Here’s what I wrote for today’s paper about Bob Huggins’ press conference. That happened Saturday. I wrote it yesterday. The Daily Mail, as you may or may not know, doesn’t have weekend editions, so I had the good fortune of being able to let it all sink in and figure out what needed to be said.

I don’t think what’s been written is nearly enough, though.

I used my inch count to sort out the central conflict (the usage of That One Statistic) and to go deeper into some of the numbers presented in the 50 minutes.

I really can’t believe there were headlines over stories about how this is happening everywhere. What the media was made to witness Saturday was about so much more than that, but that one line was gobbled up and spit out in various forms and forums.

Yeah, 40 percent of freshmen transfer before their junior years. But nine of 11 freshmen who enrolled in the 2010-12 class here never made it to their junior years (Curry, Cottrill, Hinds, Miles, McCune, Forsythe, Brown, Harris and Henderson left, Noreen and Browne stayed; David Nyarsuk doesn’t count because he never enrolled … but that whole deal still happened).

Yeah, Curry had health problem and was medically disqualified and, yeah, Noah Cottrill had some personal issues and withdrew. Yeah, Forsythe’s dad is blind and found poor health. So six of eight freshmen never saw their junior years. Hinds, Miles, Harris and Henderson were players. Starters. Scorers. Significant  pieces.

I guess four of 11 is below the 40 percent, but I also think, at least from my perspective, this isn’t about transfers. Not solely. Players are recruited and players get to sign scholarships or grant in aid packages. Then a lot of them are gone after a year or two, or before they ever arrive. We’re talking about 13 of the past 23 players recruited to play at WVU in the past four recruiting class.

And let’s stop there, because this really bothers me still. If you see or hear someone getting this wrong, please correct it. I’ve been using the three-year stat. (Why? Good question, but before Dibo, no one had left from the fourth recruiting class. The point was players were never playing for or transferring from the program and they were all from those three classes. Before Saturday, Dibo wasn’t part of the conversation. A baseball teams goes 7-3 after going 3-7. Do I wrote they’ve won seven of 10 or do I write they’ve won 10 of 20?)

Some took that three-year number it and used it as the number for the past four years. They totally kicked it. Totally. Irresponsibly. One of the people who didn’t kick it, a person who used the three-year number and presented it as the three-year number, is Justin Jackson, who Huggins chided in the press conference. I don’t understand that. There were other people in the room who got it wrong.

But here’s the thing: The three-year stat and the four-year stat are both correct. Separately, they’re accurate. But people blurred the line between the two and Huggins pounced. Wrong place, I think, but right reaction.

Oh, and another thing about another person in the room. Say what you will about Mickey, but O.G. did a lot of the heavy lifting in there. He asked some hard questions and gave exactly zero damns about it. He did what others in that room wouldn’t have done. I can confidently say the I and a few others in there would have asked most or all of those questions. Now, I would have done it differently because, well, we’re all different, and I have a habit of being conversational instead of confrontational with my queries. But Mickey kicked in the door waving a .44.

That was … interesting. It shook the room. It got a response from Huggins. I felt like I couldn’t possible offend Huggins after that. Mickey’s presence was purposeful at that point. I do think it put Huggins in a certain stance early on and I do think some were cautious not to poke the bear, so to speak, after that, but that’s on them. And it’s not really a bad move on their part, either.

Then Mickey fell into some of the pitfalls of the condition he laid out in the beginning, but nobody in that room told him to shut up. Mickey came with a friend who drove him to the event. When Mickey interrupted a question, that friend elbowed him and told him someone else was asking a question. He never said “Shut up.”

I had a few emails asking how I could let someone treat Mickey like that, so I thought I should clear it up for everyone.

I guess there’s a lot I still want to clear up here, but I don’t know how much you all care. Huggins bristled about losing the fan base and cited season ticket sales. OK, but average attendance is down in each of the last four years.

Social media is playing a role in this and players are going to other places because of the facilities they see on Twitter. But Huggins also said only Keaton Miles went to a school or league of equal or better value.

There are little things like that. I could go on. I might. I just don’t know if my audience here is that curious or concerned. If so, about what specifically? I don’t know if I stayed plugged in too long. Sometimes that’s the bad fortune of not publishing on the weekend.