What's happening at WVU...

[H-D Rider]

Boy... did Oliver Luck create a **** storm! He hires Dana Holgorsen, who turns out to be drunk hot head... and now it seems that Bill Stewart is stirring it up! Don't think there's any love loss between Stewart & his successor... oh well!

Linky...

 

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[H-D Rider]

It might be a bit naive to think the other occurrences aren't true... the expression of 'where's there's smoke, there's fire' is probably true!

 

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[Chest Rockwell]

Is it just me, or does this whole drama remind anyone else of Hoosiers?? Combine Gene Hackman & Dennis Hopper and you've got a coaching genius/raging alcoholic with a checkered past = Holgorsen. And then you've got the older guy who tries to get the job by stabbing the coach in the back every chance he gets = Stewart. Casting the movie shouldn't be that difficult.

 

[longtex]

It seems to be resolved now.

Stewart had an opportunity to step aside gracefully, with a year's cushion in which all he had to do was assume the role that Mack claims to play - i.e., the wise old CEO - and take credit for managing the ***-kicking HolgorsenOffense DanaBallTM while DC Jeff Casteel conmtinues to field a stingy defense (#3 last year in scoring - compare that with OSU's #61 ranking defensively). Then next year, he would have moved on to another position, somewhere in the athletic department, but you can bet with a damn decent paycheck.

Or, if nothing would do for Stewart but having a door with "COACH" on it, I'm betting there are plenty of schools that would have been happy to have him... after all, a 9-3 average season looks pretty good to a lot of fans. Now? Not so much: the terms of the separation seem to include sweeping all of the **** under the carpet, but the implications will probably never disappear, and so far as I've seen, Stewart definitely looks like the bad guy in the whole shooting match.

 

[El Torito]

This awful situation begins and ends with Luck.

He wanted Stewart to crank out a Rich Rod-like team. High octane and exciting. Stewart, instead, delivered a more pedestrian offense, but a respectable 9-4 in three seasons and a 28-12 overall record.

In comes Holgerson as the dreaded "coach-in-waiting." Rumors immediately flew that Stewart leaked Holgerson's alcohol issues. The division in the program got so bad, it was like the DMZ between North and South Korea.

Luck should have figured out he was gambling on Rich Rod's volatility and stuck with the stable Stewart. Now, he's bet big on Holgerson who must now deliver better than Stewart without the benefit of a honeymoon. Another example of why schools should avoid the "coach-in-waiting" like the plague.

 

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[Basketball Jones]

Ah... Luck didn't get hired until the summer of 2010. He didn't hire Stweart. As with most ADs, he wanted "his" guy, and didn't want the inherited Stewart. Problem was, as I understand, the school didn't want to pay off Stewart's contract, so Luck couldn't let him go.