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3 Guys Before The Game - Texas Tech Preview (Episode 490) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  The hits, they just keep on coming. Game number three of a three
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  game homestands Saturday, West Virginia, Big twelve opener against the Red Raiders of
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  Texas Tech. And this is three Guys before the game. Episode four ninety
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  four nine zero puts us ten away from the magical mythical five hundred mark,
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  and it puts us would be three hundred and ten away from the episode that
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  will never happen. The episode eight hundred at the time goes by quickly,
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  so that's not suppose that's about ready to be done. Attention, three guys
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  before the game, thanks so much for being with us. Eldnio is here,
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  mister Hoppy Kirchivill. Very brightly colored today, very very nice, very
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  nice. As I always say, I got to work with the Highway department.
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  Al Senatore is here as well. He goes to the different shade of
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  make an amendment on there. What do you need? Well, the offensive
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  grades come in pass blocking and run blocking. There isn't just one offensive line
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  stat. Can we average it? Or we can? Okay, won't we
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  average? Okay, we'll average the pass blocking and run blocking grades, and
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  it needs to be at seventy Okay, seventy year above. Get your four
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  just all overall overall? Yep, in total, there's a there's a team
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  pass blocking grade and a team run blocking grades and two together if there if
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  it's an average of over seventy, we're in right, Yeah, seventy year
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  I walking in here? I should know what I should be doing. I
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  nice of a day. Yeah, it didn't work on your phone and you
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  can do that, right. You know what else would be nice? Out
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  in a nice pontoon, feeling around the lake. Nobody else out there,
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  up during these spreads on stats segment, we'll talk more about this as well.
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  But the food court was a massive hit last weekend. In fact,
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  it was so nice. We're gonna do it twice. We're back at you
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  this weekend, starting Friday Friday, that's tomorrow, the twenty second of September.
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  We're going Friday night lights. We've made a big move in the budget
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  department and we went out and bought string lights and those fifty pound bags of
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  sand that we had that we're holding down the bicycle stanchions. We got buckets
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  this week, we're pouring the sand into the bucket. We're putting the poles
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  for the lights inside the sand bucket, and we're going to string the lights
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  around, which means we're gonna be open later four until ten. What's going
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  to be there, you may ask Chestnut brew Works with Kirchev al My find
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  a little Halleck, pale Ale Olive, Ario's Pepperoni rolls and they're bringing out
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  their panini press so they can be nice touch. They'll warm it up tardy
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  time. Going to do some stuff. New addition this week the wine bar,
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  and they'll be available. They'll be there. Might have yourself a little
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  mimosa on Saturday morning and then on Saturday it's called Sipping Saturday Brunch, so
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  the mimosas flow, and we're going eight am to three pm. Eight am
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  to three pm. Rev keV, who'se barbecue has stunned, has stunned Mountaineer,
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  Nation of five star, how good it is? Had a funny text
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  I used last night. Some guy says, I've lived in Texas for ten
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  years. We do barbecue in Texas. You have got to tell me what
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  his recipe is because that was just like earth shattering. I think the key
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  is you need a preacher who stays up all night. That's what you need,
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  a preacher who stays up all night. You're not far because you know
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  what he puts on that bar. You know he puts on that brisket.
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  You know what his ingredients are? What nothing? Two things, salt and
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  pepper. That's the only thing he puts on it. It's awesome. It's
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  the love of the Rev. It's overseen his flock, his flock of briskets
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  that he puts upon the grill at night, and he guides them so perfect,
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  he guides them to a perfect, perfect temperature. It's divine. It
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  is divine line. That's why call it's called Rev Kev's Brisket and Barbecue.
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  The brisket's awesome. Don't sleep on the pulled pork though, either or the
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  chicken. They're all excellent. So all of that's going to be there.
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  We invite you. It's not closed. I mean, if you know other
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  people that may have some. It just looks exclusive, it does. Anyone
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  can come. So if you're not a three guys listener, but you know
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  someone it's like, that's not it's not like the Water Buffalo is like Fred
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  flintston't used to go. Do you have the secret knock? You can just
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  come on in Water, come on in to ten on Friday and then eight
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  to three on Saturday and Rev keV and all the folks will be there really
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  looking forward to. Here's the other part. A lot of people did this
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  last week. So here's another idea. You park and get your spot in
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  the parking lot because it'll be another great crowd, you know, and then
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  working limited again. Go park and get your spot and then walk over.
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  Right. You can have a kerch ofveil while you're waiting. While you're waiting
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  for Rev keV to get your order up, which doesn't take that long.
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  Then you have your barbecue to go. You grab a four pack of kerchavel
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  to go, have a little tardy time lemonade for the walk back. All
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  set. Absolutely, Yeah, that's a good plan. Maybe mixing on the
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  most if it's Saturday morning. He and then he hit it all fair.
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  Yeah, it's good plan totally. It's walkable from the from the stadium.
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  We're close absolutely right next to Daniels Men'swear, men's store, fine looking phills
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  right next door to you'll see it. I park there last week, I
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  asked Phil, But I did park there. Yeah, I'll probably let you
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  in. Well, okay, tell you what the seven minutes you were there,
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  it was really appreciate it. Also, if you need some gold for
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  the gold rusher, he might have a few pieces. He might have some
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  nice stuff. He might have an item. He might have an item.
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  Hey, guess what. Besides all this, there's a football game Saturday afternoon,
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  three thirty, a massively important football game for West Virginia, closing out
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  of three game homestand now that they're Western Pennsylvania champions, they move on to
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  Big Twelve Conference play as they open up their twelfth season in the Big Twelve
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  against the Red Raiders of Texas Tech, who will come to Morgantown as the
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  favorite to win for the fifth consecutive year over West Virginia. Last year,
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  West Virginia was outmanned, out classed, and in Neil Brown's words, embarrassed
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  in Lubbock. And the old coach has got a thorn that's festering about this
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  game. He obviously knows the significance. Deeply disappointed with how they played last
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  year. Can they rebound? Yeah, they can. They can, and
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  we'll talk about that coming up. Hoppy, you quoted Mick Jagger and the
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  Rolling Stones in our episode on Sunday. Who do you bring us today?
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  Perhaps Tolstoy Thorow? No, I bring you this. This game should be
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  played on Halloween. Excuse me, this game should be played on Halloween.
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  This has been a horror show, a horror show for West Virginia. And
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  I went back. You know, guys, we remember these Texas Tech games.
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  And I went back and I said, I gotta double check some things,
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  just to make sure. Let me give you some stuff. Twenty nineteen
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  game at w VUH, Texas Tech wins thirty eight seventeen Jet Duffy, Jet
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  Duffy, Jet Jet Duduffy twenty four thirty four three hundred fifty four yards Jet
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  Duffy. Twenty twenty game at Texas Tech. Texas Tech wins thirty four twenty
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  seven. Henry Columbie, Hello, Henry Columbi, twenty two of twenty eight.
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  Let's go to twenty twenty one game in Morgantown, Texas Tech wins twenty
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  three to twenty scores tied in late Texas Tech deep in territory. Who engineers
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  a winning drive? Henry Columbie drives the team down the field and Tech hits
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  a field goal thirty one yard field goal with eighteen seconds left. They beat
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  West Virginia. Henry Columbi twenty twenty two. The games at Texas Tech.
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  Tyler shucks hurt. Tyler shucks hurt. They got injuries. Baron Morton,
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  Baron Morton, Baron Morton, redshirt freshman, had an injured ankle, was
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  sick, was throwing up that morning. Not true of his condition. He
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  comes in twenty eight or forty five, two touchdowns, three hundred twenty five
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  yards, and of course the infamous game in twenty eleven, where West Virginia
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  ranked fifth in the country. Geno Smith gonna win to hisman, you go
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  to Texas Tech. Seth Deggie ties a career high six touchdown passes Jake Amara.
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  He might still be running Ja ja ja Samarrow the tight end. Well,
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  they had fifth, they had they had eighteen plays Tony Night game,
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  eighteen plays of fifteen yards or more. Who was the offensive coordinator? Well,
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  I think it was a guy named Neil Brown. You know, Jay
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  Samarrow never played another game that year. Stunning Spleen also didn't turn into a
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  pro. I thought he'd be a big time pro. Spleen one of our
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  guys, one of our guys. What I mean, I mean, hold
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  on, hold on throw out twenty eleven because that was only because of the
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  wind. That was None of that was because the winds. About that for
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  a second, And with all due respect to some of those players, but
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  I mean some of these guys who never did much in college had career days
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  against West Virginia and we would watch these games, go, who are these
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  guys done? Then? So I think that's why the games should be played
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  on Halloween, because it's been a horror show. That's why they had a
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  coach. He's all frought up. Yeah, he's frought up. Here's the
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  thing, though, this is I'm having trouble with this one. I'm having
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  trouble this is one. West Virginia is going to come into this with some
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  confidence. Tech feels wobbly to me in and around their program. They just
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  they that's a team that was picked fourth in this league. There were a
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  lot of people that thought Tech could win this league. There was a lot
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  of hyperlitis Tech teams, and they've started slowly. Although there's some things in
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  those games that you could look at, but they don't have the confidence that
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  they should have in my opinion. So you've got you've got two teams in
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  a different mental space. Both of these teams have things that they should be
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  concerned about when they look inward. But both of these teams have things that
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  make the other team look at them and go, oh, can we handle
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  that? Right? I'm struggling to get to an evaluation of this because I
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  can't shake last year. It's not just the result of that, and that
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  was not a good score, it was the way that thing looked. West
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  Virginia didn't even belong on the same field with that team. Never mind that
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  would you give it? Would they give up last year forty eight? Never
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  mind what Western E's defensive effort was that offensive effort from West Virginia you got
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  flat big BOYD if Texas Big BOYJA, which they did a couple of weeks
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  later. Okay, fine, I would not have thought Texas Tech could have
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  Big BOYJA. So I'm struggling with was that just a one game? West
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  Virginia didn't show up they didn't give full effort, they weren't ready to play,
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  and Tech was pretty good. Or is that something that can carry over
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  this year, Because there's some things and I can build you a case for
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  West Virginia winning this game. It needs to win this game, but I'm
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  struggling with how that looked last year. That's a massive one game turnaround or
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  one year turnaround here for West Virginia. If they can write this ship.
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  You know what, I'm not buying that they're shaky. Oh, they're shaky.
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  I don't think they're shaking. Now, you're wrong there. I think
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  they're a whisker away from being three and ozho. They are, but that
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  is not Here's the thing. They may be very good. They may go
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  on to a great season. They are absolutely shaky right now. They are
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  not sure what they have. They're not They're concerned about their quarterback. They're
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  concerned about their offensive line as they should be. Their defense is at performing
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  at the level they thought it would. They have nowhere near the confidence this
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  team should have given where they're picked. That doesn't mean it's a West Virginia
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  win. They are one shaky in their confidence. That's a no doubter.
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  That's not even up for debate. All right, Well, I guess we'll
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  move on then because we can. Thanks for being with us. It's been
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  a great addition to three guys before the You're gonna win. But you've got
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  two teams in two different places mentally, how does that manifest? You need
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  to see that here, here's here's why I think that two things. Tony,
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  to your point, whatever, Texas Tech, for all I know they
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  could they could hitch hike here and still play the best game of the year
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  because for whatever reason, they seem to play well against West Virginia. But
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  Brad, to your point is is, Yeah, I think the Arland was
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  shaky because of the season expectations like they might win the league. Now the
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  one in two, and also Joey McGuire, I think he's done a good
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  job, but they're like, he's like one in six, one in seven
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  on the road. On the road. It's really struggled and they're not sure
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  what they're gonna give on the road. Again. You listened and talk to
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  some of their people and they're, well, yeah, we don't know what
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  you're gonna get on. Yeah, there's absolutely some things there that are making
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  them concerned about this road trip. You hear the talk tough place to play
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  in Morgantown. They owe us pretty sure. It's pretty shure trip though,
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  isn't it for them? Long trip? Longest they'll take leave to myke Gundy
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  called McGuire and said, look, you better stay overnight somewhere in Kansas.
