WVU’s recent history of recruiting Georgia has met mixed results. There’s Bruce Irvin, via a California junior college, and Pac Jones, and both were first-round draft picks. Irvin has done nothing but represent the Mountaineers in a rewarding light, while Jones might be in the infant stages of a career renaissance after dark ages nearly doomed him, and still define him.

There was also Quadral Forte and Quantavious Leslie and Ben Bradley and none of them worked out. There’s promise attached to the summer arrivals Jeremy Tyler, Mario Alford and Brandon Golson this summer — though, to be fair, we must assume nothing is promised to Golson.

The state is rich with talent and populated areas. Its players benefit from spring football and the annual arrival and influence of college coaches from the SEC and ACC.

The Mountaineers want in on that action and plan to use Lonnie Galloway and Tony Gibson to make it happen.

Rivals.com lists 10 Georgia players in its top 100 for the 2014 class. The Mountaineers are believed to have offered a handful of Georgia prospects, but none in the top 100.

“The other thing to look at for these 2014 kids we’re recruiting right now is that our first game is in the Georgia Dome,” Gibson said.

“We can tell them, ‘We’re coming to your town and you can play Alabama right off the bat.’ “

Gibson and Galloway will only work Georgia as a secondary area. Galloway, who will oversee operations there, said the Mountaineers will recruit 15 to 20 players within a two-hour drive from the Atlanta airport.

“The recruiting there should be rated up with the best of them,” said Galloway, who built and maintained a relationship with Irvin before Irvin went to junior college. “It’s a great state with some of the top talent in the country.”