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3 Guys Before The Game - Utah Recap - TCU Preview (Episode 699) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  Speaker 1: It is three guys time. Hi, everybody, Welcome in and
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  Speaker 1: away we go. It's episode number six hundred and ninety nine.
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  Speaker 1: We've got a recap of West Virginia and Utah. We
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  Speaker 1: have to and we have a preview of West Virginia
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  Speaker 1: and at TCU. Tony's here, Senators here, Hoppies here, and
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  Speaker 1: All right, we're here and extremely disappointing result last night
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  Speaker 1: inside Hope Coliseum, final score of sixty one to fifty six.
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  Speaker 1: Utah gets off to a great star and immediately, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know about you, but everything kind of gets tense
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  Speaker 1: for me. I thought, wait a second, this is the
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  Speaker 1: Arizona State game from last year where West Virginia had
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  Speaker 1: no business to lose, and they don't get it done.
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  Speaker 1: And you gave life to a Utah team that you
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  Speaker 1: could break it down. And they were like a whisker
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  Speaker 1: away from beating Cincinnati. And to be quite honest, in retrospect,
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  Speaker 1: I wish they would have beaten Cincinnati. But all that
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  Speaker 1: did was convinced them that they're really close. And they
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  Speaker 1: came in and they were ready to go, and quite simply,
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  Speaker 1: West Virginia at the start of the game wasn't and
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  Speaker 1: it cost them.
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  Speaker 2: It was familiar. I thought that yesterday. It was ash Wednesday.
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  Speaker 2: I thought West Virginia given up scoring for Lynt where's
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  Speaker 2: a shot? It was bad.
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  Speaker 3: It was to start two and a half minutes into
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  Speaker 3: the game. I think right there. I mean, listen, you
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  Speaker 3: had a valiant effort to battle back in there. I'm
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  Speaker 3: kind of surprised they got it down there to a
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  Speaker 3: two point game with a chance a good look at
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  Speaker 3: three to take the lead there. But you started your
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  Speaker 3: exactly right, Timmy. That was the one game you did
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  Speaker 3: not need to start that way. Crowd was down, needed
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  Speaker 3: to bring your own energy and to start out nine
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  Speaker 3: to ozho. That's a tough, tough situation to battle back
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  Speaker 3: from in a game when you really needed to get
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  Speaker 3: out of the gates quickly.
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  Speaker 1: So on Monday Show we talked about, hey, just say
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  Speaker 1: that there is a chance to put yourself into the
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  Speaker 1: discussion as far as NCAA tournament goes and bubble and
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  Speaker 1: things like that. Well, now you have played thirteen of
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  Speaker 1: your eighteen games, You've got five left. Two of those
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  Speaker 1: are three of those around the road TCU Saturday, Oklahoma
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  Speaker 1: State next Tuesday, and then the following week, West Virginia
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  Speaker 1: goes to Kansas State. So you got three on the
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  Speaker 1: road and you've got two here BYU. But believe it
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  Speaker 1: or not, you're currently tied with in the league standings.
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  Speaker 1: They like West Virginia. Like, just take everything out of
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  Speaker 1: perspective for a second. What if I would have told
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  Speaker 1: you at the start of the season that BYU threw
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  Speaker 1: thirteen games was going to be seven and six, You'd
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  Speaker 1: go like, wait a second, d Bonsa Saunders, and I
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  Speaker 1: know Saunders, so that was out. But Rob right, Rob Wright,
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  Speaker 1: You're going like, no, that's not gonna happen.
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  Speaker 3: I bet their accountant didn't think they would be seven
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  Speaker 3: and six either, when when they're stroking the checks.
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  Speaker 1: They were. Yeah. So BYU is nineteen and seven. West
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  Speaker 1: Virginia is sixteen and ten, but the Mountaineers and the
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  Speaker 1: Cougars are tied for sixth place. UCF is now tied
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  Speaker 1: for sixth place. But the way you work breakers and
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  Speaker 1: things like that, actually West Virginia's on the top of
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  Speaker 1: the six. You got TCU Saturday, there's six and seven.
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  Speaker 1: You've got the Cowboys of Oak State and they are
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  Speaker 1: four and nine, right now sixteen and two, but they've
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  Speaker 1: been pretty good at home. They're thirteen and four. So okay,
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  Speaker 1: best case scenario, what could win Virginia? Do I mean
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  Speaker 1: best case scenario? Well, you could finish with twelve, right,
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  Speaker 1: you got seven. Chances are that doesn't happen. But you
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  Speaker 1: know what you can realistically, once you get yourself settled
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  Speaker 1: once again, you can talk five hundred. You can talk
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  Speaker 1: a game over five hundred. It's all there for the taking,
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  Speaker 1: and it's all possible.
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  Speaker 3: Now you just now, I think you have to set
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  Speaker 3: the tournament side talk aside for a second here. Now
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  Speaker 3: you've got to go steal one back. So you probably
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  Speaker 3: stole one on the road at UCF. They walked out
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  Speaker 3: of there thinking, you kidd me, we just lost a
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  Speaker 3: home game here. You just did that to a Utah
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  Speaker 3: team last night, ranked in the hundreds on Ken Palm,
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  Speaker 3: and yeah they were getting closer. Yes they have offensive talent.
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  Speaker 3: We'll go through this. Some of these numbers make you
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  Speaker 3: scratch your head that you didn't find a way to
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  Speaker 3: get the win. Now you got to turn around and
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  Speaker 3: get one back, whether that's BYU when you come home.
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  Speaker 3: More importantly, up next, can you go into fort Worth
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  Speaker 3: in a difficult place to play against a horn frog
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  Speaker 3: team that does this as well. And we'll get into
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  Speaker 3: TCU here in a minute. Can you go in and
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  Speaker 3: steal one back and you walk out with another road victory,
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  Speaker 3: that's next.
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  Speaker 2: But agreed, it's just that, and you don't want to
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  Speaker 2: be a prisoner of the moment. But this the inability
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  Speaker 2: to have, not the inability, but these long droughts, that's
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  Speaker 2: no longer now a prison of the moment. That's a trend.
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  Speaker 2: That's officially a trend, and it was going to catch
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  Speaker 2: up with you, and it did last night.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you've played thirteen league games and you are thirteenth
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  Speaker 1: in the league in shooting at forty three percent. So
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  Speaker 1: no one's going to say, hey, guess what, this is
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  Speaker 1: a really good shooting team that had an off night.
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  Speaker 1: They're not. They played thirteen league gas and they shoot
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  Speaker 1: forty three percent from the field, and from three point range.
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  Speaker 1: They are dead last in league games. They're shooting thirty
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  Speaker 1: percent from three, which two full percentage points below fifteenth
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  Speaker 1: ranked TCU, who shoot it at thirty two percent.
