Newcomers not all there for WVU

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August 06, 2005  

Newcomers not all there for WVU

By Mitch Vingle

Sports Editor  

A third of West Virginia’s expected incoming football class won’t be on the field when practice begins today.

According to a roster released by the school Friday, four signed will grayshirt (enroll in January and not count toward the 2005 class), three will attend junior college, three will be in Morgantown as Prop 48 cases and one will attend a prep school.

That leaves 22 newcomers, including quarterbacks J.R. House, Jarrett Brown, T.J. Mitchell and Nate Sowers, as well as blue-chip tailbacks Jason Gwaltney and Steve Slaton, set to participate in their first practice.

The three attending classes as Prop 48 cases will be tight end Selvish Capers, defensive lineman Rashad Roussell and athlete Ed Collington.

Those ticketed for junior college are running back Jetavious Best, tight end Sabree Thomas and linebacker Steve Weedon. Athlete Ryan Brinson will head to Hargrave Military Academy.

The four who will be grayshirted are Gwaltney’s cousin, Scooter Berry, a fullback, as well as defensive backs Carmen Connolly and Trippe Hale and defensive end Thor Merrow.

Syracuse announced it has sold about 35,000 tickets to its opener against WVU, according to Carrier Dome managing director and senior associate director of athletics Pat Campbell.

Campbell said about 3,200 individual game tickets were sold on Wednesday, the first day single-game tickets were made available. Most were for the West Virginia game.

http://wvgazette.com/section/Sports/2005080540

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Another one bites the dust:

Mountaineers lose recruit to music career

By Mickey Furfari, For The Register-Herald

MORGANTOWN - West Virginia University recruit Marquis Melvin of Whiteville, N.C., is giving up football for a musical career.

The 6-foot, 200-pound defensive back reported to training camp Friday night to tell Rich Rodriguez he had signed a contract with a music company.

"I've been coaching 21 years ... and we've had guys get homesick or have a change of heart," WVU's head coach said Saturday. "But it's the first time I've lost one to a music contractor.

"We knew he was a singer. But we didn't know he was that good."

Rodriguez wished the youngster well.

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croon baby croon!

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I hope the whole WVa team is singing the blues this season. ;D