Put plainly, Morgantown can be a 5,000-watt culture shock for student-athletes from different parts of the country and the globe. Nowhere is it more prevalent than football, which recruits the far stretches of the U.S. to find the top talent that hasn’t seen, either at all or in abundance, mountains, foliage or school canceled for hunting season.

Then there’s the snow, which arrived for the first time Monday and triggered the always-entertaining reaction.

Sands, the starting true freshman free safety from Opa-Locka, Fla., started a snowball fight with teammates outside their dorm.

“It was so fun,” he said. “It started with one and then all of a sudden everyone started throwing them at each other.”

Included in the battle were Florida natives Jorge Wright, Ja’tavious Miller and Uriah Grant and Mississippi’s D.J. Shaw. Wright, Miler and Grant are freshmen and Shaw is a junior college transfer who was at Copiah-Lincoln (Miss.) Community College the past two years.

Snow is new to all of them.

Sands, who has 23 tackles and has started the past six games, said he’s coping with the temperature drop and the snowfall, but it isn’t easy.

“I don’t have a winter coat. All I have is what they gave me here,” Sands said tugging at his sweat suit.