We’ve done the math, and whomever replaces Blue Adams as West Virginia’s secondary coach will be the 28th assistant coach and the 27th different person to be on Dana Holgorsen’s staff … unless he re-hires someone, in which case the totals would be 28 and 26, and that rerun would join Jake Spavital as someone to leave and return.

And no, this is not a tease that Brian Mitchell is coming back to the Mountaineers.

Nor is this an indictment of what’s happening at WVU. Those are big numbers — we’re talking about three full revolutions of a coaching staff — but it’s not entirely abnormal. Until they start printing money and/or run out of space to hang the national title banners, the Mountaineers are going to deal with the issue of losing assistants. It’s part of who they are, and it’s part of college football.