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It’s probably fitting Matt Caponi, who will have the seventh-longest tenure among WVU assistants when the season starts, has already received a raise … because he doesn’t have much experience with losses. I know it’s useful that he’s worked with Tony Gibson and he knows the 3-3-5, but let’s not forget the Mountaineers are not yet used to winning consistently, and it doesn’t hurt to have someone like Caponi around to keep that moving forward.

“The most important thing about Matt is that as a player he lost one college game in four years and won three national championships,” said Gibson, who hired Caponi as his graduate assistant at Pitt in 2011 and then brought him to Arizona a year later. “The guy knows how to win and what it takes to win. I want that kind of energy and enthusiasm around the team.”