Oliver Luck was a two-time All-American quarterback who guided West Virginia to a win over the Florida Gators in the 1981 Peach Bowl.
But during the offseason, Luck was like many college students hoping to make extra money working for a coal company with many of his Mountaineers teammates.
“It was real work, and while we didn’t go into the mines we had to clean stuff and pull cable,” Luck said. “A lot of kids today don’t have summer jobs. They don’t know what it means to go to the golf course at 7 a.m. because you’re on the grounds crew and you’ve got to cut the greens before the golfers come out or deliver newspapers.”
