You’ll remember our conversation last week about heading in a new direction. It begins Saturday when preseason football practice opens. I’ll be there with a recorder, notebook and camera. The immediate obligation, of course, is to report on camp and the team and the storylines, but I do want the blog to have a more active role in reporting on other aspects of the beat.

This is where you come in. I think I’ve got an idea about what needs to be written for the newspaper. As I said last week, though, I recognize there are other areas that interest people and I sometimes fail to see and appreciate those. Feel free to offer up some ideas, mention things you want to see, point out stuff your curious about, so on and so forth. Either post it here or, if you want to keep your ideas to yourself, drop me a line: mikec@dailymailwv.com. I can’t guarantee I’ll do them all, but I pledge to consider everything.