The Smoking Musket: for West Virginia Mountaineers fans

Topics Covered: 

- Big Cow conspiracy theories are based on facts 

- West Virginia is finally a full member of the Big 12 after being on the receiving end of said Big Cow conspiracy 

- Don't light your Will Grier, Hesiman bet slips up just yet 

- Dana Holgorsen has fully evolved 

- Will Grier's finger got sweet, sweet revenge on Saturday 

- We've found momentum in the run game 

- Are there defensive concerns, or was this just one of those stereotypical Big 12 games?

 - Alabama, still wrecking everyone 

- Pitt is firing the death ray at an alarming rate this season 

- Bedlam will be boring 

- Boston College, Agent of Chaos 

- Our good ideas and bad ideas for this Saturday's matchup with TCU 

- Melissa from Frogs O' War joins us to break down a broken TCU football team, and a promising Horned Frogs basketball team 

- Is this the year Gary Patterson looks at other opportunities? 

- Jamie Dixon suffered through what must've been a flight from hell for him

- Texas fans/players/Tom Herman win our Dumb Thing of the Year of the Week

- GO VOTE

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Topics covered include: 

- We're the fastest growing West Virginia podcast on the whole wide Internet, and we thank you for listening to our dumb show 

- How Baylor was the perfect "get right game" at the perfect time and could've been one of the most important West Virginia games ever 

- Tony Gibson and Jack Allison won the week 

- Our good idea/bad idea for West Virginia vs. Texas this Saturday in Austin 

- The mythos of Texas is overblown 

- We need the offensive line to get it together 

- TCU remains a broken mess

- Mike Gundy would end Tom Herman 

- Northwestern/Washington State is God's Rose Bowl 

- If you want your coach to turn your program around, have us put him on the hot seat 

- Pitt controls their own ACC Coastal destiny 

- We've made friends in Pitt Twitter and the City of Pittsburgh needs the Panthers to win these games 

- We'll essentially know who will be playing in the SEC Championship Game after this weekend. 

- Texas Tech plz 

- RIP Hue Jackson. Dead of incompetent coaching.

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This week on a very short and mailed in episode of West By Pod Virginia, we're breaking down Thursday's game against the Baylor Bears and talking to the Memphis Grizzlies' second round pick out of West Virginia, Jevon Carter.

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The college football season is halfway over and to help break down what we've seen through the first 6 games, we're joined by MetroNews Statewide Sportsline's Randy Gyorko for a little midseason roundtable action. 

Topics covered include: 

- The biggest plus so far this season 

- Biggest surprise emergence on offense and defense 

- The Jake Spavital elephant in the room 

- Does this team have the short memory required to put the Iowa State loss behind them? 

- Is this the one time when the crazy fan reactions isn't actually crazy? 

- BASKETBALL PREVIEW 

- Important podcast business: WE'RE INTERVIEWING JEVON!

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Topics covered include: 

- PODCAST BUSINESS: Buy our shirts @ 1863drygoods.com 

- West Virginia picked up a good win over a ranked Texas Tech on the road, and we're here to eat crow. 

- We've got our own turnover prop now, and it's actually good. 

- Keith Washington and Kliff Kinsbury won the week 

- Alabama is still murdering opponents, but didn't cover so it's time to fire Nick Saban. 

- It took exactly one week for James Franklin to say "Hold my beer" and run a worse fourth down play than that thing Kansas State ran against West Virginia last week 

- Notre Dame is definitely making the playoff 

- RIP Pat Narduzzi 

- The ultimate Texas Back opportunity looms ahead, and if the Longhorns win the Red River Shootout we have to retire the Texas Back joke. 

- Outside of the Red River Shootout, the rest of the Big 12 slate - and most of the national slate - is complete ass. Scheduling this year is extremely backloaded for everyone and it's making for boring weeks early in the season. 

- To wrap up the most negative podcast ever recorded, we air our grievances about fans complaining about a ranked road conference win and the coal rush movement

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Topics covered include: 

- PODCAST BUSINESS: Buy our shirts @ 1863drygoods.com 

- West Virginia's upcoming trip to Lubbock and why they should definitely not eat the tortillas. 

