West Virginia’s coaching staff put a finger on the bow and tied it tightly Sunday night when it ended spring football by adding a quarterback to the 2017 recruiting class.

That’s not an error. David Isreal is in for the fall, and that’s only the start of his tale.

The Mountaineers were looking for a quarterback for the fall, but that’s a tricky situation. You can imagine the crop of unsigned high school prospects … or you could have a look. (Don’t count Jake Bentley. He was part of the 2017 class, but he reclassified and joined South Carolina last summer.) There are reasons those players are available, and it’s hard to dip into that pool and pull out a keeper.

In some years, you might find a graduate transfer, but Will Grier is no doubt an impediment to those plans. Junior college? The best ones sign in December and the competition for the ones available later on is fierce but not impenetrable.

Anyhow, WVU had a hard sell/easy sell. The offense, the head coach and his offensive coordinator are going to get the Mountaineers in a lot of rooms, but this is quite clearly Grier’s show … and he’s a junior.

If only you could find a talent both able and willing to wait.

That, it turns out, is David Isreal.

WVU, which has a knack for finding junior college players who have three seasons of eligibility remaining, did one better this time. Isreal, who is almost certainly the person Holgorsen is describing here, is a rarity and a get for the Mountaineers.

The junior college prospect is a “late out” recruit, someone who originally intended to be in the class of 2018, but is far enough ahead in his schoolwork that he’ll be allowed to be a late addition to the 2017 class. He will arrive this summer in Morgantown with four years to play three seasons, meaning he will likely redshirt this year behind Will Grier, and then have a shot at the starting job if Grier chooses to leave early for the NFL.

As for Isreal’s recruitment, things moved quickly. The staff got wind that he might be able to enroll this summer, and reached out to him on Tuesday of last week. By that night, he had an official visit set to Morgantown that began on Thursday.

“The trip went real good. I liked it a lot and they offered me [Saturday] morning,” said the 6-foot-3, 175-pounder. “When I got to the facilities this morning, coach [Jake] Spavital gave me the rundown of the situation and gave me the offer.”

 The fact that Isreal was a “late out” guy meant that many schools were not given the opportunity to recruit him, so the only competition West Virginia had for his services was Memphis. This is one of the perks Dana Holgorsen was referring to earlier this month when he said he would rather have a handful of extra scholarships around in the spring. On Saturday morning, one of those open spots was offered to Isreal.

“I was excited, very excited,” Isreal said Saturday afternoon. “The offer put a lot of things in perspective for me. My mom gets back from vacation tonight and I’m going to talk to her. I’m going to have a decision sometime this week.”