WVU’s practicing outside in ranging degrees of rain at Memphis University School (don’t ask) and sends its offensive delegation to interviews around the corner at 4 p.m. CST. Shannon Dawson will not be the offensive coach in the group, and the chore will instead go to … Lonnie Galloway.

(I’m sure that won’t get anyone thinking about JaJuan Seider and his future, wherever that may be.)

I don’t know what the big deal is about Dawson not talking, except that I don’t know why it would be a big deal for him to talk. Maybe it was his idea. I’d like to pick his brain about what sort of culture change he’s been responsible for here — remember, he was preceded by Jeff Mullen_, Jeff Casteel was King of the Grease Board, 20 points was all the Mountaineers needed or wanted to win a game … and everything has changed — and also what it’s like to work for Dana Holgorsen.

Because even Dana Holgorsen says Dawson’s leaving to be an offensive coordinator when he really wasn’t the offensive coordinator here. It’s a neat story.

And fortunately for us, it’s one Jake Spavital can tell.

“There are still a lot of opportunities to be a head coach having not called plays if you’ve got a lot of connections and know a lot of people,” Spavital said. “It happened with us this year. Our receivers coach, David Beatty, got the head coaching job at Kansas and he’s never called a play. But he’s respected and he’s a very good recruiter, he’s got a lot of connections and he worked at Kansas previously.

“But I think if you call plays, more people know that you’ve done it and you’ve been put in certain situations to prepare you for the main job. It’s not easy to go out there and get that exposure, but I think you get more of it as the play-caller.”

Spavital was Texas A&M’s co-coordinator last season, but had the title to himself this season and was the lone play-caller for the first time.

“I got to go with my gut feeling more often, where before a lot of it was just giving ideas for down-and-distance or helping with the personnel and throwing out ideas to Dana,” Spavital said. “If he wanted them, he took them, and if he didn’t want them, he didn’t take them. It wasn’t anything personal. If he was feeling something and liked it, he’d go ahead and roll with it.”