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  If you're gonna make that trip out there, just bring the plane down,
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  Just park for the day and come back through. Yeah, you're you're in
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  a decent spot. And ne'll talk about this and I agree. Now we'll
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  see if it comes to fruition. But the potential for a letdown spot existed
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  today. But the fact that they've been hammering home this Texas Tech performance from
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  last year and the other three years, I think probably insulates you from a
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  from a letdown spot. I think you'll be ready to go. You know
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  what. I'll could help the World champions on SATURDA World Champion Mountaineers on Saturday.
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  The fans were just off the grid last Saturday against Pitt. Fans need
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  to play again too. Like fans can't have an off day. Fans need
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  to bring it because if, in fact, as the Senator says, these
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  guys may be a little bit unsure as to who they are. Texas Tech,
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  you can you be a difference and a factor in this game. I
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  think if the fans bring it that energizes the Mountaineers, that could impact them.
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  You got to bring it, Tony, I agree. I mean the
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  crowd obviously made a huge difference. Can they show up again and do the
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  same thing. What worries you when you about the crowd when you play a
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  game like this, I think I'm gonna go back to the Jet Duffy game.
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  I think they got up like twenty one nothing or something in that game
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  and just the crowd got taken out of it. Is that the way Tech
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  plays? I mean you get the ball first and you go three and out.
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  They get the ball and they move down the field with no huddle,
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  and all of a sudden they score like they can with the way they play.
• 21:57
  If they're effective and early drives, they could quickly take the crowd out
• 22:00
  of it. Absolutely, But big feast fan in there, because if they're
• 22:03
  not successful going as fast as they are, and you are successful at running
• 22:07
  the ball. You talk about time and possession being a big thing for West
• 22:10
  Virginia, you could absolutely mulch. Now they you have to stop them,
• 22:15
  and you have to be on your game. But that could also work against
• 22:18
  you. How many times have we seen it in this program when you go
• 22:19
  fast and you don't have success. You're giving the ball right back and you're
• 22:23
  putting the defense in tough spots. So that can go either way. Agreed.
• 22:30
  All right, you're ready to now now that we've opined and give an
• 22:33
  opinion, you're ready to put some meat to the bones here central you're sure
• 22:37
  that's roll? All right, let's get the song ready, ladies and gentlemen,
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  It's time for Spreads on Stats. By the way, Hoppy you missed
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  them, producer of both the songs Textual Healing and Spreads on Stats, was
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  at the Three Guys Food courts this weekend. David was there Saturday morn Saturday,
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  Yeah, that Saturday. I check the numbers. Let's just go right
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  to the numbers into analytics. Spreads on Stats brought to us by the Conley
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  CPA group, just like the Senator Conley group. Make sure that their digits
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  all line up, their numbers are correct. You got good numbers or what
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  you got here? Make me feel good? Eff grade at ninety seven on
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  the numbers that validates your work. All right, go ahead, what do
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  you got for? Excuse me only put on my glasses. Here my spreads
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  on stats classes. I'm gonna highlight one particular. I've really knited this down
• 23:44
  into one area. There's a million keys. We'll talk about some more.
• 23:48
  We'll spend a lot of time getting into some other areas, but here's one.
• 23:49
  I've chosen one. Okay, but I'm gonna give you about one hundred
• 23:52
  numbers within this one category. Here's a question. Hop you're ready for the
• 23:56
  question. You were talking about that Tech offense. I'll counter with the West
• 24:00
  Virginia defense and ask this question. Can West Virginia get pressure on Tyler Shuck
• 24:07
  and this offensive line? Ready for some numbers into this? Yes? Last
• 24:12
  year, this game against Texas Tech was West Virginia's worst pass rush grade of
• 24:18
  twenty twenty two. That was combined with Texas Tech's best pass blocking grade.
• 24:25
  Pass rush blocking grade of twenty twenty two part of why you ended up in
• 24:29
  a forty eight to ten non contest. So can you turn that around?
• 24:33
  If you're West Virginia, can you apply some pressure to this Tech offensive line?
• 24:37
  Let's highlight a couple of guys last week we talked about Trey Lathan and
• 24:41
  Sean Martin had matchups that may make them successful in that game against Pitt worked
• 24:45
  out pretty well. Trey Lathan is now up to third in the Big twelve
• 24:48
  and pass rush grade. West Virginia has three of the top nine in pass
• 24:55
  rush grade. People are to play twenty or more snaps. Lathan, Hershey,
• 24:59
  McLaren, J. Bartlett. We talked about him on Sunday. How
• 25:00
  am You're starting to come along? So you got multiple guys there that are
• 25:03
  starting to show themselves. Lathan twelfth and the Big twelve in total pressures,
• 25:10
  fairly even coming from the left or the right, although slightly better from the
• 25:14
  left. Lathan also leads the Big twelve in quarterback hits. Majority of those
• 25:18
  have come when he's on the right side. The other person that's having a
• 25:22
  nice here, Sean Martin. He's top twenty in the Big twelve in total
• 25:25
  pressures. Tomawa dura Jia correct correct tied for the lead in the Big twelve
• 25:32
  in sacks. How many different guys that I name right there is that like
• 25:36
  six six different guys are sitting highly ranked within the Big twelve. When it
• 25:41
  comes to pressure stats. Now, that's only part of the equation. That's
• 25:45
  the West Virginia side. Let's flip it around and look at Tech. How
• 25:48
  long is he holding out of that ball? Is that where you're gonna go?
• 25:51
  Now, I will give you some of that. Last week we highlighted
• 25:55
  the right guard position for pit right that could be a potential problem area for
• 25:59
  them. They ended up not playing the true freshman that had struggled so much,
• 26:03
  but they inserted their backup that we also talked about and said, quite
• 26:07
  frankly, it doesn't matter who they put in. The right guard has really
• 26:08
  struggled that position. Last week against West Virginia had a forty five point nine
• 26:12
  pass blocking grade coming out of that game. They struggled at the right guard
• 26:17
  position, led to Lathan and Martin and others having some pressure. This week,
• 26:21
  Let's hire another one. It's the center for Texas Tech Rusty stats.
• 26:26
  He struggled so far the second lowest pass blocking grade in the Big Twelve for
• 26:30
  players with more than one hundred and five snaps have been right over the middle
• 26:36
  for Rusty Stats of Texas Tech. By the way, perfect for the segment,
• 26:40
  thank you. He's allowed the seventh most pressures in the Big Twelve.
• 26:45
  Now, with Western's defense, he's not going to have somebody lined up straight
• 26:48
  over the nose. But combine his struggles with a right guard in Jacoby Jackson,
• 26:52
  who's played some for them. He has just a fifty three point two
• 26:56
  PFF grade. That's one of the guards. So do you have an area
• 27:00
  of the line that you can exploit. You've got a couple of weaknesses right
• 27:03
  in there. What do the other guards have to do to protect the middle?
• 27:07
  As you start to get pressure? So when I say text wobbly in
• 27:10
  Samarias, that's one they're concerned about the pressure getting right up into Tyler Shuck's
• 27:14
  face. That brings us to the last variable in this key to the game.
• 27:18
  Can you get pressure? You're facing a quarterback in Tyler Chuck that has
• 27:22
  been sacked nine times in three games. Their quarterbacks as a whole nine times
• 27:26
  in three games. So PFF measures how many pressures are the fault of the
• 27:30
  quarterback rather than the line. Chuck leads the Big Twelve in that category.
• 27:36
  He has the most. He also has the most sacks out of play action
• 27:38
  in the Big Twelve and the second most sacks when taking regular dropbacks. So
• 27:44
  every sack category is working against Chuck's time that he's the time that he's at
• 27:48
  fault means he's holding it too long. The times he's run out of play
• 27:52
  action that hasn't worked. Times they've gone regular dropbacks, you've been able to
• 27:55
  get pressure. He leads the Big twelve. Does Schuck in scramble rushing attempt
• 28:00
  out of regular dropbacks. That speaks to the pressure he's been under having to
• 28:03
  take off and run. If West Virginia can get some pressure on Shuck,
• 28:08
  chances are good that he may throw you one or two. He has seven
• 28:12
  turnover worthy plays this season. That's that stat measured by Pro Football Focus.
• 28:17
  That doesn't necessarily have to turn into a turnover, but it's a path that
• 28:19
  was worthy of a turnover. So he has seven of those already, four
• 28:23
  interceptions in his first two games, and has two fumbles on the year on
• 28:27
  top of that, although he hasn't lost both of them, so that whole
• 28:32
  equation is going against a West Virginia defense. I talked about the pressure,
• 28:36
  and then we talked on Sunday about the back end. West Virginia now has
• 28:38
  more interceptions on the season than it had all of last year and has moved
• 28:42
  up to seventh nationally in picks. So pressure, there's a lot of keys,
• 28:47
  but pressure is there for the taking. If you're West Virginia can continue
• 28:51
  to do what you've done, I think I think those stats really reinforce it.
• 28:55
  Bray had well done a key to that game because in the Oregon game,
• 28:57
  Oregon had I think five sacks, twenty hurries something like that, and
• 29:02
  they got after him. They brought pressure. And look, when Texas Tech
• 29:04
  has five linemen and five and five wide outs, then guess what you know?
• 29:10
  As Steve Dunnenup likes to say, if you can have six rushing against
• 29:12
  five, you got a chance to get to him. So that's an interesting
• 29:17
  cat and mouse game. It's going to be playing less. Chuck can get
• 29:18
  rid of the ball quickly. But also you know Chuck can take off and
• 29:22
  running right for one hundred yards against Oregon, so he will take off and
• 29:25
  he can do some things with his feet. But I think that Brad,
• 29:27
  what you talked about, there is a fascinating matchup as to whether West Virginia
• 29:30
  can get pressure and if so, how much pressure can they get to him
• 29:33
  and shake him up and as you said, he might throw the ball to
• 29:37
  you, because he's done that so far this year. And then and then
• 29:40
  it flips over to the Tech knows that too. They have a running back
• 29:44
  that's really good but has been underutilized. There's a lot of questions down around
• 29:47
  Lubbock of why isn't toash Brooks getting the ball more? Why isn't he running
• 29:51
  the ball more? Do they come out and try and establish him early,
• 29:53
  which quite frankly, if you're West Virginia, I'd rather Tech try and run
• 29:56
  on you than tempo you and throw some quick passes. Do they also adjust
• 30:00
  their passing game? Do they work on getting the ball out more to one
• 30:03
  limit West Virginia's pressure and two trying to eliminate his interceptions and turnover worthy plays.
• 30:08
  My guests has to be yes on that they. I would think Tech
• 30:11
  counters with some moves of its own this week. Guys, what about this?
• 30:14
  So both of you on this issue relevant to this topic, and that
• 30:18
  is one of the reasons that West Virginia was able to get pressure last week
• 30:22
  was that what they had time between plays, they brought in a lot of
• 30:26
  they made a lot of changes on defensive lines that they had fresh bodies in
• 30:29
  there. When tech doesn't substitute and they're going like eighteen seconds between plays,
• 30:34
  you get tired linemen on long drives and you're unable to substitute correct. That's
• 30:38
  why it's imperative that West Virginia does really well on first down. These guys
• 30:45
  operate at peak efficiency when they're looking at second and medium to short and third.
