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Jack nabbit

June 13, 2017 by Mike Casazza

Once a four-star recruit and an option to inherit the throne at Miami, Jack Allison is no longer with the Hurricanes. Last month, he decided to leave the program and made the notable and unusual distinction of naming West Virginia and Mississippi Gulf Coast as his two finalists. That’s some list for the same kid who entertained scholarship offers from Alabama, Baylor, Florida, Florida State, Tennessee and others when he was in high school.

This is not a problem for the Mountaineers, at least not in the current news cycle. Actually, it’s probably more accurate to say this is not a problem or a solution. Allison cannot play for a FBS program in 2017 — whereas he can and, by the looks of it, likely will play at MGCC — and he wasn’t going to give the Mountaineers an immediate replacement in the wake of Cody Saunders giving up the game because of injury.

Now, could he give WVU an eventual replacement? Certainly, he could enroll in January and be here for the spring, and when you consider the school’s track record with offensive and quarterback transfers, which will be shaped one way or another by Will Grier, it’s acceptable to circle this and see what happens.

But it’s also logical Allison lights it up for a year and comes away with a longer list.

With or without Allison, the Mountaineers still don’t have an answer for who’s the third quarterback for 2017, and given that we have not yet seen the white smoke from the Puskar Center, it remains a possibility that Grier is out for six games. (Do not ask me, please.) Suppose that is the outcome or that Grier gets hurt. WVU has Chris Chugunov and walk-on Jack Bueltel on campus now and junior college transfer David Isreal on the way. Essentially, WVU has Grier and Chugunov, and there just isn’t a player out there who can help if the Mountaineers find themselves in a bind.