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I’ll be honest: I’m a little surprised by the weather here. It ranges from cold to chilly and back to cold throughout the day and when it is warm, it lasts but a few hours and the temperature is compromised by the breeze. It’s bizarre.

For example, I’m sitting on the patio at the hotel and staring at 11 cacti of varying sizes. Off along the distant horizon is a mountain and I’m pretty sure there are snow caps. This makes no sense to me.

Or others.

“I flew in wearing shorts and a T-shirt actually because I was ready for the desert,” WVU kicker Pat McAfee said. “I got of the plane and it was not shorts and a T-shirt weather.”

 Now, to be fair, the conditions for practices have been delightful. It’s clear and sunny and the sky is virtually without clouds. And if it were July, I’d be complaining about the total opposite. Plus, it’s a break from winter in Morgantown — no offense.

“It’s a little cooler than I thought or probably most of us thought,” left guard Greg Isdaner said. “I sort of like it. It’s a little warmer than back home and that’s my type of weather. I’m not a big heat guy.”

Isdaner is 315 pounds, though perhaps a little lighter now that he’s shaved his head and shedded his curly red hair. He said it was not a preemptive measure to combat the heat.

“The hair was going anyway,” he said. “It was time to get back in game mode. I hadn’t cut my hair since camp. It was time to let it go.”

Many other Mountaineers were prepared.

“I looked at the weather report before we left to get a sense of what to expect and then packed,” said cornerback Larry Williams, a senior veteran of five bowl trips and four games now who has been practicing with long-sleeved shirts under his pads and jersey. “For the most part, it’s been good. It’s been a little cold, but but you’ve got to know the desert is going to be cold at night. You’ve got to prepare so you don’t catch a cold and you can be 100-percent for the game.”