, but I'll be watching from SEC country
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: down in Tennessee. Let's take care of the pokes. Ben
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: from Clarksville. Texter. Hello. Andy from Columbus, Ohio.
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: 3-0.
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: How about it? Here's a picture that made the Duke's
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: Mayo page of me, White Hat, and my sister to
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: my left at the game. I'll tell you what. They
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: are fired up. Yeah.
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: That was excellent there.
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: He asks, is this the biggest home game since Oklahoma
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: in 2018? Oh, is it? I don't know.
• 58:00
  Speaker 3: Pitt was pretty big last year.
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 58:02
  Speaker 3: I mean, you've had some big games. The fact that
• 58:03
  Speaker 3: you're 3-0 is adding to the excitement here. So I
• 58:06
  Speaker 3: know why people are saying OU 2018. But there's some
• 58:09
  Speaker 3: big ones.
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: Kevin from Kingwood. I recently saw the Oklahoma State has
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: the oldest average roster of all Big 12 schools. West
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: Virginia has the youngest. Do you think this comes into
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: play with late game scenarios?
• 58:19
  Speaker 3: No, because I saw that chart, too. And the difference
• 58:21
  Speaker 3: between 1 and 16 is less than a full year.
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: OK.
• 58:25
  Speaker 3: So it's like half a year. So no, I don't
• 58:28
  Speaker 3: think it does.
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: This was interesting. DJ in Monroe County, I heard someone
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: after the game Saturday saying they were checking the live
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: win probability during the game, to which I thought, I
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: know what that means, but what are we even doing anymore?
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: I place myself back to Rich Rod's first campaign here
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: at WVU. As a 10-year-old boy, I could just watch
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: the game with my grandpa glued to the TV while
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: also listening to the velvety Tony. We didn't care about
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: live win probability. We just wanted to watch, soak in
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: every aspect of the game. Today, you can place a
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: bet on what condiment will be chosen the most concession
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: stands to put on the hot dogs. Hey, should I
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: bet the over-under on the catch-up? We'll be right back.
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: but I have certainty of 100% that I will just
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: enjoy watching the game. There's DJ in Monroe County. And
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: last one here.
• 59:37
  Speaker 3: DJ's like Tony. He's trying to watch shame people. I
• 59:40
  Speaker 3: kind of like that lie, probability lie. I like all
• 59:43
  Speaker 3: those numbers.
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: You know, you check that because you're, again, anxiety riddled,
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: and you think, Okay, I feel good now because it
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: was a 95%. Now, Rich does not feel the same.
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: I don't think Rich buys much.
• 59:57
  Speaker 3: The whole NC State didn't like its live game probably
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 3: last week. 99.9 before the snap of that line.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: Is that what it was? 0.9999999.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it wasn't just a 0.9. You could have run
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 3: that string all the way out.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: It had to be because it was only a one-tenth
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: of 1% chance that what would happen happened.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: Last two. Joe in Ohio has a problem, and it's
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: Ben Cutter's mom's fault.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: What? Now, come on. Jan is wonderful.
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: Guys, I'm addicted to Cutter's cookies. Is there some sort
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: of support group I can join? Well, we're sold out again.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 3: Jan sold them out again.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: All the cream oatmeal. She's going to be there. She's
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: going to be there at the tailgate. She'll be there
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: Friday for sure. She sold them all out. Baker's dozen
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: of the chocolate chips, the oatmeal pies, cream pies, just unbelievable.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: She's become a. Like a celebrity.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: She is. She is. And so she'll be there. And
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: then the last thing was, remember Logan in Greenbrier County? Now,
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: you guys know Logan. Know Logan very well.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 2: He'd gone AWOL on us.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 3: Haven't seen him for a while.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: He texted and said everything's good. OK, good. He thinks
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: we'll win here this week, but he's OK.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: Excellent.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: And I wrote back to him. I said, hell, we've
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: been worried death about you. Are you OK or not?
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: I mean.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 3: Glad to hear that, Logan.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 3: See you soon.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: So we're back to Sunday, right?
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what time?
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: Sunday morning. Sunday morning. Sunday morning coming down by Johnny Cash. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Sunday morning. So we'll have our next episode out for
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  Speaker 1: you by 1 o'clock on Sunday, and we'll talk all
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  Speaker 1: about what transpires inside Milan Pushkar Stadium on Saturday night.
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  Speaker 1: It's got the chance to be a dandy. All right,
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  Speaker 1: three guys before the game. Brought to us by GoMart.
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  Speaker 1: Triple points on Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: Brad, call me if you run out of gas.
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  Speaker 1: Three guys brought to us by Lewendl Marine Sales. They
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  Speaker 1: sell family fun. Visit them. LewendlMarinesales.com. If your boat needs
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  Speaker 1: service as you take it out for the season, they're ready.
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  Speaker 1: Tudor's Biscuit World. Start your day the homemade way with
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  Speaker 1: a Tudor's Biscuit. Check out the low-carb protein bowls. Jan
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  Speaker 1: Dill's Attorneys at Law. They won't take no for an answer.
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  Speaker 1: by Connelly CPA Group, providing value beyond numbers, and by
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  Speaker 1: WVU Medicine, the exclusive health care provider for all Mountaineers,
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  Speaker 1: including you. Special thanks to producer Jake. We're done. We're out.
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  Speaker 1: Talk to you again. Go to the food court. Go
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  Speaker 1: to BW3. Come visit with us. We'll get your picture made.
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  Speaker 1: Hoppy will have a slide presentation he'll be delivering at
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  Speaker 1: the food court. 99 slides. It'll be great. This is
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  Speaker 1: a football, and this is how you throw it.
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  Speaker 2: Here's our summer vacation.