Bill Stewart and WVU will apparently do nothing to get an explanation/admission of guilt from the Big East regarding Friday’s fumble recovery-turned-touchdown. 

“I have no comment on someone who made a judgment that maybe differs from my judgment,” Stewart said.

That’s been Stewart’s practice all year and, in honesty, there shouldn’t be a big issue with that. He is who he is, but the Big East already has procedures in place to assess such matters. If necessary, the conference will address the call, either publicly or, more likely, in private. It doesn’t do Stewart much good to bring light to an issue that’s already had a lot of light brought to it.

Then again, wouldn’t it be neat to see him fly off the handle once, just for principle?

Stewart was asked, however, to bring a little light to the back-to-back kickoff procedure penalties …

“We tried to get a little jump for that old Mardy Gilyard. We tried it and kind of got caught with our hand in the cookie jar. I said, ‘Do it again. They won’t call it a second time.’ What happened was we tried to get a little jump and we made a nice play, but it came back. That’s OK. I tried to load the box on him and we just got past the kicker a little too much. But it was something I instructed them to do.

“After that, they had three plays, minus-seven yards and had the ball for 1:38 and what did they do? They punted to us. We got the ball, went five plays and punted it back and changed field position. They got the ball, missed a field goal and we got the ball and scored to take a lead, 14-7. That kick with the two penalties had no bearing, in any way, shape or form, on the game. I just tried to use a little sandlot trick to spice up the coverage and got caught. We used it again on the other side at the end of the game.”