I probably could have made a bigger occasion out of this. Maybe bought a cake or a piñata or at least ice. Nevertheless, WVU is off this week. There’s no game, and that means the win and loss columns won’t make room for a new digit. That’s not the occasion we’re marking. No, we stop and turn around to look back down the road we’ve been traveling for a while.

It’s been 40 games since the Mountaineers started a meme and also won the Orange Bowl over Clemson. WVU’s record? That’d be a tidy 20-20. Neither winning nor losing. Even. Conclusions waiting to be drawn. I find that fitting because as we pause and turn to look back, and then as we turn back around and fix our eyes on the path we’re about to take, I think a lot of people could go a lot of different ways with how they feel about the past, the present, the combination of both and how that mixture makes them feel about the future.

So let’s go back to where we were the morning of Jan. 5, 2012, when I asked amid the euphoria, “Where are you?” Times and products change, and maybe your feelings have, too. Where are you as Dana Holgorsen prepares for the 41st game with a lot of time and energy spent shaping and even reshaping his staff, his roster, his schemes and more?