While I’ll sometimes dabble in it, I try not to subscribe to hyperbole. If you follow or cover WVU football, that’s not an easy thing to do. Bill Stewart really likes to make points obvious and emphatic — and if you’re the head coach of a program with fans as curious and hungry as WVU’s, that’s not a bad habit.
Still, sometime between the second “I do” and the first spill Saturday, I checked my email on my phone and caught this from Oll Stewart.
On Geno Smith
Today was as good of a day as I have seen the Mountaineer quarterback throw the ball in pass skeleton in a long, long time. In the soon to be 11 years I have been here, Geno was hot. He was hitting the target, his reads were good and his timing was good. He just looked really good.
That wasn’t obese hyperbole. It was an excited, though measured message, I thought, almost as if to make a point strongly, though not so strong that someone like, well, me would immediately dismiss it.
I texted someone I trust for a more even review. Reply: “Legit.”
Was this person talking about Stewart’s assessment or Eu’s performance? Not sure for I became involved in a complex prank a short while later and never sent a follow-up text.
But does it matter?
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