The Smoking Musket: for West Virginia Mountaineers fans

Matt and MetroNews' Randy Gyorko recap the second episode of the final season of Game of Thrones, "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms", and speculate who will be left standing at the end of episode three.

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Matt and MetroNews' Randy Gyorko recap the first episode of the final season of Game of Thrones, Winterfell.

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Matt and MetroNews' Randy Gyorko preview the final season of Game of Thrones, and give their predictions about what's to come for Jon Snow, Daenerys, the Starks and the Lannisters. 

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We're eulogizing the AAF and the 2018-19 WVU men's basketball team as we prepare to step into a new beginning of West Virginia football under Neal Brown.

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We're over the basketball team, and talking about the sports that really matter (Kingdom Hearts 3, MTV's The Challenge and the Alliance of American Football) - at least for the first 10 minutes. Depression chat begins when we finally talk about how disappointing this basketball season has been, and continues as we talk about Dana Holgorsen's willful negligence when it came to recruiting - specifically in the case of two five-star in-state offensive linemen. We end on a positive note as we gush over Head Coach Neal Brown and how he's made football great again in one month's time.

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Topics covered include:

- We pay our respects for the fallen West Virginia University men's basketball team, and decide to not talk about them on this episode.

- PODCAST BUSINESS: Want to add your existing West Virginia podcast to The Smoking Musket and the SB Nation Podcast Network? Hit us up and we'll talk.

- How West Virginia hit a grand-slam by hiring Neal Brown, and how he's already impacted the fans, the players and recruiting.

- Neal Brown's assistant coaching staff is slowly taking shape, which isn't a bad thing.

- We lied. We ended up talking about the basketball team somehow. It's a miserable existence, really.

- TATHAN WATCH 2019: Tate Martell was spotted in Chipotle in Star City - or is that considered Granville? - enjoying tacos before his visit with Neal Brown. He's visiting Louisville and Miami this week before making a decision, so BIG NEAL BROWN'S TRANSFER TOWN AND TAX PREP SERVICING CENTER may be a real thing by this time next week.

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Topics covered include: 

- West Virginia's 3-point loss to No. 11 Texas Tech 

- Derek Culver is good. Raw, but good. 

- We no longer have a head football coach. 

- Talkin' about the candidates 

- CULTURE CHANGE 

- PODCAST BUSINESS

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Topics covered include: 

- The on-again, off-again status of Sagaba Konate 

- West Virginia basketball being a tire fire right now

- The Big 12 being not great gives us a little hope if we can turn it around 

- The Camping World Bowl being an actually exciting matchup against a good team 

- TREY LOWE COMETH 

- Early Signing Period takes

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Topics covered include: 

- Recapping the Oklahoma loss 

- Do you bring Jake Spavital back? (Surprise! You don't have to worry about this anymore!) 

- Does Tony Gibson deserve another year? 

- Is there anything to those Dana Holgorsen to Colorado and Texas Tech rumors? (Surprise! There may be, and it has the possibility of getting incredibly messy!) 

- Possible bowl destinations 

- West Virginia vs Wazzu in the Alamo would be on par with a NY6 bowl game. 

- Does Grier/Sills play in the bowl game? How mad does everyone get when they don't?

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We've got a podcast this week! Topics covered include: - The worst weekend for West Virginia athletics in years - Men and women's soccer both lost their NCAA tournament matches in excruciating fashion. - WVU men's basketball may be Actually Bad - We break down the ridiculous collapse on Saturday in Stillwater - Decompressing after the game really helps get through it - The Spav issue reared its ugly head again - Tony Gibson wasn't much better - The Boone County Cabal is real - We've seen the team respond to a certified ass kicking at Iowa State, but what about a last minute collapse? - Our good idea/bad idea for the Mountaineers when they take on the Sooners on Black Friday - Ben Kercheval, Rasheed Wallace's biological son, joins us for a look at the Big 12 coaching carousel and WVU/OU. - Les Miles at Kansas wasn't the best move - Bill Snyder's status at Kansas State - Future West Virginia offensive coordinator dumped gasoline on his seat in Lubbock - Will Grier's chances at being invited to New York - Why Oklahoma's defense has been so bad - What West Virginia can do against the Sooners if they evict them from the rent free condo in their heads - Ben's prediction - Bachelor Nation talk - Grocery Joe is the hero we all deserve - Jordan, Actually Good - Colton Underwood, virgin. - The Podcast Curse is real. Or it may be a Patrick Southern curse. - Happy Thanksgiving!

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