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On to the next one: Players speak today

That is, the ones Dana Holgorsen grants reporters the media access to. We can safely assume freshmen and transfers who weren’t here in the spring are off limits for now, but we also have to wonder if a Jordan Thompson or Darwin Cook or even a Kevin White will be allowed to meet the media today. Time will tell.

Yesterday’s practice was, as near as I could tell, uneventful, but it was nevertheless significant because Clint Trickett threw a football in a gold uniform. I hesitated to say what I’m about to say on the vlog yesterday, because it sounded so presumptuous and misguided on the first day, but then Holgorsen spoke later and reinforced what I had observed in a very brief sample.

Now I feel safer.

I don’t know how to say this, but Trickett just looks … better? … than the other two. Smooth, composed, whatever, but when he was taking the ball and moving and throwing and then walking back to the end of the line, I thought, “That looks right.” What in the world does that mean? I don’t know, but when Holgorsen mentioned “presence” and “personality” later on, I thought, “That sounds right.”

Holgorsen, and his boss, Oliver Luck, also said some other things that I think you’ll think sound right regarding the future of college football scheduling and organization. These are not empty comments.

As for actual emptiness, we’re four weeks and one day away from the first game and IMG has 16 radio affiliates. That’s commendable, but that also counts zero in Morgantown and Charleston.