This man has said a lot of things during the under card for the main event. But from way back on July 19 at Big 12 media day up to and including Tuesday’s news conference, he’s done two things — two separate things — that have stuck with me. I wonder if you caught them and/or agree.

The first is, I thought, really important. It’s the first thing I wrote about for preseason camp, calling it a return to his roots. But within that story was another pillar of his philosophy.

It’s been even longer since WVU had the stability Holgorsen believes he’ll have this season. Receivers used to learn one position and stick with that. In the past few years, whether by need or creativity, some learned inside and outside positions or how to play an inside or outside position on both sides of the field.

Holgorsen never liked that and hopes those days are over.

“We’ve focused on that quite a bit,” he said. “If you look back at what I did at Houston and Oklahoma State and my first year here, we didn’t do a whole lot of that. We’ve done quite a bit of that over the last three years.

“I think we’re at a point now with enough weapons at our disposal that we can get guys more solidified at a specific position. If you’re not good enough at all those positions, that’s when you’ve got to move people around.”

It’s quintessential Holgorsen. Don’t waste practice time on all your plays when you’re only going to call a few of them in a game. Don’t squander practice reps at a position you might get good at hen we need you at a position you’d better get good at.

But you knew that. I hope. I think. Whatever. It’s real. Except when it involves Gary Jennings, who is the outlier on offense.

Yet in his news conference Tuesday, he mentioned using two running backs — which is different than a fullback and a running back. We saw four-receiver sets one day and we know he’ll use three-wide sets with either two backs or a tight end and a back.

His quarterback will be asked to and needed to throw the ball better as well as to handle some running plays. The running offense was the team’s identity last season, and the backfield, as we understand things, is better now than it was before. The zone and the power plays ought to be quite good with the backs and a pretty good offensive line.

That’s … that’s a lot of stuff. And that led to a fun back-and-forth with the head coach Tuesday — a rambling question and a good answer, if we’re being honest.

Whatever the conditions of the conversation, it’s a pretty interesting angle about the offense. He wants to be simple and efficient — with plays and the positions players rehearse — but he has a bevy of players and packages to choose from now.

It’s not a matter of one or the other. It’s both. That’s not contradictory. That’s convenient. And that’s probably great news for the 2016 offense.