Probably the best compliment heaped upon Andrew Buie thus far comes from his tough love position coach, Robert Gillespie:  “He wants to count instead of costing the team.” That’s pretty profound and it speaks as much to the past as it does to the present.

That said, given what we know about Buie and his freshman season, I can’t get over this quote.

“He’s stronger and he’s a guy who plays recklessly and plays so hard I think he closes his eyes and runs into people a bunch,” second-year West Virginia Coach Dana Holgorsen said. “He’s becoming a better space guy. He’s always been a try hard, effort guy because he does try so hard, but he puts his body at risk sometimes.”

This, Buie says, has made him a different and better runner this year.