COMMENTARY
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Jake Spavital arrived with reassurance when Kenny Hill was still a high school treasure at Southlake Carroll. Kliff Kingsbury had left for Texas Tech, and Spavital was fresh on the scene at Texas A&M, making sure Hill remained committed to the Aggies.
The next fall Spavital was there preaching patience when Hill spent a season apprenticing behind Heisman winner Johnny Manziel.
Then in 2014, Spavital was in the quarterback’s ear after a spring arrest for public intoxication and in his cheering section during a breakthrough start against South Carolina when Hill threw for 511 yards.