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3 Guys Before The Game - WVU Football Nick Krahe Visits & WVU Basketball Preview vs UCF (Episode 697) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  Speaker 1: All right, stand by, we're gonna do that again. Jake,
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  Speaker 1: here you go, all good, Here we go. It is
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  Speaker 1: a showtime. Three Guys Before the Game, Episode number six
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  Speaker 1: hundred and ninety seven. I haven't said this in a while.
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  Speaker 1: We got a dandy for you with an in studio guest.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, and no it's not Hoppy. He'll join us
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  Speaker 1: in just a little bit. He is continuing to be
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  Speaker 1: on assignment on dog walking in Florida. We'll get into
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  Speaker 1: that and more. Our special guest, Mountaineer football player Nick Cray,
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  Speaker 1: joins us in the studio. We're gonna do two things.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna talk football to start things off, and then
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna get into Mountaineer basketballs. West Virginia gets ready
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  Speaker 1: to take on the nights of UCF. Three Guys Before
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  Speaker 1: just a little bit. All right. We are excited because
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  Speaker 1: the three of us, myself Brad Hoppey w been talking recently.
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  Speaker 1: We said, you know, we got to do some football.
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  Speaker 1: We got to do some football. Things are going fast.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to be on the field in three weeks,
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  Speaker 1: like March seven is go day from Mountaineer Football. And
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  Speaker 1: so what better, what better way to do it than
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  Speaker 1: to talk to is just between us. It's just between us.
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  Speaker 1: Smartest guys on a football team are the offensive lineman.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone knows it, and Nick's nod in his head. I
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  Speaker 1: mean you know that too. Smartest guys on the football
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  Speaker 1: team are the offensive Lineman, So why not bring in
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  Speaker 1: Nick Craig delighted to have him here in the studio
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  Speaker 1: with us, and Nick's role here and his ability to
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  Speaker 1: come in provided to us by Daniel's Men's store in Morgantown.
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  Speaker 1: So we think, fine looking Phil. As a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 1: what Nick's wearing, both the shirt under and the quarter zip,
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  Speaker 1: and that just goes to show you Phil's got all sizes,
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  Speaker 1: all sizes. How many ex I didn't look how many
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  Speaker 1: x's you got on? I think three? You go three
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  Speaker 1: three X? The hey nailed, it's perfect. Fit's great, fair,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, and I don't know if you know not
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  Speaker 1: that it matters now. But they steamed the shirt. I
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  Speaker 1: went to pick it up. They steamed the shirt before.
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  Speaker 1: And it's really really nice, really nice. Good to have
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  Speaker 1: you here, many thanks for having It's our pleasure. I'm thrilled,
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  Speaker 1: thrilled to learn. Before we started rolling tape and the
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  Speaker 1: number one, I apologized because you saw the chaos that
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  Speaker 1: goes on before a show. If you ever thought that
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  Speaker 1: this was like organized, now you know, like it just
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  Speaker 1: kind of willy nilly, just kind of coming number one,
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  Speaker 1: So apologize about that, but I'm thrilled that you're here.
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  Speaker 1: I'm thrilled that you're back because during last season, as
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  Speaker 1: the season was going on and you know, this crazy,
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  Speaker 1: stupid world that we're living in now with portaled and bouncing,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going like, man, I hope he stays. Man, I
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  Speaker 1: hope he stays, and you stayed.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So, I mean it was an easy decision for Iman,
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  Speaker 2: and this is my home away from home, says a
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  Speaker 2: no brainer honestly.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, You're located about three hours away from Morgantown, Erey, Pennsylvania.
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  Speaker 1: Just straight up the interstate. Just get on seventy nine
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  Speaker 1: and don't stop, and you're three hours away, so it's
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  Speaker 1: pretty easy. We want to talk a little bit about,
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  Speaker 1: you know, how you got here, and then obviously you
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  Speaker 1: know what this has been like because it's been a
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  Speaker 1: transition period within the program since you've been here. So
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  Speaker 1: why don't we just kind of kick it off and
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  Speaker 1: ask that question. You say it's a home away from home.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go back a little bit. You start playing football, like,
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  Speaker 1: were you literally one of those kids where you were
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  Speaker 1: playing in the shoulder paths were bigger than your head.
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  Speaker 1: You started that young, yes, sir, position, when you were
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  Speaker 1: a pee. We was offensive always always like no one
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  Speaker 1: ever ever thought you might be a corner, no shot.
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  Speaker 1: So you're an offensive line from the beginning. Yep. And
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  Speaker 1: you're how old when you start? I was? I think
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  Speaker 1: third grade? Third grade? Is football a family thing? No?
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  Speaker 1: So I was actually the first one to play it. Really,
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  Speaker 1: but you were bigger and so always big. Yeah, like
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  Speaker 1: kindergarten picture, you're towering over people. Do you ever play basketball? Yep?
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  Speaker 1: Played basketball through high school. Did they ask you when
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  Speaker 1: you did the off season stuff to bring a birth certificate?
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  Speaker 1: Because that kid, know ways of that age you ever
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  Speaker 1: had that. I'm not close for my mom probably knows
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  Speaker 1: what happened. Something that happened. You know that happens. Sure
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  Speaker 1: it does, that happens, Sure it does. So you play
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  Speaker 1: basketball through high school? Good for you, dude, You didn't
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  Speaker 1: you didn't just say hey, I'm a football guy. Yep.
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  Speaker 2: So I played football, basketball, and then I also did
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  Speaker 2: track so sprinter yeah, no throw thrower all right. So
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  Speaker 2: that so you're an old school you're a three sport athlete.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir, imagine that. See you can play multiple things.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and so your athleticism, your feet, all of those
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  Speaker 1: things that come into play as a football player. Obviously
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  Speaker 1: you utilized and it made you better. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think it definitely helped with like my footwork and
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  Speaker 2: just being able to move around at such a high
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  Speaker 2: speed and everything.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So when did you identify or when did the
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  Speaker 1: first person come along and say, hey, you're not only
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  Speaker 1: you know, doing well at this level, but we think
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  Speaker 1: potentially you could play in college. When did that first happen?
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  Speaker 2: So I was after my junior season when I put
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  Speaker 2: out my high school tape. My coach told me that
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  Speaker 2: I had a pretty good shot to go play at
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  Speaker 2: the next level. So then some coaches hated reaching out.
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  Speaker 2: I started going to some camps and then it all
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  Speaker 2: kind of just took off from there.
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  Speaker 1: That's interesting because to me, that seems a little bit late.
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  Speaker 1: So like nothing freshman, sophomore, No, No one's saying, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we gotta get Cray. No.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing. So I was I in high school. I was
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  Speaker 2: actually pretty light, So I think I played my junior
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  Speaker 2: year around two hundred and fifty pounds. So then going
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  Speaker 2: into my senior year, I think I put on around
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  Speaker 2: forty So that's when it really started.
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  Speaker 1: To take off. Okay, so he put on forty two,
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  Speaker 1: but he didn't try, so, so let's get into that
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. So you were two fifty you're literally
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  Speaker 1: how tall? Right then? I was six five six five,
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  Speaker 1: two fifty and you put forty odd Okay, how do
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  Speaker 1: we do that? My mom's coaching seriously, yep. Did she
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  Speaker 1: know what she was doing? She had, she had it.
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  Speaker 1: She said, Okay, we're gonna get you. We're gonna get
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  Speaker 1: you big. Yeah. Breakfast.
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  Speaker 2: I'd always eat her food, and then so during school
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  Speaker 2: I would pack a lunch, and then I'll also buy
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  Speaker 2: the school lunch, sure, and then getting home out of
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  Speaker 2: big dinner and then a snack at like nine thirty ten.
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  Speaker 2: Breakfast was what always megs. And how many I'm not
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  Speaker 2: quite sure, probably around like five.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I still do that. Yeah, I still do that.
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  Speaker 1: Look bacon, have you a big, big bacon guy? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: big bacon guy. Okay, okay. And in the period of
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  Speaker 1: how long do you put those forty pounds on? It
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  Speaker 1: was actually pretty fast.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it was probably going from the start of
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  Speaker 2: track season to the beginning of football season.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, when did you pick up the extra inch of height?
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  Speaker 2: I think it was like going into my senior year,
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  Speaker 2: so probably on the same time or like now, I
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  Speaker 2: don't really know honestly.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, when did you get the extra poundage when you
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  Speaker 3: got to campus here at WV or if you stayed
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  Speaker 3: pretty consistent once you got to the three hundred mark.
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  Speaker 1: So I didn't.
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  Speaker 2: I was around like two ninety coming in here, and
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  Speaker 2: now I'm up like three fifteen around there. So it
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  Speaker 2: happened pretty fast. But like I hit a kind of
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  Speaker 2: a wall at like three hundred. But then once I
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  Speaker 2: got over that, I was are you where it took off?
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  Speaker 2: Are you where you want to be now? Is this
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  Speaker 2: are you maintaining now at this point?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? So okay, I like this, you add forty and
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  Speaker 1: now the offers start to come. Who's sniffing you? Uh? So?
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  Speaker 2: I had a bunch of schools, like a bunch of
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  Speaker 2: smaller schools. I think my first offer was Saint Francis.
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  Speaker 2: Was they just went from D one to D three obviously, right,
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  Speaker 2: But then after that, like it just kind of started rolling,
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  Speaker 2: and then I got my first big offer from pitt sadly,
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  Speaker 2: but then West Virginia started calling along and all kind
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  Speaker 2: of went from there.
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  Speaker 1: Was it exposure in camps that people saw you, Yeah, yes, sir,
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  Speaker 1: so that you start working out how your phone starts. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so you're saying like, okay, this could happen. Okay, so
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  Speaker 1: it's Pitt, It's West Virginia, any other power Force, Maryland,
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  Speaker 1: Boston College, and then a couple others. I think, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's always seemed to be, isn't it always that group?
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  Speaker 3: Boston College is always around. There's always around our guys.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're always They're always around that guy. So what
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  Speaker 1: did you, if anything you know about WUVU athletics wvu
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  Speaker 1: is University football, and did any passing memory as they
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  Speaker 1: started to call.
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  Speaker 2: So when I was younger, I used to always watch
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  Speaker 2: Tavon Austin play with my grandpa in the basement. So
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  Speaker 2: he did pretty cool memory. And then it all kind
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  Speaker 2: of just came together when that happened.
