WVU baseball either ignored my spotlight or avoided the jinx. I’ll go with the former since I refuse to believe the latter exists (don’t look now, but I’m on quite a roll with the features and subsequent successes).

Suddenly in the news last week because things were really bad, WVU swept Notre Dame over the weekend with a Devil-may-care attitude.

After the Cincinnati series when the Bearcats limited West Virginia to only nine runs, Van Zant got his team together and told them to focus their attention on the remaining 12 games of the season. Either they would finish strong and somehow sneak into the Big East tournament, or they would use those remaining games as a springboard into 2011.

“I just told them to forget about everything,” Van Zant said. “I told our pitchers to try and throw more strikes, our hitters to hit the ball hard and our fielders not to worry about making errors. The past is done. Don’t beat yourselves up.”

Jack Bogaczyk and I had a similar conversation last week before he went on vacation. If it turns out as wonderfully for me as it did for Grant Buckner, I’ll be please.