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A little help is on the way

We should have visited this yesterday, but it got bumped back because of other news. It’s nevertheless important, because at some point near the end of spring football, I asked Tony Gibson if he was beginning to think about players who’d join the team over the summer. By then it was clear he had some worries about depth at linebacker and cornerback in particular. But he also had some pretty good junior college transfers and freshmen headed to campus in May, June, July or perhaps even August to offers assistance at those positions.

The defensive coordinator’s reply circled around that and then got to “maybe a graduate transfer,” though for obvious reasons. “We need guys who can play immediately. We don’t need guys who’ll get here and sit a year. We’re to the point now if we’re going to bring guys in, they need to be able to help us.”

Say hello to Maurice Fleming, a cornerback who, as you can tell, just graduated from Iowa.

He announced last month he was leaving the Hawkeyes after four years and three seasons of sporadic playing time, but Fleming wants to play, and it would seem he has a shot to be more than a nickel back at WVU than he would have at Iowa.