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  Speaker 3: Talk about Tavon transcending the offensive linemen were watching Tavon.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, right, everybody, You have no idea. How many people
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  Speaker 1: we ask and the first thing they say is Tevon
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  Speaker 1: Austin's highlight tape. It's amazing. Yep. He was unbelievable. As
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  Speaker 1: you could tell. He was absolutely unbelievable.
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  Speaker 3: So you thought, what when you came here for your
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  Speaker 3: first visit.
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  Speaker 1: I just knew it was the spot for me.
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  Speaker 2: Like as soon as I got here, my mom could tell,
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  Speaker 2: Like I remember we got in the car after and
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  Speaker 2: she goes, I know he's coming here, Like no, no
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  Speaker 2: doubt in her mind.
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  Speaker 3: What what was it?
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  Speaker 2: It was just like the family feel like it kind
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  Speaker 2: of felt like home already. I mean I knew I
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  Speaker 2: could compete and play here and I could get developed
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  Speaker 2: and the person in the player I wanted to be.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So that was it. Any other where else did
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  Speaker 1: you go? Official was pitting here? Okay? What was the pit?
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  Speaker 1: What was the pit? Visit? Like it was all right,
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  Speaker 1: but it just wasn't the same. Different right, I mean
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  Speaker 1: it's a city school and different facilities. They're in a
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  Speaker 1: stadium and the whole deal. Like that just made it
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  Speaker 1: was totally it's it's night and day differences as far
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  Speaker 1: as that goes. Yeah, so you come here and you
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  Speaker 1: begin this process. Did you have any wow moments when
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  Speaker 1: you got here as far as number one, size of
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  Speaker 1: the older guys or like, okay, exactly what am I
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  Speaker 1: into here? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I would say kind of like because I came in
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  Speaker 2: with the group Burgs, like Zach Frasier's the white columns
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  Speaker 2: and all them. So getting to learn from them was
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  Speaker 2: awesome and it helped me along the road. But they
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  Speaker 2: were all so much bigger, so much stronger, so just
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  Speaker 2: kind of trying to follow in their footsteps. But I
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  Speaker 2: think the biggest thing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you think about that, and everything in life is
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  Speaker 1: about timing, right, How valuable was that you got two
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  Speaker 1: pros right? I mean with Dougie Nestor. I mean you know,
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  Speaker 1: basically you've got three pro level guys that you're working with,
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  Speaker 1: and that just makes you go like that real quick.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think just having that like it now, it
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  Speaker 2: brings me to like, no, I need to set that
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  Speaker 2: standard for the younger guys.
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  Speaker 1: Then I hear that you are someone told me this
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  Speaker 1: week trying to Someone told me this week that you
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  Speaker 1: went in there and so Kevin Brown's here now. And
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  Speaker 1: then when like Nick went like, okay, yeah we can
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  Speaker 1: do this, I'm good and so you've assumed that mantle.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah that's a plan.
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  Speaker 3: So what'd you take from those guys, like break that down? Specifically?
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  Speaker 3: Would you take from Nick and Doug and Wyatt?
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  Speaker 2: Seeing them, seeing them show up so early in the morning,
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  Speaker 2: getting the extra work in before the workout, the shoulder care,
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  Speaker 2: all that stuff, seeing them stay late, watch film, all that,
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  Speaker 2: prepare for you know, the season, but also like lifting
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  Speaker 2: and all that. Just kind of trying to bring that
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  Speaker 2: down into my own life and doing the same thing.
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  Speaker 3: You also got three great guys there, right, that's not
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  Speaker 3: just three great players. That's that if you're talking about leadership,
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  Speaker 3: those are three great guys to help you along just personally,
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  Speaker 3: never mind the football stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, one hundred percent good human beings. Would you say
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  Speaker 1: shoulder care? Yeah, we just shoulder care every day, because
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  Speaker 1: what's that mean?
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  Speaker 2: Just keeping your shoulders healthy since we're always banging up
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  Speaker 2: on dudes and everything.
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  Speaker 1: I've never heard of this. What do you do? So
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  Speaker 1: we'll do like.
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  Speaker 2: Shoulder rays what we call it, try shoulder rays, So
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  Speaker 2: try shoulder front side and then rear delt and that.
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  Speaker 1: And this is with weights. Yeah, okay, so it's preventative
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  Speaker 1: strengthening of all the joints are on the shoulder because
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  Speaker 1: that is a weird, weird joint sir. Yeah, shoulder care.
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  Speaker 3: You don't need to worry about that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there's foot I've heard foot care, right, I've
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  Speaker 1: heard handcare. Never heard of shoulder care. Makes all the
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  Speaker 1: sense in the world.
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  Speaker 3: Well, he said, they're banging. There's a lot of there's
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  Speaker 3: a lot of contact there. Yeah, and keep their shoulder strung.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. The third member of our group was one of
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  Speaker 1: the three guys, is Hoppy Kerchival and he joins us again,
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  Speaker 1: we'll get into exactly where he is. I like you
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  Speaker 1: of this.
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  Speaker 3: We got a little box in there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Nice, it was very nice. I like your shirt, Hobster,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, thank you. Yeah, very nice.
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  Speaker 3: Magnum p I for those of a certain age down
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  Speaker 3: there in Florida.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, I thought I addressed for the dress for
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  Speaker 4: the atmosphere. Hey, Nick, glad you're back. Glad you're back
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  Speaker 4: with the program. It's good to see today. A couple
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  Speaker 4: of questions for you. First of all, new offensive line
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  Speaker 4: coach Rick Trickett. He's old school, as you probably have
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  Speaker 4: found out. How's that going so far?
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  Speaker 1: It's going grah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean we're learning everything, getting the terminology down. It's
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  Speaker 2: a little different from last year. But just being able
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  Speaker 2: to learn from someone that has such valuable experiences and
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  Speaker 2: been in the business for so long, it's just awesome.
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  Speaker 4: Would you say the coach, would you say the coach
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  Speaker 4: Tricket is candid in his discussions with you.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm sorry I didn't hit the mic quick enough.
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  Speaker 1: Would you say that Coach Trickett is candid in his
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  Speaker 1: discussions with you, very direct? Yeah? Had you had you
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  Speaker 1: had you? Trap is here obviously, so you know Travis,
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  Speaker 1: Travis and his dad are one hundred and eighty degrees apart.
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  Speaker 1: Had you heard about the legend that is Rick Trickett
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  Speaker 1: before he got here? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: So I did come into last year. We thought we
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  Speaker 2: were going to get him. So we heard some stories
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  Speaker 2: from Exavier bos because he obviously.
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  Speaker 1: Played for him at Jacksonville State.
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  Speaker 2: Stories before he got here, and then it didn't end
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  Speaker 2: up happening, but then this year it did, so I
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  Speaker 2: had an idea. And then also in high school, my
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  Speaker 2: trainer played here. It was an offensive lineman, Jeff Lewis.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Jeff, yeah, absolutely, he played under coach Trickett
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  Speaker 2: and everything. So I heard some stories from as well.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I didn't know you knew Jeff. So Jeff's at
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  Speaker 1: Mercyhurst now yeah, absolutely, strength and conditioning got mercy Hurst.
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  Speaker 1: I just talked to him when those guys came in
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  Speaker 1: for basketball.
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  Speaker 3: Jeff has been at the Coliseum more than some of
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  Speaker 3: our current basketball roster. Right, we played him two years
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  Speaker 3: in a row. He's been in here twice, so we've
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  Speaker 3: seen Jeff the last two years.
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  Speaker 1: Did Jeff encourage you to come to West Virginia.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he definitely wanted me to come here, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: going through the recreem Press, I was pushing it, but
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  Speaker 2: I was just kind of trying to make my own decision.
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  Speaker 2: But then I told him I was actually gonna come here.
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  Speaker 2: Is it's pretty ecstatic.
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  Speaker 1: I bet you that made his day and the fact that,
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  Speaker 1: right it's a rich guy and all that kind of
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  Speaker 1: stuff as well. Hop, go ahead, I'm sure I interrupted
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  Speaker 1: you there. Another question.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm just interested.
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  Speaker 1: Nick.
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  Speaker 4: You know, they say that the offensive lineman have to
• 15:18
  Speaker 4: be have to be the smartest guys because I have
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: to make these They have to know so much and
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: make these decisions and work together. So take us through,
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: you know, especially with no huddle, the one plays just ended,
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: getting ready for the next play, coming up to the line,
• 15:35
  Speaker 4: who's making the calls? What do you have to be
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: thinking about? Just walk us through that process, would you?
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: So the center will obviously call it the front and
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: who the mic is and then everyone just needs to
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: kind of look around and see what the defense is
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: in kind of decipher and try and figure out what
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: they're gonna do. But because we know we're gonna do
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: and we know when we're gonna do it, So doing
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: that all before us snap and just having high communication
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: between all five guys on the line is the biggest thing.
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: Nick. I know you guys haven't been on the field yet,
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: but there are certain things in coach cricket now getting involved.
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: What do you think is going to be the most
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: significant schematic change from where you were to where you
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: are going.
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: I think just getting movement off the ball. I mean,
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: we didn't get a lot of that last year obviously,
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: but I think just you know, kind of putting our
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: hand in the dirt, getting moving and just kind of
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: trying to spring these running backs forward.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: More zone stuff, gap stuff, a little a little bit
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: of a little bit of everything.
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: Let's talk about experience for a second. We mentioned it's
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: nice to see you return. You've been around two different systems,
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: but you've been here for a while. How does the
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: experience of being back in this system a second year,
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: and you're right, Rick's going to do things a little
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: bit different, but it's basically it's Rich's offense here. Where
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: does the experience and the help in coming back? Where's
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: that show itself? What's easier for you in year two
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: of this system versus year one?
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: So I think year one I was just kind of
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: trying to learn the offense. But now that I already
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: know the ins and out of the offense, while I'm
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: still learning some more, I think being able to see
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: what the defense is doing now is a big thing
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: for me, and especially experience, Like I've been here four years,
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: so I'm able to tell, Okay, if this guy's lined
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: up here, he's going to do this or he's going
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: to do that. So I think that's the biggest thing.
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, being able to recognize where are you looking first?
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: When you come up to the line. What's the first
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: thing you're trying to identify?
