West Virginia practices at 1:30 p.m. today at Scottsdale Community College and for 20 minutes we are allowed to watch the practice, which is to say we’ll get an idea of how well the Mountaineers stretch.

I’m here to tell you, there is no need to worry about Ryan Mundy’s hamstrings. He really got them loose this afternoon.

Still, it’ll be interesting to see who is on hand and who is not. Backup quaterback Adam Bednarik and backup defensive linemen Mike Bilokonsky are academically ineligible and probably not in town. Meanwhile, Oklahoma is losing players at an alarming rate, as well.

Additionally, it happens infrequently, but it happens when players get around their families for the holidays and decide football isn’t for them. Now, why they’d decide to skip a trip to the Fiesta Bowl, I don’t know, but it wouldn’t be a first. I’ll also keep an eye on what administrators are around — and if you’re one of the people hoping WVU hires a coach this year, you’d like to learn that none were at practice.

* Wild 24 hours for Central Michigan Coach Butch Jones, who today is interviewing in Morgantown. Prepare for Illinois offensive coordinator Mike Locksley to become the next big thing in this process, following after Doc Holliday, Jimbo Fisher and Jones, who first interviewed last week. I have a NFL friend who says people there speak very highly of Locksely.

We know all about Locksley here, but if he agreed to interview Wednesday, as is the word going around, then it must have been serious because he did not want to be the required interview to satisfy the Black Coaches and Administrators Association.

* Won’t somebody give me a name for this bowl blog? I was going to use Fiesta Blog, but thought that looked pretty lame.