By Allan Taylor in Sports, WVU Sports | October 04, 2017 at 12:49PMCOMMENTARYMORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Jake Spavital arrived with reassurance when Kenny Hill was still a high school treasure at Southlake Carroll. Kliff Kingsbury had left for Texas Tech, and Spavital was fresh on the scene at Texas A&M, making sure Hill remained committed to the Aggies.The next fall Spavital was there preaching patience when Hill spent a season apprenticing behind Heisman winner Johnny Manziel.Then in 2014, Spavital was in the quarterback’s ear after a spring arrest for public intoxication and in his cheering section during a breakthrough start against South Carolina when Hill threw for 511 yards.
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