Welcome to the Friday Feedback, which is swollen with an extraordinary week of news and opinion and didn’t need to sit around this morning wondering if WVU is trying to have more kickers/punters on scholarship than running backs/slot receivers. I guess it really is an area of concern for Oll Stewart.
And that’s your bookend this week, one in which we learned about coaching salaries, Stew’s slightly-thinner contract, a difference of opinion about a practice facility, a new and somewhat proven kicker, no WVU-Florida basketball game, the JUCO player of the year coming to the basketball program, intriguing negotiations for the Coal Bowl and no WVU-Florida basketball game. To think, I fled the country a year ago and all I missed was Larry Aschebrook getting thrown under a bus.
Onto the Feedback. As always, comments appear as posted. In other words, please be mindful of what others might think.
Jeff in Akron said:
Okay, Mike, you’ve piqued my interest in WVU baseball. I gave up on the product the MLB is marketing a long, long time ago. This is WVU, not MLB, so I’ll do my best to keep up.
Just completed a search of Hawley Field to find out why it was called Hawley Field. As you, and probably everbody else here, know the field was named for Roy “Legs” Hawley. However, did you know that the Southern Conference Offensive Player of the Year award is still named after non other than, Roy M. “Legs” Hawley?
So, a WVU team is winning on a field named after a truly great West Virginian. Where the heck have I been?
It’s a tradition full of fun facts. And I’m glad I piqued your interest. If it takes a village to raise a child, does it take a child to raise a village?
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