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— Dana Holgorsen (@Holgorsendana) June 20, 2017

Three-hundred and ninety-seven days ago, I was at a bachelor party in Dewey Beach, Delaware. My phone dinged, and there was an email from West Virginia’s athletic department. It contained a quizzical statement on the status of Will Grier, a transfer quarterback from Florida who at that point in time may or may not have been made to sit out the first six games of the 2017 season because of a NCAA suspension.

There was no way you could read the statement and dismiss it as a simple status report, if only because it was unsolicited and unprompted. Something was up. I stepped outside and tapped out a few texts and made a few phone calls, and a while later we discovered this much: Grier was good to go, provided he maintain eligibility standards.

Charleston Gazette-Mail has learned QB Will Grier is eligible for 2017 opener provided he maintains eligibility requirements.

— Mike Casazza (@mikecasazza) May 20, 2016

If you’ve been following along, you surely know this has been the question ever since then, and I confess I pretty much gave up dealing with it rationally long ago. I knew he was good to go, and I couldn’t articulate that any more clearly than I thought I had. Today, I no longer have to deal with that.

Will Grier is eligible for the 2017 season.