Hey, new coach, new drill. I didn’t catch West Virginia’s running backs coach, Tony Dews, at the media gathering Tuesday, but I found him on the field putting his touches on practice.

He’s one of three new assistant coaches and one of two on offense. The other one, offensive coordinator Jake Spavital, was among the many who did speak and had plenty to share.

On the growth of the offense

You really can’t tell right now. The thing about what coach (Associate Head Coach (Defensive Coordinator/Linebackers) (Tony) Gibson and his defense, is they’re going to be very multiple as well, so we have a lot of good conversations with our certain plays versus all of his schemes, so it’s been great conversations to have. Making sure that as a coaching staff, we’re getting on the same page and at the same time that our offensive unit is understanding what we’re trying to accomplish, but very pleased with how they’re doing. I think they’re operating at a fast pace right now which I’m big on the tempo right now, so again just going back to just the general base stuff in terms of our base schemes and our base operation in terms of tempo, I think we’re doing pretty good.

On if he figured out anything he didn’t know

No, not really. A lot of it is me just trying to figure out (redshirt junior quarterback) Will (Grier). He’s pretty much as is; as what I thought he was going to be, but starting to just figure out what type of routes he likes to throw, what he’s capable of doing. The thing that I like to figure out, too, is how dynamic I can get with these running backs. I think they’re obviously proven in terms of the run game, but I like to put them in certain scenarios, certain positions to see if they can handle it out there on the perimeter. I’m playing around with a lot of things right now with these kids to see what they’re capable of doing, but again, I’ll probably have more answers for you after spring.