Written by Jack Bogaczyk Daily Mail Sports Editor | 04 June 2010

I don't see WVU going that route. It goes against most everything in major college athletics operations these days. Huggins is a sharp guy, but he has enough to do to win basketball games, recruit the country and spend his spring running all over the state and beyond pressing the flesh with donors and fans.

Of the other four other most prominent "media-mentioned candidates" - former WVU quarterback and current Board of Governor's member Oliver Luck, Jim Schaus of Ohio U., Missouri's Whit Babcock and Kentucky's Rob Mullens - Luck has gotten the most attention.

There's a notion emanating from the Morgantown campus and the WVU Coliseum that perhaps Clements put most of his eggs in Luck's basket and tried to persuade the Houston sports business executive to take the job (thereby exiting the BOG).

After all, Luck isn't quite Jerry West, but is very high on the "favorite sons" list. That surely matters, so maybe Luck was given a while to decide as Clements and his inner circle kept their fingers crossed.

If that were the case, it may have dragged out an abnormally long process - with Clements as a rookie at this kind of hire, anyway - as Luck was given an extended period to decide. Luck said no, and so the process is just now moving on.

There's another school of thought that Luck wants the AD job - just not now, as he still has two sons in high school. A couple of years down the road, he may see himself in the job. If that's the case, and Clements knew that, he could have gotten Luck as AD in 2012, and left Pastilong in the job for two more years.

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