WVU’s Clint Trickett tries to escape TCU’s Josh Carraway.
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — There was a tweet quarterback Clint Trickett posted online this year by which he should always be remembered.
We’re not talking about the one that got him in all that trouble, forcing him to deactivate his account.
That was ill-advised, ill-thought out.
No, we refer to this one, coming shortly after he learned he had been declared out of what should have been his final college football game, West Virginia University’s Liberty Bowl matchup with Texas A&M, due to recurring concussions.
“I’m thankful these country roads took me home to the place I’ve always belonged! Let’s go Mountaineers! #WVU”
This was the Clint Trickett I had come to know and enjoy over the past two years, a good kid, a down-to-earth kid who knew what he had come from, what he had gone through and where he was going.
He was West Virginia through and through … tough yet caring, driven to succeed but not at any cost.
He cared about his team, his school, his state and the people in it.
“It was everything I could have wanted it to be,” Trickett said the other day, a whirlwind postseason time coming to a close that had seen him travel to Memphis, to Tallahassee, to Los Angeles to see his father’s Florida State team lose in the Rose Bowl to Oregon, back to Tallahassee and Tuesday he was in Berkeley Springs.
“I wish there were a couple of more wins. I could have done a couple more things right…
