The pulling right tackle on this play is Isaiah Hardy, and he’s the large left guard at Lackawanna College. He’s also one of the top pieces of business for West Virginia as signing day approaches with a “new” offensive line coach. The final contact period started Thursday. Signing day is Feb. 1. The Mountaineers have visitors lined up but without the benefit of a home basketball game the first two weekends. Hardy was one of three prospects to make an official visit this weekend.

He claimed an offer from the Mountaineers nearly a year ago, but during the fall, he never took a visit, and said he rarely spoke with the coaches. According to his head coach, Mark Duda, that was largely due to the fact Hardy is not big on the recruiting scene, wanted to focus on his team’s season, and that his lead recruiter was Ron Crook, who was not renewed by WVU earlier this month.

Now? Things are hot and heavy between the two parties, as the Mountaineers sent new offensive line coach Joe Wickline and area recruiter Mark Scott to see Hardy on the first day of the contact period. That was Thursday, and by Saturday afternoon, Hardy was on campus for his official. He will stay until Monday afternoon, and despite verbal offers from over two dozen other programs, he may not take any other visits after this one — always a good sign for WVU.

The other two: Ohio receiver Danny Davis, which would be a coup this late and perhaps especially useful after Shelton Gibson’s exit, and Georgia cornerback Shakur Brown, who some people think is a good but underrated.

The Mountaineers had their eyes on Florida over the weekend, though.

The Mike Harley Adventure continues. The longtime WVU commit said he’d use the outcome of the Russell Athletic Bowl to pick his college destination. Then he said he didn’t say that and reiterated he was sticking with the Mountaineers. He visited Miami over the weekend, which is not unusual, and stayed busy on social media.

The West Virginia verbal commit made a pro-Miami comment on an Instagram post by Notre Dame linebacker commit Drew White.

Harley writes ‘see ya next year’ on White’s photo with Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly.

Miami is set to host the Irish next season at Hard Rock Stadium while West Virginia doesn’t have Notre Dame on the schedule.

At Florida State, the Seminoles played host to quarterback  James Blackmon, who’s one of their longtime commits. There’s been a surge of confidence at WVU that Blackmon could change his mind, and things like this fan the flames. Blackmon is scheduled to visit WVU this coming weekend. He’s at Glades Central now, and that’s where JaJuan Seider played and coached.