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Message: <blockquote data-quote="steeleer" data-source="post: 131751685" data-attributes="member: 1484359">In some ways everyone is right.Briles was a great coach but he obviously is also a piece of **** as a person. He only suffered his first 2 years because Baylor was likely one of the worst programs to CFB when he arrived. As empty as Dana left WVU, Baylor at that time was waaaaay worse. What happened at Baylor is on him and will make him untouchable at a P5 school unless he can clean up his rep at a smaller school. Think Tom Bradley with even more baggage. Rod also was a great coach but he is an even bigger piece of ****. On the plus side, he took a WVU program that was run into the ground by Nehlen his last few years here and made it a solid program. Then he struck it big with Slaton and White. It just seemed like he was never satisfied. Whether it was money, power, or relationships. If he would have stayed, he had an potentially great recruiting class coming in and he could have been set here forever. I truly think he's one of those people that has a hole deep down that can never be filled. That hole was his undoing professionally and personally and has made him untouchable by a major university as a HC, He occupies 2 of the best "what if" questions ever.1) What if he was 100% committed to WVU? A NC would have been a hard program to turn down by the SEC. Plus how good would that next year's team had been? Haunting stuff. 2) What if he had gone to Alabama? He would have won there. Not Saban levels, but likely far better than where they were. Likely a Gus Malzhan type of course. Dana was never a great coach because he never put the work in to be great. He loved partying and flashy offenses but never looked at WVU as a complete HC. He never owned that defense was also his responsibility. We are seeing that play out in Houston. His career should be as an OC only, which is what he enjoys anyhow.</blockquote>

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