When you are coming off a 70-point outburst against Clemson in the Orange Bowl and have nine returning starters on offense, your spring focus clearly would switch to defense.

So it was at West Virginia, where the Mountaineers had completely redone their defensive staff to bring in a different defense, a 3-4 to replace the 3-3-5 stack they had run.

The idea was to fit better into the Big 12 against its spread offenses, the defense being easier to disguise things in and get more attacking through blitzes than the Mountaineers had before.

The results were solid with the defense holding its own in the final week of camp and having an impressive spring game in which it forced four turnovers, three interceptions and a fumble recovery.

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