Well, he owns very few personal belongings and his soul belongs to someone else. He’s been a graduate assistant at four schools in 31/2 years. He lives in a hotel because, as the inside joke goes, “it’s the cool thing to do,” and he loves Marriott points. He’s also a third-generation coach who, with the aforementioned as proof, is committed to his craft.

Spavital plans to get his own place and knew long ago he had a chance at something more permanent with Holgorsen at WVU.

“We talked about it before we got to West Virginia,” said Spavital, who was working with the quarterbacks and doing essentially the same job as a GA. “The whole transition, we knew it was going to happen the whole time. It just happened sooner.”

Initially, Holgorsen was to work this season as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach and replace Bill Stewart in 2012, when Holgorsen would hire a quarterbacks coach. Stewart resigned in June and Spavital was promoted last month.

“He’s just competent,” Holgorsen said. “I will be trying to get a script together and he already has three-quarters of it put together.