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  Speaker 2: And it's only at one point in the first half.
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  Speaker 2: You were what like less than ten percent from three
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  Speaker 2: point range and twelve percent from two point range or something.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, and you're not guarding the three well in
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  Speaker 1: League player thirteenth, the numbers don't lie. And yet, with
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  Speaker 1: all of that said, it's a shot making game, and
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  Speaker 1: West Virginia had shots galore.
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  Speaker 2: I mean shots around the rim too.
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  Speaker 1: You lose, You lose by five. You are five of
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  Speaker 1: twenty three from three And we say this all the time.
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  Speaker 1: What if you were eight of twenty three? Not hey,
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  Speaker 1: you needed to make ten. What if you were may
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  Speaker 1: we've made three more? How many rattled in, rattled out,
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  Speaker 1: didn't go? You win the game?
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  Speaker 3: Just wait, you think you're bummed out now, I do
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  Speaker 3: not need to be bummed out more. Just wait, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: he's abomber another three or two the free throw line again,
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  Speaker 3: and talk about this all the time. You see, if
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  Speaker 3: it worked, you were able to get honor and trade
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  Speaker 3: of the line a lot last night. You just weren't
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  Speaker 3: able to and you got guys at the line that
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  Speaker 3: just weren't making their free throws and that hurts. Seven
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  Speaker 3: to fifteen, you're below fifty percent from the line. If
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  Speaker 3: that's ten of fifteen and you add another three in there,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, that's the frustrating part of those games when
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  Speaker 3: it comes down to a possession or two. You can
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  Speaker 3: go back and find these things and we'll get into
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  Speaker 3: some of these in the numbers. But if you just
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  Speaker 3: took this box score post game, minus the score that
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  Speaker 3: this was a win, this is exactly what you wanted
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  Speaker 3: to think to look And I know what you guys
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  Speaker 3: are saying about scoring, but that shouldn't surprise you.
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  Speaker 1: In February.
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  Speaker 3: This team is prone to droughts, and I think some
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  Speaker 3: of that becomes fatigue. You're grinding so hard defensively, and
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  Speaker 3: you're guarding for so much of the clock, You're going
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  Speaker 3: to miss some shots. That happens, there's gonna be stretches.
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  Speaker 3: But you know what else you do. You also put
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  Speaker 3: those other teams in jail and give them long stretches
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  Speaker 3: where they don't score. It's what got you back in
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  Speaker 3: the game. If you had told me when we previewed
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  Speaker 3: this game that the final was sixty one fifty six
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  Speaker 3: to I'd say, congratulations, West Virginia, let's move on to
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  Speaker 3: the next one. I would have said that's a win
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  Speaker 3: all day long.
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  Speaker 2: One hundred.
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  Speaker 3: That's a Utah team that hasn't won much. When they do,
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  Speaker 3: they average eighty nine points a game. You held them
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  Speaker 3: thirty points below their average. When they win games and
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  Speaker 3: didn't win, you outshot them, You got more field goals,
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  Speaker 3: you won the points off turnovers. You can go down
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  Speaker 3: the list for as bad as that felt like it was, statistically,
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  Speaker 3: it ended up right where you want games to be,
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  Speaker 3: and yet you take the loss. I think to me,
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  Speaker 3: that's why that one's such a disappointing loss.
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  Speaker 1: I know it was a short night. But are you ready? Absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: you are ready. Yes, let's do Hoppy's obvious observations.
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  Speaker 3: That sound brand new, but the things we already knew.
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  Speaker 2: He got his bomb ready heaven knows.
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  Speaker 3: Let's take it quick before.
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  Speaker 1: It's obvious.
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  Speaker 3: Ovation.
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  Speaker 1: And these obvious observations are even more obvious because Hoppy
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  Speaker 1: did attend the game. He was a guest of WVU
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  Speaker 1: President Michael T. Benson, and he sat right in the
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  Speaker 1: first row, as he's demanded on previous shows. When he
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  Speaker 1: came to us and said, why can't I sit in
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  Speaker 1: the front row? So the President ben says, all right,
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  Speaker 1: come on, you can sit in the front row and
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  Speaker 1: behave got him. I saw a person was kind of interesting.
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  Speaker 1: President bought him a cotton candy then a big lollipop,
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  Speaker 1: them down his chair and said, you stay here until
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  Speaker 1: the horn sounds. All right, what's your obvious object?
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  Speaker 2: Thank you President Bencent for the seat. I had a
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  Speaker 2: very good view of the observations last night. First of all,
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  Speaker 2: worst loss of the season. Worst loss of the season
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  Speaker 2: might say, well, you've lost other games, and worst loss
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  Speaker 2: for a couple of reasons. One is you're coming off
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  Speaker 2: that great road win, and what did coach say after
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  Speaker 2: the game, like, don't don't let this now, don't let
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  Speaker 2: the next one get away. And that's exactly what West
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  Speaker 2: Virginia did. And you had the team that had lost
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  Speaker 2: fifteen consecutive road games come in and beat you, and
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  Speaker 2: as you said, Tony, get an idea that they could
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  Speaker 2: beat you in that first in that first half, you
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  Speaker 2: were keeping hope all out for the NCAA tournament. Now,
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  Speaker 2: you really got to take that off the table. We
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  Speaker 2: had just start to talk about that a little bit again.
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  Speaker 2: A terrible, terrible start. You knew at some point that
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  Speaker 2: was going to catch up to You got down what
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  Speaker 2: eighteen to three, and you were down also fifteen in
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  Speaker 2: the second half. Shooting was just awful in the first half,
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  Speaker 2: just awful. I mean just President Benson, who played basketball
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  Speaker 2: kept looking up and go was shooting what eleven percent
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  Speaker 2: twelve percent from three point range? And then you battled
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  Speaker 2: back in the second half, but you didn't make enough shots.
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  Speaker 2: Shot less than fifty percent from the free throw line.
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  Speaker 2: Not a bad crowd considering it was a late weeknight game,
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  Speaker 2: but the crowd got taken out of it because for
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  Speaker 2: most of the game. In fact, at one point when
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  Speaker 2: you were down eighteen three. I think West Virginia finally
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  Speaker 2: made a bucket and the crowd kind of gave that
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  Speaker 2: sarcastic applause, like, oh, you finally made a basket. They
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  Speaker 2: got into it there in the second half when you
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  Speaker 2: got it down to two, and I think that if
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  Speaker 2: Honor had made that three point shot when you were
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  Speaker 2: down by two, the place would have erupted. Maybe the
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  Speaker 2: out out come would have been doing. But you didn't.
