Welcome to the Friday Feedback, which found the mysterious missing quarterback. Geno Smith showed up shortly after the media left Thursday and went through the rest of the day’s practice. I’m told he had a school thing to deal with and it held him up for an hour or so. Whatever. We’re grasping at stories now, but spring practice is nearly over and, really, very little has happened.
Not a lot of movement on the depth chart. Most of the “movement” is actually setting order at positions. I think some stuff is experimental (defensive line) or temporary (cornerbacks) and at some places the deck will be shuffled in preseason camp (receiver).
Only two injuries, too, and you usually see a whole lot more red in the spring than this. Ryan Clarke is slowed by a walking boot and a lower extremity injury, but it’s perhaps fortuitous because Donovan Miles gets more action. Ivan McCartney has apparently been very good this week since returning from injury. Everything else is geared toward simply installing the defense and mastering situations on offense. I guess it beats the alternative, which you saw last year.
I now have my eyes on the spring game and, specifically, the crowd. WVU wants 30,000, but I really have to wonder. It seems to me, in talking to so many of the people I’ve met in the past few weeks, in answering email and Tweets, in trying to run this blog, there are a lot of unknowns and a lot of questions about this team this spring.
Honestly, there just hasn’t been a lot of information let or put out there and the general point of the spring game has been downplayed so much — “It’s just a practice.” — that it all might conspire to discourage. It doesn’t seem like the sort of curiosity that will inspire a big crowd, but timing is everything, right? And WVU rolled out a royal red carpet this week and got a lot of valuable exposure and probably generated some excitement about next Saturday.
Speaking of, show of hands: Who’s going to the spring game? Why or why not? Maybe I’ll clean out my garage and invite everyone over for some sweet tea. Maybe I have a mini-book tour to pull off that morning and night.
Onto the Feedback. As always, comments appear as posted. In other words, keep it clean.
Jeff in Akron said:
Off topic. if a person wanted to listen to a WVU sports talk radio station during morning drive, or any other time, what station would someone that lived in WV set there radio dial to?
No such program or platform exists. No, seriously.
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