Your long national nightmare, the one source of constant consternation that has confounded me the most through the years, is about to be no more. West Virginia University posted a Request for Bids Tuesday that specifically seeks options to make over the gray walls inside Milan Puskar Stadium.

“We’re going to kind of decorate the stadium a little bit with some new things, some new signage – and not advertising signage necessarily,” said WVU Deputy Director of Athletics Mike Parsons. “We’re talking mostly about the signage when you look at the stadium as a whole to add some color to the walls of the stadium and other places as well.”

Another significant date for you folks, somewhere in line behind selling beed and putting the Tier 3 rights out for bid … though for the life of me I never understood why this was as big of a deal as it was always made out to be. Don’t get me wrong. I think the walls are drab and needed simply a new color of paint years back, but, man, people raged against those walls. It was remarkable and, at long last, it has been noted.

Remember, Dana Holgorsen mentioned this last month, and then served you chicken salad when he pointed out the strategic advantage of having gray walls and gray uniforms.

“It’s kind of like Boise State’s blue uniforms and blue turf,” Holgorsen said. “We’re looking for a home-field advantage.”

No more!

Also, it’s important to note that this is not a money-making venture — not yet, at least … this is merely the opportunity to do some cheap upgrades  — and it is not tied to the RFP for WVU’s Tier 3 sponsorship and media rights. There’s a specific section of the RFP that covers signage and everything involved for the purposes of advertising, but this is separate and appears to be solely for decorating the walls. Now, could the winning bidder for the Tier 3 stuff add some logos to the newly decorated walls? I don’t see why not, but for now, this is not that.