MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Donning a West Virginia T-shirt, University High School senior Amir Richardson made his college choice by announcing, “I’m staying home, baby.”
At a Sunday night ceremony in the school’s auditorium, the Rivals three-star recruit picked the Mountaineers over Pitt, Georgia Tech, Cincinnati, Army, Temple and Marshall. A 6-foot-2, 200-pounder, Richardson became WVU’s 12th overall pledge for 2019 and the fourth of the weekend.
The drama of Richardson’s reveal was drained a few minutes before the assembly when Capital quarterback Kerry Martin — a WVU commit from the previous day — tweeted: “Mountaineer nation, we got us another one.