Breaking news: West Virginia University head coach just summitted his resignation letter to the management.
It was Wednesday night, maybe 20 minutes after West Virginia’s baseball team had just hit six home runs while beating Penn State, 18-7, and there was no word on whether JJ Wetherholt’s homer had yet come back to earth.
NORAD’s radar had picked it up moving about 110 miles an hour and still climbing as it approached the border between West Virginia and Ohio.
Randy Mazey, the West Virginia coach, was surrounded by a semi-circle of media types who were quick to remind him that the weekend that was approaching with a crucial Big 12 series against Kansas State would be the final weekend series of his career as head coach and re-inventor of the Mountaineer baseball program.
“You guys keep reminding me. So does my wife,” he said, about to attempt to deflect the emotional sentiments that surround such a moment.
“One, I think I don’t want this to be about me. If it becomes about me, it becomes a huge distraction.
I want it to be about the kids and the fans and the community.”
But the truth is that this is the final home series of the year.
It is very much about Mazey, about his vision for the program back in 2013 when he took the job that then athletic director Oliver Luck had offered him.