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: Uh, just the defensive front obviously you know where the
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: linebackers are aligned, and then if there's any extra edge
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: pressure that might be coming.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: There has been obviously a lot of roster flip the
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: room physically your offensive line room. If I got my
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: numbers correct, there's twenty one offensive linemen in the room now,
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: somewhere in that range. And so you've got a combination
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: of you've got high schoolers, you've got red shirts, you've
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: got transfer portals, you've got transfers, you've got returnees. Just physically,
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: I would think that you look in the room now
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: and there's a significant difference just size wise. Is that fair? Yeah? Okay,
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: So when you guys are getting after it, now, what's
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: your sense what do you feel could potentially be strength
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: of this unit? Size and experience?
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: I think, I mean, we brought in some guys that
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: I've experienced playing at high levels and all that, and
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: I think that's going to help us in the future.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I heard a number and I haven't done the mat,
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: but just off the top of my head, and this
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: could be run. I think like over three thousand snaps
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: of ball have been played by guys in that room,
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: which obviously, which obviously is key off season conditioning. And
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: I know you're going to be leaving here and going
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: over there. And I talked to someone earlier today the
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: potentially tour of duty might might be one of the things.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: How's off season been and what is tour of duty? Like?
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: Off season has been good? You know, hitting the weight
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: room with coach Joseph.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: That's been good.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: Conditioning has been hard, but I mean we need it,
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: which is good, especially with the high time bow offense
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: and then Tour of Duty's just a bunch of drills
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: all strung together at a really high faith, high pace
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: and just kind of test as your both mental and
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: physical capacity. And I think it's good. I think we
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: can need it.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: How do you mentally stay strong? Has that been a
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: situation for you through the years. Is that a strength
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: for you?
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: I think it's a strength for me, just kind of
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: telling myself that I can do anything that I put
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: in my mind to just being able to go out
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: there and be like, all right, I have this. I
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: have that I can get through anything I can.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: The tempo is interesting. Go back to Hopies question on
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: the tempo. So that's I assume, way different than anything
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: you've ever done before.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the first time I'll never forget the first practice
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: we had was the tempo was so fast and I
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: was so tired. But then I was like, all right,
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: I know what it's like now and I know what
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: to expect. So being able to expect that every day
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: now is way better.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: When do you feel like you totally got that couple
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: games in first game in by the time you played
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: the first game, were you comfortable with it?
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: I was comfortable with it during practice, but then like,
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: it's nothing like a real game, like when you have
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: a long drive.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: And I remember we had one I think against Robert
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Morris and I was like, oh wow, like this is it.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: This is it right here, And then after that we
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: all got to the sidelines like yeah, that tempo works.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and then by the end of the year you're like, okay,
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: got it, We're good.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: It was nothing at that point.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: So coming in this show, I imagine that's have you
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: had talks with the other guys in the room about
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: that aspect, specifically about how fast it can go.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we've talked about having like a thirteen fourteen play
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: drive and how tired you are, but you just know
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: you have to keep pushing, get the extra ENCs and
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: try and get an end zone.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Sure. Yeah, I've got to ask you about not going
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: to specifically get into but obviously Kevin Brown took a
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: lot of attention in this recruiting class and rightfully, so
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: you're a Western, well you're not a Western, You're you're
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: upper call what do you call that part of Pennsylvania
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: that's here, is that Northwest? Yeah? Northwest? That's why they
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: lay love going with that Northwest. You're a Northwest, that's right.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: And he's out in the Harrisburg area, all right. So
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: he comes in and he starts working out. Tell me
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: a little bit about him. From what you see and
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: the transition that he is making.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: He's gonna be a great player. I mean, you can
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: just tell about how he works. It's worth that work
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: ethic is insane. I mean, I like me and him
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: are workout partners. So being able to push each other
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: every day in the weight room and on the field's awesome.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Obviously he grew up in it with his dad,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: so he's I think that just takes everyone up to
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: a different level. Probably no surprise. Yeah physically, oh yeah,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: he fits the demand. Yeah, absolutely. Spring ball gets ready
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: to go here March the seventh. What what's your anticipation
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: What do you want to personally accomplish when you come
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: out of spring What do you want to be better at?
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: I think just everything all around him and watching last
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: year's tape, I know I need to fix I know
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: I need to get better at to improve my game
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: and take to the next level. So just kind of
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: trying to figure those things out still and just become an.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Overall better player. What would some of those things.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: Be, some pass protection things, and then just coming off
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: the ball with lower paths on a more consistent basis.
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I wonder what the difference will be for you
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: Day one with Rich this year versus Day one with
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: Rich last year. Remember Day one with Rich last year?
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: A little bit, Yeah, I was, I didn't know what
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: to expect, but then you know, once kind of getting
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: through it, we're like, all right, we know what it's
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: going to be like. But this year, I know what
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: to expect going into.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: It, so you know what's coming.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he uh he he's he's a dude. Yeah,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: for sure, he's a dude. And uh I think that
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: he'll be Obviously he had to get through last year
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: because you're just it just changes change and it's just difficult.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: I think he'll be in a much better place this year,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: knowing that he can do the things that he wants
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: to do. That's what it seems like to me. Yeah, right,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: the thing seems like, Okay, I can run my stuff
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: now and then it'll it'll be even faster. Yeah, it'll
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: even be faster. All right. Uh. Academically, what are we majoring.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: In sports management? What do you not have a minor
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: in business as well? What do you want to do?
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: I'm not quite sure yet. I don't know if I
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: still want to work in the sports world or not.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: But what's what's changing your view as to why you
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: wouldn't want to I don't know. I mean, I love sports.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: Sports have been a part of my whole life, right,
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: but at the same point, like there the jobs are
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: just so crazy, like you're always kind of function around
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: and all that, and maybe I just want someone more
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: stable and I'm older.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure yet.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: You're part of the Climbers program. Yeah, what's happened? Like
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: that's all good.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: So we just started and actually over spring Breaker and
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: be going up to New York City. So that's gonna
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: be a good time. I'm looking forward to that.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: You'll you'll spend some time at UGG right with our
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: guy homeless Dave. Yeah, looking forward to that. Yeah, absolutely right.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: So your dad's an educator, principal, high school principal.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: So he was he was the high school principal and
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: then he went to junior high when I was in
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: junior high.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: So he was your principal in your school two years
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: and you did nothing wrong. Maybe a couple of things,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: but but he did he ever have to give you
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: the eye like in school, Like, yeah, he had an
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: extra eye out for me. Yeah, exactly. So so I
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: understand now this is true. Right, he watches or listens
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: to Three Guys. Yep, you knew about this show before. Yeah, yeah,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: I had to tell him about He was pretty excited.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Andrew Wegman's an airy pa, my favorite closest
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Wegmans to us.
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: And thanks for listening. And you appreciate it.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Well, you certainly appreciate. Uh. They come to road games
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: as well.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so they came to Ohio and then Houston last year.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: So they're going to play a couple this year. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, absolutely.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Well this is gonna be Uh, this is gonna be
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: a lot of fun.
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: We got to talk food with him.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: You got tough food, Yeah, because we got it. We
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: just touched on the breakfast. Dude, do you realize training
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: table that you guys have. I mean, how sweet that
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: thing is. Oh yeah, you'll never have that again in
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: your life. No, never, in your life where you can
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: walk into a room and order whatever it is that
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: you want, three times a day, whenever you want. Yeah,
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: whatever you want, whenever you want, and those people take
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: care of you.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: Guys like gold Yep, they're great cooks. I mean they
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: cut up some of the best food I've had and
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: just been able to go in there, like you said,
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: whenever you want and get whatever you want.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: What's awesome?
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: What's the best? What's your favorite over there?
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: My favorite meal over there? I would say it's a
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: country fried steak.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: It's pretty good.
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: What do you get for a side? Uh?
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: You Usually it's like mashed potatoes or like some rice
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: or something like that.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: How much can your fried steak? Can you eat a lot?
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: Tutor's biscuit? Tutor's biscuits you ever tried? Yeah, I've had
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: it a couple of times. And if you okay, let's go.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: If you sat down right now and you're like at
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: a peak hunger level, let's say you just finished workout,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: you're hunger in heck? Okay, how many could you do? Three? Yeah? Over? Three? Over?
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: I'd say three or four. There's some pretty big biscuits.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: They call him cat Head. They call him cathead biscuits.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: That No, no, no, it's in the copy.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: I think they put it in the copy because you
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: said it.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Was there before. I never you. Hoppy said he knew it.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Hoppy people call a cat head, right, yeah, Hoppy knew
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: they actually.
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: As big as it's as big as a cat head.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Big as a cat's head. Yeah, so you could do
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: three or four. I think so three or four.
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: All right, so this case as big as a dog's head.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: Dogs if they let the dogs on the cannet. Now,
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: hop he's got dogs on the camera. Hop he just
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: brought a dog. He's like kirkurb Street. Now there's a
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: dog in the video.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: That is big. That is a cute dog. What's the
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: dog's name?
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: Coco?
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: Coco?
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: Well dog, first appearance for a dog. Hold on, hold once.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: I want to ask this. If you could pick one food,
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: if you had to enter in all you can eat
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: contests like what like that Joey's Hot Dog eating contest.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: If you would peck one food that you think you
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: could eat the most of, you could line up and
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: take on somebody. It would be what food?
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: I would say, their cheeseburgers or pizza. Okay, well, okay,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: I know those items? How many? How many? Like could
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: you eat a full large pizza? Yeah, well that's.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: He probably does that on the regular.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Let me ask you, would you fold it? Like would
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: you take a whole large and just like wrap it
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: over and then bring it over and so it's like
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: a big ass triangle and you just get it. You
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: can't enjoy it that way? So you could eat a
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: large pizza?
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: What goes on the pizza?
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: I like, I'm just playing pepperoni, pepperoni, and sometimes I'll
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: throw some sausage on there, but just pepperoni.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: By the way, Eerie pa is a funnel of the
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Buffalo area. So they have good they know good bad food.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: That's a heavy wing area, heavy Pete's area, heavy subs area.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: It's called subs subs heavy sub all in that are
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: repeats great bad good food all the way up to
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: Buffalo cheeseburgers. How many?
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: So like when I normally I got home, like my
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: mom will cook like three or something for me, which
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: is with not with bun?
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah three with They're bigger though right there, and they're
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: not going to be there.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: They're not like the small sliders, normal sized burgers.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, correct, all right, very good music, country all the way.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: Favorite country artist ja mm hmm.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: Are you familiar with Charles Wesley Godwin. Ye, I've heard
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: them a couple of times. Yeah, he spoke, he spoke
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: to the team, but.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: Really yeah, yeah, I think that was my sophomore year.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah you combs, Yeah, like not more than much.