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  Speaker 2: So it was just for six or seven reasons. It
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  Speaker 2: was the worst loss of the season. And I know, Brad,
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  Speaker 2: we have a lot a lot more numbers on that.
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  Speaker 2: Now you got to go in this two game road trip,
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  Speaker 2: so that's you're gonna you put yourself in a tough spot.
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  Speaker 2: I have some.
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  Speaker 1: Football stuff, Okay, So here's the more on that. So
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  Speaker 1: Rich Rodriguez was at the game. Uh, they introduced Rich.
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  Speaker 1: They played stroke Is that what they did, Brad? They
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  Speaker 1: played stroke it right, got the crowd up there, and
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  Speaker 1: they put Rich in there because that's what West Virginia
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  Speaker 1: uses on kickoff. So Rich was there and then later
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  Speaker 1: Rich was making his way down. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: he was leaving, but all of a sudden I turn
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  Speaker 1: around and on this first I look and like Rich,
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  Speaker 1: Rich settles in next to hop But he didn't sit
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  Speaker 1: in the seat next to Hoppy. He sat on the
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  Speaker 1: metal the base where the seats go in, and that's
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  Speaker 1: where he was sitting. And he was there at Hoppy
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  Speaker 1: like you know, tight. And so I look back, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna have a little hey. How you doing good?
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  Speaker 1: How you doing? Hey? Best luck spring ball. I mean
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  Speaker 1: that conversation was basically it was a filibuster. It went
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  Speaker 1: on and on, and I'm looking at him and I'm
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  Speaker 1: going like, what in the heck is Hoppy? But I said,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, getting a lot of good obvious observation
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  Speaker 1: stuff there. So what what the ball coat? What number one?
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  Speaker 1: Why was he there? I don't know, Yeah, I know,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know if you had said, hey, we had
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  Speaker 1: this or we had that or anything like that.
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  Speaker 2: He just walked by and we uh had a very
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  Speaker 2: nice converse.
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  Speaker 1: Finally had a chance to breed. Stop getting players, right,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's finally got like a roster. Really okay,
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  Speaker 1: so what do you say? We want to know exactly everything?
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  Speaker 2: I gathered some intel. I didn't get a lot from
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  Speaker 2: Rich frankly that that I could use necessarily.
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  Speaker 1: But what does that mean?
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  Speaker 2: Well, we just had a nice conversation. It was just
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  Speaker 2: talked to a little football.
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  Speaker 1: And it was no like off the record stuff like
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  Speaker 1: you got to you got the starting depth chart.
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  Speaker 2: I mean when I don't think it was off the
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  Speaker 2: record per se. We just had a nice conversence. He
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  Speaker 2: invited me to spring ball.
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  Speaker 1: Good nor. Yeah, I mean you got to be careful
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  Speaker 1: if you do go, you come with us because at
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  Speaker 1: one time you had your back to the field.
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  Speaker 2: You learned almost Okay, a couple of things, uh, and
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  Speaker 2: don't just attributed this to Rich Rodd. Just things I've
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  Speaker 2: been gathering and some is this public knowledge, other things
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  Speaker 2: I've put together. So springball starts seventh, seventh March, so me,
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  Speaker 2: it says it's right there. The current roster includes one
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  Speaker 2: hundred four players.
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  Speaker 1: Is that what it matters to? Now?
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's what if I asked Mike Montoro for the roster, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and I got a roster that said of one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and four players. Now there might be two hundred people
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  Speaker 2: out there. I don't know, but your roster, the roster
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and four.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to eventually be that. Yeah, there were may
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  Speaker 1: be a few extra young men over there right now
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  Speaker 1: that will go their way after this is over.
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  Speaker 2: Of the one hundred and four official and the roster,
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  Speaker 2: over ninety five have contracts.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good number. See that's not obvious, but it's
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  Speaker 1: a good.
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  Speaker 2: Stat Over ninety five have contracts. Nearly all the players
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: have some revenue sharing money. Okay, a handful of the
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: contracts are two year agreements.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: You talk to someone else besides Rich on this stuff,
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: not giving you that.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: A handful are two year agreements, which are becoming more common.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: And you know, Brad, we've talked about this a lot
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: that people are starting to figure this out. Now. You know,
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: here's the guy you want to keep. You do a
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: two year deal, etcetera, etcetera. So that's done. The amounts
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: players are getting are not known, but some players, no doubt,
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: a few are in the sixth figure realm.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: We know that seven figure, No sevens. Anyone making a.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: Mill, probably, yeah, the probably a couple of mills in there.
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: This The Athletic The Athletic website did some reporting along
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: with the New York Times on some of the figures,
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: and this is you kind of got to take out
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: like the Ohio States, the Alabamas, whatever, and let's talk
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: about everybody else. Okay, in power for you know, the
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: West Virginia is the Virginia Tech, the pits, those schools.
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: The range and this is this is what they came
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: up with because some of the figures you just have
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: to try to work through agents. The range for quarterbacks
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: one to four million, yeah, with higher pay for top
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: players well like Drew Mestemaker. Drew Mestemaker got a two
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: year deal at Oklahoma State for seven and a half.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: Came from North Texas and his coach took the North
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: Texas went from North Texas to Oglobs State. So his
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: coach brought him with how much he.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: Get seven and a half over two.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: Smogies?
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: Whoa offensive tackle range six hundred thousand to one point
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: three Yeah, Edge rusher five hundred k to two million,
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: interior defensive lineman five hundred k to one point five,
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: running back four hundred k to nine hundred, wide receiver
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: nine hundred k to one million.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: That's high, that's high.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: Tight end three hundred k to nine hundred k. Cornerbacks
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: two fifty to one million, Safeties two fifty to nine hundred,
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: linebackers two hundred and fifty and to your offensive lineman
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: two hundred to seven hundred. Those are some ranges. Now
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: there's exceptions, but those are ranges of schools like West Virginia, Okay,
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: mass on the roster. There's six quarterback.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: Ranges larger two to nine. Narrowed it down there. Thanks
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: some heavy research on that one hobby. That wasn't an
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: attack on you. I think you're yeah, it's athletic. You're
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: just reporting him.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: There's six quarterbacks on the roster. We knew that, right,
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: Scottie Fox, Michael Hawkins, Max Brown, Byron is It, Hughley, Hughley, Hughley,
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: John Johnson the third, Max Anderson.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: There are nineteen offensive linemen on the roster, Okay, including
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: Nick Cray favor of the program, and of course Kevin Brown.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: Here's something interesting that I found that I think again
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: as obvious, is that here's the scenario. You're negotiating with
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: the player that you want and the player says, my
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: number is five hundred thousand, and you say we can't
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: do five hundred. He goes well, school X is offering
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: me five hundred, and he goes, well, good luck right,
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: and then Brett he goes to school X, and school
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: X says, you know, we told you five hundred, but
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: we really we got to have this quarterback and now
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: I got to pay the quarterback two, so we can't
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: afford to pay you five. And now the player goes
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: back to said school and says, you know that three
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: looks better. Now, I think I can do that three.