• 30:49
  At short yardage, you've got to put your biggest play, maybe your
• 30:52
  first downplay, just to negate them, to force them into things that they
• 30:56
  have to do rather than them dictating to you. That's that's a big part
• 31:02
  of it. This is the first time that West Virginia will face a quarterback
• 31:06
  this season that looks to run the ball. Chuck does right the other guys
• 31:10
  have not yet. And he's a big guy, big guy, big strong
• 31:12
  guy again third one out of four games and just as big dude. And
• 31:18
  they have that tempo that we've been talking about that West Virginia hasn't seen yet
• 31:22
  this season. Now, obviously West Virginia is fully aware of it. They've
• 31:26
  been working on it since the offseason. They've got some new plans that they
• 31:30
  want to utilize this year of how to try to at least be in alignment
• 31:36
  when the ball is snapped, because last year they weren't even in alignment,
• 31:40
  so you wonder why did they have such successful If guys aren't even getting getting
• 31:42
  the line and lining up, you have no shot whatsoever. So but it's
• 31:47
  tough Tony. If they start on their twenty five and they've driven down the
• 31:48
  West Virginia twenty five and they've run nine plays. You got your guys out
• 31:56
  there that would like to go wave their hands, say hey, can I
• 31:59
  come out? No, you can't come. So anyway, I would think
• 32:00
  you're gonna give up some yards here. I think this comes back to what
• 32:02
  I think West Virginia has been very good at and you're gonna give up some
• 32:07
  yards to this team that you know Tech Tech can move it, they can
• 32:09
  run it, they can throw it. As we've just outlined, this is
• 32:12
  gonna have to be one of those in Western has been great at this so
• 32:14
  far, stepping up in those key moments. You're gonna have to force turnovers.
• 32:16
  That's been the difference in these two teams. West Virginia is not turning
• 32:20
  it over, but they're getting takeaways. Tech keeps turning it over. That
• 32:23
  needs to continue. You've not only this game got to get some stops on
• 32:27
  key third downs, but they're gonna go four on fourth down likely, so
• 32:30
  you've got to play four downs, and you've got to get some stops on
• 32:32
  fourth and lastly, you've just got to hold them in some field goals defense.
• 32:37
  I think you have to be flipped out if tech's moving the ball between
• 32:39
  the twenty fives, if you can just get some targeted stops in there.
• 32:44
  So let's say you get some targeted stops, but they're still going to score
• 32:45
  points. They're still gonna move, move the ball. They're averaging thirty five
• 32:49
  points a game. Can West Virginia, with what's expected to be a backup
• 32:52
  quarterback, can you get to next? I think we have to have an
• 32:55
  offensive conversation here because that's the part that's that's the most worry for West Virginia
• 33:00
  is what do you need to get two points wise to get a win here?
• 33:05
  If you give up in the thirties, I don't think you win this
• 33:07
  game. I think this has got to be one where they're flustered, you
• 33:08
  get some takeaways, you set up some short fields, you get some points
• 33:13
  off that, and you suppress the scoring, the totals sitting around fifty five.
• 33:15
  If this is an over game, this is tech all day. West
• 33:19
  Virginia's gotta keep that thing down because to me, that's where the questions exist
• 33:23
  for West Virginia. It's offensively, what are you going to do? Number
• 33:27
  one? Just in theory number two, how do you avoid what happened to
• 33:30
  you last year where those wide receivers could not move off the line. We
• 33:35
  saw that was a problem against Pitt. Then you add in Nico, hopefully
• 33:37
  with a week's practice, and that playbook opened a little bit more. The
• 33:40
  passing game looks a little more dynamic, but you've got to show that you
• 33:45
  can get by those same tech corners and safeties that existed last year. That's
• 33:49
  a real concern. Massive corners. Take a look at their size. They
• 33:52
  look like pros, big tall, six two plus guys with weight on them
• 33:58
  as the corners and his Brad said, they'll just get right up in on
• 34:00
  you, hold you like like last year Bryce Ford Wheaton couldn't get off the
• 34:05
  line. Is a big, strong kid. As they get flagged a time
• 34:07
  or two, what the heck? Yeah? Right, So that is a
• 34:10
  big concern as you watch the game on Saturday. When you see passing situations
• 34:15
  and you see press coverage, watch West Virginia's receivers. Can they get off
• 34:20
  the line? Can they get off the line? I think the tight end
• 34:22
  Cole Taylor gives West Virginia a dynamic that they did not have a year ago.
• 34:27
  So they flex him out and match him up against a linebacker that he
• 34:30
  can can get away from. This could be a big Cole Taylor game.
• 34:35
  You know my stands there. Throw it to him. Feed the big fella.
• 34:37
  Absolutely, But some receivers. Devin Carter is gonna have to make some
• 34:40
  place. He's got that. Receivers have to some place. Running backs are
• 34:44
  gonna have to be involved in the passing game this week. I would think,
• 34:46
  right if they're gonna play man, hop, what's done that post?
• 34:50
  You get man and you get those guys turning, Nico might have to take
• 34:52
  off and run a little bit. He might have to throw behind and let's
• 34:54
  cej get in space with the ball in his end. You're gonna have to
• 34:58
  find a way to manufacture a passing game that you did not need against Pitt.
• 35:01
  You just saw what Pitt's offense was doing and your defense was doing you
• 35:05
  get up by eight point, they can't catch you. Pitt had no chance
• 35:07
  to come back in that game with the way their offense looked and the way
• 35:09
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  So I forgot to mention something and we'll get into this later on. We
• 36:38
  have another addition to the food court. Well, I forgot to manage things
• 36:43
  taken off quick, Brad. You know who I forgot to mention? Who
• 36:45
  our boy Rusty? Oh yeah, of course, Mountaineer Roasting. We're gonna
• 36:52
  have an espresso machine front and center. We're pulling shots Saturday. Baby,
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  We're pulling shots of espresso on Saturday. This is a great story. You
• 37:00
  know what you want? Eight am? He might need a little coffee to
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  get you going. Absolutely. I went eight or nine eight, Not that
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  you're gonna be there, doesn't matter. But anyway, eight to three on
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  Saturday or hoppy, are you going to be there? Yeah? So Mountaineer
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  what the whole premise behind all of this is all of these are West Virginia
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  businesses. But so Rusty WV Grad went to GW Charleston came up here.
• 37:24
  He's featured on those commercials lottery commercials where he went overseas. Well, he
• 37:30
  didn't go overseas. He went to South America and he met and he and
• 37:35
  he imports from I mean, he literally knows the farmers who grow the beans
• 37:38
  that the coffee that he sells. And he's a great guy. And Brad
• 37:44
  and I had to sit down tasting with him a couple of weeks ago,
• 37:46
  and he said, now do you guys know, how do you understand what
• 37:49
  coffee beans are? We went like, I don't know it. It tastes
• 37:52
  good, and he goes, okay, So the coffee bean that coffee grows,
• 37:58
  they're like cherries and the bean is inside the meat of the cherry,
• 38:01
  right, So you have to dry him, you take the bean out,
• 38:05
  then you get that bean. That's what your roast. I didn't know any
• 38:07
  of that. I just taste it and it's good. So he gave us
• 38:10
  a bunch of different tastes that we're creating a special blend for and Rusty will
• 38:15
  have that there. He'll have drip coffee for drips, and he'll have espresso
• 38:21
  for espresso people. And he's there a Saturday morning. And Rusty he's a
• 38:25
  great guy. You'll love him. So mountaineer roasting. You'll enjoy Rusty.
• 38:30
  He'll have his espresso machine. He's got a portable. Got he got portable.
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  Got a portable. You should check that out. All right, you
• 38:38
  ready to do some healing. This is more like I don't know if it's
• 38:42
  healing this week as much as it's like celebratory. Put that behind you.
• 38:49
  I'm with you, dude. Here's what concerns me. Three straight home games,
• 39:00
  three times. You're asking people to come to stay in back to back
• 39:02
  to bay. I just asked somebody what the crowd's gonna be? Not great?
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  Really, because I got a different number. Then, well you got
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  I've got fifty three. You think that's a great number. Fifty three,
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  Yeah, that's a pretty good number when it holds sixty fifty three can make
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  noise. I got fifty I'm not saying it's bad, but I mean,
• 39:22
  like i'd like a fifty eight. I got fifty two. He's still on
• 39:25
  HOTWALKA weather's gonna be nice, right, Yeah, Look, we've seen the
• 39:32
  last couple of years. We've seen some crowds. Oh, I understand that,
• 39:36
  but they don't come home for a month after this one. You're asking
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  players to not have a letdown spot. Fans cannot have a letdown spot this
• 39:42
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  get into the conference. I love the food court, my family and either
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  both days. Friday, we show up at three thirty and Dave said come
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  but what are we gonna do? Anyway? It's Tony anyway. My
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  mister guidance counselor here to help? Thank you again? Spreads the Kirchevelle was
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  there's the hotststs. So there you go. Your daughter took that picture,
• 41:27
  he says, love seeing you guys. Let's go Mountaineers. So Gigi's taking
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  pictures now she's in the business couple. Yeah she didn't nice, sun.
• 41:34
  I'm framed it nicely. Look here in that picture him, Yeah, that
• 41:38
  ain't that nice text her. As my dad would say, how about the
• 41:44
  mountain here, it's great win over pit Nico managed the offense, didn't do
• 41:46
  anything to lose the game. Defense played lights out. I even got myselfie
• 41:50
  with my favorite football player. I think my T shirt sums up the Mountaineers
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  at that. There's his favorite player and the guys wearing an freeing T shirt
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  by the way, great victory for the mountaineers. That's probably Dave. Wasn't
• 42:29
  what shure it was? I mean, Dave's Dave. Basically that's the answer
• 42:31
  at anything involving that stuff. Yeah, wouldn't you anything? Well, it
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  this is Stephen from Wheeling. I was the one at the Waterfront Marriott,
• 42:52
  along with my friend from college, Casey from California. First of all,
• 42:57
  it was awesome meeting you guys, as well as Sean McDonough. You guys
• 43:01
  were as cool as can be. We were both caught off guard when we
• 43:05
  turned the corner and saw the three of you sitting there. After we left,
• 43:07
  we thought of several things we wish we would have asked you guys.
• 43:12
  Hopefully we'll get a chance to talk again soon. Casey came all the way
• 43:15
  from California for the game and meeting you guys was an added bonus to his
• 43:20
  trip. Lastly, we both got a kick out of Sean when Casey said
• 43:23
  that he works for you see Irvine. Sean's response was oh yeah, go
• 43:28
  An eaters like who knows that off the top of their head. Ps.