- The perfect opportunity for Dana Holgorsen to show growth as a head coach 

- Friend of the blog and the Internet's only Texas Tech football fan, Hunter Cooke, joins us for a closer look at the Red Raiders 

- Beards 

- How the most bullshit, difficult video game boss has been yourself this entire time. 

- Kansas State is Actually Really Bad 

- We played sloppy this past Saturday and still managed to win by 29 points. 

- We may be good.

- How speed and Tony Gibson's bank account were the true winners this week. 

- Pointing and laughing at Virginia Tech 

- The always valuable rule to live by: Never Tweet 

- Army almost beat Oklahoma and 20,000 people watched it on an illegal Twitch stream 

- Our weekly Alabama Death Machine check-in. Status: still really good 

- WHO IS MORE BACK? Texas or Tiger? 

- RIP Pat Narduzzi, dead at the hands of UCF

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Topics covered include: 

- Two guys that can't be bothered enough to willingly watch a Kansas State game try to preview West Virginia's game with the Wildcats on Saturday 

- Canceling the NC State game was the right move. 

- Shane Lyons handled the situation masterfully 

- Logan Holgorsen low-key won the week 

- The Alabama Deathstar is fully operational 

- Matt's SEC DOOMSDAY scenario that is going to ruin college football 

- Vontae Davis had the best NFL retirement ever 

- Kansas is factually better than Ohio State 

- We imagine a team having to play Oklahoma, TCU and Oklahoma State within a 13-day period. Couldn't be us! 

- WE GOT LEAGUE PLAY 

- Kansas can go 3-1 this weekend when they travel to Waco, and David Beaty will get a lifetime extension. 

- Texas Tech showing signs of life, to most likely die in Stillwater 

- TEXAS BACK 

- FAU/UCF is the matchup we all need 

- Jimbo Fisher's Aimless Revenge Tour continues in Tuscaloosa 

- Basketball Crootin'

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In this very special breaking news audio, West By Pod Virginia discovers the Deep State conspiracy surrounding Hurricane Florence and the West Virginia Mountaineers thanks to our new friend Alex. Listen to "Alex" and friends on Pillow Fort Radio, available on iTunes and all your favorite podcast apps.

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Topics covered include: 

- West Virginia and NC State allegedly having a game scheduled for this weekend 

- Hurricane Florence lookin' to derail Will Grier's Hesiman campaign 

- Our good idea/bad idea for this game 

- Joedy gives us the most Don Nehlen answer possible to a question 

- Recappin' Youngstown State 

- Gary Jennings Touchdown Multiplier 

- Leddie Brown and Marcus Simms shining 

- Herm Edwards is factually, statistically the greatest college football coach of all time 

- James Franklin's petty game is outstanding 

- Georgia and Alabama's deathgrip on the SEC 

- Ole Miss going 12-0, winning the SEC and Alabama STILL getting into the College Football Playoff 

- TCU gets a shot to jump to the top of the Big 12 Power Rankings 

- Kansas and Rutgers is a violation fo the Geneva Convention 

- THE MURDER SMURFS ARE BACK, BABY 

- People getting mad about uniform combinations

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Topics covered include: 

- Timing Issues in the first half before the offensive monster awakened in the second quarter 

- Kenny Bigelow having no regard for human life 

- Will Grier doing absolutely everything you want a Heisman candidate to do 

- Our thoughts on the running backs situation 

- How Dana Holgorsen and Tony Gibson won the week 

- Texas Tech fans believing they actually had a defense 

- Texas definitely not being back 

- Oklahoma still being the class of the Big 12 until proven otherwise 

- Why is Kansas? 

- A week 2 preview featuring ¡El Assico!, Kansas State's shot at redemption, the nightmare continuing for Chip Kelly in Norman, Pitt/Penn State and HERM AFTER DARK. 

- We play a game on Saturday, and we shouldn't see any starters in after the first half 

- Good Idea/Bad Idea for West Virginia vs. Youngstown State 

- Smoking Musket Tailgate Correspondent Bart Keeler joins us for a rundown of all the happenings on the ground in Charlotte 

- Alabama and LSU have legitimate good quarterbacks and we welcome death 

- #VolTwitter becomes the first subject to be retired from our Dumb Thing of the Year of the Week segment

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