He’s played against WVU and Marshall this season, which means he knows both sides and has broken down strengths and weaknesses on film and in scouting reports. It also means he’s a student-athlete, which means he could have done like so many of his kind  and refused to give a prediction or even much insight into tomorrow’s Capital Classic.

Yet the Nitro High graduate eschewed the common cliches and neutrality that might let him tiptoe the line dividing the two schools and picked a winner.

Reminder: Big day of chatter tomorrow. Chuck McGill leads off at noon. JackBo follows at 1 p.m. I clean up at 2 p.m.