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: So that kind of sometimes then the three is off
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: the table.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: Yes, it may be, it may be. So that's that's
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: the kind of thing. It's a school may tell you
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: and I'm not talking about it in school particular, but
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: school may tell you we can pay you five, and
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: then when it comes time to do the deal, they say, well,
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: we actually had to spend the money someplace else.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's evolving to become more sophisticated. There was a
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: lot of that early on. I think that I think
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: schools are going to start talking. I mean, West Virginia knows,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Ren knows, and Ross knows, and Rich knows what other
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: schools are paying. They got a pretty good idea. Everyone's
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: talking amongst each other. Sure, and that's gonna say you
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: need to have that in order to get the bs
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: out there. With these kids walking on saying I'm getting
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: one five and you're like, okay, yeah, right, you know
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: it's interesting.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: We'll talk more about this when you get out of spring,
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: which just that one portal window open. There's not another
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: one opening for players hobby. But I don't know if
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: you guys saw this, but the coaching portal is open now.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: That stage open. West Virginia got hit by the coaching portal, yes,
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: because apparently you can leave at any point there when
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: you're You can't when you're a player, but coaches can
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: leave at any point even if you've only been here,
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: Larry and I was here what twelve hours?
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Is that? What it was? Thirteen or fourteen?
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: Thirteen or fourteen hours a couple of days. So yeah,
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: coaching portal continues to be open.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: I think you didn't bring that one up with Rich.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: He got smoke coming out of his head on that one.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Gotta go hire a lot, you got to go hire
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: a coach now after a month, after.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: Seriousness, like a month.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: Well, the conversation was going well, and yeah, I didn't
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: want to ring in it. Stadium upgrade. Board of Governors
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: meets tomorrow. They have on the agenda. What's called a
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: consent item, and this is part of the board's ongoing
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: approval process for the major innovations. Right, this will be
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: an authorization to hire the main contractor for the project,
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: and there's already been approval for the architect. And this
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: is the reconstruction of the west side, the whole press
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: box and everything. So you're going to have suite boxes
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: and club level and founder's level and all this premium seating.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: And they're still estimating. I talked to the athletics dirrector
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: last night. They're still thinking that it would be about
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty million dollar project, but don't know
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: yet exactly till till the bids come in. And this
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: thing's going to move. I mean, construction is going to
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: begin after the last home football game of twenty six
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: and then they expect to be ready. Then there'll be
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: a season that you won't have. There'll be a makeshift,
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: they'll go to the other side of the stadium, and
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: then we'll be ready for the twenty eight football season.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: That'll be awesome, which will be here before you know it.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: Finally, finally, there's a controversy bread in the world of
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: big candy.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: What happened.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: You guys haven't seen.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: This anything to do with Recey cups? Yes, I thought
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: I saw something. Yeah.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: The grandson of the inventor of Reese's peanut butter cup,
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: has lashed out at Hershey, accusing the candy company of
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: hurting Reese's brand by shifting to cheaper ingredients. Hershey acknowledges
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: some recipe changes, but said it was trying to meet
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: customer demand for innovation. High coca prices have led Hershey
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: and other manufacturers to experiment with using less chocolate in
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: recent years.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: Throw the ratio off?
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: What was what was that stupid line? What was the
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: first line they said? Like, I've never heard anyone say, boy,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: I hope they innovate this Recee cup.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: No, there's a lot of it, there's a lot.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: I'm talking about the mixing of flavors. I think the
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: innovation in the big candy world would be the mixing
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: and the mashing of the flavors and what you. Yes,
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: but you better not script your core product.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: Brad Reese, grandson of the founder of Reese Cubs of
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: Reese's Brad Reese, aged seventy, said in a letter to
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: Hershey's we just fired off the letter about multiple Reese's products,
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: said the company replaced milk chocolate with compound coatings and
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: peanut butter with peanut cream.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Ah, the peanut cream always screws the thing up.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: Don't screw it up. And this is what he said.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: How he was incredulous, Brad, How does the Hirshey Company
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: continue to position Reese's as its flagship brand, a symbol
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: of trust, quality, and leadership, while quietly replacing the very
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: ingredients that built Reese's trust in the first place.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: It's good to work, hut.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: Reese's did put out of his I mean Hershey put
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: out of response and said, well, we've made some changes,
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: but still the integrity of the product remains the same. However,
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: there is a there is a quite a dust up
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: in Big Candy.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I understand, man. I remember the time Coke tried to
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: change his recipe new Coke. They ran they ran that
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: back down and that was a matter of like weeks.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: So sorry, sorry, didn't mean it. Sorry, We're going back.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: He brought particular attention to a Reese's product. I forget
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: what it was.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: It wasn't the truth, jam and all kinds of crap
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: in there now jellies and all this kind of stupid.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: Stuff, big candy controversy.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: Not time to have it too, because this is the original,
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: you know, the shapes. I'm partial to the shapes because
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: the peanut butter ratio, speaking of the races are much better.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: This was the original shape season. As you get into
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: the Easter holiday of the Easter eggs, oh yeah, you
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: never thought it was a Santa's boot or stocking or something,
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: but it's actually an egg, greasy egg for yea. They
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: make the hearts for Valentine's Day now they do, yeah,
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: and they do Christmas trees around Christmas, but they didn't
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: used to. Shapes used to come out once a year,
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: and it was this.
• 25:34
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  Speaker 2: not looking forward to it, but I'm anxious to get
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  Speaker 2: the breakdown.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: You know what this is like? This is like when
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: you take an extremely hard test in school and you
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: know you did poorly, and everyone in the class knows
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: they did poorly, and the teacher hands them back dound
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: and goes, Okay, now we're going to go over the test.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: And everyone goes like Rick, all right, what do we got?
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: Sorry to bum everybody out, But I think you're already
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: bummed out based on the result. I thought there were
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: there were a couple things that changed this game. And again, guys,
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: you start to go through this and this is the
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: box score you want if you're West Virginia, this is
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: the post game box you would have wanted. You drew up,
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: could have drawn up a plan to beat Utah. A
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: lot of these things you would would have had in place.
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: Here's what got you. I thought matchup of the night
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: was the ability to keep Utah out of the paint.
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: They want to get in there, they want to shoot
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: close to the rim and in the paint. West Virginia
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: has been very, very good at keeping teams out of there.