• 43:32
  It was a nice gesture by Sean to pay for our breakfast. I wore
• 43:36
  that like a badge of honor on Saturday. Hey, the guy announcing the
• 43:39
  game on ABC tonight bought my breakfast yesterday. He did wonderful breakfast behind English
• 43:45
  muffins and a warm cup of coffee. A nice lot to have. It
• 43:53
  was nice. That's very nice gesture. Of course, Bill ab Seben not
• 44:04
  true. Hoppy Dear three guys. Professor Vinny here Charlie from Midlothian mentioned a
• 44:08
  great podcast metric on the four hundred and eighty eight episode I believe called comments
• 44:14
  after Texts cats. However, we also need an adjusted comments after text or
• 44:20
  ACAT metric. Not all comments after the texts relate to the text during the
• 44:23
  podcast. We could also add a metric for text read on the podcast or
• 44:29
  troops you take your texts that have been read on the podcast. Divide by
• 44:32
  the number of you've received for the text line. For instance, I've got
• 44:36
  a healthy fifty five percent. Trop rate metrics are fun. By the way,
• 44:39
  I bet Pitt minus one. You're welcome everyone. Here's hoping I lose
• 44:43
  another five on Texas Tech next week. Professor Vinny there in Chicago, good
• 44:45
  work. This one I talked about last night on sports Line. It came
• 44:50
  from not Buyser from Kaiser. Really super short. I'll make it. When
• 44:55
  West Virginia has beaten Texas Tech in Big twelve play, they ever j wins
• 45:00
  a year. When West Virginia's lost to Texas Tech in Big twelve play,
• 45:04
  the Mountaineers average five and a half wins. That's the gist of it.
• 45:07
  This is the Maryland this is the new Maryland games that when they win,
• 45:15
  they average eight wins a year, when they lose, they average five and
• 45:17
  a half. It's the new Maryland game. Texas Texas average thirty six points
• 45:23
  per game against West Virginia under Neil, and the Mountaineers of average just eighteen.
• 45:28
  You guys were talking about getting the thirty, So thank you very much.
• 45:31
  Not Wiser from Kaiser Texter he Tony Brad part time, Hoppy, I'm
• 45:38
  sorry we missed you and Brad. On Saturday at the Speakeasy, Homeless Dave
• 45:44
  was great. We really enjoyed talking with him and taking in some Kircheville.
• 45:46
  I also got to meet Rev keV, who was equally awesome. We sampled
• 45:51
  the tacos, had some brisket who was outstanding. Ranks there with one of
• 45:55
  my other favorites, Dem two brothers in Charleston. We stopped by later in
• 45:59
  the day for some Greenbrier Dairy ice cream. No words to describe how good
• 46:02
  that rolled. Oriole looks for that. Very impressed at a great time.
• 46:07
  We really enjoyed the painted sign at the event. With all DO respect,
• 46:10
  we got a problem here, Hoppy. The spelling of do probably drove Hoppy
• 46:16
  crazy. I may have missed on that. Yeah, that's that's a that's
• 46:22
  a miss. Finally, Homeless Dave and I think you may need some specialized
• 46:27
  event security work for you guys. Let me know if you need my services.
• 46:30
  Signed by Tony for Big Tony from Daniels. Yeah, wow, Hoppy,
• 46:37
  Maybe that was done intentionally. Ah just maybe, just maybe Greg and
• 46:45
  Catltzberg heck of a dirt Kicking Rock fights Saturday for the win. I loved
• 46:50
  it. Hope you can roll with all the momentum questions. Which other Big
• 46:54
  twelve game do you find most intriguing this week? UCFK State or by U
• 47:00
  Kansas which spreads Rather break down the matchup between Oak State and Iowa State,
• 47:05
  or try to find what Temple needs to do against Miami and the Big East
• 47:08
  game of the week. Ps Rutger is three and zero. Yeah, Texter,
• 47:15
  I figured out why that Oklahoma State Iowa State total? Oh, let
• 47:19
  me guess, let me guess forty two. Oh my gosh, you're high
• 47:22
  thirty one, thirty six and a half. Yeah, Texter, I figured
• 47:28
  out why Pitt's offense seems so sluggish Saturday night. According to the ACC's official
• 47:34
  Facebook page, Pitt must have played another game before they played West Virginia.
• 47:38
  They appear to have lost in similar fashion to a small university called you Wuv.
• 47:45
  That may be worse than listing our games in central time. Signed by
• 47:49
  Matt and Kaiser, So the ACC list the West Virginia game as you Wuv
• 47:54
  seventeen six Get it together? What is Texter? Jake originally from Preston County
• 48:07
  now living in West Texas. I coached middle school football road game last Thursday.
• 48:10
  One of the guys on the chain gang. We're in a WV poll
• 48:16
  just further proves there's a West Virginia connection wherever you may be, Texter gentlemen.
• 48:22
  I wanted to get this over earlier, but it was a tad preoccupy
• 48:25
  with the recent mauling of the Panthers. I wanted to let you know that
• 48:29
  the speakeasy before the pit game hit the spot. It should be known that
• 48:32
  the food was fantastic. The company was even better. Tony and Brad hung
• 48:37
  and talked with us like we knew them for years. It felt like we
• 48:40
  were personally invited on a VIP list. It would have been great to meet
• 48:44
  Hoppy as well. However, it was a little past noon and we figured
• 48:46
  it was late for him and he'd be getting ready for bed. As a
• 48:51
  Jersey native and alum, it's great to get back to West Virginia with West
• 48:54
  Virginia holds, great people, great times in a great game day atmosphere.
• 48:59
  These should happening. I patted my stomach for the tailgate with top notch food
• 49:02
  for under twenty bills. It's a great way for small businesses to grow,
• 49:07
  which can only help all things Morgantown, including the athletic programs. Sincerely,
• 49:10
  Jersey Jeff, Jeff, thank you. I didn't. I mean I was
• 49:15
  there Friday for about an hour and a half, had great visit, talked
• 49:20
  to everybody. There was a beautiful day. And then Saturday, I know,
• 49:23
  Brad you were there, Tony you were there. I feel bad about
• 49:28
  not making an appearance. I did something else on Saturday morning. It was
• 49:31
  kind of too light. And then I just get and Tony, this is
• 49:36
  just me. I mean, you have a game to do. You have
• 49:37
  more responsibilities than I do. I mean, you got to call it a
• 49:39
  game. I just get kind of focused in and I just I want to
• 49:43
  go to I want to go to work. And so it's just not I
• 49:46
  understand it doesn't work for me exactly. Not so fine, that's all right.
• 49:51
  You don't need to apologize as fine. You're busy that Jersey Jeff.
• 49:54
  You remember him, Yeah? Absolutely, Like we started talking with him and
• 49:59
  he he was like, and I immediately just jumped him, didn't I.
• 50:04
  I just said what I said, stop, I said, what part of
• 50:07
  New Jersey are you from? Any How are you known from New Jersey.
• 50:09
  I said, I said, because you talk three hundred miles an hour,
• 50:13
  you're angsty like you're you're you're really like tens And there, I said,
• 50:16
  chill out, dude, you're back in West Virginia. Take a deep breath.
• 50:20
  You went to school here. Breathe it in. We're not home,
• 50:22
  you don't you don't have to protect yourself. No one's coming after you here.
• 50:24
  Just relax. A wonderful guy. He did relax. Finally, he
• 50:29
  finally chilled, I think in eight kerch of ells in order to relax him.
• 50:30
  But no, he was good social worker, very nice guy. Yeah,
• 50:36
  very nice guy. South Jersey, Cherry Hill. Are you uh?
• 50:39
  Tony's just some clarification on that pit field goal? So the whole ball must
• 50:46
  so this is actually he's talking. Is he talking about Pitt or talking about
• 50:50
  Iowa steak? I think he's The whole ball on a field goal must pass
• 50:54
  through the inside of the upright. If it goes over the upright or any
• 50:59
  portion of the ball not inside the upright, it's no good. Great job,
• 51:02
  fellas, because that Iowa state. And then Andy, the other official
• 51:06
  texted later and said, the camera angle that you keep seeing of that field
• 51:10
  goal is a bad angle. The officials looking straight up at the poll pipe
• 51:15
  and if that pipe shows any part of the ball over and that's side,
• 51:17
  they're gonna call it no good. Kind of like when TV gives an angle
• 51:20
  behind the line on the scientific marking of the spot. We love that most
• 51:25
  important part of the game. Big third or fourth down. Let's come wobbling
• 51:29
  in, come running in, waving, weaving, bobbing, weaving, thirty
• 51:32
  five yards right, here's exactly where the ball should go. Bring out our
• 51:37
  chain link fence. We'll measure this. Can I give two shoutouts? Ross
• 51:44
  Mara, Bridgeport native Ross Mara hired here as an assistant athletic director and tried
• 51:49
  to charge a digital video this summer. He was the head of it at
• 51:52
  Wake Forest. Came back home and he has put together a couple of video
• 51:57
  pieces this season already that make you go wow. And his recap of the
• 52:02
  pit game is off the chart, really stunning, how good it is,
• 52:08
  really really good social media platforms. I'll come over, we'll turn your computer
• 52:15
  on, crank up the handle, and we'll show it to you later on.
• 52:16
  I mean, it's stunning, cinematic, really fantastic. I shared it
• 52:21
  with Sean. He's featured in it. He is they used some of my
• 52:25
  audio calls, and he said that is absolutely outstanding. Excellent, was well,
• 52:32
  Ross is elite. Ross is absolutely fantastic. By the way, why
• 52:35
  you're doing shout outs, need to give one to a listener. It doesn't
• 52:37
  text, but he listens religiously. Kai Kai. You know where Kai's listening
• 52:42
  from? Just outside of Seattle. Oh's the connection? Yeah? Well Western
• 52:49
  and guy, Hey, how about this one lives and listen just out of
• 52:52
  side of Seattle. Now listens, Thank you, Kay. By the way,
• 52:54
  I was looking at our analytics, our metrics this week and breaking down
• 53:00
  all the states we had in the last In the last thirty days, we've
• 53:06
  had people listening to this podcast in forty eight of the fifty states. The
• 53:13
  fricking Dakotas. We're just gonna say, just what are the two that aren't
• 53:15
  the fricking Dakotas given us the finger both North and we're in or South nor
• 53:21
  No neither Dakotas out. So we got people in Hawaii and Alaska listening to
• 53:27
  Dakotas just shocked by that. Well, I guess maybe there's no West Virginians
• 53:30
  in the dakotas well. I would imagine one had to crawl through at some
• 53:34
  point. Also, we got another controversy brewing post offices. Excuse me,
• 53:42
  post offices. What's the problem. You remember how I told you a couple
• 53:45
  of weeks ago, I told you how good and nice those guys are in
• 53:46
  the Star City post Office. Right, They're great guys. Okay, friendly
• 53:52
  nice. So I go over to the High Street post Office today in the
• 53:55
  United States Postal service. Absolutely not. Okay, absolutely not, he is.
• 54:00
  So Jonas is working the front. Jonas is working counter down High Street
• 54:04
  post Office. Like you you're a lover of customer service. Yeah, like
• 54:08
  he could work at any four Seasons hotel, any hotel in the world.
• 54:14
  Greatest customer businesses. Yeah, so he basically, and he goes, Hey,
• 54:16
  did you tape the three guys yet this today? I said, oh,
• 54:20
  actually, I'm gonna go in there and do it at twelve thirty,
• 54:22
  Yeah, I said, big listener? Are you a listener? And goes,
• 54:23
  oh, yeah, absolutely love it. He says, the guys over
• 54:25
  at Star City had called me when you know, you gave them a shout
• 54:29
  out, and I'm thinking, okay, now, here's the controversy. There's
• 54:31
  a massive competition that I didn't know about High Street and Star City post offices.
• 54:37
  Who can be nicer? That's a good competition. You can more businesses
• 54:40
  do that. Yeah, those guys are absolutely, like mister post office master,
• 54:45
  like, those guys are the role model for great customer service in the
• 54:50
  post office. Great guys, great work on both branches. About So if
• 54:54
  you want to be treated nicely, go to High Street, go to Star
• 54:58
  City. Do forget about Saberton Post. I'm not familiar with them, nothing
• 55:00
  against them, Just don't make it over that. You just don't know if
• 55:02
  they're in the competition. Sure, that's a nice post. Frequent user of
• 55:06
  the good people over there. Oh yeah, yeah, okay, good.
