Various forms of media help energize (or temper) the anticipation college football fans experience leading into the early summer months when those annual college football magazines reach your local grocery stores, bookstores and newsstands.
Then, anticipation reaches its peak in mid-July when the Power 5 conferences begin having their media days.
At West Virginia University, fueling a higher-than-usual level of optimism this summer will be the availability of Will Grier, probably the most eagerly anticipated quarterback transfer to play at WVU since Jeff Hostetler in 1982.
“I think he’s as good as advertised,” West Virginia coach Dana Holgorsen said earlier this week.