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: But you guys think I'm not a music guy. I'm
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: just out here just talking about music.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: So all right, do you watch TV or spend time
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: watching shows?
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: I said, have more of a show guy, like on
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: Netflix or something. What do you watch depends? I like,
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: like comedies are always funny. Okay, some horror movies every once
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: in a while, but hymn or anything I've seen land, Man,
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: I'm already done with that.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I already done. Yeah great. Who's the Who's the
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: kookiest offensive lineman in the room? The craziest Yeah mm
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: hmmm kind of guy. You gotta kind of keep looking
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: around and see where he is, because I think to
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: be a really good offensive line, you gotta have like
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: two or three guys in the room. One eye goes
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: this way and the other eye goes out with Yeah.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: You say I'd put I'd put on land in the
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: Livingstone really seriously. Yeah, he's longest tenured guy, so I've
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: seen all sides of him.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: See, he doesn't strike me as that. Oh that's kind
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: of wild. All right, that's kind of wild. One guy
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: that you don't want to mess with that's in the
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: offensive line room. M hmm. I'd say west King, West King. Yeah,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: there's a name, there's a name Strong and he's older
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: so he knows what he's done. Like, okay, Yeah, nowadays,
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: you see that dude from Montana and I got a
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: ninth year. Yeah, that's crazy, went away one away. I've
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: always called for ten years. I think each college football
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: team should have a dude they get to keep for
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: ten years as the franchise player. We're one year away,
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: just a franchise guy, and you just like it's that
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: guy that just isn't going to make a ton in
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: the NFL, but he just goes to college and he
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: just like lives off of just lives off of good
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: contracts and he's the franchise player. Yep. I don't know
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: if it'd be alignment. It's probably gonna be a quarterback,
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: yeah right, but that would be the face of the
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: program for ten years. Why the hell not. Yeah, it's
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: going that way. Yeah.
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: Did you ever think about coaching?
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I did think about coaching for a little bit,
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: either that or strength strength coaching, But I don't know if.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: I could do it.
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: You like the weight room, Yeah, I love the weight room?
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Oh well maybe maybe you. What makes Mike Joseph so
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: good in that staff.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: Just the way he pushes you every single day like
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: gonna get to anywhere else. I firmly believe he's the
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: best strength coach in the country now about. I'll back
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: that up any.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Day of the week. And I think that shows with
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: all the NFL guys that come back. Yeah right, we
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: got guys that come back and go like, we don't
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: do this, we don't have that, we don't have this.
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Zach was just here recently.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he was for a visit. He was actually there
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: this morning too. Yeah.
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: What's different about him anything?
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: He's huge, I mean bigger than those pictures. Yeah. Yeah,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: he's a big dude. How could he get bigger?
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah he did, right, dude?
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: How about him? So he goes into that league, he
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: not only just like makes the team, like he's just
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: that like Johnny backup guy, like say, within two years
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: they're saying, like he's one of the best centers in
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: the in the league.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's worth work ethic. I mean I could.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: I saw it in college, and I guarantee he's doing
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: the same thing up there.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: And we watched him in high school. Yeah, we watched
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: him in high school. You missed basketball a little bit. Yeah,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: how much would you average senior year? Senior year? I
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: averaged eighteen and twelve.
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: It's probably hard to get a rebound around. I would
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: say you were good on the glass and the low post.
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: Who was guarding you in the low post?
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: Nobody?
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: Could you face up though?
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: We got pretty good feet. You did face up.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it wasn't a shooter, but.
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: No, but you could face up and then back somebody
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: down if you have to then turn back into him.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: You had to just bum out. All the guys that
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: played together, yeah right, yeah, I mean you just had
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: like the oh, I got to deal with this thing,
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: and they're just gonna I'm You're going like I'm light
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: at two fifty, just slamming it, just slamming in. The
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: guys are going like, oh what is this? I like that? Yeah?
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: I like that? All right, Well, good deal. Appreciate you
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: coming in. Yeah, thank you for having We'll be over there.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: We're gonna watch you. We're gonna watch you in March,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: watch the springball. I just basically want to watch Tricket
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: working with you guys. I still remember the first time
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: he came here spring ball and he was not happy
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: with the offensive lines U practice that day. So after
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: everyone left the field, they took the big sled out
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: and this was in the stadium, all the way, all Hundy,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: all Hundy, back and forth. He'll get you where he
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: wants to get you, and you, guys, you'll flourish in it.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: He'll flourish in it.
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: What do you like to do if you're not lifting
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: or watching football game film? What's an activity outside?
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Just chill? Kind of video game? Video game?
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: Not really, I'll play every once in a while, but
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: it's not like my go to thing.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, shopping nothing. You just need what you got? Yeah, yeah,
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: it was only Danny Nealing gives you something you'll wear, ye,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: that's all.
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: And Phil it Danel takes care of him. A nice
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: suit from Phil. Right, he's got this, he's taken care.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Of So you got a suit when you go to
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: when you do climbers. Right, Yeah, that's awesome. That's a
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: great experience. That's awesome, very good.
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: Hey, Nick, I'm sorry, go ahead, hop Just you know, Nick,
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: you talked about remembering watching Tavon, and Tavon was electric.
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: But you know, every good West Virginia football team that's
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: been around, it started up front. It started with an
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: offensive line and guys whose names you don't hear as much,
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: but that's where that's where it starts. And when Neil
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: Brown came in, the first thing he did was build
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: that offensive line. And now Rich Rodriguez is trying to
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: build this offensive line. So other guys make it some
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: of the glory, but you guys got to be dudes.
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: Man. It's it's that's where it begins for this team,
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: in my opinion.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm looking forward to the challenge and
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: just kind of trying to bring this team back to
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: where it should be.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Yep. Absolutely all right, man, we're going to cut you loose.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: Truly appreciate it. Special shout out to your dad. We
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: got to get up to Erie. Get up there. I'm
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: up here. If I'm up to here, I think I'll
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: just stop by the school, just say hi to all those,
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: we've got any other players we can get out of Erie.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: Anybody at go d one this year out of Erie.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I know we had a couple a
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: few years ago, but we got the guys down here. Yeah, dude,
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: you need to go down there. So it's fricking three
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: hours they're here. It's easy to drive. Think about this.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: It's longer to get from Morgantown to Princeton, West Virginia
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: than it is from Morgantown to Erie, Pennsylvania. So like
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: you can sell that and just say like we got
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: it going on here. Yeah, okay, eery Pa has been good.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: He's in all right, brother, Thank you very much, thank you,
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: having thanks to Daniels Men's Store for allowing us to
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: have Nick cray in on today's program. As we said
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: earlier on, he is going to take a run and
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: he will go to have a little workout. Meanwhile, we'll
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: continue our program now we'll look into our preview of
• 34:22
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  Speaker 4: All right, here's what I got so I was thinking about,
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: and Brad will break down the UCF game more.
• 37:18
  Speaker 5: Whoever were playing, you see f USF.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: You see no, not USF, you see it.
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: Yes, you are one of three teams right now, guys
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: that are six and five in this league.
• 37:31
  Speaker 5: You've won fifteen.
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: Games right There are eight teams below you currently in
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: the conference standings. Every team above you in the conference
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: standings is ranked in the top ten Arizona, Houston, Kansas,
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: Texas Tech. This is one of four remaining Quad one
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: opportunities that could could I know it's a long show,
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: but could leverage your way into the NCAA tournament. The
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: factor in as we've talked about many times, fourth coach
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: in four years, an entirely new roster, playing what is
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: in questionably the toughest league in the country, and unless
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: you collapse, this season is an overwhelming success.
• 38:07
  Speaker 5: This season is success.
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: I don't know what individual fans had in mind for
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: this year, but I think people who know the program
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: intimately thought, oh, this is gonna be tough.
• 38:16
  Speaker 5: I mean, I don't know how you're gonna do here.
• 38:18
  Speaker 5: And this team's done brand. I think this team has.
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: Done incredibly well, incredibly well, and if they don't have
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: a meltdown, put it in the success category.
• 38:29
  Speaker 5: That's the first to observation, agree or disagree.
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: No, I agree with you, And I think it's one
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: of those things guys where if you think back, a
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: lot of your perception is shaped by the non conference.
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: You drop two games Clemson Ohio State that you really
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: and I'm not even say could have should have had him.
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: You led for thirty six minutes plus in each of
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: those games. We're talking about a possession in each of
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: those games, and it goes a different way. And can
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: you imagine if you had those wins, how much difference
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: you're thinking about this team? And I think if you
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: want to compare to last year, that's what last year's
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: team had. It came out of the gate with those
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: high profile wins against Gonzagon, Arizona and Bahamas, and it
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: kind of set that narrative you're not that far off
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: from what you were last year, which I'll continue to
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: say you're an nca tournament team last year. You're a
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: couple possessions away from not being able to finish those
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: early games with still a lot of basketball to play
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: with an entirely new roster and a new coaching staff.
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: So I know we've said that a lot, but I
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: think it bears repeating, Hobby, I'm right with you.
• 39:27
  Speaker 4: And at UCF, they're talking about making NCAA tournament. They're
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: forty ninth and Kim Palm rankings West Virginia sixty first.
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: But you see then, also the importance of this game
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: is that that could that could start to flip if
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: West Virginia can win this road game against against CCF.
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: And I don't want, I don't want to get too
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: far ahead on whether this is a tournament team or
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: can make a tournament.
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: But you know what, you have a chance.
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: You have a chance, which I think at the start
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: of the season you would not have You would not
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: have thought on February twelfth you had a legitimate chance
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: to be potentially NCAA tournament team, which goes back to
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: the success point I was making. Also this, I watched
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: the press conference with Johnny Dawkins talking about West Virginia
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: and he said this quote. They defend very well, and
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: they run offense very well. They are very organized at
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: what they do. And Tony, we hear this from every coach. Now,
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: some of it is coach speak, and Johnny Dawkins does
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: a lot of coach speak. Do you hear this from
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: every coach of an opposing team? They will say something
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: specific about how this team is run, and that to
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: me speaks to the quality of this program and where
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: it is now. It's not just about one thing. It's
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: always like they run good stuff. They're tough defensively, they
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: run good schemes on offense, They're good coming out of
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: a timeout. That tells you that's the kind of consistency
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: that you want in a program.
