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Lots of gold and blue up in that dorm room

Kyzir White — The Third White, following older brothers Kevin and Ka’Raun — committed to WVU upon visiting over the weekend and decided to wait to make the announcement until last night, possibly because he needed time to put together that photo frame.

We suspected this was coming as far back as the April visit to Lackawanna, because Kyzir was fond of WVU’s early and aggressive interest and somewhat put off by the way other schools quickly followed WVU’s offer.

Turns out that sincerity was significant all the way through the process.

“A lot of schools just offer you because the other offers you currently have, and they’re not really as interested as they say they are,” he said. “They just throw the offer out there and expect you to come, and they won’t contact you or let you know how much you mean to the program or how much they want you.

“With West Virginia, I felt like once they offered me, there was constant communication. They let me know how good of a player I was and how much they needed me. The other schools that offered me or contacted me, I didn’t have as great a relationship with them.”

There’s a natural response to all this: Is Kyzir fairly unfairly evaluated? Is it his name or his skill? I can’t answer the first, because I’ve only seen tape that’s nevertheless flattering, but the second is surely a combination of both. There’s a pattern that can’t be ignored, and teams don’t want to miss (again). There’s nothing wrong with that, either, and you only need to get a look at Kyzir and watch him move join pads to tell he’s worthy of a scholarship.

He doesn’t have a crazy story like Kevin or Ka’Raun “except maybe that I went to junior college,” he said. I guess that’s weird, because you’d figure the third brother would know to be a better student in high school, but that’s not really unusual. Junior college is an alternate path and not a bad path. What we do know is he had the best high school career among the three and that his coaches at Lackawanna think he’s better off at this point than Kevin and Ka’Raun — and neither those two got the sort of college interest Kyzir was getting.

What we also know to be true is that Lackawanna is basically becoming WVU’s best benefactor this side of the Hazel Ruby McQuain Charitable Trust. White is merely the second player to commit in the past few days. The other? His roommate, tight end and former Musselman two-sport star Trevor Wesco, a 6-foot-5, 260-pounder who caught five passes last season.

The two players ahead of him last season are now playing for an FCS and FBS team. The team’s other tight end last year moved to defensive end. Wesco is the main figure at his spot.

The Mountaineers haven’t thrown to the tight end much in Dana Holgorsen’s four seasons — Tyler Urban had 20 catches in 2011, all the other tight ends have 22 since then — but senior Cody Clay is as valuable an offensive player as WVU has because of the way he blocks and the fact he can line up anywhere.

Wesco is fine with that role, but wonders what might be if he’s allowed to do something else next.

“I like to catch and do stuff after the catch, but really I’ll do whatever they want me to do,” he sad. “They do want to use me as a vertical threat, and as a tight end I’m bigger than most receivers, but I’m not as fast. I can still catch the ball and go, so I like the receiving part of tight end, but I’m happy doing the blocking part if that’s what they want.”