Here’s an interesting e-mail I received about the Tajh Boyd Announcement — hereafter referred to as T.B.A.

One question – every picture, article, website I have seen for the past five or six months had Tajh as the poster child for WV.  His MySpace page, his pictures, his quotes – everything was MOUNTAINEERS.  
 
How does a kid, who was WV’s only QB and the lead recruiter for WV “all of a sudden” de-commit and then say he’s not even considering WV.  I’m certainly not buying a bad offense or not his style of offense . . .
 
Doesn’t this seem really really odd to you, like something happened between Stew and / or Mullen and / or Beatty – it just doesn’t add up.

I’ve been thinking that over and I think there was something going on for a while now, something beyond an anemic offense. Throughout his high school season, Boyd went from that poster boy to 95-percent sure he’d go to WVU, then 90-percent and then “reportedly” re-thinking his decision.

It seems fairly obvious to me that last week’s unsourced report Boyd was most certainly sourced from Boyd and his people. I was told so convincingly there was nothing to worry about that I’m pretty disappointed I didn’t see through it. People didn’t want this getting out and getting bigger than it was behind the scenes. Once private becomes public, it gets real ugly. That report was a precursor to the T.B.A., a clever way of Boyd and Co. saying “Listen, we’re serious about this.”

Yet what was this that was threatening to split the thing in half? The smoke is clearing and quite clearly it seems it had everything to do with the offense and the direction it’s headed — or not headed. Cue Bill Stewart from yesterday’s press conference.

“You’ll hear all about Bill Stewart and my philosophy on signing day,” he said. “I promise you it will all be clear and no one will leave this room on signing day having any doubt where I stand on what it means to wear the old gold and blue. I promise you and the West Virginia nation you will know exactly where Bill Stewart stands on wearing the old gold and blue.

“I will tell you I will call the plays, (offensive coordinator) Jeff Mullen will call the plays, (defensive coordinator) Jeff Casteel will call the plays on special teams, offense and defense. No player will call plays. They will play. I’m glad I found that thing out sooner rather than later. No player’s daddy is going to call plays.”