Little Joshua Irizarry, fresh off perhaps renting “Little Big League,” applied to be the head football coach of West Virginia, and last month got an adorable rejection letter back from the college.

THE (MERIDEN, CT) RECORD-JOURNAL reports that after the 12-year-old boy from Southington, Connecticut wrote to WVU applying to be the coach, WVU president Michael Garrison wrote back, saying “the position has been filled by an ‘equally qualified candidate.’ “ Not sure what incoming head coach Bill Stewart feels about that comparison.

Apparently, Connecticut does contain at least one West Virginia fan.

Little Joshua was reeling from a sports injury of his own (he’s a four-sport athlete) and had to spend the winter months in his room unable to play any sports, which could give this story sort of a “Rear Window” twist. Perhaps he saw through his binoculars what Rich Rodriguez did to those secret documents, and had to put a stop to it.

But in the end, it was right of WVU to not put so much pressure on a young kid to save their program right away. Now let’s all turn our attention to where Terrelle Pryor will play football next year.