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So, this wasn’t a joke…

http://twitter.com/WVUfootball/status/763708884762537985

Someone told me last night that this was going to happen this morning, and I just shrugged it off as though it could not be true. Are they going to tell him the temperature of his seat? Hey-o!

But, no, this happened, and now I need to know Dana’s Skype handle. McCracken70ThatSucksMan7033? Tell me, please.

Also, a refreshed list of five players I keep hearing about at WVU:

  1. Maurice Fleming
  2. Jovon Durante
  3. Brendan Ferns
  4. Michael Ferns
  5. Justin Crawford

This is in no order, again, but the runaway “winner,” if you will, is Crawford. Easily the most mentioned player. I asked one coach today about Durante, and his eyes just widened. That said enough for me. Fleming is going to play somewhere on defense this season, and right now he’s working on punt, kickoff, punt return and kickoff return. The Ferns brothers — Fernses? — are interesting.

Michael is a fullback, and if you remember, he had a bad day last week when he stepped in after Eli Wellman rolled an ankle. On Tuesday, I was told he’d gotten better. Today — when he made it to interviews — JaJuan Seider said Ferns is a totally different player. “Eli better hurry up and get back to practice,” he said. Brendan was arguably not arguably WVU’s top recruit, and Tony Gibson said he’s the No. 2 middle linebacker right now, “and it’s not even close.”

Also: That was a 3-1-7 in Tuesday’s practice. There’s a reason, and I’m going to write about that for Saturday’s paper. And that was Wes Tonkery and not Jake Miller.