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Jim Justice recruits Pruett, Nehlen as advocates

Herald-Dispatch photo by Bishop Nash West Virginia gubernatorial candidate Jim Justice speaks alongside former Marshall University head football coach Bob Pruett, left and former West Virginia University head football coach Don Nehlen during a press conference Monday, August 17, 2015, at the Pullman Plaza Hotel in Huntington.
Herald-Dispatch photo by Bishop Nash
West Virginia gubernatorial candidate Jim Justice speaks alongside former Marshall University head football coach Bob Pruett, left and former West Virginia University head football coach Don Nehlen during a press conference Monday, August 17, 2015, at the Pullman Plaza Hotel in Huntington.

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — West Virginia billionaire and gubernatorial candidate Jim Justice has recruited two of the state’s most recognized sports figures to advocate for him in his campaign.

Justice was at the Pullman Plaza Hotel in Huntington on Monday afternoon with former Marshall University football coach Bob Pruett, and former West Virginia University football coach Don Nehlen, to announce the “Coaches for Jim” initiative, described as a “citizen-led coalition to reach out to coaches across West Virginia.”

“I’m really honored to have them,” Justice said. “We’re going to start a heck of a snowball going down the hill and, at the end of the rainbow, I don’t just want to win, I want to win by a mandate. I want all of us pulling on this rope.”

Justice, owner of the Greenbrier and multiple other businesses, also coaches both the boys and girls basketball teams at Greenbrier East High School.

Between the three coaches, and former Marshall University basketball player and collegiate hall of famer Tex Williams also on-hand, there were sports metaphors aplenty, with Pruett comparing West Virginia’s struggles with his and Nehlen’s career experience…

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