The story goes that Paul Millard was this accomplished Texas high school quarterback with video game numbers, but no Division I scholarshio. Oh, there were flirtations and suggestions some schools might come around, either again or for the first time, and everything would work out in the end.

When we first got to know Paul Millard, though, it was as a kid who was headed to Stephen F. Austin until the coaching change prompted a switch of his own and had him following SFA offensive coordinator Shannon Dawson to WVU.

Turns out that’s not entirely true.

“I wasn’t going to Stephen F. Austin,” he said. “I was going to wait out the recruiting process as long as possible.”

Confident, confident kid — “I’m not going to go out there and impress people with my arm or my feet. I’m not that kind of quarterback. I’m more like a Drew Brees or a Tom Brady quarterback.” — which is why he’s doing really well thus far in spring football and looks like he knows what he’s doing.

Whatever the case preceding his arrival, Millard was tight enough with Dawson that when the coaching carousel was spinning and Millard was skiing in Colorado during a spot on the recruiting calendar that keeps coaches from calling prospects, Millard was able to contact Dawson at his home in Louisiana.

Millard made this call from a land line because the cell phone service where he was vacationing was spotty. And this is where you wonder what in the world the title above means.

Well, in short time it was agreed Millard would walk on at WVU and do so for the spring semester so the Mountaineers, who at that point weren’t quite as confident in Eu Smith’s foot as they are today, could have as many healthy quarterbacks as possible.

Getting to graduation early was as  unanticipated as a spot on WVU’s roster for Millard and it was going to me about as difficult as the 19-hour drive from Flour Mound, Texas, to Morgantown. That’s when the cell phone changed spring football at WVU.