MORGANTOWN - Odds and ends and a few things I think I think after spending a torturous six straight days on three different championship golf courses:

Of all the West Virginia football recruits who were scheduled to arrive this week for the beginning of the second semester of summer school, all but three are enrolled and working out. Finau, the junior college defensive end from Hawaii, is one of the three exceptions.

We're apparently getting closer to a real sighting of perhaps the most mysterious Mountaineer recruit in recent times.

According to WVU director of football communications Mike Montoro, Finau has successfully passed the final course he needed to earn his junior college degree. He did it from his home in Hawaii, over the Internet, through Brigham Young University.

Now the only hitch is waiting for his final grades to be posted and his graduation certified. Then that information has to be forward to - and accepted by - WVU, at which time Finau can enroll. Montoro said that could take a week, perhaps two.

In other words if you're holding your breath, take another deep one.

Feigt's situation is apparently of little concern. It's just a matter of paperwork. Long, though, could have a problem. He's the only member of the Mountaineers' recruiting class who has yet to earn a qualifying score on an ACT or SAT exam and took a test earlier this month. But it takes weeks for those results to come back.

If Long doesn't pass academic muster, he would likely have to attend prep school for a year, in which case his recruitment would be reopened. It would also mean that the only two known academic casualties in this year's recruiting class are wide receivers. Junior college transfer Terrance Moore is history because, although he has a JC degree, he hasn't accumulated enough hours to satisfy NCAA requirements for making progress toward a degree.

Still, has any WVU recruiting class that numbered a full 25 members ever been this clean academically? There are usually at least five or six kids who don't make it for one reason or another. The fact that this group is so solid says something about the quality of students - not to mention athletes - being recruited by Bill Stewart's staff.

MORGANTOWN - Odds and ends and a few things I think I think after spending a torturous six straight days on three different championship golf courses:

Of all the West Virginia football recruits who were scheduled to arrive this week for the beginning of the second semester of summer school, all but three are enrolled and working out. Finau, the junior college defensive end from Hawaii, is one of the three exceptions.

We're apparently getting closer to a real sighting of perhaps the most mysterious Mountaineer recruit in recent times.

According to WVU director of football communications Mike Montoro, Finau has successfully passed the final course he needed to earn his junior college degree. He did it from his home in Hawaii, over the Internet, through Brigham Young University.

Now the only hitch is waiting for his final grades to be posted and his graduation certified. Then that information has to be forward to - and accepted by - WVU, at which time Finau can enroll. Montoro said that could take a week, perhaps two.

In other words if you're holding your breath, take another deep one.

Feigt's situation is apparently of little concern. It's just a matter of paperwork. Long, though, could have a problem. He's the only member of the Mountaineers' recruiting class who has yet to earn a qualifying score on an ACT or SAT exam and took a test earlier this month. But it takes weeks for those results to come back.

If Long doesn't pass academic muster, he would likely have to attend prep school for a year, in which case his recruitment would be reopened. It would also mean that the only two known academic casualties in this year's recruiting class are wide receivers. Junior college transfer Terrance Moore is history because, although he has a JC degree, he hasn't accumulated enough hours to satisfy NCAA requirements for making progress toward a degree.

Still, has any WVU recruiting class that numbered a full 25 members ever been this clean academically? There are usually at least five or six kids who don't make it for one reason or another. The fact that this group is so solid says something about the quality of students - not to mention athletes - being recruited by Bill Stewart's staff.

And I don't doubt for a moment that he actually was a walk-on member of the team. It would have been in the late 1970s. But his name doesn't appear on any of the available rosters from that time, and two current WVU assistant coaches who were at the school then don't remember him. Doc Holliday arrived as a student in 1975 and didn't leave for 25 years and Steve Dunlap was in school from 1972-76 and was a graduate assistant from 1978-81.

According to his various biographies, Mays, who was from McKees Rocks outside of Pittsburgh, attended and then dropped out of WVU to work for his father's hazardous waste trucking company. Chances are if he did play football at WVU, it was during the Frank Cignetti years and he likely walked on and was entirely anonymous.

And, yes, Davis, who shot 67 in the final round in Wheeling on Friday, but was too far back to make it matter much.

Davis did, however, contribute something to the chase for the title. Brad Westfall, one of only two men with more than four Open titles (he has five, Sam Snead 17) started the final round three strokes off the lead and, although he didn't make a charge, credited Davis for putting him in position.

"The only reason I played well [with a 69 in Thursday's second round] was because Scotty saw me on the driving range and helped me with my swing,'' Westfall said.

Reach Dave Hickman at 304-348-1734 or dphickm...@aol.com.