December 21-25 of 2017 was a great time to be a Mountaineer. Not to imply that there's ever really a bad time, but optimism around the football program was unnaturally high.
It started on December 14th with Will Grier announcing that he was returning for his senior season. This wasn't exactly a surprise, but was still welcome news considering that ingrained in every Mountaineer fan is a tendency to expect the worst. When David Sills followed suit on December 18th, all seemed right in the world.
The trifecta was completed on December 20th - the first day of the newly created Early Signing Period.