But good ones!

That guy with the smooth left hand committed to WVU and the class of 2015 today. He’s James “Beetle” Bolden and a lot of us were under the impression he was going to commit to Butler today. He did not, eschewing the Bulldogs and Xavier for the Mountaineers.

That’s kind of big because Butler was the supposed leader and had put a lot of time in for Bolden and Xavier basically had the home-field advantage because Covington is right next to Cincinnati.

WVU now has freshmen Dax Miles and Jevon Carter and junior college transfer Tarik Phillip as guards in the 2014 class to go with Bolden in the 2015 class. Carter and Phillip are combo guards who might end up at the 2, which is to say not as primary ball-handlers, but nevertheless capable of running the offense. Miles might be a combo, but trends toward the 1. Bolden is a 1 and has a good bit of Juwan Staten to him, no?

Let’s assume Remi Dibo is gone. WVU will have 11 players on scholarship next season — unless a Chase Connor gets bumped up or Huggins adds to this class.

I don’t believe a walk-on will get the bump. And I really wonder if Huggins adds anyone, unless he’s a transfer (there’s a good one from Maryland floating around) or a suddenly available, sure-thing prep school/high school player.

Why? Well, Staten and Kevin Noreen are seniors. Bolden and Levi Cook are committed to the 2015 class. There’s room for two more and WVU is in thick with some really good frontcourt prospects from Ohio and New Jersey, to name but a few. If you add to this class, you’re also taking from next year’s class.

I say that because I’ll add this: Don’t take my words as the gospel when it comes to recruiting, but I heard something last week that I pocketed. WVU was weathering the Terry Henderson storm and felt like it was going to wrest some good headlines sooner rather than later.

I can’t believe that was about Bolden — no offense to him, but it seems he’s a bit of a shock, and not a hat hook.

And there’s something knew we have to consider now, and I asked Huggins about this at the end of his press conference because I think it’s a good point. You really have to think about the size and the depth of your freshman class now.

It seems silly, but you don’t want a lot of freshmen, whether at the same position or not, because the stats say you’re going to lose one or two. If you bring in five this year (Elijah Macon, Miles and Carter, plus the two available scholarships), that might not necessarily help. Someone is probably leaving in time and might have company out the door. And if they all stay and graduate at once, you’ve got five (or more) openings to fill at that point.

Then again, if you save the two scholarships you have now and use them next year, you have a better chance at getting one of the major prospects, but you again have four freshmen.

Granted, four or five isn’t a terrifying number. I think the real trouble comes when you have to sign six or seven freshmen, but the point is Bob Huggins and all coaches have to be careful when they have a wealth of opportunities at their disposal.

Maybe the most welcome news of the day for Huggins was that his team was one of nine on campus to post a perfect APR score. WVU’s 17 teams all scored above the 930 mark, which means no penalties. The average score is 975, which is pretty strong nationally.

“Mike, why is that in a post about surprises?”

You’re watching all these people leaving the program and you begin to worry about the APR, right? I mean, look what happened to Oklahoma State and its turnstile football program.

But WVU did just fine and Harris and Henderson (and Dibo?) won’t hurt either, so long as they were all eligible upon their exit. A player gets a point for finishing a semester and a point for being eligible at the end of that semester. That player can get WVU four points a year.

Even if a player does just one eligible semester, the final team total is determined by dividing the number of earned player points by the number of achievable player points — basically, an eligible football player leaving after the fall semester to focus on draft prep gives two earned points and only counts for two achievable points, even though he didn’t do the spring semester.

Leaving doesn’t hurt as long as it doesn’t happen in the midst of a semester or when the player has crappy grades and flees because he won’t be playing games the following season.

So the Mountaineers have that going for them.