Funny thing about Labor Day is how every year I’m the only non-newspaper person I know who is laboring … and I know people in medicine. So I’m wondering, do I just put my head down and knock out my copy for the print edition and return here tomorrow or are there people looking for content here?

Meantime, one thing I liked seeing Saturday was that WVU intentionally stressed Geno Smith at the start of the game. Two-minute mode, varying passes, QB runs and a pass on fourth-and-goal on the opening series of the season.

“Honestly,” said receiver J.D. Woods, who would catch his first career pass for a touchdown on then ensuing play, “I thought we were going to kick the field goal.”

The Mountaineers instead continued with their plan to examine and encourage Smith.

“I told the staff, ‘If we get in there close, we’re going for it,'” Stewart said. “I wanted Geno to know I have all the confidence in the world in him, as I do in the other 10 players. Will I kick it next time? Maybe. But I wanted that young man to know. He’s a young guy, but we were going with him, we were going to showcase him from the git-go.

“That’s why we went fast-paced. I wanted people to know, ‘Here it is. We’re going to get them on their heels. This is what we’re going to do.'”