MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — By his own admission, Nick Kwiatkoski is a quiet guy with a strong memory, the kind of person who can vividly recall moments from his senior year of high school football at Bethel Park, all of five years, 35 pounds of body weight and 272 tackles ago.
His college career at West Virginia has, in many ways, been a blur, a strange sentiment for someone who committed to the Mountaineers when Bill Stewart was their coach and they were a member of the now-defunct Big East Conference.
The tenacious heart of West Virginia’s defense is nearing the end of his college career, with only the Jan.