Welcome Home Tavon Austin!!

We beat UNC on the field at the Car Care Bowl and now we beat them in recruiting too. This is another 5-Star recruit that HCBS and company has landed. Maybe that folksy twang helps in the living room?
Austin possess 4.4 speed, with extremely quick feet, and a great field of vision. [...]

Heastie: Let’s Do This Thing

Heastie = solid verbal (again). Me = hard (again).
Oh, yeah.

Mountain State Academy vs. Oak Hill (Updated)

That’s storied Oak Hill Academy, not Oak Hill High School, so it’s a huge game for Mountain State Academy and WVU commits Noah Cottrill and Deniz Kelicli. Your own Charley West, along with a rather large contigent of Mountaineer fans, will be making the trek down to Beckley to observe.
UPDATE: Back from the game.  [...]

Geno Smith and Stedman Bailey?

Yes, there’s a question mark on the end of that.
After a terribly hectic of second-guessing Mountaineer football, we have a bit shit-ton of good news.  Eugene Smith, the #1 QB in the entire state of Florida, has verbally committed to our fine institution of higher learning.  Along with him comes teammate Stedman Bailey, a highly regarded [...]

Tajh Boyd…HE GONE

Tajh Boyd and the BAMF (bad ass mother fucker) that he is, has decided to look elsewhere and pulled his verbal from WVU. He has every right to do this and I don’t fault him one bit. Losing Boyd’s commitment is the first real repercussion of having an offense that is unable to move [...]

Venture With Me To The Recruiting Future

Besides being both fantastically good-looking and a notary public, I am also a trained psychic. As such, I am very qualified to take a look into the future, all the way to February 2009 (take that, Conan O’Brien).
Why February, 2009? Silly question. That’s the next upcoming signing day, which for a recruiting [...]

Stargate 2008

The title of this article does not reflect my love for science fiction movies that are eventually made into TV shows. No, no, and no. Rather, it is in reference to our recruiting haul so far this season. While we have not been scoring 5 star guys like Heastie and Boyd, the [...]

The Mock Turtle on Ebanks, Jones

Billy Hahn, aka “The Mock Turtle,” joined other WVU coaches on a trip last week through Charley West (the town, not your author, because that would be gross). During that trip, he had some interesting insights and comments on this most recently signed recruiting class.
The most interesting was this little tidbit (and I’m slightly [...]

Highlight Tape Smorgasbord (RBs)

When it comes to recruiting, its easy to fall into the trap of believing the hype/star system of whichever service you’re reading at that moment. 7 stars this, 3.9 second 40 that. In the end, it’s not worth too much — just ask Osa Nosa (or me, who will bitch about Osa Nosa).
Instead, [...]

Yeah…It’s THAT Good

“The 25314,” I ask myself, “you sexy, good looking zip code, I know Devin Ebanks gives West Virginia a solid recruiting class, but how good is it?” 
Well, recruiting rankings are out for the classes of 2008, and West Virginia – the place to which John Beilein swore you could not recruit – is ranked fourth in the [...]

What They’re Saying About Ebanks

When you land a top 10 recruit in basketball, there’s going to be quite a bit written about landing said recruit, especially when he’s easily the highest rated player left on the board. Luckily, we’re here to catch you up on most of it…

Devin Ebanks Commits to Mountaineers

…or in other words, our recruiting class just went from top 25 to top 10.
If (and hopefully when) Joe Alexander returns for his senior season, CBH will have some tough decisions on coming up with a starting lineup.  That lineup, whatever he decides, will include Devin Ebanks.
We will have more on this come Monday morning…

God, I Love The Internet

…and not in a Chris Hansen kind of way, either. But then again, I am looking at high schoolers’ MySpace pages, so I guess it’s pretty close.
These are screenshots from Caleb Porzel’s MySpace profile. Gee, I wonder what school he’ll be committing to?

Note: Here’s his Scout profile.

Recruits Continue To Impress

At the latest NIKE camp in Chapel Hill this weekend, Logan Heastie, Tajh Boyd, and Dominik Davenport made huge impacts on the scouts in attendance.
In fact, Boyd’s stock might be rising as fast as anybody’s in the country, considering he has been named MVP of the last two camps he’s attended.
While the camp had a [...]

Huggins Lands 6′10″ Standout

The Class of 2009 officially took shape last night as Keith Dewitt, a 6′10″ power forward from Charis Prep (N.C.), verbally committed to the Mountaineers. Along with the recent offer by CBH, Dewiit had previously been offered by a Big East school (Cincinnati) as well as two Big 12 schools (Missouri and Nebraska).
While Dewitt’s [...]