• 55:08
  Very convenient right near the KFC, isn't it? Right across the KFC and
• 55:13
  just signed the sheets, get yourself a bucket of chicken and a roll of
• 55:15
  stamps. Hoppy, great rolling stones reference to the pit game Hoppy. We
• 55:21
  collectively love you, which is why we collectively like to mess with you.
• 55:25
  For a previous long text for me in a question you did not answer,
• 55:29
  I feel West Virginia is beautiful, century located and full of good people.
• 55:32
  Why, Hoppy, does the young talent leave wild and wonderful. Yeah,
• 55:38
  we can blame Cole, but it feels like something else is amiss. I
• 55:42
  would love your thoughts on this conundrum. No young people, no opportunity.
• 55:45
  I'm deeply grateful for the hard work in my childhood in West Virginia. When
• 55:50
  I visit the state, it's a humbling experience that this is where I am
• 55:53
  from and things I have accomplished that might not have happened if I stayed in
• 55:57
  my home state my heart. As a side note, my wife from Morgantown,
• 56:01
  both living and Utah, asked why is b YU football and basketball playing
• 56:06
  in West Virginia not in Utah. I said, there are a lot of
• 56:09
  Sugar fans that want to see BYU play. It's about the money. We
• 56:14
  wait patiently, looking forward to meeting you sometime and having an embracing Mountaineer hug
• 56:20
  from ear to year signed by Yogi Chris in Salt Lake City. Hoppy,
• 56:23
  he put a lot on your plate. Speak to it well, and by
• 56:27
  the way, you have eight seconds go okay. First of all, there's
• 56:30
  some demographic issues. West Virginia's population has been stagnant since the nineteen sixties were
• 56:36
  about one point seven eight million people, so you haven't had a lot of
• 56:40
  you don't have population growth, they don't have as many young people. Second
• 56:44
  is that couples aren't having as many children, so you see high schools consolidating.
• 56:49
  You know well about the enrollment issues at WVU and some other colleges,
• 56:52
  so you just don't have as many young people. That's second issue. And
• 56:55
  the third is that while the economy of the state has gotten better, there
• 57:00
  have been a lot of years there where the economy has has contracted and you've
• 57:06
  had businesses closing down, and so young people are very mobile these days,
• 57:10
  and they, you know, look for other opportunities. It's not when we
• 57:14
  were growing up, well maybe not you Brad or even you Tony, it
• 57:16
  was it was kind of a big deal to leave, right unless you just
• 57:22
  had to. Now it's just like, oh so what, I'll go here,
• 57:23
  I'll go there. I mean, it's not as big a deal.
• 57:27
  So West Virginia has grant. I think it's gradually starting to reverse that trend,
• 57:32
  but it's it's along got a long way to go. That was well
• 57:37
  done. Can we give another shout out? I was going for it us.
• 57:43
  He was before before we started recording. I was I was asked,
• 57:47
  wasn't criticizing, Well, you just took a shot. You have to attack.
• 57:50
  I said, you were just going on. It gave me a chance
• 57:52
  to eat dessert here. Hey, look fire up those pictures that we got
• 57:55
  before we started recording. Today, the folks at Home Grown Pizza and the
• 58:01
  absolutely luscious area of Delslow, West Virginia brought us the slaughter house in there.
• 58:08
  There is salon, there is a pepperoni, and there is sausage on
• 58:12
  that bad boy and bacon and bacon, and it was absolutely fantastic. Senator
• 58:15
  showed restraint. I didn't, and I went many pieces. I had three
• 58:21
  after two, after two, I went, yeah, there's a cannoli that
• 58:23
  they brought. Like I pulled this great move. I said, I'm not.
• 58:27
  I said, let's you want to share a half a pizza. And
• 58:30
  he goes and like no, I'm dude, I'm good. I said,
• 58:31
  I'm gonna get a knife. I'm gonna cut it in half. So I
• 58:34
  go get the knife and I slice it and I ate it. Then I
• 58:37
  sliced another piece of I ate the whole damn piece. So it was really
• 58:40
  good. I'm glad I brought the knife. And then these things here,
• 58:43
  these nutter butters with peanut butter in them, much discussed before Elite Scott and
• 58:49
  Juliet homegrown. Yeah, go see, I'm telling Essentia, get some cannoli
• 58:52
  the nutter butters and that's the Slaughterhouse pizza for the specific order. Thank you,
• 58:59
  guys. Three guys, what do you make of Texas texts seventy three
• 59:02
  receptions so far this season to West Virginia's thirty nine. They throw it a
• 59:06
  lot, and they throw it a lot and they throw it some more.
• 59:08
  And West Virginia is not a pass heavy team, says he says. I
• 59:12
  understand, I understand spreads his route running efficiency stat not l ol. But
• 59:17
  don't we simply need to be getting guys the ball through the year more in
• 59:21
  order to keep pace with the remaining teams moving forward. Yes, you did
• 59:24
  not need to the other night. We've said it all summer. This team's
• 59:30
  gonna have to run that two hundred yard mark that it's averaging right now.
• 59:32
  That's the number it's got to get to two hundred. The one fifty that
• 59:36
  you had the other night against pat you won the game. I don't know
• 59:38
  that that's enough for this team. I think that two hundred mark is where
• 59:42
  it's got to shoot for. And then you need to hope that the passing
• 59:45
  game continues to take a step up. You know, for example, there
• 59:49
  were moments in that game there were two slants that Nico through that were absolute
• 59:53
  seeds. Yes, you can't throw it any better. He showed arm strength,
• 59:57
  he showed accuracy. It was perfect protection, the hands down on the
• 1:00:00
  line, deliver the ball, and two good contested catches. You just need
• 1:00:04
  more of those, right the little roll out to Cole Taylor. I like
• 1:00:07
  that play, but also teams have seen that now, so you're gonna have
• 1:00:09
  to adjust and come up with the next evolution. You're gonna have to throw
• 1:00:12
  it. And this feels like he I mean, you never want to get
• 1:00:15
  behind, but this feels like a game that you don't want to get too
• 1:00:17
  far behind because of what Tech does and because you're more deliberate than Tech is.
• 1:00:22
  Before the season started, everyone was just absolutely beaming about what this offensive
• 1:00:28
  line could be this season, and rightfully so, and the words elite were
• 1:00:31
  constantly used. I said, they don't need to be elite, they need
• 1:00:35
  to be good every single Saturday, consistent. But you know what they need
• 1:00:38
  to be this Saturday. They need to be elite. Yeah, this needs
• 1:00:42
  to be the bounce like you're always going to be really good this week because
• 1:00:45
  of the situation potentially at quarterback. You have to be elite. You have
• 1:00:50
  to smash these guys. You have to control the ball. You have to
• 1:00:53
  run it even when they know you're going to run it, and you have
• 1:00:55
  to run it. That's what you have to do. You have need to
• 1:00:58
  be elite. This average good this week isn't going to be probably good enough.
• 1:01:01
  You have to be elite. We have to have people getting absolutely pancake
• 1:01:06
  repeatedly, and the crowd needs to see it. They need to enjoy it.
• 1:01:09
  They need this crowd needs to come up and they need to appreciate hard,
• 1:01:13
  physical running of the football. That's what needs to happen. I'll see
• 1:01:15
  your this week and raise you the rest of the season. I don't think
• 1:01:19
  good's good enough for this particular makeup of this team. I think it has
• 1:01:22
  to be elite. In forcing the run game again, you're gonna have to
• 1:01:25
  throw it enough to back people off you. Because other teams know this too.
• 1:01:29
  They're gonna just load on you. But I think in order for West
• 1:01:30
  Virginia gate to six, maybe even seven games moving forward, the line has
• 1:01:35
  to be elite. If it's not, I think you're gonna balk down.
• 1:01:37
  Jeremy from Cooperstown, New York used to live here in the state until oh
• 1:01:42
  six. My question is there a more heated rivalry in the country than West
• 1:01:45
  Virginia Pitt. I know all the big ones, but seriously, I can't
• 1:01:47
  stop smiling after Saturday Night's win. I love the show. Well, there's
• 1:01:51
  West Virginia has no big arrival, but I mean there's Obama, Army,
• 1:01:55
  Navy, Alabama, Alburn. Yeah, this one's right there, this one
• 1:02:01
  is right there. You may not have the national rankings, but what this
• 1:02:05
  what this rivalry has drawn the last two. Are you still I'm eating?
• 1:02:09
  I mean we just we just hey, take take a thirty second time,
• 1:02:15
  Poppy and I'll carry on. Guy gotta guys are good. I know you
• 1:02:20
  won't eat it, but they're very good. I know it's delicious, and
• 1:02:22
  once you start, you can't stop because it's that good. Yeah, I
• 1:02:24
  mean the whole thing. Let's just go text her I want and then awesome
• 1:02:29
  people checking shots at me from Sunday. What this guy? Wise guy Breton
• 1:02:34
  Fairmont just wanted to make sure I got my Post Texas Tech text in on
• 1:02:38
  time, so Scopes will read it. Hopefully Monday before nine am, six
• 1:02:43
  days prior to the game being played. Is early enough. Good job,
• 1:02:45
  Brett. Love the show guys had a great time at the food court Saturday.
• 1:02:49
  Because he's right, you did attack everybody about your deadlines on Sunday,
• 1:02:52
  So he's right, he's just following your rules. You set the rules.
• 1:02:55
  He just abided by him. Let's set the rule, Brett. Hey,
• 1:02:59
  let's set the rule right now for this Sunday. We're gonna recording get a
• 1:03:00
  ten thirty. Yeah, okay, if you want to be included in the
• 1:03:05
  texts for Sunday show, it has to be no later than seven am,
• 1:03:10
  because I'm gonna get up about seven thirty and put them all together. So
• 1:03:15
  seven am or else you're out. Boat. Well, well that's better than
• 1:03:17
  the last time because of the way you said was like, listen, if
• 1:03:22
  you want me to read your text, yeah, you're gonna have to do
• 1:03:25
  this because I'm too busy from this time to check us. So this is
• 1:03:30
  on you. It was an attitude. It wasn't a deadline itself. It
• 1:03:32
  was the attitude about the deadline. Am I right, my right, solid
• 1:03:36
  point? And there was a little bit of attitude in what you just said
• 1:03:39
  too. Let me let me just tell you this. When we first started
• 1:03:43
  this show, I don't think it was videotape, and if we weren't on
• 1:03:45
  video right now, i'd make a gesture towards you. It's podcast. I
• 1:03:51
  think you can do it if you want. So what's the deadline? Let
• 1:03:54
  me drinks? No, I'm come out. I had some leftdate that whole
• 1:04:00
  nutter better. I need something to drink. That was wow. That was
• 1:04:05
  random, like you just finished eat like I got was that? I mean
• 1:04:13
  we're I mean we're recording. Do you think we're to tailgate something? But
• 1:04:15
  you know what I take down right now? One of those strawberry lemonade.
• 1:04:21
  I'd take that thing in one separate Hey, look show us those tardy time
• 1:04:25
  pancakes or the water the pinecake, the pancake chocolate thing there that's unbelievable.
• 1:04:29
  If you've seen this thing hoppy, this chocolate pancake with what look at that
• 1:04:32
  thing that's gonna that's Saturday morning from tardy time. That's called pancake breakfast.
