It was a time when West Virginia University’s weekly football interviews were in full swing.

Quarterback Jarrett Brown was front and center, a large crowd of cameras, tape recorders and scratchy, old-fashioned ball point pens chronicling his every word about the upcoming game with Marshall.

That’s when Jock Sanders walked out of an academic advisor’s office, latched hold of Mike Montero, the director of football communications, and said, “Let’s go.”

With that Sanders self-imposed silence came to an end.

After laying down the ground rules, that the diminutive slot back would talk only about the 2009 football season and nothing before it or leave, Sanders gave his first interviews since his two arrests for alcohol related incidents led to a six-month suspension during the off-season.

There were no great revelations, no baring of the soul, very little insight into the man.

But what did happen is the walls within which Sanders had been penned up came tumbling down.

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