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: Instead Utah one by getting in there with thirty four
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: points in the paints fifty six percent of their points. Wow,
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: But here's what's Here's there's a couple things that are maddening.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: So they got in there a lot right, and it
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: actually felt like they had seventy two points in the lane.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: It felt like they were in.
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: There a ton When you start to look at this,
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: and one of the reasons West Ring has been so good.
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: They're twelfth nationally going into that game. In opponent two
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: point field goal percentage. They just locked teams down. Shooting
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: the ball average about forty five percent from two against
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: West Virginia. You know what, Utah averaged what forty four
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: percent from two, So you actually held them below the
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: average that you have that's twelfth in the country, and
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: they still found a way to get a win. But
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: that was one their ability to get in there. Inside,
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: I thought you'd be able to shut that off a
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: little bit more. And then here in a game when
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: it's only a couple possession difference, when it can go
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: either way, this is what gets you. They were plus
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: seven at the free throw line, plus seven points. Utah
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: was twenty three percent of their points came from the
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: free throw line.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: Wow, twenty three you were.
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: They were plus five in second chance points. So right there,
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: that's a twelve point swing in areas that you wouldn't
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: normally expect. The free throw line maybe, but the plus
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: seven there for Utah really hurt you. West Virginia had
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: been coming into the game second in the Big Twelve
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: in defensive rebounding. They just hadn't allowed a lot of
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: teams to get offensive rebounds the Utes did. They had
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: their second best offensive rebounding percentage, or excuse me, that's
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: the second best offensive rebounding percentage against West Virginia in
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: any Big twelve game this season since Iowa State. That
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: was the first Big twelve game of this season. That's
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: how good and consistent you'd been. Now, it didn't kill
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: you in second chance points. He only had those nine
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: second chance points, but it was enough of a margin
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: that it tipped him over the top. And there were
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: some big ones. A Conquo had had a couple late,
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: so it really that really hurts you. So as much
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: as the numbers, the volume of them hurt you, I
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: thought it was the timing in which some of those
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: came that were really disappointing. So to me, that was it.
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: Utah won that bat. They got the shots from the
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: areas in which they wanted them. You were minus seven
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: at the free throw line, you were minus five, and
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: second chance points. Ultimately that cost you the game. Now
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: let's niche it down a little bit further. We said
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: going into this game that Utah gives up open shots.
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: They had really struggled defensively. Thought I felt like this
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: was a game where you were going to get the
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: looks you wanted. Then you speculated or I speculated. All right,
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: well you're due, you're at home here, you're due to
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: have a game where you break out and make some
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: of those shots. Well half of that came to fruition.
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: West Virginia had and this was a small number, but
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: only nine catch and shoot jumpers for the game. Said
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: nine of them eight were on guarded that produced just
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: six points. You were twenty five percent on those shots.
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: And sometimes, guys, you've heard me say regression on this
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: show a bunch, sometimes it just never comes. This stat
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: was unbelievable to me. It's part of what led me
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: to think West Virginia could have a night. Utah has
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: been giving up these open catch and shoot jumpers. Utah's
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: opponents coming into this game, we're shooting only thirty one
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: percent from three against them on open shots. So as
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: many games as they'd lost, they were really extremely fortunate
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: from distance, teams just weren't making a lot. West Virginia
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: was less than that, just twenty five percent from three
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: on unguarded catch and shoots. So again, opportunities were there,
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: you just couldn't get them to.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: Drop tracing struggled from three.
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: West Virginia's only had five games all season where they
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: scored fewer than twenty points off jump shots. Two of
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: those games you had nineteen. One you had seventeen. But
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: in two of your last three games against Texas Tech
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: only eight points off jump shots and against Utah only twelve.
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: So we know that's been West Virginia's bread and butter
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: for a lot of that season. Honors got to score points.
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: If he doesn't, someone else has to. Jasper did at UCF,
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: which carried you through with some of those big jump shots.
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: You just didn't have it against Utah. He got third
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: twenty four points at the rim, So sixty percent of
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: your points came at the basket. That's the second most
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: all season. The most came against Texas Tech when you
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: had thirty six Tony. We talked at that Texas Tech game.
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: Did you find something for your offense inside the arc
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: that you could pick up and move forward? You did
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: again last night. There was some possessions in the second
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: half where Utah had no answers for you. That's why
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: it goes back to as poorly as you shot it.
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: You were only a couple threes away from walking out
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: and stealing that game. One of the other things we highlighted.
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: We said, you're going to see a ton of pick
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: and roll from Utah. They use it more than any
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: team in the Big Twelve. It ended up with a
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: massive thirty five possessions worth of pick and roll guys.
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: You held them to half a point per possession. That's
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: about as good as you can guard the pick and roll.
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: That's exactly where you'd want to be, and that's what
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: the ball handler where their biggest threat is on the
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: role man. When they used the rollman, you held them
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: to point one points per possession. Almost shut them out
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: in that category. So the one thing that they do
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: the most, if you look at the actual numbers they
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: didn't produce against you. You did exactly what you wanted
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: to in that in that particular niche part of it.
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: West Virginia has been very good, one of the better
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: teams in the league against the pick and roll. It
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: showed again, yet you still didn't walk out with the win.
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: Talked heading into the game about Utah's ability to hit guarded,
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: catch and shoot jumpers. They weren't a great jump shooting team,
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: but they made a lot of difficult shots. Coming into
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: the game. The Utes were top four nationally in points
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: per shot on guarded catch and shoots, so you knew
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: West Virginia was going to guard them. West Virginia gives
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: up top five nationally and fewest unguarded catch and shoots,
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: so you knew Utah was going to have to make
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: those tough shots. Well, the Utes scored fifteen points on
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: catch and shoot jumpers. Every single one of those points
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: came on a guarded catch and shoot, every single one
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: of them. They shot twelve jump shots, ten regarded to
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: were unguarded. I mean again, defense, it just postgame examination.
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: Hop the defensive Statistically, at least it was right where
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: you wanted to be. Traiori had nine of those fifteen
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: points on the catch and shoot jumpers. That was the surprise.
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: You held Brown in check. We talked about Terrence Brown
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: coming in twenty point a game score again, you made
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: him have a difficult night shooting the ball six of fifteen.
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: If you had told me those were his numbers, I
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: take that Triori stepped up and made some big shots
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: when he had to, so some of those numbers. Again,
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: you walk out a game like that and you're disappointed.
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: Hop there, I agree, it's it's the toughest loss you've
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: taken on the season, especially because it's at home. The
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: numbers played out by the time he got to the
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: end of the game. It normalized to write where you
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: wanted to, but that early deficit was too much to overcome.
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: And listen, I think you got to give a little
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: credit to Utah there. Each time West Virginia made a run,
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: you found a way to answer them, and you just
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: couldn't get yourself over the hump, and it turns into
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: a really rough loss.
