Three Guys Before The Game - Mike Collins Visits (Episode 426)

3 Guys Before The Game

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Football, Sports, Basketball

2.4 • 687 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2022

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Mike Collins is an iconic Mountaineer football player.

The Huntington native, shined as a four-year starter from 1990-1993. He captained the Mountaineers to an undefeated season and Sugar Bowl appearance in his senior year.

Collins defines the physical and mental toughness that became the trademark of Coach Don Nehlen.

In this episode, the "Guys" go back in time with Mike and get his thoughts on the new world of college football.

Brad and Tony close the episode with listener questions and comments.

Join them on Monday for their recap of Sunday's basketball game between the Mountaineers and the University of Buffalo.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, what's happening.
0:09.0	Welcome in. It is time. Yes, it is. We promised we'd be back this week. We promised. We'd live up to our word. Time for three guys before the game. Episode number 426 with a special guest.
0:40.4	Former Mountaineer Football Standout.
0:42.5	Mike Collins joins us.
0:45.5	A visit.
0:46.9	We're going to go a bunch of different directions with Mike.
0:50.4	Who, to this day, to this day,
1:09.9	well, there's a lot to say, but I mean to this day embodies what it means to be a mountaineer football player, specifically defensive player, specifically hit you right in a face. I was just going to say like tough and hit somebody right in the mouth.
1:12.3	You're right in a face.
1:14.0	By the way, rare in-season guest.
1:16.8	This isn't the summer series.
1:18.2	This is a rare in-season guest here.
1:20.0	Well, Kirchville popped.
1:21.8	And so I thought, what better time with Kirchville out, bring in Mike.
1:26.4	Perfect. Tell you what?
1:28.3	What's been hard is this.
1:30.0	As I said, this is the 426th episode.
1:32.7	We've been working with Collins' people since episode 16 to try to get them on.
1:38.7	I'm glad it worked.
1:39.8	It's been, you know, finally.
1:42.0	My goodness, I've never seen a writer so big.
1:45.3	Talk about that.
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