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: Correct, You're a thousand percent correct on that. And I
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: think that we're in a point that's going to be
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: really super interesting these remaining games for West Virginia. They
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: have seven big twelve games left. And so here is
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: what's happening. Some teams are fracturing. Some teams are fracturing loudly.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: Some teams are fracturing quietly. You don't even hear about it.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: But for example, last night, Kansas State on its home
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: floor gets blowed up, gets blowed up right by Cincinnati,
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: and after the game, Jerome Tang has a memorable nearly
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: three minute press conference where he just absolutely castigates, castigates,
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: I tell you Hoppy, his team calls him out. So
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: there is a outward fracture there. What happens to them
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: for the remainder of this season? West Virginia still has
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: a game against them. Do they now booie up or
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: do they think even further? That's one second point is
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: you've got other teams that are just kind of like
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: they're on that teeter totter event. The teams that win
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: these games late are the teams that have been built
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: from the ground up foundationally, mentally and communication wise, you know,
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: together tight as a group. So West Virginia would appear
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: to be that entity right now. They are a tight group.
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: They have been tight all season long. This is what's
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: going to be really interesting. Let's face it, man, You've
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: got two games against UCF coming up, You've got TCU
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: on the road, and they've been kind of a lot
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: of this and a lot of that. Despite the fact
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: that they just beat Iowa State, they've also had some
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: head scratching losses. You have Oklahoma state, same type of
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: a deal they've got blown up recently. It makes you
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: shake your head, where are they at exactly? And then
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: you've got Utah. So there are games to win here
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: for West Virginia. I think fingers crossed with my golden
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: blue glasses on. I'm optimistic that they're gonna win a
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: nice chunk of games here before this thing is over with.
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: And I'm totally in agreement with you that this has
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: been a fantastic first season for the staff and this
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: program is in a really good position.
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: And Brad, you look at the remaining schedule, and Tony
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: mentioned it, look, this schedule the Big Twelve is very,
• 43:27
  Speaker 4: very difficult, but in terms in the context of the
• 43:31
  Speaker 4: Big Twelve, I look at the remaining schedule as manageable
• 43:35
  Speaker 4: more so than some of the early parts of the schedule.
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: Agree, we'll see, yeah, we'll see what it does. I
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: mean that you probably don't have the high end national
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: title contender that the top of this league is. But listen,
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: you just said it. You see f's the team that's
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: right now positioned in the NCAA tournament field. So yeah,
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: this is listen, this is an individual every night type
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: of matchup deal. This is not a league where you
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: can look at this and go, Okay, you've got four
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: wins left. You've got three wins left. This is an
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: individual matchup on what you have going into the game
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: Saturday night than what you have next and specifically, how
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: do these teams match each other. So that's what remains
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: to be seen for the rest of the season. Hope
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: there's some wins coming down the pike, but you first
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: have to go into a very difficult place to play.
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: That's a place at u SEEF. That's surprising I think
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: for people that it fills up that basketball arena like
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: it does. That's not an easy place to walk into.
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: Two losses at home this year is all they have
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: in both the really good teams.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: Here's a question, and you won't have this in your
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: analytics and your high falutint numbers. The question of the
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: night that will have a large role in determining the
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: outcome of West Virginia UCF is this. Are UCF fans
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: basketball fans or are they lovers? Are they basketball fans
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: or are they lovers? Are they romantics? It's the freakin'
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: Valentine's Day at six o'clock. There's no way those fans
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: should be in that arena. They should be the hell
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: out of there. They should be and roses. They should
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: be going and have restaurant dinners and that kind of stuff.
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: It should basically be like a scrimmage. There should be
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: no one in there. If they're truly romantics, you don't
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: have that on your analytics. I'm voting that they I'm
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: voting that they're lovers and not hoop followers. I want
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: that place to be a little bit empty.
• 45:16
  Speaker 4: Please, honey, guess what we're doing for valance exactly day.
• 45:20
  Speaker 5: Going to the ballgame.
• 45:21
  Speaker 4: Okay, A couple of the things very quick, and that
• 45:24
  Speaker 4: is here's some remarkable numbers from the WU women's women's teaming,
• 45:27
  Speaker 4: the victory over.
• 45:28
  Speaker 5: UCF at Hope Coliseum.
• 45:30
  Speaker 4: They scored one hundred and six points, most ever against
• 45:33
  Speaker 4: a big twelve appointed inside Hope Coliseum. They beat UCF
• 45:36
  Speaker 4: by fifty Mountaineer shot fifty six percent from the field. Brad,
• 45:41
  Speaker 4: you of this forced twenty three turnovers a resulting forty
• 45:44
  Speaker 4: one points.
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: You like that very good? The points off turnovers and
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: the pressiment. I actually thought they'd force more turnovers given
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: what UCF to average. I thought they'd get more. But
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: that's almost two points per turnover there. That's remarkable. So
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: they cast those in extremely.
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: With forty one nothing final, it was right, it was
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: forty one. It was forty forty one nothing. I think
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: it was no no, no, no, no no no, I'm
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: talking about points off a turnover.
• 46:08
  Speaker 5: Ok.
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: It was like forty one nothing. And well, the good
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: thing about it was West Virginia didn't turn the ball over.
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: West Virginia averages like seventeen turnovers per game, and even
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: though they're forcing twenty four to twenty five a game,
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: still seventeen's too high. But last night they kept it
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: down there. UCF was without two of its leading scorers,
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: which is fine, that's that's just part of the deal.
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: But they're playing really well. In Sunday's game for the
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: women at TCU is going to be massive because we
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: talked about in our last episode they are in a
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: position to win this thing and they're gonna need to
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: win this game against TCU in all likelihood on Sunday
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: and then take care of business.
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: You're right, forty one nothing.
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: I was there. I knew.
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: I'm aware of that. Sometimes you miss the details once
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: in a while. That's a massive vang. It was crazy,
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: Like you're plus ten in points off turnovers. You're doing well,
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: plus forty one. It's almost more than you have scored.
• 47:08
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you can't take that forward, you know.
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: Equity, Yeah, like stored equity, like you started. Like Mark
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: Kello goes to the scorers table at the start of
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: the next game, it goes, I'm turning in these sixteen
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: points from our last game. We're just want to start,
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: sixteen to nothing.
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: Twenty one of those were live ball. Twenty one of
• 47:23
  Speaker 3: the twenty three.
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: Six six players in double figures. Riley Mcleski just knocking
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: down shots. She had a career high.
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: Sixteen of twenty from the field off those turnovers from
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: two you tried one to three point sixteen of twenty
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: off twenty one live ball turnovers from two points.
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, score thirty one eleven.
• 47:44
  Speaker 4: I think eleven eleven players scored. I mean, he's nice
• 47:46
  Speaker 4: when players can get off the bench and score. It's
• 47:48
  Speaker 4: good for practice.
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: A couple of the points, hold on. You shot eighty
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: percent on balls off turnovers. You shot eighty percent floor lay.
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: I'm aware it's still eighty percent.
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: Mem Wheeler's stepping just knocking down jumpers. She took a
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: heat check before she got hot. Should you know that?
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: She took a heat check three early in the game.
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: But it's fine, she's gonna go get him anyway. That's fine,
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: all right.
• 48:11
  Speaker 4: A couple of the points. I know the weather back
• 48:13
  Speaker 4: home has not been great. It's supposed to be partly
• 48:16
  Speaker 4: sunny in sixty four degrees in Statesboro, Georgia tomorrow.
• 48:20
  Speaker 5: Why do we care about that.
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: Guys, Mountair Baseball.
• 48:22
  Speaker 4: Because the Mountaineer baseball team opens the twenty twenty six campaign.
• 48:26
  Speaker 4: Because Georgia's southern WWU picked pick third in the league
• 48:30
  Speaker 4: after winning the league last year, picked third in the
• 48:32
  Speaker 4: preseason poll behind TCU in Arizona. So, and guys, you know,
• 48:39
  Speaker 4: how often do we say it's about the players?
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 48:42
  Speaker 5: Frequently, Yeah a lot. Talk about that a lot.
• 48:45
  Speaker 4: Remember when Zach Cally was on the program last summer,
• 48:50
  Speaker 4: we interviewed him, ask him how much is about the players?
• 48:52
  Speaker 5: How much is about scheme? He said, one hundred percent,
• 48:55
  Speaker 5: It's about the guys, hundred percent, right what he said.
• 48:58
  Speaker 5: That's from a coach. There's more evidence.
• 49:01
  Speaker 4: All due respect to Nick, and we expect Nick to
• 49:03
  Speaker 4: be a formidable force on that offensive line.
• 49:06
  Speaker 5: Coming up.
• 49:07
  Speaker 4: But here's more evidence that first year head coach Rich
• 49:11
  Speaker 4: rodriguezould sounds funny to say did not have enough guys.
• 49:14
  Speaker 4: Three hundred and nineteen college perspectives have been invited to
• 49:20
  Speaker 4: the NFL scouting Combine question, how many Mountaineers are on
• 49:24
  Speaker 4: that list out of three nineteen guys?
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: Zero?
• 49:27
  Speaker 5: Correct?
• 49:28
  Speaker 4: Can you name two other teams that did not have
• 49:30
  Speaker 4: any players invited? It's obvious think of the obvious answer.
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: Oh, ahead to your segment. You're the obvious observation guy.
• 49:42
  Speaker 5: Colorado and Oklahoma State.
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: Oh I thought you National?
• 49:47
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
• 49:48
  Speaker 4: So the bottom three teams in the league didn't have
• 49:50
  Speaker 4: any players invited. Which team had the most players invited?
• 49:54
  Speaker 4: Probably Tech Texas Tech Texas, Tech Texas Tech TCU had five, Baylors, Incanta,
• 49:59
  Speaker 4: Arizona State told each had four.
• 50:00
  Speaker 5: So it's about guys.
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: More better players. Hopy MVPs just need more better players.
• 50:08
  Speaker 4: And the hope that the builders underway and then you know,
• 50:13
  Speaker 4: next season or in two seasons, when we're going over
• 50:16
  Speaker 4: that list of invitees, you know that Nick is on
• 50:18
  Speaker 4: the list and about five other guys, about five or
• 50:20
  Speaker 4: six other guys.
• 50:21
  Speaker 3: He got a chance, right, it's got good size. Yeah,
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: how big sat Tony. He's a big dude.
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: He's a big boy six five two uh.
