Doubt sets in. Your first college roommate, your first taste of dorm food and college life all of which are more important firsts in your young life. But all of that excitement must wait. The coaching staff has big plans for you and they have many intellectual, emotional, and physical tests for you to endure. As the outline of Mountaineer Field comes into view, you recall your official visit to WVU and the precise place and moment Coach Nehlen offered, and you accepted, a full-ride athletic scholarship to play major college football.
Summer is over and fall camp is here.
Ice cold chills rush up your spine and cover your body. You enter the Pushkar Center where the coaches' offices and the film review classrooms are housed as well as the weight training area where you hope to turn yourself from a prep star into a college star, from a boy into a man. The stands seem to reach all the way up to the sky. Coach Nehlen walks into the room and sees you staring out at your destiny and smiles knowingly. You're both wondering how soon and how well you will play, and at what position you will someday start but head coaches have a much better grasp of the big picture.