COMMENTARY
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Jake Spavital idolized Justin Fuente. And the best traits about our childhood paragons is how the admiration never truly fades.
Spavital admitted as much earlier this month, when we spoke about West Virginia and Virginia Tech shifting September’s opener to prime-time Sunday night on Labor Day weekend. Fans rightly will fixate on FedEx Field for what beckons to be a revealing top-25 game, yet any Spavital-Fuente interaction always rewinds them back two decades, back to Union High School in Tulsa, Okla.
That’s where Fuente became one of the nation’s top-rated quarterback recruits, and a hero to a certain 9-year-old.