Your headline — apart from Dana Holgorsen appearing to imitate an ape? — is that Josh Lambert, a 2014 Lou Groza Award finalist, is no longer a part of West Virginia’s football team. This is news because of kickers and Holgorsen, because of Lambert and his coach, because of their quirky relationship through the years and especially because of the things the coach said about the player after the Kansas State game and then three days later at the weekly news conference.

I don’t know, but sometimes we look hard for explanations and presume there’s more than what we’re given, and I endorse that. We should always be, to some extent, indignantly inquisitive. But I do wonder if you need to exert yourself here.

I don’t (yet?) have a lot to add to this, and I’d be surprised if it grew beyond what I believe to be true: Lambert actually left the team last week, when or after it became clear Mike Molina was the team’s placekicker. There was an idea he might come back to the team, that he’d be in the room for the team meeting Sunday evening, but that did not happen. It’s not related to the prior suspension or a forthcoming one. It’s not a behavioral issue or anything punitive. It simply sounds like he split on his own accord, disenchanted with his spot and content with his career and his diploma.

I’d add this: A lot of players have left or have been made to leave the team through Holgorsen’s five-plus years. This is as cordial as an announcement has been. Sometimes guys call it quits. Sometimes guys are ready to move on from one thing to the next.

Lambert gave you and gave me a bunch of memories. There were game-winning field goals, one-liners and routine wit. And did you know this? K.J. Dillon had a diabetic episode as a freshman in 2012 and was rushed to the hospital. Lambert was the one who rallied Dillon and made sure he got to the hospital.