Today began like this …

The Marshall football coach is out of control RT @mikecasazza: “Doc wrote bad prescriptions, forced co-worker to ‘motor boat’ breasts”

— Fake Bob Huggins (@FakeBobHuggins) August 13, 2014

(That story … tremendously tremendous.) The FBH tweet was then favorited by Real Bob’s daughter, among many others. Because it’s funny. Not because WVU doesn’t much care for playing Marshall in basketball. No.

Then we had the Jacob McCrary thing — look for him to try to get in at Northwestern Mississippi Community College; WVU has a nice rapport with that staff — and then some sniping at a Marshall columnist (not this one …).

Now we have this: The Mountaineers can kindasorta thank the Thundering Herd for acquiring Shaq Riddick.

But the Mountaineers didn’t really know about Riddick until May.

“I got a phone call saying, ‘Hey, this kid is leaving and he’s a 6-6 defensive end,’ ” Gibson remembered. “I got the film sent to me and watched it on my cell phone. I was in Florida recruiting and I watched about eight to 10 plays and said, ‘We need to get this guy,’ and we went to work on it.”

Gibson said the early part of Riddick’s highlight tape was a series of plays from the loss to Marshall. Riddick had seven tackles, two sacks and three tackles for a loss. He ended up with 81/2 sacks and hasn’t shown anything different with the Mountaineers.

“He’s special as far as that’s concerned,” Gibson said. “Is he going to be a guy who beats double teams and comes through the gap to stop the run every snap? No, but we understand his limitations with that.”