Those are the words Dana Holgorsen directed to … well, I don’t want to pile on, but let’s just say Holgorsen has been on this fella since the beginning. Anyhow, there was a punt return drill and said target decided to add some panache at the end and went with high steps for the final few yards.

Holgorsen spotted this out of the corner of his eye, spun in the offender’s direction and ordered 30 up-downs. “We just had a meeting about this,” Holgorsen said. He finished with the brief lecture, which was quiet and reserved and wasn’t made into a spectacle. and let the player begin his penance. “I’m keeping count,” Holgorsen said.

Speaking of Holgorsen, he added his name to the list of coaches who have thus far thrown passes in drills to lighten the workload for Eu and Paul Millard. What do you think?

High and tight.

Aim high.

Throw hard. Rah!

This quarterback situation is, thus far, the top topic, and I think with reason. There are good and bad questions to ask and questions that can’t be answered, but we can agree it is a factor and a nuisance the Mountaineers would rather not deal with in camp. Yet they do and they’re handling it as best as they can.

“It’s a two-man wolf pack,” Eu said. “We’re used to that around here.” He’s right. Last season it was him and Barry “One Foot Out the Door” Brunetti, but John DePasquale could take and make some throws. I never thought I’d say this, but there’s no John DePasquale this season and that actually matters.

Ever the teammate, Keith Tandy, when prompted, said he’d pitch in if asked. People forget he was a really good high school QB. “I threw for 9,000 yards in high school,” he said.

The warmup went off without a hitch and the players nailed the jumping jacks. I think it was Alex Hammond’s selection of Lil Wayne. Special teams were again predominant. A player told Jack Bogaczyk he couldn’t remember ever doing as much special teams in his four previous years than what WVU did Friday. Saturday saw more PAT/field goal, but there was an added emphasis on punt returns and coverage. Included was this drill, in which players drop back and then transition into a blocker. (Click here: http://pbckt.com/pJ.dVJw3X)

Fielding quasi-punts — balls thrown very highly into the air — were Devon Brown, Brodrick Jenkins, Tavon Austin and J.D. Woods.

I decided to get a look at Jake Spavital and the quarterbacks. In two five-minute drills I counted 36 throws by Geno. They went off and did some more throwing afterward, where Holgorsen interceded. What I tracked, though, was a play-action drill with Spavital where the QBs concentrated on selling fakes either on a handoff or an option. Eu and Millard showed great accuracy. (Click here: http://pbckt.com/pJ.dVJGdo)

I also noticed running backs coach Robert Gillespie is extremely involved in practice. I watched him take part in a fumble drill and continuously try to rip the ball from his running backs. At the very worst, you have to like they’re emphasizing this so early.

Running backs get quite a workout, it seems. I liked the tension band drills. At the end, when the legs are spent, they can get slingshotted backward. Not Shawne Alston and Dustin Garrison, though.

Finally, it’s hard to imagine someone having as much fun as Bruce Irvin does in practice. And that may have something to do with the odd reality he enjoys the lessons and the stylings of Bill Kirelawich.

“It’s here, man,” Irvin said. “Kirlav is yelling at meetings and stuff. I’m back to recording him in the meetings. It’s here, man.”

Wait … what? Recording Kirlav? “I record him on my phone and let my mamma hear it,” he said. “It cracks her up.”

Evening post-press conference update

If you’re keeping track of how Holgorsen feel’s about practices, it’s Empty 2, Field 0. He started today by saying he again had no opening statement and wanted questions: “It ain’t no different today than it was yesterday.”

As for the arm? It’s fine, but “tomorrow is when it’s gonna be bad.” The irony of all this is the drill Holgorsen threw in was the one Spavital and inside receivers coach Shannon Dawson threw in yesterday. “He couldn’t lift his arm today. The period started and Paul goes, ‘Are you going to help me out here?’ I didn’t have much choice, but without warming up I was throwing some dimes.”

Holgorsen, in case you’re worried, does not think any less of Dawson. “It’s not high on the list of why you hire people.”

He said the team practices at the stadium, and on the artificial surface, because he isn’t in a rush to ruin the natural grass field, which he prefers. It’s kinder on the body and there’s more room. There’s a better audio system in the stadium and it was bumping Saturday.

“It creates energy and you want to create as much energy as you can,” Holgorsen said. “We talk about being loose and having a good time and that’s why everyone does this. But if you can’t distinguish between the time to do that and the time to buckle in and get stuff done, you’ve got problems. A lot of that stuff can be taken away from them if we’re not getting what we want in certain situations.”