• 1:04:40
  You know, I like it. I like a nice cool Kercheville. But
• 1:04:43
  I got there Saturday Friday. I got that lemonade. So that's the best
• 1:04:45
  lem I never had. I like. I excited about that lemonade. It
• 1:04:48
  was really it was a good a lot of flavors. It's uh, it's
• 1:04:51
  amazing. What a half a cup of sugar will dude. Hey, by
• 1:04:54
  the way, the very good the folks at the wine bar. I remember
• 1:04:57
  I mentioned those mimosas I met. I met them, the other great people.
• 1:05:00
  Awesome. This is what they're doing. Apple cider mimosa to welcome the
• 1:05:05
  fall season, cranberry for the folks who think Christmas is around the corner,
• 1:05:09
  and pineapple for those still hanging on the summer, and many more. Yeah.
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  Well, you know what I think the mistake is in Mimosa's No,
• 1:05:16
  not enough champagne. They like do it half and half. I think it
• 1:05:20
  should be mostly champagne and just a little like a fourth of whatever. The
• 1:05:27
  fruit juice is interesting. I'm sure my man Duke over there take care of
• 1:05:30
  you. Just tell them what you want. Well, and then if I
• 1:05:32
  get into that, it's gonna be along broadcast. Probably shouldn't do that,
• 1:05:38
  especially if tech gets out to a big one early. Could get ugly.
• 1:05:42
  Uh texter, random sports broadcasting question. Why does every broadcaster say karomed when
• 1:05:49
  every human being in the world says bounced? I mean carum? Yeah,
• 1:05:53
  that too. That's why I never used the word karom. I've never now,
• 1:06:00
  I've never ever heard a brook. You know, bring it, bring
• 1:06:03
  it, you gotta bring it on Saturday. Bring karoom because we're using it
• 1:06:08
  during ours. We're gonna use it during ours. You got to find a
• 1:06:11
  way to get it out. I can't believe that that karoomed right off the
• 1:06:15
  uprand we're using it. Let me just say this. I can tell you
• 1:06:17
  one broadcaster who doesn't use the word me care him. Hey, you know
• 1:06:28
  so I earned a living by speaking, but sometimes i'm man handle words.
• 1:06:33
  What do you mean man handle? I say I'm wrong? We all do.
• 1:06:36
  My wife kills me to hear a funny one. This is bad.
• 1:06:41
  I'll just do it. What facade? Yeah, facade, facade? What
• 1:06:49
  do you say? What do you say? Faced? You just said it
• 1:06:53
  correctly? There? Yeah, Now I said it like I was like,
• 1:06:57
  did it like in passing? I was like reading something like real qui at
• 1:07:00
  fake aid. She kills me. She kills me to this day. She
• 1:07:02
  said, bah, what did you just say? Were you reading it?
• 1:07:05
  Yeah? I was like, yeah, eight what did you just say?
• 1:07:10
  Yeah? I hate three people. Slack on that you're saying thousands of words.
• 1:07:15
  You're gonna mess something. You say that we're wrong. You must pay.
• 1:07:19
  Hey, three guys, Jeff and Lumberport. I just I just finished
• 1:07:23
  episode four hundred and eighty nine. You guys crack me up while giving me
• 1:07:27
  some of the best WVU news out there. Efforting, I just checked website
• 1:07:30
  episode eight hundred dot com. No hankies yet. Hoppy seemed to have gotten
• 1:07:34
  my pawn about the picture of him wiping sweat, as he doesn't work physically
• 1:07:39
  to break a sweat very often unless the ac is out. We all know
• 1:07:42
  that when he goes outside he messes up an ankle as an excuse to go
• 1:07:45
  back in. Just kidding, By the way, where has his bell been?
• 1:07:48
  Kind of missed that thing? Anyway, any eta on when if the
• 1:07:53
  hankies will be available with or without Hoppi's mug on them. Efforting, waiting,
• 1:07:58
  have a good day, Let's go mountaineers. You can't help yourself.
• 1:08:00
  You just can't get away from a white handkerchief. Today it's truce. He's
• 1:08:04
  throwing up the white handkerchief text I forgot, forgot the big boy. We
• 1:08:10
  will do a handkerchief. I think Texter loved that the backyard brawl was an
• 1:08:15
  old school slobber knocker made my beverage vessel vintage nineteen eighty eight seam appropriate,
• 1:08:21
  signed by Jonathan from Charleston with land in Ritchie County. There it is old
• 1:08:26
  school nineteen eighty nine plastic cup. You know, I rewatched the end of
• 1:08:30
  the game, which was particularly enjoyable because it did feel old school of the
• 1:08:35
  defense making plays, you know, getting stopped, swinning the game. It's
• 1:08:40
  great. Elected to Texter, Brad, You're absolutely correct. One cannot play
• 1:08:45
  the Three Guys podcast at one and a half speed. Your rapid delivery at
• 1:08:51
  that speed sounds like a thirty three RPM record played at seventy eight. I'm
• 1:08:56
  showing my age now. However, at one point two five, you're a
• 1:08:59
  tick. Delivery flows like a smooth running train. Keep up the good works
• 1:09:02
  on by cl and Clarksburths. That is an old reference. How many people
• 1:09:06
  got three and a third. I try and slow down, but I run
• 1:09:10
  tempo. You do run tempo. You and Dana, you don't take many
• 1:09:14
  breaks. Hey, three guys watching the Mountaineers pull off the wind against pitt
• 1:09:17
  ReLit a hope for mountaineer nation. I'll be a Canine valley for a gulf
• 1:09:21
  filled bachelor party this weekend. How about a shout out for the groom to
• 1:09:26
  be. His name is Patrick, Let's go Mountaineers. Congratulations Patrick on your
• 1:09:32
  bachelor party at Canaine. We hope that you boys behave and drink your kerchival
• 1:09:40
  and be under the covers by ten pm. Be responsible, fellas. I
• 1:09:45
  had a great time taking my boys to their first backyard brawl Saturday night.
• 1:09:48
  Reminded me of when my wife was pregnant. I used to put headphones onto
• 1:09:53
  her stomach and play old mountaineer clips from Jack Fleming and Tony. My wife
• 1:09:59
  wishes that I was kidding. Sixteen years later, my son, now a
• 1:10:01
  junior in high school, is eight up with Mountaineers sports. He even creates
• 1:10:06
  hype videos before each game under the name craig Edits. Check it out if
• 1:10:12
  you get a chance. Link forthcoming, signed by Steve and Eleanor and I
• 1:10:15
  did. I went and looked at the link. Oh wow, and it
• 1:10:17
  blows my mind. How kids and his son's a junior. The work that
• 1:10:25
  kids are doing is just wow. Everyone wants to grow up and be Ross
• 1:10:30
  Mara, right, And you know, when Ross Mara was a young guy,
• 1:10:35
  he was looking at the stuff that Danny Lohman edited together during the Rich
• 1:10:40
  Rod era and those were like wows and now yeah. So anyway, I
• 1:10:45
  looked at I'm gonna talk to the young fella and try to give him some
• 1:10:48
  some career advice. Gentlemen, I'm a youngish listener, didn't really follow the
• 1:10:56
  team growing up. I did on a Pat White jersey when I was in
• 1:10:59
  elementary, but it started following the team during the Geno Smith years. This
• 1:11:03
  year, excited to make my first brawl. I'll never forget my first game
• 1:11:08
  with sixty thousand Channing and I'm glad I got to bring my wife to her
• 1:11:11
  first as well. Also, we had a great time at the Three Guys
• 1:11:15
  Food Court tailgate. But with all due respect, I believe that all due
• 1:11:17
  respect was spelled wrong, unacceptable. I will continue to show up to check
• 1:11:21
  out the progress of the fix. I can assure you, I will not
• 1:11:27
  be getting any more delicious barbecue tacos, drums of lemonade, or my wife
• 1:11:31
  and i's favorite beard to be named after a three guys host. Oh,
• 1:11:34
  we will get that. I will not be getting anymore. I kind assure
• 1:11:40
  you know what. Anyway, doctor, remember I talked about the fire marshall
• 1:11:44
  had a gun. Yeah, Pat from Wheeling rights in was the fire marshal
• 1:11:47
  carrying a water pistol. I thought that was funny, a super soaker.
• 1:11:53
  They were fire marshal very helpful in the process. By the way, speaking
• 1:11:57
  of youngest listeners, can I make a correction, but one of our younger
• 1:12:00
  listeners, Camden, mentioned on the podcast last time we did a podcast,
• 1:12:03
  Camden member young guys saw him out in the community, said he listens podcasts
• 1:12:08
  his own downloaded himself. You were quizzing me on what grade young Camden was
• 1:12:12
  in. Okay, I told you I didn't know. You kept going,
• 1:12:15
  wouldn't stop. Got it wrong. Not middle school. He's in ninth grade.
• 1:12:18
  Brought to my tene so thank you again. Corrected ninth grade. We
• 1:12:24
  correct all our mistakes of the Adam checks in this man Adam checks in from
• 1:12:30
  the east side of Mill Creek. All the talk about Hoppies Hanky over the
• 1:12:34
  last few weeks brought back memories of the horrible Hanky from the nineteen eighties.
• 1:12:39
  Maybe you all could bring back a three guys version somewhere buried in a box.
• 1:12:42
  I have a blue one, great win over Pitt. Now let's go
• 1:12:44
  beat Tech. There it is horrible hanky. Oh yeah, I don't even
• 1:12:47
  remember that. Was that from? Was that West Virginia? I says WB
• 1:12:50
  on the bottom, I remember that either, Texter Tony. Where did you
• 1:12:58
  take Sean on your coffee run with Brad? Also sewn as ESPN's top guy
• 1:13:02
  In my opinion, I attended the game, so to make up for it,
• 1:13:05
  I had to rewatch the entire game Sunday morning. Because there's something special
• 1:13:11
  about him calling night games. Thanks for sharing stories and your fantastic impression of
• 1:13:16
  him. A wonderful impression, buying broadcaster from the New England area who had
• 1:13:23
  a great time here at West Virginia. Where's the this week? I didn't
• 1:13:28
  look yet. I didn't see either. I didn't look yet. So he
• 1:13:30
  does the eight, does the game the A game? It depends technically he
• 1:13:34
  does the two game, which is subject of debate what he's the two game,
• 1:13:40
  but he's a eight one broadcaster. He's the one in my opinion.
• 1:13:44
  And that's not just because I know him. He I mean I would he's
• 1:13:46
  the one. He's the guy, He's the guy. But anyway, it
• 1:13:51
  doesn't matter. I think. Here's a picture of some leftover fat from the
• 1:13:57
  brisket that Tony was eating while he was chatting with us. I call this
• 1:14:00
  chewing the fat with three guys. Anyway, I had a picture of somebody,
• 1:14:04
  so someone that I don't even know. I don't remember who I was
• 1:14:06
  talking to. They took a picture of the plate that I left after Rev
• 1:14:11
  keV sent me some brisket over, probably not much fat at all. No,
• 1:14:15
  No, it's just tremendous pleasant so it I mean, you have to
• 1:14:17
  have a little bit of fat there for the favor text he Hello Mike from
• 1:14:24
  Salem. A couple of matters of business. Not that this program has been
• 1:14:27
  known to beat a dead horse. But the hoppy chief, which is like
• 1:14:31
  a handkerchief, hoppy chief hobby Chiff needs needs, doesn't need to have it
• 1:14:39
  needs to have a move option, along with two other obvious colors. Number
• 1:14:43
  two lately you've been comparing the show's lifespan to that of the Beatles. It's
• 1:14:46
  an insult to the program in the opinion of the this thirty one year old.
• 1:14:50
  If they were any good, they would have hung out. I had
• 1:14:53
  a song on Tony Hawk pro Skater one or two. Besides, this podcast
• 1:14:58
  doesn't have its Yoko, so y'all will be just fine. Well, you
• 1:15:00
  don't know that that was a good text. It was hoppy, chief.
