Welcome to the Friday Feedback, which gets its news from all sorts of places — wait until you see the FB/TE coach WVU hires, likely today — and would like to show you what an example.
Here’s an email from Jan. 11 in response to something I’d written a few days earlier in which I presumed Noel would not return to school:
I talked to Tavon after the Louisville game at the Sheetz on Chestnut Ridge Road — no kidding — and he said Noel’s coming back. So, if you want to run info from an 18-year-old who’s not part of Devine’s family, then I say go for it! “We all coming back,” Austin said.
By that date, I think we were all being led to believe Noel would indeed return. However, The Poet was prophetic two months earlier. Impressive! A follow-up from said emailer yesterday:
I will now believe anything Tavon Austin tells me.
Me, too. Come to think of it, maybe we — yes, I — should have just believed Noel. He said last month he planned to come back and hadn’t even filed the paperwork with the NFL to get an evaluation. That should have been a pretty strong indication of his intentions.
True, he left the door open and said the Gator Bowl might impact his decision — and I think we can agree the way the game unfolded was at least minimally impactful — but it occurs to me this all just falls in line with Noel’s career at WVU. He said one thing. Everyone else said another. He’s never really asked for anything special while on campus and simply wants to be himself and do normal things and not be held to and/or against perceptions.
Onto the Feedback. As always, comments appear as posted. In other words, don’t believe everything that you read.
JP said:
Jordan Roberts leaving may be a sign that Noel is staying
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