With the signing of Jackson Accuardi, West Virginia has its tight end for the 2025 recruiting class.

Height: 6’7″ Weight: 250

Hometown: DeForest, Wisconsin

School: DeForest

Central Michigan, Colorado, Duke, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa State, Louisville, Michigan State, Missouri, West Virginia.

Accuardi has the size to play early on but needs to develop the blocking aspect of his game to have a shot at playing in 2025. As far as the receiving aspect, he’s ahead of most tight ends that West Virginia has brought into the fold over the last few years. His route tree is pretty extensive, and he can comfortably line up outside and win against corners in man coverage. It will probably take a few years before he gets heavily in the tight end rotation, but there’s a lot to like here.

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SNOWSHOE, W.Va.—- Ski season in the mountain state is getting ready to begin with two resorts opening Thursday morning.

WV Ski Area Association’s Joe Stevens says that the season will open early for Snowshoe and Timberline.

“They’re going to be dropping the ropes at 9 o’clock and getting the season underway,” Stevens said Tuesday on Talkline with Hoppy Kercheval.

The first snowfall of the season came last week, and Stevens said that it helped with two things.

“It did a couple of things, first off it got people thinking about winter, they stopped cutting the grass and they started getting their skis and snowboards ready, because they can see on the webcams, the snowing and the snowmaking going on at the resort, so it really amped up the anticipation of the season coming,” Stevens said. “But what it also did is it cooled off the ground.”

The snow that they received allowed the snowmakers to make the snow because the snow machines require a temperature below 28 degrees.

He says while some skiers will be from the mountain state, the majority will come from one major state.

“Well, this time of year when we’re getting into the holiday season, a lot of them with be coming from Florida,” he said. “And a lot of times it will be the first snow they’ve actually ever seen.”

However, he also mentioned that they’ll see people come in from Washington D.C., Virginia and North Carolina.

And more resorts will be opening their season later in December, with Winterplace in Raleigh County opening the 14th and Canaan Valley in Tucker County opening the 21st.

To see the most up-to-date reports on the conditions of the ski mountains and to see the snowmaking process you can visit West Virginia’s ski resort website here.

West Virginia is still searching for their next head coach but received some significant news on the recruiting trail with Mentor (Oh.) 2025 quarterback Scotty Fox announcing he will sign with the program.

Fox, 6-foot-2, 195-pounds, is coming off a season where he threw for 2,759 yards and completed 64-percent of his passes while tossing for 33 touchdowns and just 8 interceptions. Fox also rushed for 321 yards and 8 more scores on the ground. His performance earned him a bump in the Rivals.com rankings to a four-star.

The signal caller had been committed to West Virginia since November of 2023, but with the firing of head coach Neal Brown, he initially elected to remain as a pledge but open up his recruitment.

However, that shifted when Fox put to bed his recruitment by announcing he would sign with the Mountaineers when the early period opens on Dec. 4.

That decision was made after talking with the remainder of the coaching staff about what is unfolding.

“They were just transparent with me with things and saying that they will get a guy here soon and I trust them too. It sucks because I did commit to West Virginia, Neal Brown and his staff but I trust them with a new coach and staff,” he said. “I love everything about West Virginia and still plan on signing this week.”

It’s a major domino for the next head coach as Fox is one of the centerpieces to the 2025 class. He joins others such as De Forest (Wi.) 2025 tight end Jackson Accuardi and Nashville (TN.) Lipscomb Academy 2025 defensive lineman Amir Leonard-Jean Charles as others that have affirmed their intentions to sign.

The Mountaineers currently have 20 commitments in the 2025 class.