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: Bred those are really good numbers, I mean, really good observations,
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: but it was early on where they were shooting one
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: hundred percent and you're shooting ten percent in the first
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: ten minutes. And then it was normalized the rest of
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: the way. Right, the numbers bear out the rest of
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: the game, but that first ten to twelve minutes put
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: you in such a deficit that the normalization wasn't enough.
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: Give you one other one. And I had this Tony
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: as one of my keys to the game when we
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: talked before the game. Utah doesn't force a lot of turnovers,
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: and so I thought, if you're West Virginia in games
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: where you've had few turnovers, It generally turns into a
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: win because it allows you to do the things you
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: did for most of this game except the beginning. You
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: don't turn it over. Generally, you've been pretty efficient on
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: offense with fewer possessions, allows you to set up your defense.
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: You generally win the game. Eight turnovers on the game,
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: you were below your season average at home. In fact,
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: you went fourteen minutes in fifteen seconds of the first
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: half without a turnover. Then you win another don't check
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: me on this, but seven or eight or nine into
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: the second half without another turnover. I mean, you went
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: a giant stretch of this game without turning it over.
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: In fact, it's the fewest in a Big twelve game
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: all season. It ties for the fewest turnovers all season,
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: and you didn't walk out with the win. Again another
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: you would have told me that before the game that
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: you had eight turnovers, but it said, great, you're in
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: good shape.
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: Did Jasper lose a.
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: Tooth, yeah, piece of it, portion of it, No fault.
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: During that stretch. That was a really physical stretch in
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: that game.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. The officiating crew a handful last night. It's
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: six trips to the table for replays. We haven't had
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: six trips in the last month of games.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: I got to watch that up close and personal. That
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: was interesting.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, regardless, that's not that's not what costs you the game.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: It certainly didn't help you either. Five out of twenty
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: three from three is the fatal blow for West Virginia
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: and as a result of that, we move ahead. That's
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: all you can do. You try to shake it off,
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: and it's not going to be easy, because Brad indicated
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: that TCU is hard to figure out, even though we're
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: down to the final five six games. I mean, they
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: just some nights they look really really good, and some
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: nights they look not good. And some knights they are
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: in the middle, and they just they're roller coaster. The thing,
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: I don't know what you're going to get.
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know what you're going to get there,
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: and again always gets tough on the read. You want
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: to do a quick TCU I do look real quick.
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: So sixteen and ten are the Frogs on the season.
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: They've won three of their last floor, including one of
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: those over a top five Iowa state team. Here's the
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: up and down nature of this team. It's wild, hoppy.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: They played Michigan Number one Michigan to a four point
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: game early in the season. They beat Florida. Earlier in
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: the season, they beat Iowa State. As I just mentioned,
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: those two wins are top seven teams in the Ken
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: Palm rankings right now, both legitimate national title contenders, and
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: TCU beat both of them. On the other hand, they
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: lost to one hundred and ninety sixth rank New Orleans
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: in the first game of the season. They also lost
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: to Utah comes in one thirteen the Ken Palm rankings,
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: and they lost to Colorado, another team that has struggled
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: in the Big Twelve. So some really high profile wins,
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: some really baffling losses for the Frogs. They're a top
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: thirty defensive team by numbers on the season, and you
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: know how sometimes you have a really good non conference
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: in your numbers just kind of stick and hold. It's
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: kind of what's happened because in Big Twelve play those
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: numbers aren't as good. Guys, they're twelfth in the league
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: in two point field goal defense, they're twelfth in the
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: league in three point field goal percentage defense. They do
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: turn you over. They're eighty fourth percentile in the frequency
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: of live ball turnovers that they create. At times though,
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: they struggle to convert it, so they don't converted it
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: that same percentile. But they do force a lot of turnovers,
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: so that will be another key to this game. They
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: average sixteen points off turnovers per per game. They struggle offensively,
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: so if you can limit turnovers and the numbers bear
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: themselves out, you should be in a game that matches
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: the style that you want to play. Here's a matchup
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: to watch going in this one. It'll be the free
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: throw line. They're number one in Big Twelve play in
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: free throw attempt rate. Welcome to a Jamie Dixon team.
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: That's not a surprise. So they're number one in that
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: category and getting to the free throw line. West Virginia
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: is a defense that's number one in opponent free throw
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: attempt rate. So West Virginia's been really good at guarding
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: without fouling. So who wins that battle. Can TCU get
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: to the line more than they're on their home floor,
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: so you would think that's likely, but West Virginia, if
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: they can guard without fouling, that will be a big key.
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: They've struggled from the three in Big Twelve play, fifteenth
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: in three point percentage, so two early keys before you
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: dive too deep in this. If you limit turnovers and
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: keep them off the line, might have a chance to
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: walk in and get out of there with a win.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: Not going to give names, but surprisingly good officiating crew
• 40:48
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• 40:52
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• 40:55
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• 41:07
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• 41:09
  Speaker 3: Well, that's important because I think that's going to be
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: a massive key in this game. Who wins at the
• 41:13
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  Speaker 2: Do you see who was on the West Virginia bench
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: last night, Doctor Pellegrino.
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: Oh, Ron he was, I mean, he wasn't eligible to play.
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: I mean, you can't say he was on the bench.
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: He was sitting near the beach. Well, they have those
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: those special seats, Yeah, but you're not on them. It's
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: there's a space there. Yeah, there's a four and then
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: there's a space on the bench. Well, it looks like
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: I thought he was calling plays. I mean, no, Ron
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: Ron was. Doctor Pellagrena was not calling plays. You don't
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: put it on him. I mean, I'll start to get
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: some hate mail. Yeah. First off, let's start with a
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: sad now, and we're bummed out here about the game
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: and all that.
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: But let's perspective.
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: Let's get some real perspective here. I want to send
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: condolences out to the family of Wes and Wendy Taylor.
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: We learned earlier this week that from his wife Wendy,
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: that Wes has passed away after a valiant battle with cancer.
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: They lived down in South Carolina, and he was and
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: Wendy as well. He was. She was forced into it,
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: but he loved three guys and as he went through
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: his treat and the whole situation of the deal stayed
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: involved with three guys. So we just want to issue
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: our condolences. A young guy, Wes Taylor passes away and
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: his wife Wendy, So our sincere sympathies with you guys,
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: and she was great when she wrote to us about
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: what it meant to them, and uh just hate, just
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: absolutely hate to see that.
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it's this sad note and we unfortunately we
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: hear that sometimes from folks, guys that say that they're
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: going through a tough time and this gives them, you know,
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: some something where they're not thinking about their illness. They're
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: having a little fun with us, and we hope we
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: provided a little bit of relief for them during a
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: difficult time.