• 1:15:06
  I keep trying to convince that the Wives should do a show. Can't get
• 1:15:11
  it, can't get effort. It's not even efforting. I guess Karen wouldn't
• 1:15:15
  do it. What's that Karen wouldn't do it. She might have if the
• 1:15:17
  other two did. Would Lord do it? Probably not, Yeah, Joan
• 1:15:23
  Man, I don't know. If she could just crush me continually, she
• 1:15:26
  might do it. Well, that's she can. That would be fun.
• 1:15:30
  Just they all three just crushes for five an hour. Do you let me
• 1:15:32
  tell you something? She came over us? What was she doing? She
• 1:15:35
  was there Friday night. I wish she was there. Yeah, you're her
• 1:15:40
  Friday night text her three guys. Hello mountaineer fan here had the privilege of
• 1:15:46
  marching in the pride of West Virginia during the golden era of Major Harris.
• 1:15:50
  Let me begin by saying that I fully understand the importance of winning, especially
• 1:15:55
  given the landscape of the modern game. I also understand the importance of having
• 1:15:59
  a man of obvious integrity who I believe is a student of the game coaching
• 1:16:02
  this football team, and the person of Neil Brown. I have faith that
• 1:16:06
  the winds will come, but I grow frustrated with the oft times vitriolic attacks
• 1:16:12
  on our head coach from portions of the fan base who seem to have no
• 1:16:15
  concept of how difficult it is to win at this level or run a program.
• 1:16:19
  How does one keep this negativity from ruining the experience of the football season?
• 1:16:24
  I love the show. Go out in here. Signed by Jeff in
• 1:16:27
  Winchester, Virginia. A couple observations there. One is that you gotta look,
• 1:16:31
  you gotta try. If that's the approach you want to take, you
• 1:16:34
  gotta try to tune it out. Number one. Number two that I hope
• 1:16:39
  Neil Brown has success. I hope he stays the head coach. I think
• 1:16:42
  there's so many positives to him, but the reality is, you're making four
• 1:16:45
  million dollars a year. You gotta win. I mean, that's just you'd
• 1:16:48
  like to have it all right, but you gotta win. You have to
• 1:16:53
  win. And that's and he knows that. I mean, you're not you're
• 1:16:55
  not breaking any news show. I mean he knows that too. Three guys.
• 1:16:58
  I started to lose hope our Mountaineers after week one, but Matt from
• 1:17:01
  Section one oh six convinced me to keep the faith. So glad he kept
• 1:17:04
  me on the wagon looking forward to West Virginia swing through the lone Star States
• 1:17:09
  starting with the seventh central kick and forward. I found four tickets today for
• 1:17:13
  that game on the forty yard line for twenty five dollars each. So,
• 1:17:16
  needless to say, the horned frogs are less enthused than me. Asked Neil
• 1:17:20
  to go easy on the coogs in October. Sincerely, yours Dana from Houston.
• 1:17:27
  Oh, by the way, Tony, last week when we were or
• 1:17:30
  Sunday, maybe we were near the end of the show, and you said,
• 1:17:31
  oh, we have a time on the TCU game. Yeah it's seven
• 1:17:35
  o'clock because you had talked to somebody. I was on Monday when you let
• 1:17:39
  me come onto your little trading post station. Oh that's right, okay,
• 1:17:42
  And you said, oh, I just talked to my buddy at TCU at
• 1:17:45
  TCU at seven o'clock. Yeah, his time, seven o'clock's Central time.
• 1:17:50
  He gave it to me in central Central time. People are really they're just
• 1:17:55
  Central time bias heavy Central Time. But in the league conference, the conscience
• 1:17:59
  just continues to flip the bird at everyone who's not in Central. They just
• 1:18:02
  continue to obsessive, compulsively post everything in Central time. It's absolutely compic show
• 1:18:09
  embarrassment. Even the BYU game, everything, everything's done in Central. Guys,
• 1:18:15
  it wants to be in multiple time zones. Can't seem to get out
• 1:18:17
  of the central I mean, reading's my three favorite podcast hosts. This clown
• 1:18:27
  show is favorite part of my week on the unimportant things in life. Still
• 1:18:31
  reveling in the feeling from Saturday. I enjoy the food court, though I
• 1:18:34
  hate we were too late to get some of that barbecue. Got to get
• 1:18:38
  it early. I know that we were all dismayed with the fourteenth place projected
• 1:18:42
  finish. I thought it would be better. Now comes the time to prove
• 1:18:45
  it. Since you've talked to some Big twelve this season and we're twenty five
• 1:18:48
  percent through the season. I love to hear your picks for the bottom four
• 1:18:53
  minar. Your top two teams are gonna be Texas in Oklahoma bottom four no
• 1:18:58
  order, Houston, Yeah, not pretty good, Baylor, Iowa State,
• 1:19:01
  and Oaky State. I see the guys in Golden Blue finishing seven or eight.
• 1:19:06
  Afraid there is just not enough big plays to get more wins. Thanks,
• 1:19:10
  let go, Let's go. Let's jam Medlothian. I think what you're
• 1:19:14
  seeing is exactly what Brad would you talked about when those preseason rankings came out.
• 1:19:18
  Is you got about twelve teen' hat ten teams in there? Yeah?
• 1:19:23
  That are you know? Yeah, we talked we're through fourteen were jumbled up.
• 1:19:27
  I think he added three through fourteen in there. What's Kansas State look
• 1:19:30
  like? They've moshed through some games? Will Howard maybe hurt and Oklahoma and
• 1:19:33
  Texas looked really good early. Oklahoma hasn't played anybody yet, but they've been
• 1:19:36
  very good with Dylan Gabriel. Texas has win over Alabama obviously buys them the
• 1:19:42
  credibility to back up what people thought about them come into the season. I
• 1:19:45
  think there's a lot of games coming the rest of the season with that are
• 1:19:47
  that are coin flip games, just as we thought before the season. So
• 1:19:49
  I think it's right where we thought the league would be. And I think
• 1:19:53
  I don't I don't know what the deal is with Oklahoma stated and they're really
• 1:19:55
  struggling, But it just might be that where there's a lot of teams in
• 1:19:57
  the league, or like three and three three and four four three, man,
• 1:20:00
  I think that's the answer. High Three Guys, I listened to every
• 1:20:03
  episode. In doing that, at times I find myself using some of the
• 1:20:08
  different scenes that are often repeated on this program. I also pastor a church,
• 1:20:13
  and I've made up a small list of things that make Three Guys great
• 1:20:15
  but don't really work in my interactions with the congregation. Number one responding efforting
• 1:20:23
  into a church member asking how something's coming along efforting. Two a tongue click
• 1:20:35
  after a good point in my sermons. Now that would be really good.
• 1:20:41
  Three following a music solo from a member with a pretty good I disagree,
• 1:20:45
  Bob. I think all of these works absolutely as Bob and Clarksburg right,
• 1:20:50
  yeah, find man of the Cloth, uh text or helloscope spreads and Hoppenheimer
• 1:20:57
  still riding high on the brawl as I see it. We're Western Pennsylvania state
• 1:21:00
  champions. After the brawl, adrenaline pumping, there was no chance of sleep.
• 1:21:04
  So I took in Colorado, Colorado State, and I accounted for the
• 1:21:08
  monster rating of nine plus million viewers. Got me to thinking, I feel
• 1:21:12
  like you could make an argument that with the juggernaut that Colorado has become and
• 1:21:15
  the talent that Utah brings, the loss of oklahomer and Texas, maybe worst
• 1:21:20
  case, a push for the new Big twelve. What do you say looking
• 1:21:25
  forward to the food court this week, keeping my fingers crossed for some Friday
• 1:21:28
  evening hours. Well you got it, big boy Terry, We're there until
• 1:21:30
  ten. By the way, on the I mean, Colorado is obviously the
• 1:21:34
  early season attraction, and they have a great quarterback. Sanders Son is really
• 1:21:40
  I mean, he's he's he is pro quality. They hang on just you
• 1:21:44
  know, it's hang on a second the longest season. They're big boy dogs
• 1:21:47
  this weekend Oregon big Boy Dog twenty one point dogs. They think I think
• 1:21:55
  they people think they're bubble is going to burst. Actually actually twenty one points.
• 1:22:00
  I'm I'm might take Colorado, though, one for amusement purposes only.
• 1:22:03
  No it's actually not. You can actually place a bet if you want.
• 1:22:06
  Don't say that anymore. Yeah you nope, actually playing that to win some
• 1:22:11
  money? Text or hello play it'd be hard to not take that twenty one
• 1:22:16
  points. Yeah, it'd be hard to not take that. But Travis Hunter's
• 1:22:18
  out. They're they're great. Two way Colorado has a ton of flaws.
• 1:22:23
  They haven't shown themselves yet. Austen's a tough place to play. I'd have
• 1:22:27
  to dive more into it, but I could. I wouldn't yell at you
• 1:22:29
  the way Sunday night they did. They had the on Sanders story on sixty
• 1:22:31
  minutes. Yeah you know, I know this. Okay, I get it,
• 1:22:36
  I get it. I'm a little bit odeed on the story. Some
• 1:22:40
  people are the numbers come through. I guarantee that segment did good numbers.
• 1:22:44
  Well, the games incredible, incredible numbers. Is it two o'clock in the
• 1:22:46
  morning? Is incredible? Dude? Right now? Tex Scopes Downer a happy
• 1:22:50
  longtime listener, first time text or thank you guys for everything you do.
• 1:22:53
  This silly podcast makes us all feel like we are family. Enjoy every episode.
• 1:22:57
  The food Court was great. We'll be back this weekend. Signed by
• 1:23:00
  J and J Lawnmower Repair and Putnam County PS. I would text more often,
• 1:23:05
  but my battery's always dead. Thank god, those are the guys that
• 1:23:09
  can fix it. Don't ask brand, no idea. Hey, three guys,
• 1:23:15
  this is Eric. Eric writes in I'm visiting Chicago this weekend. This
• 1:23:18
  week not nearly as exciting his last week's trip to BAMF. I'm listening to
• 1:23:23
  a downloaded episode on the flight to Chicago to drown out others on the flight.
• 1:23:27
  I forgot a key item in my text. Last week. I finally
• 1:23:30
  found Kerchival at the speak Easy. It was great to have with the awesome
• 1:23:33
  Rev keV barbecue in the pit game. I'm hoping to stop by the speake
• 1:23:38
  Easy again this week and maybe catching Hoppy during the five minutes that he's there.
• 1:23:43
  I'm looking forward to these guaranteed mimosas I apologize on my picture snaff foo
• 1:23:47
  last week, first time text or mistake for Tony. The hotel I stayed
• 1:23:51
  at in bamp was the Malcolm Hotel. Looking forward to a Texas Tech win
• 1:23:57
  and hopefully an expanded playbook for Ko. I'm looking forward to trying the new
• 1:24:01
  coffee being offered on episode eight hundred dot com. I appreciate everything you gentlemen
• 1:24:06
  do, great shows, great West Virginia business support. So there it is.
• 1:24:10
  Look, that's a hotel. But showed that water that's in Bam,
• 1:24:15
  that is it's unbelieved. I've been there. That is absolutely the kelcium or
• 1:24:18
  something in the water makes it like so blue that it hurts your eyes.
