Here's your sports update for Wednesday...
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WVU football news:
WVU hires New York Jets assistant. Late on Tuesday it was announced that WVU has added to it's defensive staff with the addition of Mike Smith. Smith played linebacker for Mike Leach and Dana Holgorsen at Texas Tech. WVMetroNews article.
Monday evening ESPN anchor John Buccigross "tweeted" that Randy Shannon and WVU were close to an agreement on Shannon becoming the defensive coordinator. This led to a lot of other media members contradicting said tweet. Some going as far as to say that WVU and Shannon hadn't been discussed. Since the original tweet and the responses by Bruce Feldman, FootballScoop and others there have been others that say there has been contact between WVU and Shannon but that Buccigross may have jumped the gun (or whoever told him that did) in declaring it close to a done deal or whatever the terminology was. Regardless, at this point there's no concrete evidence that Shannon is a candidate and there's also no definitive evidence that he isn't either. So the point is...we'll see.
It appears a lot of WVU fans are worrying that Holgorsen hasn't named a defensive coordinator yet, but in the mean time WVU has picked up two verbal commitments. One from defensive back (cornerback) Nana Kyeremeh and the other from running back Torry Clayton. Click on each player's name for the write up from WV MetroNews. ESPN profile for Nana Kyeremeh. ESPN profile for Torry Clayton.
In the process of awaiting the announcement of the next defensive coordinator it appears a few players have "decommitted." It does appear that Trevor Williams is gone. Some word on the street that Bret Niederreither is going to explore his options as well (and many feel this is a mutual parting - as it appeared he was a Kirlav "project" type). There are a few others that are rumored to be looking around as well. One other name that came up was Da'Quan Davis - as he is a high school teammate of Trevor Williams, but WV MetroNews caught up with his mother and she said there is no truth to her son looking around -- read here.
Side note: RB David Smith picked Oklahoma over WVU, as expected.
As you should realize, by now, recruiting is a goofy, never predictable circus. So we'll watch the WVU commitment list to see how it changes.
A few names that people feel WVU has a good chance at are DT Trae Clark, MLB Garrett Hope, DE Eric Kinsey, WR Travares Copeland, S Clint Heaven, OT Kameron Davis, OG Adam Pankey, MLB Schyler Miles, WR Joel Caleb, OLB Deaysean Rippy, OT Mark Glowinski and maybe an outside shot at CB Tracy Howard.
[All names compiled by searching ESPN Insider articles, BlueGoldNews Football free board and visits list along with the free posts on Eersports.com (both are great sites if you want further information on recruiting as it happens). If you want further info subscribe to your site of choice. As of late though it seems Eersports.com produces the most information - with several posts daily. They also have a cool free trial so you can check them out.]
Last weekend (according to BGN visit list) WVU hosted a few recruits that are not yet committed to WVU. These would be Miles, Heaven, Pankey and Glowinski. According to the visit list (again BGN) this coming weekend is a BIG one with a visit from WR Joel Caleb (long considered a kid leaning towards VT). Also expected is Garrett Hope. Tion Green (a Cincinnati commitment) appeared to be coming this weekend, as well, but with the commitment of Clayton this may not be happening anymore. Obviously, the Caleb visit is big as he is a "big fish" per se. We'll find out soon enough what happens but all the recruiting sites seem to think we'll see a good bit of shake-up from the commitment list today and those that actually sign on Signing Day.
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Other WVU sports news:
WVU women beat Marshall, 69-57.
WVU men play Marshall tonight, in Charleston, at 7:30pm. The games at the Civic Center, as of the past several years, have become ridiculous foul fests. Hopefully, this year they'll get some officials that aren't rejects from the local YMCA. And being at the Civic Center you never know what else will go wrong. Scoreboard or clock issues, buzzer issues (that result in the use of an air horn), dead floors, crappy rims from the 1980s or whatever. They've supposedly made some improvements but I can't imagine it's anywhere near enough. We shall see. Let's just hope Marshall's head coach doesn't take another flop (that ended up resulting in foul shots for Marshall - and wouldn't you know it they won by one point, hmmm) like this...
Let's Go Mountaineers!!
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