| West Virginia Mountaineers Football News: |
| RB Jason Colson - The junior first made an impression when he was called on to start against Temple in place of an injured Quincy Wilson in 2003. He responded with 104 yards rushing on 28 carries. Last season he ran for 706 yards, third best on the team and the most of any returnee. That included a 113-yard effort against Syracuse, which had recruited him out of Rochester, N.Y., as a cornerback.
FS Jahmile Addae - After sitting out 2003 with a shoulder injury, he returned with a vengeance in 2004 and recorded 59 tackles and a pair of interceptions. He earned all-Big East first-team honors and will be a key leader for a rebuilt defense. TOP NEWCOMERS TE Lou Davis - The 6-6, 300-pound transfer from Cerritos College in Norwalk, Calif., signed in February 2004 but didn't enroll until this spring semester. DE Johnny Dingle - The 6-3, 245-pound transfer from Florida figures to have an immediate impact on the defense. He was the Miami-Dade County Player of the Year and first-team 4A all-state while at Miami's Booker T. Washington High. He had begun practicing with the Gators before being declared academically ineligible. He has passed all his classes since enrolling at West Virginia a year ago. QB Adam Bednarik will not be available until fall camp because of shoulder surgery he had last November. He is expected to compete with another sophomore, Dwayne Thompson, and redshirt freshman Pat White for the starting job. Returning starting guards Dan Mozes and Jeremy Sheffey, TE Josh Bailey and LB Justin Hensley also will be out until the fall because of shoulder problems. Redshirt freshman Mike Dent was moved from the defensive line to the offensive line because of injury-related depth issues. |
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| Three starters will return to the offensive line, though two - guards Dan Mozes and Jeremy Sheffey - won't be available in the spring. The third returnee is tackle Garin Justice. That should be of some comfort as the Mountaineers look to take the pressure off at quarterback, where there is virtually no experience returning.
COACHING CAROUSEL West Virginia has a new wide receivers coach in Butch Jones, hired in January to replace Steve Bird, who was let go earlier in the month. Jones comes from Central Michigan, where he spent the last three seasons as offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach. He is the only new member on the staff. SCHEDULE SITUATION The Mountaineers will open with a conference road game - at Syracuse - before playing four consecutive non-conference affairs, including former Big East member Virginia Tech at Morgantown on Oct. 1. The Mountaineers also have back-to-back Wednesday games against Connecticut and Cincinnati, the latter on the road. QUOTE TO NOTE "Last year we had more of a veteran team and the spring was just to kind of fine tune things. This spring it's going to be more critical because those young players have got a lot to learn, and we've got to get a lot of questions answered, and I don't know if we can get them all answered |