• 1:24:21
  It's unbelievable. I was Eric, who was in Canada on Thursday, was
• 1:24:25
  at the event Friday and Saturday. Came in. Hey, guys, one
• 1:24:29
  thing about the pit game no one's mentioned is how this pit fan turned on
• 1:24:33
  their team. After the game, a quite large pit fan came down to
• 1:24:38
  us. As we expected a brawl from our trash talk, he simply shook
• 1:24:42
  our hand and said, good game. I'm not here for you, guys,
• 1:24:45
  I'm after Nardoozy. He then proceeded to try to meet their head coach
• 1:24:49
  at the field entrance to fight him. Oh my gosh. Not good for
• 1:24:53
  the Steel City cissycats so well, onto the battle for John Denver and Nico
• 1:24:57
  We trust signed by Caleb from the Edge of the Gorge and Fayettable. So
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  Nico starts. Nico is the guy this week correct, that's where you would
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  put your money. Could be it's one of two possibilities. Yes, thank
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  you Charlie from Midlothian rescending the text I sent Sunday morning at nine fifty five
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  am that was not included because it was way past the eight thirty am Kariti
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  cremudgeon deadline. Rutgers's defeated Virginia Tech Saturday undefeated. Rutgers plays number two Michigan
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  this Saturday. The text got some problems via Virginia Tech Rutgers three and oh
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  yeah text her. I almost sent a text half a text in Sunday,
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  but I likely would have missed the strict deadline for Sunday's show. I hope
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  the Mountaineers get over the hump against the Red Raiders. I'm not trying to
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  look backward too long, but I'm happy for Neil, hopefully able to take
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  a breath and enjoy last Saturday. Happy for the defense to step up,
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  Happy for Nico Tony. I also loved your video promo before the game.
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  The atmosphere in so Other Stadium was the best it's been a long time.
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  I hope Brad did not get ptb D post traumatic Blimp disorder after seeing the
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  good Year slash Comax blimp. Keep up the awesome show. God bless you
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  guys. Let's go mount near signed by Kevin and Moon tan Ship. He
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  wrote at tah N hyphen Ship tan Ship to ship by the way at Kaiser
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  three guys, this is the real Morgan in Morgantown. Morgan is ranked as
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  the eight hundred and sixtieth most popular name given in the United States estimated forty
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  five thousand, three hundred Morgans, so I'm not surprised that other Morgans have
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  been coming out of the woodwork. I will not be sending you a photo
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  of my driver's license, as I do not want to subject myself to identity
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  theft. Can I just know I'm a P one listener Signed by Morgan in
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  Morgan County. It'd also like to compliment Hoppy for using the phrase efforting last
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  week on his public Affairs program during a serious discussion about the WV Board of
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  Governors warmest regards, Signed by Morgan and Morgantown. This is not the Morgan
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  and Morgantown we were talking to. She claims she's the original. Well,
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  she showed us her license. Yeah, I've seen it. She's wonderful by
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  the way, good job using effort. Oh yeah, as perfect people knew
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  you were talking about slipped in there. Yeah, text or longtime listeners?
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  Was John and Myrtle Beach by way of Louisville by way of Clarksburg. How
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  many people from Myrtle Beach or West Virginians? What's the percentage? Well,
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  I'll tell you this. At one time on Saturday, I was talking to
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  six of them at the same time, all from Myrtle Beach, West Virginians
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  who would have gone to Myrtle Beach, and one set of them had already
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  come back. So I was just kind of introducing everybody, see if they
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  want to just like should it should just be annexed, right sure. I
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  arrived Morgantown. In Morgantown last Friday, I was encumbered with the task of
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  shopping for golden garments for our section for the games Saturday, as one can
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  expect shopping on a backyard bawl weekend. That's something I was particularly thrilled about,
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  but as a newly married man, sometimes you gotta go along for the
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  sake of the realm. Were stopping to Daniels for game day gear like an
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  oasis and the Sahara Desert. A vision of food trucks, beer and sunshine
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  appeared as my wife followed me to the mirage. I was finally greeted by
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  Brad As the nickname the Senator implies he was working the crowd so well.
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  I thought Hoppy Kirchivill was going to show up any minute for an interview.
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  Sure enough, after a couple of kirchi als, a fellow Knight of the
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  Golden Horse who arrived, Hoppy graciously thanked those in attendants and shared photos of
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  his trip to Africa. I thanked Hoppy for setting this whole thing up.
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  There was one guy missing. Surely you can't be serious that the man who
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  promoted the three guys Tellgate wouldn't be there, right Well, I am serious,
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  and don't call me Shirley. I could only think of the potential hold
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  ups it could have caused this travesty. Perhaps Tony trackdown hometown hero Mark mow
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  for an exclusive one on one interview. Perhaps Tony and Sean we're having a
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  face to face mcdunnoff at an old Echoe church in west Over until the loser
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  passed out. Tony did, in fact, have aspirations to be an asked
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  or not. Number four Tony was making the incredible backyard raw hype video in
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  front of the stadium. That one gave me goosebumps and all seriousness. Thank
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  you for entertaining us through the ups and downs. The Mountaineers bring us great
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  way to kick off the weekend in Morgantown. We'll all remember for a long
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  time. Cheers fellows. Ps. Thanks for going after the accountants and not
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  the low hanging fruit of me and my fellow dentists. There are already enough
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  anti dentites out there, and those poor buddies a dentists take a beating sometimes,
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  don't they. What was it in your defense? Friday? You were
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  around and there you were running back and forth between locations. We had some
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  technical stuff. We were doing well. Dave had me run. I had
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  to go to Ace Hardware last Friday about twelve fifty pound bags of sand over
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  at the Ace Hardware last Friday afternoon for the sands of the bicycle. Things
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  wouldn't flip over, by the way. Shout out to the guy at ASA
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  helped me load that up there. What was the astronaut thing was that you
• 1:29:50
  had no aspirations to be an astronaut. I said, that's right, Texter,
• 1:29:55
  you mentioned this is a good one. You mentioned Rick Harvey during the
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  pit preview. It brought to my my years in Morgantown from eighty one d
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  eighty four. My wife worked for a year at Mountaineer National Bank with Rick
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  and Jake Richardson. We hung out together along with a guy Hoppy may remember.
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  Rick sample Sure, who did sports at w VQ, would gather at
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  my house after the games, and Danny Neelan would sometimes stop by. That
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  gang broke up in nineteen eighty four when Rick moved to White Sulfur and I
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  moved to Bridgeport. My wife would later work for Rick when he became chair
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  a Fairmont State's business department. After my wife passed in twenty eleven, I
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  remarried my current wife and the love of my life as Italian lady who's sia
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  is Mary Arco, who I think Tony may know as there is a rumor
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  that her sauce was the inspiration for the sauce that Tony and his gang used
• 1:30:39
  when they can peppers. That's absolutely right, Mary Arko was the founding father
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  of our pepper. They our founding mother, Aunt Mary was a gem.
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  Although I'm not Italian and there are only a couple of non Italians in the
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  family. My wife's nieces and nephews and their children all call me SeeU dink.
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  No one else in my generation are called sia ort siu go figure,
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  keep up the effordine. Let's go mountain near some by d from Bridgeport.
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  Yeah, Mariarco is the whole founder of our pepper day that we do each
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  year. Oh okay, massive Texter atc Center and Dan Tony, thanks for
• 1:31:13
  getting your taxes turned in before the September fifteenth deadline. Ted the CPA is
• 1:31:18
  my father in law, and he was able to take my wife, our
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  daughter myself to Voltaires at Osteria in Salt Lake. Say this is the Italian
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  restaurant I always tell you guys about excellent dinner. Of course, there's always
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  a West Virginia connection. Our waiter, Gustavo from Guatemala, found out through
• 1:31:33
  conversation that we were from West Virginia. He immediately responded with I know West
• 1:31:39
  Virginia from that song Country Old and No, look there they are. They're
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  at Vaulters Osteria. Ted's flying home for the Texas Tech Game. It's currently
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  efforting another trip for us in October to bring his son along so we can
• 1:31:48
  make another trip to Voltaires. My wife, daughter, and myself moved from
• 1:31:51
  California to the heart of Classic Big twelve Country in Salt Lake and July of
• 1:31:56
  this year. Looking forward to completely normal match ups with Utah and BYU in
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  the near future. When you come out for a game, check out Caputo's
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  Delhi and Market for lunch, and we'll meet you at Voltaire's for dinner.
• 1:32:06
  I think it's obvious my daughter enjoyed. Look at that chocolate to Scotti I
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  almost forgot. If you see Ted before October, can we get a four
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  pack of Kerchival so we can bring it to Utah. I've been wanting to
• 1:32:17
  try it since it was just an idea on the podcast. If I don't
• 1:32:19
  get to try it soon, I feel like I'll need to call in the
• 1:32:21
  Vessel's coffee clatch for steam release three picks of the Little Girl. There you
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  go. Awesome that restaurant. I would fly to Salt Lake City to eat
• 1:32:30
  there and drive up fly home. Really it's that good, all right?
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  Last one? Good morning, Tony Brad and if it's convenient for him,
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  Hoppy, this is Fitty from Upstate New York. Been a while. I
• 1:32:43
  do apologize for not sending this out earlier, but I wanted to make sure
• 1:32:45
  that David Addleborough Junior was back from his filming in Africa. I think I'm
• 1:32:50
  may be the only one of you guys who recognizes this. The pencil sharpener
• 1:32:55
  was given me by my dad. It was originally his oldest brothers who was
• 1:32:59
  an engineer for Lockheed Martin and Georgia. It sits with pride in my workshop.
• 1:33:01
  Now it gets plenty of you, so we have pets. Start lastly,
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  Tony, I think I fell into a three guys wormhole on my hour
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  commute home the other day. I'll finishing up your last episode. My Spotify
• 1:33:13
  decided to jump to an episode dated Aug thirty one, twenty seventeen, Episode
• 1:33:16
  one. In those eighteen minutes of that podcast, I noticed that you covered
• 1:33:23
  the below topics, which, strangely enough, I just heard on the last
• 1:33:27
  episode. Number one hoppies germs in the workplace. Two an Australian punter.
• 1:33:32
  Three Brad's noting conference realignment ruining the game of college football. Four Hoppy complaining
• 1:33:39
  about playing two regional rivals. Noted that hoppied, like any good politician,
• 1:33:43
  has changed his position. Now five Hoppy not having an hour for anybody queue
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  every two point three three guys events. It is a credit to you,
• 1:33:51
  guys that after six years you still make some of the same topics entertaining.
• 1:33:56
  Thank you for figuring out how to do that. That suggested me we need
• 1:34:00
  some new material. It's college athletics. There won't be new material. It
• 1:34:04
  will be that well, it'll be confentrate a linement, it'll be scheduling playing
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  regional right, it'll be same thing. Check back on episode seven ninety eight,
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  right before the end of this thing. It'll be the same things.
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  Geez, turn my mic on three guys before the game. Don't forget Burdette
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  We really would love to see everyone Friday and Saturday. We're opening up
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  the Three Guys food court at four pm on Friday. We're doing it Friday
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  night Lights. We'll be there until at least ten, and then the barbecue
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  comes in on Saturday. Mountaineer Roasters comes in on Saturday. We're opening up
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  there and invite your friends and we'll have, as they say, a big
• 1:35:32
  time special Thanks to a lucky Luke Rousy, He's not missed a bet yet
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  this year he is now eighty three and oh against the spread. Against the
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  spread stunning, how good he is center at games. Some tips and guys
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  picked right up. So we're out. We're back again on Sunday. Make
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  sure you get your text in before seven am. That's all you have to
• 1:35:55
  say. Just say it in a nice way. It's all start to say,
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  yeah, all right back Sunday. Beat the Red Raiders, will see us m