…as defined by Donny Barclay, the gifted redshirt freshman who has been practicing at left tackle with the first-team — and holding his own, to say the least — but only because the All-America at that position is out. Ryan Stanchek will return sooner rather than later and Barclay will return to the second-team, where he aparently does not belong.

Certainly he caught Bill Stewart’s eye, for seldom has any coach talked higher about an unheralded redshirt freshman who has yet to play a collegiate game than Stewart did about Barclay at the Big East’s media day in Newport, R.I., last week.

“We have a young talent, a boy named Barclay, a redshirt freshman,” he told a throng of newsmen. “He has a chance to be better than all five of those guys we have there now. He has a chance to be the next special lineman … and he can’t get on the field.”

That, obviously, speaks volumes about his belief in Barclay and, at the same time, it speaks louder yet about the five men who make up the Mountaineers veteran, experienced offensive line that some say in the best in the nation.