Given WVU has this Saturday off, that means WVU has Friday night off, which means recruiting and high school games. Bill Stewart said seven of the nine assistant coaches were on the road Tuesday — the max the NCAA allows — and a few didn’t even travel back to campus with the team following Saturday night’s loss at Auburn.

Auburn is in the south, which is where one would find Florida on the map. That’s likely where you’ld find Doc Holliday this week.

“What’s helped us at WVU is going back to the ’80s and ’90s, we had quite a few players from [South Florida] who came to us and were successful,” Holliday said. “I like the competitive nature of all the kids in South Florida. The way they’re brought up, playing in the rec leagues, they’re chasing down fast guys at a young age, and for a lot of them, playing football is a way out, a way to get to college. They’re great kids.”

West Virginia already has received verbal commitments from four county players — Glades Central defensive back Travis Bell, Dwyer defensive back Robert Clark, American Heritage all-purpose athlete Darius Millines and Pahokee wide receiver Fred Pickett. That equals the combined number of commitments given to UF, UM and FSU so far. At least six others listed among the county’s top 25 prospects are considering signing with the Mountaineers.

Expect to see the fruits of the staff’s labor in some form soon. Is the fruit a navel orange? We’ll see.