Perhaps it’s only a coincidence that on West Virginia’s birthday the NCAA officially gave Will Grier full clearance to participate in WVU’s season opener against Virginia Tech on Sunday, Sept. 3 in Landover, Maryland.
Or, maybe it’s not.
For Mountaineer football fans, having Grier available under center against the Hokies could possibly be the biggest thing to hit these parts since Francis H. Pierpont was chosen governor of the “Restored Government of Virginia” on this day 156 years ago in 1861, or, two years later, when “Almost Heaven” was formally admitted into one of the world’s top Power Conferences in the mid-1860s - the good, ol’ US of A!