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: All Right, Devin and Goshen wrote a text which is
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: a full page, so I'm not reading it. I'm just
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: gonna skim it. Just too much, right, Sorry for the
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: long winded comments. So he thought he could. He tried
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: to do a little thing and beginning back into it
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: needed some textual healing tonight. Genuinely, don't think I've seen
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: a mountain your team ever struggle so much at the
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: start of games or out of halftime ten minutes in
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: seem to settle they started playing ball.
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: Why is that?
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: Why are they struggling so much to score? They should
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: have been a game that we came out got right offensively,
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: just couldn't get it done for a whole game. Ross
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: runs great stuff out of timeouts, always have open shots.
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: So why does it feel like there's a disconnect in
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: the half court? Is it truly a case of a
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: lack of talent? It's obvious we need more players. Is
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: it fair to say the team has overachieved for what
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: they really are. If that's the case, then I feel
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: like all the more confirms that Ross is the right guy.
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: All that being said, if you told me at the
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: beginning of the year we're sitting at sixteen and ten
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: with a chance of finishing with twenty wins, I'd taken
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: those odds, went out, get a game or two in case,
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: let the chips falk where they may.
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: Devin goshin, So I got a question for you, guys,
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: sir and particularly brad Well, both of you. Is that
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: I'm sitting there, I'm watching coach Hodge and he's very animated,
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: as you might expect. In the first fifteen minutes of
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: that game, I mean really animated at times, angry and
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: really getting in the face of players. So what was
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: West Virginia, each of you, What was West Virginia not
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: doing that they should have been doing? And I'm not
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: talking about not making shots. I mean, what were they
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: not doing that they should have been doing? Brad, you
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: start getting loose balls and rebounds.
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: That's what he was mad about early on, and when
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: he started when he talks about a slow start and
• 47:21
  Speaker 3: where it goes from, there's going to be misshots that
• 47:23
  Speaker 3: come up through the course of the game. And I'll
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: address the offensive part here in a second. Their early
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: start was this team the margin for air in this league,
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: and then this team in particular is thin, so loose
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: balls that are bouncing that you're not grabbing, and it's
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: you know, you always hear fifty to fifty balls. And
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: this is some of this as coach speak, because you're
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: not going to get one hundred percent of those, but
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: he wants those to be one hundred percent. West Virginia.
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: This team has to get more than they gotten, and
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: that early on was what was what was getting him
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: going number one. Number two. There were some defensive rotations
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: early that led to some open shots be it in
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: the paint or in the corner that weren't quite buttoned
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: up yet, and that just led that overall slow start
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: where it didn't look like the energy was there showed
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: up in those two areas loose balls and then a
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: couple defensive lapses.
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: Tony real quick, he gets angry that West Virginia did
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: not impose its will on the opposition at the start
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: of the game. If you're gonna get in a fight. Again,
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: this is all figuratively speaking, but if you're going to
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: get in a fight, the fight starts when the ball
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: goes up in the ear, and you better punch him
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: in the face the second the ball goes up in
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: the ear and just say this is not your night.
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: And that's what he's talking about, diving on the floor
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: and taking their will away, and that's what they're not doing.
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: You have your.
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: MICROSF Devin is right. I've said this many times on
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: the show. Westernia's top ten nationally and points per possession
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: out of a timeout, they so often get good looks
• 48:50
  Speaker 3: and good shots offensively. And listen, I know on a
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: night when you shot like you did, that's a tough
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: defense to come in here and say, well, the offense
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: was you were doing some really good things. You were
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: doing some really good things, and there were some moments
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: that West Virginia was identifying some matchups that wanted and
• 49:07
  Speaker 3: just absolutely taking those and it was working. You were
• 49:11
  Speaker 3: just missing good shots off those sets. So the results,
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: I realize, look ugly and it's hard to say, oh,
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: that's good offense when you are actually running good sets,
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: but the shot doesn't go in, so the results not there.
• 49:25
  Speaker 3: So quite frankly, it doesn't matter what you've done the
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: other twenty five seconds of the shot clock. If you
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: don't make the shot, it's going to end up in
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: an empty possession.
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: But there were.
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: Times, you know, Jasper Jasper backing down on the one side,
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: so what was happening there? Real quick, let's do this.
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: There were probably what tony how many times do we
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: mentioned it? Five or six times? Second half especially, you'd
• 49:43
  Speaker 3: come down, you'd clear the side of the floor and
• 49:45
  Speaker 3: you'd allow Jasper to go to work. And the first
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: couple you were getting some open looks either he takes
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: it straight into the basket and scored, or the ability
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: to kick it out. Utah's counter to that was, we've
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: got a mismatch problem here. They're taking us to the
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: woodshed on this. We've got to get help. They started
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: running a double at West Virginia that allowed some openings
• 50:04
  Speaker 3: to move the football. The basketball included chances three from
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: the wing. When they doubled, they got caught in a rotation.
• 50:12
  Speaker 3: They made the shot. So the offensive sets are there,
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: it's just when the shots don't fall. I realize it
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: can look like that, like you're not running good offense,
• 50:21
  Speaker 3: but you actually you were. I thought there were some
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: really good sets last night, and it got you a
• 50:26
  Speaker 3: ton of looks, not only all of those on guarded
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: catch and shoe jump shots. You mentioned it. How many
• 50:31
  Speaker 3: bunnies at the rim did you miss? You had a
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: miss dunk, you had another mislayup, You had a couple
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: on offensive rebounds. That one possession where you had three
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: shots at the basket, two of them are layups and
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: they just didn't go. You take a couple of those,
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: and we're having a different conversation today.
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: Jeremy Cooperstown so upsetting, guys. I drove eight hours for that.
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: We all knew we couldn't lose this game, but the
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: team wasn't ready. I trusted ross Man. The slow star
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: deal has become a cancer to this team. Don't know
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: what the answer is, but Brad will tell us what
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: the computers think. Chowimeachi. It's been a while since I've written,
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: but I had to tell you my story. You fellas
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: were talking about the Valentine's Day dinner plans. I planned
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: ahead and made the Hoppey Kerchible reservation for four five.
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: That way I could see part of the first baseball game,
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: most of the basketball game, and the second half of
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: the baseball game. By the way, Valentine's dinner at Cafe
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: Alaverio outstanding forgot to take a picture. My son, Gavin
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: started working as an intern for Fine Looking Film at
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: Daniels Bradley. Next time you're on your shift, say hello
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: to my guy.
• 51:33
  Speaker 3: I have heard we haven't added a staff member over
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: there at any Have you not met Gavin yet, but
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: her he's doing a fine job over there in his
• 51:39
  Speaker 3: internship fashion merchandising major.
