First day in pads!! Let’s go! #WVU #TEAM pic.twitter.com/uhbyQYBnPT

— Casey smithson (@Casey_Smithson) March 31, 2015

Almost forgot about those guys. We haven’t put eyes on WVU’s football team since … actually, since the bowl loss in December … but the Mountaineers are done with four of their 15 spring practices. Saturday’s 1 p.m. workout at Shepherd University is open to the public, and that’ll be followed by open practices a week later at Mountaineer Field and then a week after that at The Greenbrier.

Most of the spring is happening out of view with closed practices and tons of meeting time between the three practices every week. This is Dana Holgorsen’s once quizzical, now accepted plan of attack, and it’s extra interesting this season because of new meeting space.