PMS 2.0 1261 - TNF Recap, NFL Week 15 Preview/Picks, WVU Head Coach Rich Rodriguez, Christian Pulisic, Nick Saban, Owen Schmitt, WVU Athletic Director Wren Baker, & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.9 • 18.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2024

⏱️ 121 minutes

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Summary

On today’s show, Pat is LIVE from the West Virginia Coliseum ahead of Rich Rodriguez’s introductory press conference as Head Coach at West Virginia. They also cover last night’s Thursday Night Football snoozefest that saw the Rams outlast the 49ers 12-6, before turning to the week 15 slate and make their picks against the spread. Joining the progrum to chat about the future of West Virginia football, the decision to leave and return, what kind of players he’s looking for, what “hard edge” means, and what kind of players he’s looking for is the newest Head Coach of the West Virginia Mountaineers, Rich Rodriguez. Next, winger for AC Milan, Captain America, Christian Pulisic joins the progrum to chat about his new documentary on Paramount +, how close the US is to competing with other countries to win the World Cup, treatment of American players overseas, and his thoughts on the new US Men’s National Team Coach. Later, the GOAT, 7x National Champion, Nick Saban joins the show to chat about his role in helping West Virginia find their next Head Coach, his thoughts on the CFP and how weather will impact some of the games, and how much of a factor Dabo Swinney’s experience will be in their game against Texas. Lastly, Athletic Director for West Virginia, Wren Baker, to chat about the process of finding their new Head Coach, why he thinks he got the decision right, and how this will impact new NIL donors coming into the fold. Make sure to subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow or watch on ESPN (12-2 EDT), ESPN’s Youtube (12-3 EDT), or ESPN+. We appreciate the hell out of all of you. We’ll see you tomorrow, cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Here we go, the Pat McAfee's show.
0:02.7	I'm A.J. Hawkins sitting at Pat's desk.
0:05.7	Ian Cogman are down in Morgantown, West Virginia.
0:08.5	There's some Rumbens down there.
0:12.2	Football!
0:14.4	It is what's happening, Pat.
0:16.1	Conman, you guys just walked out.
0:17.3	We see the crowd going crazy.
0:18.6	How's it going?
0:19.1	What's the atmosphere like down there, man?
0:32.5	It is absolutely electrifying in morgan town west virginia this is uh this is for a press conference to announce that uh rich rodriguez is officially the head coach again for the West Virginia now.
0:43.3	Now, we drove in this morning, obviously, and outside the WVU Coliseum, which is absolutely beautiful.
0:50.3	If you haven't been, you need to get here, but there was people lined up since like 8. like 830 a.m it was cold as hell people couldn't wait to get in here
0:57.0	maybe buy some beers maybe celebrate what the future is gonna be and showcase
1:01.1	to the world that West Virginia football not only all the way back but it is
1:05.1	the present these sports fans have been in hibernation for a bit we're about to go
1:08.9	get some championships and that's what today is all about.
1:16.4	Now, the Mountaineers here, got a good-looking gun there. That thing fires off every time we score.
1:22.5	There's going to be a lot of gunshots ringing in a lot of big 12 cities, because what's about to happen?
1:31.0	To all this schools at that fantastic conference Shout out to that guy just walking through the shot doesn't care about a single thing
1:35.3	Iowa State Arizona State Arizona State was projected to have three and a half wins this year last in the entire big 12 they go on to win that thing because they get a couple of dogs in the transfer portal well I think the people were about to
1:48.2	bring into this team and the roster that we're about to keep here is about to
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