Surely you know the Big 12 Conference is going to be very different. New venues, new opponents, new style of play. Certainly it’s the offenses that moves most mouths, and for good reason with so many teams in possession of so many distinctive and defining characteristics.

Talk all you want, but it remains difficult to picture how or why this league is so hard until we actually see and experience a game. Or nine. Yet Joe DeForest, the defensive coordinator who came to WVU from Oklahoma State and the Big 12, offered up one detail that, though small, helps illustrate the big picture.

It sounds diabolical. It is all that and more.

“It’s definitely on purpose,” DeForest said, “and it’s smart.”