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Former Troy kicker Tyler Sumpter commits to West Virginia because of coach Neal Brown and family roots

The video on Tyler Sumpter’s Twitter account Sunday evening first shows him paddling down a gently flowing river in a kayak.

It then cuts to him lying back as if taking a nap with sounds of a football game playing in his head. Once back awake, the video has Sumpter paddling with a University of West Virginia flag attached to the back of the kayak.

It was in this way that Sumpter, who spent the past three seasons at the kicker for Troy University, let the college football world know he was committing to the University of West Virginia as a graduate transfer to play his final year of eligibility.