Welcome to the Audible.

I'm Stuart Mandel, joined by Bruce Feldman.

And Bruce, we have a special guest this week, one of our newer Fox Sports colleagues,

but thrilled to have her.

You see her on all the games, sideline reporter, Shannon Spake. Shannon, how are you? I'm doing well, not sitting in the carpool line like I thought I was going to be at this time to pick up my kids. But I am sitting in a parking garage chatting with you guys downtown Charlotte. There's so much we're going to talk to you about both doing the job this season as well. but I know you got the big Washington, Utah game this weekend, but we saw you tweeting out,

trip.

I saw a picture of Mike Montoro, the Celebrity SID at West Virginia.

So what were you doing in Morgantown earlier this week?

Well, I flew there yesterday.

So I flew there to sit down and chat with

a couple of the guys on the team. We talked to Tyler Orloskey, their center. We talked to Skylar

Howard, talked to Dana Holderson. And, you know, to see where West Virginia is right now,

considering where everyone thought they would be at the beginning of the season,

to see what they've done, 6 and O, now going into Stillwater this weekend.

And then obviously set up to just have, I mean, they have Baylor at home, they have Oklahoma at home.

This looks like a team who is going to be part of this conversation.

If they can make it out this weekend, I think this is a big big test to them i think that they consider that they're part of the conversation

throughout the rest of the season and what i find interesting about this team is dana

kotogerson told us that they've really taken on the identity of the state of west virginia and

what he meant by that was it's gritty, their blue collar. And a lot of

the tone is really set by Skyler Howard. You look at his road to Morgantown where he juco, you know,

went to a smaller school. He didn't get recruited by anyone. And I read this article where his high

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