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: Oh I met him. I met him. Yeah, he was
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: taking the he was taking the uh. Yeah, he was
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: doing some stuff on football jerseys.
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: I had one of Phil's jackets on. I was in
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: DC this week and had a compliment on my jackets.
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: So's a nice jacket? Really?
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Did you just say it's final? Looking Phil's?
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: I said, that's the first time I've gotten a compliment
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: on my clothing in a decade, maybe the way.
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: The Offen does. Was over there yesterday doing my shift.
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: Tuesday?
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: Was there doing my shift?
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: What day is today?
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: Thursdays?
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: There Tuesday? Some new West Virginia stuff just arrived quarter Zips,
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: new Polos.
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: Hey, I need some new stuff?
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: Any better head over Phil's open text. I was in
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: the doghouse with the fiance dude to the WV game
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: on Saturday night, Tony. I couldn't help it laugh at
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: your Valentine's Day observation regarding the UCF game. My wife
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: was on her way home, called me West Virginia's down fourteen,
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: asked if I wanted to get something in our little
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: neighborhood restaurant when she comes home, thinking the game's over as,
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: I said, yeah, whatever, why not. By the time she
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: got home, West Virginia gets it under ten, made her
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: wait till under TV time out at eight, followed the
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: game on my phone. We get to the restaurant, hurriedly
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: got out of the car, asking if it was okay
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: if we ate at the bar. So the game we
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: got in, I see West Virginia get the comeback final
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: four minutes. I draw a few stairs for animated reactions
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: to certain big shots. Luckily she's used to my West
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: Virginia viewing, so she didn't get mad or feel neglected.
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: The unexpected victory kept off a nice Valentine's Day signed
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: by Fay and Fayetteville which probably is not his name.
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: Happy marriage, that's good.
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: Legend has it? This goes back to our last show,
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: Hoppy's obvious observations. Legend has it? Abe Lincoln had over
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: three hundred wins and is a member of the National
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: Wrestling Hall of Fame. Surely that puts him in the
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: top five. You know what, I did look that up
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  Speaker 1: because that's he is? Is he? Yeah?
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: Six' four and just used to beat people. UP i
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: APOLOGIZE i didn't have.
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: That, Yeah, Texter joey And, princeton what's? Up? Guys wanted
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: to hope you guys would shout. Out my family a
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: lifelong mountaineer and My wyatts Pop, Papa, Papa Papa wyatt's,
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: papa my wife's dad passed away last. Weekend after a
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: hell of a battle with stage four. Cancer he kicked
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: its ass for almost three. Years we always Talked mountaineer.
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: Sports i'd tell him about you guys as. Well here
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: is a picture Of wyatt and his papa this past dear,
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: season When wyatt killed his second. DEER i still text
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: him after Every mountaineer, game even though the replies won't.
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: Come it's. Tradition i'll never stop ps just in case
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: the memory is. Fading the old. Age wyatt's the brother
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: to the three. Guys baby with their love you guys
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: see Also joey b in. Prison remember that baby's, Hair,
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: Hoppy why that baby have such big? Hair i'd like
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: to can you give us an updated? Picture send us
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: an updated picture of the baby's. Hair. Now i'd like
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: to see That hoppy's got a.
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: Nephew oh my, gosh that kid's got.
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: Hair Frankie avalon's. Hair utah midgame, Text these refs are
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: so far out of the. League it's. Unreal what are we?
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: Watching elbows over the back? Everywhere no. Repercussions Unacceptable, texter
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: what a difference of game. Makes we could just not
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: make enough. Shots as noted By tony And brad at
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: the end of the game line in, threes it looked
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: as though most everyone is thinking hesitating with the outside
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: shots even when. Open that's never good when those six
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: inches between your ears get into your, game no matter the.
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: Sport it was even evident in the mix up at
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: the end of the. Game we turned it over thinking
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: not just letting it. Happen, somehow they need to get
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: a be lower second, chance more, mentality just go get
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: it and if it doesn't, work do it. Again, unfortunately
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: this one stings way too much in. Defeat At hope
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: always enjoy turning THE tv down listening to you, guys
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: even in a tough.
• 55:30
  Speaker 3: LOSS i do THINK i noticed this a couple of
• 55:32
  Speaker 3: times during the. BADCAST i, thought especially Early West virginia
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: did pass up some really good, shots almost like they
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: were trying to get perfect on that and passed up
• 55:40
  Speaker 3: a few and were a little. Hesitant it.
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: Was it was a heartbreaker, too and then you still
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: have still had a.
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: Chance at you had a. Chance it was there down
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: two with your best shooter at the. BALL i would
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: have loved to see him come up that floor and
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: pull the trigger on one of. Those. Uh next, week
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: the night before The West VIRGINIA byu. Game so The
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: mountaineers Play Saturday tuesday this coming week on the. Road
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: we come, back we PLAY Byu, saturday so that would
• 56:10
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• 56:13
  Speaker 1: twenty seventh Of. February, again you're invited if you're in
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: town and would like to join us for an event
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: we're doing with The United way Of montingalya And Preston.
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  Speaker 1: Counties we're going to take them over their goal for the,
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  Speaker 1: is that WHAT i? Read fifteen percent of what they
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: make that night to The United. Way and we're gonna
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: have chicken wing eating. Contests we've got over a dozen.
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: Folks if you're interested in joining in, there you can
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: still jump. In there's a couple of spots left for.
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: That we're gonna have music from two, sides the young
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: men from here In West, virginia and just a fun.
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: Time so if you're looking for something to do the
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: night before THE byu Game, friday A Buffalo Wild wings
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  Speaker 1: At University Town. Center we'd love to have, you and
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  Speaker 1: we're just going to jack around those.
• 57:04
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• 57:29
  Speaker 2: That, hey, Guys one other, note and you, know we
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: we don't want other teams to have great, success but
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: we hate to see what happened TO Jt top and
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: that was season ending and The looston Torn a Cl.
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: You Take Richie saunders FROM Byu saturday and Then top
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: and the other, night two of the top nine scorers
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: in the conference are out for the year WITH. Acls
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: two of the BETTER i mean two, obviously two of
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: the best players not only in the conference but in the.
• 57:54
  Speaker 3: Country it's two all conference, performers, right two first Team
• 57:56
  Speaker 3: i'll just, guys.
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: And again it's so, fragile it's so fragile. Impact, obviously
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: both of those teams going forward in a, big big.
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: Way so you. Go all you can do is just
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: play your. Games so hopefully The mountaineers can right themselves
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: and get this thing going. Again still, opportunities still, opportunities still.
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: Opportunities gotta get it, done all, right three guys before
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  Speaker 1: brad and for our Producer. Jake this has been three
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