West Virginia is a tough gritty football team that recruits up and down the East Coast out of necessity since the state has failed to produce a blue-chip player in the last 5 years.
If you have followed WVU for any length of time, you know that West Virginia recruits nationally. The Mountaineers will pull in players from Florida, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, North Carolina, and Georgia just to name a few states. Every now and then, the Mountaineers will offer a scholarship to a local home-grown kid.
The Mountaineers do this because the state of West Virginia does not produce many FBS level players.