Source tells the Charleston Gazette-Mail WVU cornerbacks coach Brian Mitchell is leaving to join staff at Virginia Tech.

— Mike Casazza (@mikecasazza) February 18, 2016

Brian Mitchell and Dana Holgorsen are tight. They go way back, and I’d never witnessed Holgorsen to be more excited about hiring an assistant than when he was telling me how back in early 2013 how important the Mitchell hire was for the defense and the players. But when assistants are not getting extensions and the head coach, by all appearances, is made to play out the stretch with two years left on his contract, these things can, will and probably now have happened.

I don’t see the obvious connection between Mitchell and Virginia Tech and it’s a few weeks before the start of spring practice, when the Mountaineers will look for new starting cornerbacks and have a new cornerbacks coach (maybe!), a new safeties coach and a second-year defensive assistant.