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We’ll run the mailbag back again tomorrow, so think and ask right here. Now that we’re a full week into things, perhaps I can give you better answers than I did last week. Maybe stories by me and others have stimulated new thoughts. Plus, I have doubts about what I can pull from these abbreviated practice sessions without making Houstin Syvertson a star merely because the players who watch him punt gasp when he sends one booming into the sky.

It’s impressive. Kid’s 6-foot-2 and 220 pounds. You know who else is 6-2, 220? Brandon Golson, and what have we been saying about him thus far?

I don’t know what circumstances would precede a bench clearing brawl, but I’d like to think that because they’re not padded up like, say, linebackers that there’d be some unwritten rule by which punters fight punters, not unlike goalies fighting goalies in hockey. And if it happens, I really like WVU’s chances with Syvertson, Nick O’Toole (6-5, 220) and requisite luchadore Mike Molinari (5-9, 150). If they need a fourth horseman, Josh Lambert (6-1, 199 … definitely not 200) looks like he lives in that new weight room.

Other updates: Vernon Davis is still a receiver, and pretty pumped about who else arrived this offseason, while Clint Trickett was perhaps too ambitious about becoming WVU’s quarterback last fall. Oh, and still no sign of Howard, McDonald and Henry. What’s interesting there is that WVU added a kicker from Hurricane named Mike Molina this week. That gives WVU 103 players in camp. You’re allowed 105. At his opening news conference, Dana Holgorsen said WVU would wait until school started to add kickers. I think you can arrive at your own conclusion here.