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Interesting revelation from WVU’s football team, the one that took its foot off the accelerator at the end of the 2011 season … and actually may have covered the brake. Sixty-five, 68 and 78 snaps in the final three games of the regular season and them — boom — a season-high 89 snaps in the Orange Bowl.

“The hardest thing to do is gauge where they’re at,” quarterbacks coach Jake Spavital said of the offensive players. “Dana ventured off of it at the end of the year. The difference between the Clemson game and the rest of the year was our thought process coming in was to play as fast as we can.

“If they would stop us, if we were three-and-out and didn’t have much success, then we’d slow the game down. The previous games, we started slow and then gauged if we could actually tempo against teams.”

The goal in Spring II V. 1  for Dana Holgorsen is not to go as fast as possible all the time. That doesn’t always work and sometimes it isn’t a good idea — and the Mountaineers can explain why. The goal, and one they believe is attainable with so many people back, is to turn it on and off when they choose and with no consequences.

“It is going to make a lot more sense to us now,” Holgorsen said. “Having that many starters back, it is more about developing some depth and getting the starters a year better.

“Everything that we do makes sense. We’ve got goals that we want to improve on obviously, but it is more about just getting these guys better at what they are doing.”