Show of hands: Who watched WVU flounder on repeated third-and-shorts early in the season and wondered where in the world the enormous Terence Kerns was lurking? Thought so.

I admit, it seemed like a fairly simple solution. Need 36 inches? Why not go for the 6-1, 240-pound answer? Yet it never happened and it won’t this season. Kerns is going to redshirt because he just hasn’t done as much as the coaches needed to see. And in the irony of ironies, the big guy is perhaps too big.

“Flexibility is an issue for him,” Beatty said. “He’s one of those guys who can’t go downhill. He’s so muscle-bound and tightly wound that he has trouble getting downhill. He’s got to do a steering wheel type of thing to get back downhill. He’s getting better, but I think it’s a situation where in high school you’re that big and that fast you don’t really run off it. You run because people are scared to tackle you.”

Obviously, there’s a difference between high school and college, but in college I guess there’s a difference between games and drills, huh?