I don’t know what the motivation was, but WVU decided to have a scrimmage this Saturday and allow the media to watch. The first 30 minutes are open for photographs and videos. We’re then whisked away to the suites, and we get to watch the rest, though we cannot send out live reports.

We went over this last week when it happened, but it was a big change to the preseason media schedule, which prior to that had only given us a few 30-minute windows. I suspect it was nothing more than Dana Holgorsen looking at the schedule and thinking, “Eeh, we need to scrimmage. Let ’em watch.”

But it’s happening on a Saturday before high school football seasons start, and it turns out weekends in the preseason are very for recruiting purposes.

Limitations on practice time — for both college and high school players — allow recruits to set up visits to colleges in their spare time, hoping to get one last look at a few schools before turning their attention to their senior seasons.

That’s certainly the case at West Virginia, where the Mountaineers hosted two offered prospects over the weekend in Stockbridge, Georgia, teammates Jalen Holston and Kelton Dawson. Holston is a three-star prospect ranked as the No. 42 running back in the country. The Mountaineers are one of over two dozen programs to offer him, although he recently listed Virginia Tech, North Carolina and South Carolina as his top three schools.

Dawson is a three-star recruit, ranked as the No. 56 strong-side defensive end in the 247Sports Composite, and he had plenty of positive things to say about the Mountaineers after the trip.

“It was very good,” said the 6-foot-2, 242-pounder. “They showed us the school, the weight room, and how they get after it with school and weights. Then we watched them practice.”