…from the weekend that was. For your use in elevator rides, trips to the water cooler and other awkward moments on a Monday. Wait, today’s Labor Day. What am I doing at work? Let’s make this brief.

 

– Oh, Schmitt!

– Hey, it’s in the past. Kudos, by the way, to WVU for not flaunting the score throughout its own game Saturday.

– I shook Ed Pastilong’s hand as we began a conversation saturday afternoon. A moment later, we were watching East Carolina beat Virginia Tech. the conversation ended, I shook his hand again and I noted a sweaty palm. No wonder.

– The talk about Pitt can stop now.

– Reed Williams did not play — neither did Brantwon Bowser — and he might play Saturday at ECU. The big date is the Colorado game because there are 12 days between ECU and CU. If he’s not playing at Boulder, the fourth game is the medical redshirt deadline.

– The scoreboard was up and running and the press box consensus was … so what? It’s not appreciably bigger or better than the one before it and whatever audio upgrades have been made must be hard to notice among some 60,000 people. That said, at least it was finished and looked nice. There was one ribbon board above the visiting sideline. Pastilong said a second should be up above the home sideline before the Marshall game. Yet with all the additions, there were no live stats on display during the game and the only connection to the outside world was a scoreboard in the opposite end zone that attempted to flash other scores from around the nation, but appeared to be on crack as it flicked through the scores way too fast.

Anyhow, a fairly ordinary season-opener highlighted by Pat White’s passing. The offensive line was pretty solid and the receivers had to have eased a lot of worries, if not for the drops. Defensively, there are concerns, particularly with tacking, and the linebackers really need Williams.

Your thoughts?