Colonial Forge (Va). High tight end Eric Frohnapfel opted to join WVU’s 2011 recruiting class two weeks ago. His brother, Blake, decided over the weekend he would sign up to play quarterback for Marshall.

“He reminded me how West Virginia has done lately and how Marshall hasn’t beaten them,” Blake Frohnapfel said Monday, two days after he verbally committed to play football for the Thundering Herd. “And he likes to say how cool WVU’s uniforms are, especially the all yellow.

“As soon as I committed we were trash-talking each other. It will probably go on until the day we die.”

The brothers, rising seniors at Colonial Forge High School in Stafford, Va., have made their pledges to the Mountain State’s two Football Bowl Subdivision programs.

Eric, a 6-foot-6, 247-pound tight end, picked the Mountaineers on July 15; Blake, a 6-5, 210-pound quarterback, opted for the Herd over the weekend.

Both student-athletes are aspiring doctors, and had initially planned to find a mutual fit for their academic and athletic endeavors.

“We were going to play in college together, but it became apparent we weren’t going to be able to pull it off,” Blake Frohnapfel said. “So once he committed, I asked myself what I was waiting on and I pulled the trigger.”