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: Three fifteen and it's a solid three fifteen.
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 50:34
  Speaker 5: Oh, I forgot. I had one other thing I forgot.
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
• 50:37
  Speaker 5: Can I do it?
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 50:39
  Speaker 4: So basketball purists might be upset by this, but the
• 50:42
  Speaker 4: Big twelve has unveiled its new LED court.
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, everybody, look at my boy always Got brings his
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: own video and a dog and glasses. He brought dog
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: video and classes.
• 50:56
  Speaker 3: Sitting in an RV in an RV.
• 50:59
  Speaker 4: ASV's go AHAD four is the next generation high performance
• 51:02
  Speaker 4: sports floor that meets the standards of modern hardwood courts.
• 51:04
  Speaker 4: Integrated LED technology beneath the playing surface unlocks dynamic, interactive
• 51:08
  Speaker 4: digital graphics and capabilities. Blah blah blah, Tony, it's this
• 51:12
  Speaker 4: new technology becomes the norm. You and Brad one hundreds
• 51:15
  Speaker 4: of other sports reporters will no longer be able to
• 51:17
  Speaker 4: report action on the hardwood class. Yeah, action action last
• 51:21
  Speaker 4: night on the LED.
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: Guess what what what? Guess what? Brad and I? Brad
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: and I you might not know this. We're going to
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: be on that floor tomorrow.
• 51:30
  Speaker 3: That we're practicing.
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the Mountaineers. Really Mountaineers can't get into the arena
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: for Saturday's game Friday night, and so they're going to
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: go over to the company that makes that floor and
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: they're going to work out get shots up on that
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: floor so it'll give them their first feel of it.
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: Then the Mountaineer women's team is going to do the
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: same thing when they go play UCF. They're also going
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: to go on the floor just to get some shots out.
• 51:52
  Speaker 5: Look old guy moment.
• 51:55
  Speaker 4: The American Psychological Association reports the researchers have found evidence
• 51:59
  Speaker 4: over the past couple of dedcs people's attention spans have
• 52:02
  Speaker 4: shown considerably. You think, do we have to be entertained?
• 52:05
  Speaker 4: Like every moment, every second? There has to be something
• 52:09
  Speaker 4: going on every second. And that's what I think it's
• 52:13
  Speaker 4: getting to.
• 52:13
  Speaker 5: Look.
• 52:14
  Speaker 4: The technology is great, absolutely, but it's just like you
• 52:16
  Speaker 4: can't just sit and watch the game and when there's
• 52:19
  Speaker 4: a timeoutter or something like talk to the guy next
• 52:21
  Speaker 4: to you. They're like, oh, no, we're drawing in. We
• 52:24
  Speaker 4: have to look at the court. They're doing something on
• 52:25
  Speaker 4: the court.
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: Hoppy, what do we always say? It's always about the money.
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: It's the money there. It's a sponsorship of ads. Look
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: if you go back and look at the Big twelve
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: promotional Thinger's ads on the sides, Yeah, it'll change it
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: to ads. Three guys might like you never I mean
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: big Big twelve tournament this year, middle of the court.
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: I mean I might say it, three guys logo. Who knows?
• 52:49
  Speaker 3: I love this?
• 52:51
  Speaker 5: Of course, of course you do.
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: I really like this.
• 52:54
  Speaker 3: The possibilities here and you won't see them all obviously
• 52:57
  Speaker 3: during the Big twelve tournament as these become more commonplace.
• 53:01
  Speaker 3: The possibilities here are endless.
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: I think.
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: I think this is pretty cool.
• 53:05
  Speaker 4: Like this, So brad when you see the young men
• 53:07
  Speaker 4: on the led performing, yeah wow.
• 53:11
  Speaker 5: So it's just.
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: Before we let you go. Did you find any pitchers
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: or catchers in Bradenton at Pirate World.
• 53:19
  Speaker 4: I did go to Pirate City yesterday and it was
• 53:22
  Speaker 4: it was a neat experience, but you know, there was
• 53:24
  Speaker 4: like one hundred and fifty players.
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's that time of the year.
• 53:28
  Speaker 4: Everyone's great complex. They got four fields and I didn't
• 53:31
  Speaker 4: know anybody. I mean I was looking for Skins. I
• 53:34
  Speaker 4: didn't see him.
• 53:35
  Speaker 5: But you can't get all that close.
• 53:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but what is remarkable to watch them take take
• 53:41
  Speaker 4: ground balls. Just all these guys taking ground balls, third
• 53:45
  Speaker 4: short second making the throat brad everybody catching every ground ball,
• 53:50
  Speaker 4: making every throw. It just reminds you how competitive it
• 53:54
  Speaker 4: is to try to get in the show.
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: Right here, let me give you a story here hopping,
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: and we'll close with this about so it was difficult
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: to get access to the players. Okay, So my buddy
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: Steve down in Charleston, wrote Marsh and I his wife
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: go to Bradenton every year for a few days to
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: watch Pirates spring training. I've been going since I was
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: a student down in Florida in nineteen eighty seven. Listen
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: to this. Back then, spring training was so laid back,
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: the players were so cool. Someday I'll tell you the
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: story of the time nineteen eighty nine ninety I snuck
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: into the Red Sox locker room when they were playing
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: the Pirates in Bradenton. I was looking to get Wade
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: Boggs's autographed. That's when he was embroiled in his infidelity
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: scandal with Margo Adams. I wound up chatting with Lee Smith,
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: who's now in the Hall of Fame, at his locker
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: and he signed a ball for me. He just went
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: right at the locker room. Oh, Red Sox get this pirates?
• 54:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Lee Smith, the former Cubs closer, Yeah, exactly.
• 54:51
  Speaker 5: I did get a foul ball. I did get a
• 54:53
  Speaker 5: foul ball.
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: Look at you.
• 54:54
  Speaker 3: You should have led with that. That's hard to do. Yeah,
• 54:57
  Speaker 3: that's hard to get. Even in spring training are air
• 55:00
  Speaker 3: to come up with a foul ball?
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: Outstanding? So all right, hobster, what do you got this afternoon?
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: What are you doing now? Uh?
• 55:08
  Speaker 4: Actually, we're gonna do some laundry and clean the RV.
• 55:11
  Speaker 4: My brother and his wife are coming back tonight and
• 55:12
  Speaker 4: we got to get to get the place ship shape.
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: Ah. How did everything go at the soy being fast
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: and Biloxi?
• 55:18
  Speaker 5: I don't know if. I'll probably take the dog for
• 55:19
  Speaker 5: a walk too.
• 55:21
  Speaker 4: This is enough, We're done, man, So thanks hop Coco.
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: Coco is one of the good ones. I got a
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: cute little dog.
• 55:30
  Speaker 5: One of the good ones.
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: Thanks Hobby dog, appreciate it.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you guys, All.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a nose situation, exactly right, exactly right. Time
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• 57:43
  Speaker 1: two regular season encounters. What are the numbers? Say, let's
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  Speaker 3: Well, there's a lot in this game. I'm really interested
• 58:23
  Speaker 3: to watch this one. And again, it's a tough place
• 58:26
  Speaker 3: to play, as we say every time you go on
• 58:27
  Speaker 3: the road in this league. But only two losses at
• 58:29
  Speaker 3: home for this UCF team, and they're to really good
• 58:32
  Speaker 3: teams number thirteen in the Ken Palm rankings Vanderbilt and
• 58:35
  Speaker 3: number two Arizona. It's pretty good. That's all they've lost
• 58:39
  Speaker 3: at home. Beat Kansas there in Texas A and M.
• 58:42
  Speaker 3: Now that's a way beat Texas A and M. I'm
• 58:45
  Speaker 3: interested to see what this team is like when you're
• 58:48
  Speaker 3: playing them, because Johnny Dawkins is more of if you
• 58:51
  Speaker 3: had to pick an offense or defensive coach side of things,
• 58:54
  Speaker 3: he's really more defensive. But their last couple of teams
• 58:57
  Speaker 3: last year, remember how well they could score he Shawn
• 59:00
  Speaker 3: Darius Johnson. I mean they could score that game at
• 59:02
  Speaker 3: the Coliseum last year got awful close late when they
• 59:05
  Speaker 3: came flying back, and that was a game we had
• 59:07
  Speaker 3: control of. Their numbers bear out that they're more of
• 59:10
  Speaker 3: an offensive team this year too. But if you talk
• 59:12
  Speaker 3: some of their folks, they say it begins on defense.
