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(Updated) On erstwhile WVU receiver recruits

August 13, 2014 by Mike Casazza

That’d be Jacob McCrary, who got the definitive news he wasn’t going to make the grade and enroll at WVU. He would subsequently tweet that he had to do “what’s best for me and my family.”

That means getting into a university right away as opposed to waiting, and it seems as though that means going to Marshall, which accepts non-qualifiers and of late has developed some quite nicely.

McCrary told the dot-coms last night he’d committed to the Thundering Herd and he then retweeted a few messages welcoming him to the Marshall family … but we’ll see about all that.

(Update! Like, Immediate Update. As in, I scheduled the post to publish at 10:10 a.m. and at 10:10:40 a.m. McCrary tweeted and flipped the whole thing upside down. Sort of. I’ll explain.

Anyhow, here’s his update.

OK. Refer to the original entry where I said that doing what’s best for McCrary and his family “means getting into a university right away as opposed to waiting.” Waiting means a year or two years in a junior college. That’s not free and, initially, it’ll ruin a kid’s appetite.

It would seem he slept on it and came to accept the long play was the right play. He’ll enroll in a junior college — I’ve heard one of the many in Mississippi — and we can safely assume he’ll be welcome at WVU so long as he graduates. That Marshall part was always weird, and I wonder if the long play was the only play.

Go to the second paragraph in the original entry and the part where we cap the talk about McCrary going to Marshall with “… but we’ll see about all that.” Grades are grades, man. Marshall has admission policies, too, and we had our doubts last night.

So there’s the fresh coat of paint on the original. The rest stands.)

Marshall isn’t new to taking kids that couldn’t get in at WVU — and that’s not a slight; it’s a segue. Remember Deon-Tay McManus? He was WVU’s big-time 2012 wide receiver commit from Dunbar who ended up having to prep a year in Atlanta and sit out last season as a non-qualifier at Marshall. He’s a tight end now, which could be a scary proposition in that offense and with his size and skills.

Anyhow, McCrary’s miss ends WVU’s run of signed and enrolled players and it stands to reason WVU will lose more from the 2014 class. Dontae Angus, Jaylon Myers and Justin Scott are still out there, though I heard earlier this week that Myers had a good summer and isn’t the long shot he once was. He’s got a chance, but it has to happen by the 22nd. If I had to rank the remaining three in order of most likely to enroll to least likely, it’d be Myers, Angus, Scott.