The Flames have decided on a starting quarterback and actually caused WVU more confusion in the process. The decision was to go with Tommy Beecher, a transfer who was once thought to be a part of the future at South Carolina, or Mike Brown, lightning-in-a-bottle who was the backup quarterback … and running back last season … and was fourth on the team in receptions and receiving yards.

Beecher won, though it’d be unfair, if not wildly inaccurate, to say Brown lost.

“Mike will play quarterback in every game, depending on how we’re moving, the flow of the game,” Rocco said. “But Mike will do a lot of other things for us here this year. … Last year, Mike would have had a selected number of plays and things for him to run. But this year, he’ll run our offense.

“Now we’ll feature specific things in the offense, but the neat thing about both of these kids, is that they’re both capable of handling the offense, all phases of the offense. We’ll obviously cater the calling of the game to who is in the game. But we don’t necessarily have to create packages for each guy.”