• 59:14
  Speaker 3: But if you just look at the straight numbers, thirty
• 59:17
  Speaker 3: fourth nationally and offensive efficiency, so it's a team that
• 59:19
  Speaker 3: can score one thirteenth nationally defensively. I'll get into the
• 59:24
  Speaker 3: defense here in just a second. Let's talk about this
• 59:27
  Speaker 3: offense for a second. They want to get to the basket. Now,
• 59:30
  Speaker 3: they can shoot the three, and their three point numbers
• 59:33
  Speaker 3: are really pretty good, but their goal is to get
• 59:36
  Speaker 3: into the lane and get to the basket. They leave
• 59:38
  Speaker 3: the Big twelve in points per possession around the basket,
• 59:42
  Speaker 3: and they're first in the Big twelve in points per
• 59:44
  Speaker 3: possession at the rim. And we'll get into some of
• 59:46
  Speaker 3: their individuals. It starts with their point guard, who wants
• 59:48
  Speaker 3: to get into the paint. But this is a team
• 59:51
  Speaker 3: that wants to get it into the lane. Well, what's
• 59:53
  Speaker 3: Westford do you want to do? Defensively? Yeah, So that's
• 59:56
  Speaker 3: a good on good matchup there, and that's going to
• 59:58
  Speaker 3: determine the game. Most likely, what is UCF able to
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 3: do offensively? Can they get to their spots that they
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 3: want to get to, or does West Virginia continue to
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 3: be successful in closing that lane off. Let's talk about
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 3: the three point ball I mentioned. They don't do it
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 3: a ton, but they shoot it really well thirty seven
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 3: percent as a team, even though they take just slightly
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 3: more than one third of their shots from behind the arc.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 3: We know that's going to be an important part of
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 3: West Virginia's game. And I'll get to UCF's defense. I
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 3: think there's some three point shots coming for West Virginia.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 3: Now will they be able to drop them? They are due,
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 3: They are overdue for a game in which they make threes.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 3: West Virginia six and one on the season when it
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 3: makes ten or more, the only loss to Ohio State.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 3: So you're very close to being seven to zero when
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 3: you make ten or more threes? Can you get to
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 3: that number against UCF? When you talk about UCF on
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 3: the offensive glass, if you look at their season stats,
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 3: they're really good. They're in the ninetieth percentile in putbacks
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 3: on the offensive glass, but they're just ninth in Big
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 3: Twelve play in that same category. They're six percent less
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 3: in putbacks when it comes to Big twelve play, and
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 3: they're going against a West Virginia defense that's fourth in
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 3: the Big twelve in defensive rebounding has been pretty good,
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 3: So can you limit them, force them to some outside shots.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 3: You're due for a team to miss threes against you,
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 3: and then go corral the rebound. Interested to watch if
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 3: that can happen. Pick and roll wise, they've had more
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 3: success with the role man over the last three games,
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 3: so they've been utilizing that short role in getting the
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 3: ball from their guards into their big So keep an
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 3: eye on pick and roll. We know West Virginia is
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 3: one of the best defensive teams against that coming into
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 3: this game. Now, let's talk about UCFS defense here for
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 3: a second. They don't create a ton of turnovers, so
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 3: these are things you start to look for. Can these
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 3: numbers hold true? They don't create a ton of turnovers,
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 3: which would be a big benefit to West Virginia. We
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 3: know that West Virginia is in games and win games
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 3: when it keeps that turnover number down, But when they
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 3: get them, they're only two hundred and twenty fifth nation
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 3: in turnover percentage. But when they get them. They're very good.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 3: They're in the ninetieth percentile in points per possession off
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 3: live ball turnovers. That is where they like to shoot
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 3: the three forty percent from three off those turnovers. So again,
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 3: we say it every game, but it's critical in this one.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 3: You've got to protect the basketball, not give them those
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 3: easy runout situations, make them get into their offense and
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 3: have to run it. West Virginia is still even though
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 3: they were pretty good in the second half against Texas Tech,
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 3: still sixteenth in the Big Twelve and turnover percentage offensively,
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 3: don't want that to have happened.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: A lot of good stuff, all right.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 3: Here's here's where I think you get some shots if
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 3: the numbers hold true and we're getting to the point
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 3: in the season where they kind of are what you are.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 3: At this point, UCF gives up the fourth most on
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 3: guarded catch and shoot jumpers in the league. But teams,
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 3: I say this all the time, the regressions do both ways.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 3: West Virginia's due for some teams to miss shots, and
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 3: West Virginia is due to make some shots when they're
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 3: left open. Teams are shooting just thirty five percent from
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 3: three on those on guarded shots. So you wonder what
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 3: tips the balance between a team and UCF that's won
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 3: maybe one more non conference game than West Virginia has,
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 3: but is included in the tournament field. It's that kind
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 3: of stuff. Teams are shooting just thirty five percent on
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 3: open shots. That's nothing that UCF is done. That's just
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 3: teams missing shots against them. Conversely, West Virginia's opponents are
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 3: shooting close to fifty percent on open threes and a
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 3: lot less than what UCF is giving teams. So those
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 3: are things throughout the course of the season. Those change
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 3: games pretty significantly. Well, you were gonna say something.
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: There, Yeah, when can we get your regression?
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 3: You always talk about, Well, I'll tell you what it
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 3: is due in a big.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: Way, rather have it this season the next seas.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 3: I agree with you.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: Can we get it?
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 3: I hope. So this would be a game where West
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 3: Virginia is due to make some shots, because again, if
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 3: these hold, they're due to get some open looks. UCF
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 3: opponents have the fifth highest points per possession in the
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 3: Big Twelve on all jump shots, so teams are able
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 3: to hit some shots here against them, UCF gives up
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 3: the fourth highest points per possession the Big twelve to
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 3: the pick and roll ball handler. West Virginia likes to
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 3: run pick and roll and we've seen teams that high
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 3: hedge and jump out on you. This team will do
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 3: a lot of drop coverage with its four and five.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 3: The ball handler might be important in this game. That
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 3: might be an Honor huff more on the ball, that
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 3: might be Tray more on the ball to try and
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 3: get some looks. And here's why opponents are shooting thirty
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 3: nine percent from three against pick and rolls against UCF's defense.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 3: So you have Honor Or Tray at the top, get
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 3: him in a pick and roll that five man drops
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 3: off rather than comes out and presses you. You might
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 3: have some open looks for the top that we haven't
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 3: been able to see very much. UCF also gives up
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 3: the second highest points per possession to the role man
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 3: in the Big twelve. Opponents are scoring nearly sixty percent
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 3: of the time when you hit the rollman in the
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 3: pick and roll, So rest Inga likes to do that.
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 3: Look for some heavy pick and roll in the middle
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 3: of the floor and see if you can get some opportunities.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 3: I did say the other night when we talked about
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 3: this the other show. I thought West Virginia's half court
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 3: offense was as good against Tech as we've seen all year,
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 3: even though you weren't making anything from three. I thought
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 3: the way they came along, with the sets, with the
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 3: pick and rolls, with the isolations, with the identifying matchups
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 3: that you want to do attack, you could tell that
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 3: offense took a big step forward. My question is, now,
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 3: can can the guys pick that up and move it
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 3: forward against this UCF defense. Nothing's guaranteed game to game,
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 3: but I thought they took a big step forward against Tech.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: Totally agree with you.
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 3: All right, One last thing we'll talk about here in
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 3: this particular game. We often talk about West Virginia's strategy
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 3: offensively of using clock and working itself to get the
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 3: best shot that's available. West Virginia's shooting forty one percent
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 3: from three in the final four seconds of the clock.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 3: That leads the Big twelve. So you see why you're
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 3: doing that final how many seconds? Final four seconds of
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 3: the shot clock? Western forty one percent from three, leading
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 3: the league. West Virginia's opponents are shooting just thirty one
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 3: percent from three in the last last four seconds of
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 3: the clock. That's the second worst percentage in the Big Twelve.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 3: So if you wonder why West Virginia wants to guard
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 3: you the whole clock, not allow quick shots, make you
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 3: take a one late, and then why they work the
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 3: clock down, that has been to their advantage. It is working,
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 3: you're making outside shots in those categories. West Virginia just
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 3: overall offensively fourth in the Big Twelve points per possession
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 3: in the final four seconds of the clock, which is
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 3: what it's trying to do. That's when it feels it's
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 3: identifying its best shot that's available. UCF is eleventh in
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 3: the league in points per possession in the final four
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 3: seconds of the clock. They're just twenty four percent from
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 3: two and thirty one percent from three in those final
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 3: few seconds. So pace is going to matter. If those
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 3: numbers hold and you can keep the turnovers down so
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 3: UCF doesn't get some quick runouts, make them run their
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 3: half court offense, and it sticks to what it's looked
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 3: like all Big Twelve season, you should have some advantage
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 3: there late in the clock.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: A large part of this game is going to be
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: which team will be successful and imposing its will on
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: the other. West Virginia will try to grind it down.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: They be and UCF don't want to guard for the
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: length of a shot clock and they just want to
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: go up and down the floor. Can West Virginia do
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: what Brad just said, take that clock down, take that
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: clock down, force them to guard, grind them out, and
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: over the course of a game, they get weary doing that,
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: and then you start scoring points. That's what it comes
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: down to.
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 3: Here comes another good point guard themis Folks. Has been
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 3: outstanding for them. Thirteen points a game, seven assists a game.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 3: That's going to be critical. And again I like going
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 3: into these games with the matchup you got. You've got
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 3: Jasper Floyd, Demir Jenkins, two of the better on ball
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 3: defenders in this league. Going against their best player is
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 3: their point guard. How much can you limit him? Because
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 3: again this is right in West Virginia's wheelhouse. He wants
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 3: to get to the basket. Sixty four percent of his
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 3: shots are in the lane or at the rim. So
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 3: that's a point guard that wants to get downhill and
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 3: either finish or he's going to spray it out to
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 3: shooters around the outside. That's where a lot of their
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 3: catch and shoots. I'm from, So that point guard on
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 3: point guard's matchup Folks against Jasper and Emir is going
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 3: to be critical. The Knights are fourteen and two when
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 3: he scores ten or more points. So he's a key
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 3: cag in this system. You've got to try and slow
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 3: him down. He'll turn it over about twenty percent of
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 3: the time, one in every five possessions, so that's going
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 3: to be important to watch.
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: You see a couple of things on him. Are you
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: so many games he's played?
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot.
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: I haven't seen the number higher than this this year
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: that I know if he's played one hundred and thirty
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: four games. He is a sixth year grad student. He
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: has played at South Carolina State that was twenty twenty one,
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: then the next year played junior college, then went to
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: Louisiana for two years, then went to Milwaukee for a year.
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: Last year and now sixth year, one hundred and thirty
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: four games in is the is at UCF where he
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: is averaging thirteen points in a very gaudy iveraging seven
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: assists per game, and that's the biggest number that we've
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: seen this season.
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 3: Let's talk about DJ Thomas for a second, because you
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 3: want another key outside of the obvious suspects in Trey
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 3: and Honor. It's DJ. DJ is shooting forty two percent
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 3: from three on the road, just twenty two percent from
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 3: three at home against Iowa State, Houston, and Cincinnati, all
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 3: on the road. He has eight threes just in those
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 3: three games. So it would be big if DJ would
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 3: continue his hot streak on the road. West Virginia's five
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 3: and two on the season when he scores ten plus.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 3: Your only two losses are to Houston and Iowa State,
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 3: two national title contenders. If you want one other like
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 3: if you want to really get in the weeds, you
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 3: want to really get down in the weeds here?
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like weeds.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 3: Do you want to watch something? Yeah, as you're going
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 3: through this game watching or listening to us, here's here's
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 3: to keep an eye on. In losses, West Virginia is
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 3: just sixteen percent from the field on the right wing
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 3: three pointer in losses, just sixteen from that particular spot. Okay,
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 3: In wins, you're forty five percent from that spot. Right
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 3: wing three thirty percent better and wins if the right
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 3: wing three is going in, you might walk out of
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 3: Orlando with a dub.
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: You're gonna monitor that during the game. I'm going to
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: all right, So if you're listening to us, we're gonna
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: monitor right wing threes and give you updates on the
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: Does your stuff update in game?
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 3: No, I don't look at it in game too much.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: Going on? Okay, I didn't know if it was updating.
