How about the headline in the paper and online? Might need to be changed …

Nevertheless, West Virginia’s first-year wide receivers coach made his first-ever recruiting venture in May and June. Despite being, at best, underrecruited in high school and having never once recruited for a college program, Roberts pulled in commitments from three well-liked high school players: Albert Reid from Washington, D.C., and Baltimore’s Deontay McManus and Da’Quan Davis.

The key for the noted academician? Preparation, research, application. He scanned through newspapers to find players WVU needed and focused on a limited number of prospects in — get this — Dallas, East Texas, Northern Virginia, Washington, D.C., and Baltimore. After doing his homework on them and lining up seven or eight visits a day, he became very familiar with the university he was readying to sell.  By the sounds of it, he won his prospects over with information.

“I put together a notebook of about eight pages that outlined what West Virginia University offers that is not football-related,” Roberts said. “I got graduation rates across the athletic department, I got football graduation rates, the average salary of a West Virginia graduate. Then I went to the football side and the revenue that’s generated, the average attendance history.

“In the end, I’d put together a personal package I could show them so they understood what I was selling and I took that to the kids who we think can contribute.”