WVU Lands 1.5 Top Recruits Despite Cincy Debacle

ESPN is reporting tonight that even though highly-recruited quarterback Eugene Smith from Miramar, Fla., and his favorite target and teammate, wide receiver Stedman Bailey, both attended Saturday night’s loss to Cincinnati, they committed to come play at WVU. Smith, who evidently goes by Gino, is the sixth-rated quarterback in the 2009 recruiting class. He takes the place of quarterback Taj Boyd, who decommitted to WVU following its dismal offensive showing in the victory over Syracuse. Boyd, by the way, was the nation’s eighth-rated quarterback in the 2009 class. So WVU traded up AND doesn’t have to deal with Taj Boyd’s “daddy,” as Coach Bill Stewart referred to him, intimating that he wanted to call plays for his son at WVU. Here’s what ESPNU has to say about the 6-foot-3, 171-pound Smith, who had 35 scholarship offers, including those from Florida, Alabama and Florida State, and threw for 2,222 yards and 25 touchdowns in his junior season: “At ... (link)