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: It was so you could come in and say, hey,
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: right wing, how you gonna know during the game chart it, Michael.
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 3: Low I try, I'll probably get distracted yelling at if.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: This just goes back to your whiffleball days when you
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: used to do your stats for yourself.
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 3: This kind of market. See if we can keep track
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 3: of that. But that's a pretty big gap thirty percent.
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 3: And part of that is that's a good spot. They
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 3: like to run Honor off those screens, and he's a
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 3: where he's really good is going to his left even
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 3: though he's a right handed shooter, so when he's coming
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 3: back around that side, moving towards the middle of the court,
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 3: but on the right wing, that's a popular spot when
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 3: those are going in Westerrgana generally wins. You can go
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 3: back to a couple of games where's Trey had some
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 3: big shots from that right wing three. So just keep
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 3: an eye on that specific spot. Let's see if I
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 3: can hold some water and come true.
• 1:11:10
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  Speaker 1: this year for spreads on stats has been that West
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: Virginia's guarding the three well, but the opponent ends up
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: making a higher percentage of guarded threes than normal. Do
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  Speaker 1: we think this might be the result of the size
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: of the backcourt? A guarded three may be more makeable
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: when guarded by Honor or a Merror than it is
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  Speaker 1: guarded by Tracon or chance. It would explain the jump
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  Speaker 1: we see and opponents make on guarded threes may need
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  Speaker 1: to wait the guarded measure based on size. Senator, you say.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think. I mean, remember six three. I know
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  Speaker 3: it may not look at because he's out there with
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 3: big dudes, but a mere six three, so's jasper on that.
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 3: So Honor is really the one from a size perspective.
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 3: I think it's just sometimes and there's a lot of
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 3: people that believe your opponent three point percentage is there's
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 3: a lot of luck involved in that, and I think
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 3: you can you can do that based on these unguarded percentages.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 3: I think West Virginia for the most part, has been
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 3: extremely unlucky in those areas. Are there some closeouts that
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 3: you'd like to be a little more aggressive or a
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 3: little bit closer. Remember, just because those analytics are classifying
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 3: it as guarded. I'm sure Ross would have a little
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 3: different take, And there's some that he doesn't necessarily think
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 3: that are guarded. They get classified that way. So I
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 3: think if you're if you're looking for something there, it
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 3: would be more that you would want a more aggressive
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 3: close out. Ross is really big on the two feet
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 3: outside the three close out hard But I think some
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 3: of it's just teams have been extremely good at open looks,
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 3: and there's there's really nothing that can explain that part.
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  Speaker 1: Gary and Elkins. I listened to the Texas Tech game
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  Speaker 1: Sunday while I was driving back from Myrtle. It was
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  Speaker 1: In discuss with each continued made three by Tech unbelievable,
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: and Brad kept saying during the broadcast and again during
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: his analytics segment that the game came down to one
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: thing threes. My questions are in almost every game, our
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: opponents have scored an amazingly higher percentage of guarded threes
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: than their average. A statistical anomaly, an outlier, not under
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 1: the bell curve. When do these percentages begin to normalize
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: and swing the other way? Are these outliers the new normal?
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: When opposing teams play the world champion Mountaineers.
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 3: Amen, brother, need it soon. I went back and looked.
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 3: I first brought this up before we played Ohio State.
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 3: Now, if you go back and look at that Ohio
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 3: State game and this is this is where it just
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 3: bums you out even more. That was a game where
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 3: there was some aggression. They missed a bunch of open
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 3: shots in that game in West Virginia, couldn't quite get
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 3: the win, needed one more possession. But yeah, you are due.
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 3: It's amazing. There's only two teams in this league who
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 3: have opponents shooting better than forty percent on unguarded three pointers.
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 3: And we're way at We're five percentage points above the
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 3: next team closest to us. There's two fourteen of the
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 3: sixteen teams in this league, their opponents are shooting worse
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 3: than forty percent from three. So right now, it is
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 3: a statistical outlier.
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 1: Texter Christina in Connecticut need some help, please, wish my
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 1: husband Derek a happy fortieth birthday. He was born in
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• 1:16:18
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  Speaker 1: his story though? Did you look at why oh like
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: he couldn't Like he literally, because of injuries, missed his
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: first four years. They just kept like blowing everything up.
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  Speaker 1: It's crazy.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I mean I get it. But then why
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  Speaker 3: has the clock come into play? Sometimes the NCAA likes
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  Speaker 3: to talk about the clock.
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  Speaker 1: I know. I know Jay from Greenbrier County Hoppey mentioned
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: last episode how well Tony treats people, and I have
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  Speaker 1: no doubt it's completely true unless you're a referee in
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  Speaker 1: a kid's basketball league. Lol. I mean, I've had that moment.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I've come clean on this program that perhaps
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  Speaker 1: I was a little aggressive back years and year decades
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  Speaker 1: ago now when my boys were playing, may have said
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  Speaker 1: a thing or two that probably should have been retracted
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  Speaker 1: during a elementary school league. You know, we all learn
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  Speaker 1: from our mistakes. And I'm good with officials now. I
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  Speaker 1: mean I'm good with officials, huh. I mean, how many
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: officials come over to us before a game say hello,
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  Speaker 1: shake hands, you know, commiserate, Right?
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  Speaker 3: They do, and I talk to a lot of them.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: They're wearing a walkman during the game and listening to
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 3: the broadcast.
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  Speaker 1: But you know what, in all seriousness, like those guys listen.
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  Speaker 1: Now they aren't listening when they're working, but other officials,
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  Speaker 1: because all those officials do is just drive all over
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: the place going to the area. They're listening to games.
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  Speaker 1: And I guarantee you that if you're hammering, somebody like
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: Bobby calls Tommy and goes, you know, I was listening
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  Speaker 1: to your game. Ye the other day, so and so
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: announced her. He just absolutely killed you.
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  Speaker 3: So listen. I just think it's called the way it's
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 3: we see it. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's everyone. I mean everyone's entitled last night. By
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: the way, at that women's game, I mean hardly any
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 1: six total files in the first half, three for each team.
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: That was good. That was good. Two things I noticed,
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 1: by the way over at the women's game, women's officials.
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 1: There were the tops they wear much cooler than the guys.
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: Have you noticed what they wear?
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  Speaker 3: What is that mean?
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: It's like a gray It's a gray. And you know,
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: I'm not a big I like that look rather than
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: the black and white stripes.
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  Speaker 3: Why.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I just think it looks cool. It's different,
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 1: it looks cool. All of a sudden, didn't know this.
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: Do you know this that at women's basketball games at
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: Hope Coliseum, Like they got a full food spread in
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: Peak Coliseum for the media. Did you know that first?
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 3: I've heard of that.
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: Like we get that card and we have to go
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 1: to the concession stand, like you get like what do
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: they call those things? Mountaineer bucks? What are they? I
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: walked into that Peak Club layer the last night. Heck,
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: they got seven chefs in there just trimming lambs and
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 1: I mean just that steaks just falling all over the place.
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  Speaker 3: How do you know media is allowed to be in there?
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 3: I think you just walked in there. I don't know
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 3: what everybody no.
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 1: I walked in. I saw Kevin Kinder from the from
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: the Blue Gold News.
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  Speaker 3: Well maybe he's a Peak Club member now.
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: He was, And I said, is this where you guys get?
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: This is a media room? What is this? He goes?
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: Sometimes it's here and sometimes it's upstairs. It's good eating.
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: I didn't have anything, but the next game.
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  Speaker 3: You get your choice. You're not dictated to what the
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 3: menu is. You get your choice. You can eat whatever
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 3: you want.
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, most of the time it's those em and ms.
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: That's they probably need some healthy choice.
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 3: That's a you problem. That's not a WU problem. That's
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 3: on you.
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: Probably right about that. All right, So let's have a meeting.
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: We're going to play Saturday, so just doing a Monday show,
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 1: doing a Monday or release on Monday.
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 3: Did you talk about the event coming up on the
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 3: twenty seventh?
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, let me do this. I forgot. I had it
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: right in front of me. Standby, big event coming thank
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: you on February twenty seventh. We invite you to join us.
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: We're going to be a Buffalo Wild Wings in the
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: Suncresttown Center and we are going to be working with
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: the folks at the United Way to push their yearly
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: goal over the top through associations with Clear Mountain Bank,
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: Vision Homes and the folks at Buffalo Wild Wings. We're
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: going to have a big time. We're going to have music,
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 1: we are going to have games. We are going to
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: have a chicken wing eating contest. Sixteen different people will enter.
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 1: Last time I knew we had eight. We're looking for
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 1: others and all you have to do is send an
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: email to info at Episode eight zero zero dot com,
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  Speaker 1: info at Episode e hunred dot com and say hey,
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: I want in on the wing eating content.
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so what you can do there those that's for
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 3: small businesses there that want to sponsor one of those
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 3: wing eaters, right, and you can you can buy in
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 3: and have an eater. So we're looking for businesses we
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 3: want to contribute. We could get Nick Craig we as
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 3: a business, my insurance company or whatever it is, can
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 3: call in make the donation that goes to United Way
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 3: and then sponsor one of the eaters. And you could
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 3: you could bring a ringer in if you want a
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 3: pro somebody. We can be assigned somebody. Yes, So it's
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 3: just we need eight more to come on board and
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 3: help us put it over the edge.
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  Speaker 5: There.
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  Speaker 1: That's the night before the West Virginia BYU game. So
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: this is the twenty seventh. West Virginia plays BYU on
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: the twenty eighth. We'd love to have you. It doesn't
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  Speaker 1: cost you anything for you to go. Just show up
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: at Buffalo Wild Wings that night. Six o'clock. Is that
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: what it starts.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's right, something like that.
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 1: Six o'clock ish. Is there a time on there? Yeah,
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: six to seven thirty and we'll have fun. All three
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 1: of us will be there. And if you're looking for
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: something to do the night before the game. He would
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: love to.
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 3: Have you fun that those proceeds are going to the
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 3: United Way, because it doesn't feel like that long ago
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 3: that we kicked off that campaign here in mont in
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 3: Preston County. Yes, over at the football stadium and here
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 3: we are about ready to wrap it up this event.
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 3: You can help put it over the edge. So info
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  Speaker 3: at episode eight hundred dot com.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, we're going to cross over the one point two
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  Speaker 1: million dollar goal special thanks to our producer Jake. Special
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: thanks to Nick Cray, Mountaineer footballer in the studio with
• 1:22:26
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