MORGANTOWN - On Pat White's daily list of things to do, checking on the progress of his forthcoming official Web site isn't very high.

In fact, it's not even on the list at all.

"I haven't seen the finished product,'' White said Thursday. "They only showed me what they started, I said 'OK' and I'll look at it when it's done.''

Know this, though: Plenty of work is being done, and West Virginia University's sports information department hopes to have the Web site for its Heisman Trophy candidate quarterback up and running by July 1, if not sooner.

How a Web site to promote White for various college football awards - primarily the Heisman, of course - might help the two-time Big East Conference offensive player of the year is debatable. Even those who are putting it together admit as much.

"Everybody in the nation knows who Pat White is. We don't have to develop a Web site to make him known to people,'' said Mike Montoro, WVU's primary media contact for football, who along with assistant athletic director for communications Mike Fragale is spearheading the development of the site. "Our plan is just to keep him up front as much as possible. He'll do a lot of that himself, most of it, in fact. We're on TV enough that you won't be able to miss him.''

The idea behind the project, then, is to personalize White a little more. In addition to the standard Web site fare - biography, statistics, video clips and press clippings - there will be video of White prior to his arrival at West Virginia, not only in high school but as a youth league player.

"Some of the stuff we've got is hilarious,'' said John Antonik, who as the athletic department's Web master is piecing things together. "It's funny to see this little kid get the ball and just outrun everybody. And we've got one clip where Pat's running away from everybody and right at the end the guy holding the down marker steps in front of the camera and slams it down on the ground.''

As for White's active participation with the Web site once it is up and running, that will be limited. Montoro said there would be a section in which visitors can ask White questions and "once a week or so he'll answer some,'' Montoro said.

And there will also be a Pat White blog of sorts.

"That will probably end up being me interviewing him and asking him questions and then I'll put the answers on the Web site as a blog,'' Montoro said. "It will be his words, but he's not going to have time to sit down and do a blog all season.''

Montoro, by the way, had just finished telling a reporter that it was among his duties to help players prepare for interviews with the media, letting them know what it was and wasn't proper to say.

It wasn't five minutes later that linebacker Reed Williams proved that sometimes that preparation is all for naught.

While talking about his rehabilitation work from two shoulder surgeries, Williams let forth this gem:

"I'd like to be using that HGH,'' he said with a smile, referring to almost universally banned human growth hormone. "But I think that's illegal in college.''

And yes, it was just a joke.

Williams said he is still right on track to complete his rehab by the opening game of the season. But again, it's going to be close.

The normal recovery period from the shoulder surgeries he had is six months. He underwent his second surgery almost exactly six months before the Aug. 30 opener against Villanova. It's going to be close.

"I plan on playing,'' said the defensive MVP of January's Fiesta Bowl. "This is a season I don't want to miss.''

If Williams can't play this season, he has a redshirt year to burn and could return in 2009. It seems quite likely that if he isn't 100 percent by Aug. 30 his decision will be whether to play a partial 2008 season or all of 2009.

"Sure, it could be a couple of games [into the season before he's ready],'' Williams said. "It's just another thing to think about.''

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