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<blockquote data-quote="1duluth1" data-source="post: 131900530" data-attributes="member: 1919021">Nehlen made WVU a respected program. Any team playing WVU knew it would be a physical game. Just solid, old school. Used fullbacks, tightends - along with good mix of RBs and WRs. He ran a clean program and generally had a winning record... averaged 7-4, but also had two 11-0 regular seasons. He had a couple of 4-7 sseasons... but those were after graduating a lot of talent and was recognized as rebuilding years.However, by the end of his career his coaching seemed a bit stale - and the criticism became &quot;7-4, but Rutgers, Temple, and a nobody in the opener - meant Nehlen was going 4-4 against the Syracuses, BC, VaTechs, and Miamis.I *think* I remember planes flying banners against him at the end... telling him to resign.The other criticism was he couldn't win bowl games. He lost 8 in a row.Strangely though, he was 3-1 in his first 4 bowl games - with 2 being upset wins. The 26-6 win over Florida was considered a huge upset.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="1duluth1, post: 131900530, member: 1919021"] Nehlen made WVU a respected program. Any team playing WVU knew it would be a physical game. Just solid, old school. Used fullbacks, tightends - along with good mix of RBs and WRs. He ran a clean program and generally had a winning record... averaged 7-4, but also had two 11-0 regular seasons. He had a couple of 4-7 sseasons... but those were after graduating a lot of talent and was recognized as rebuilding years. However, by the end of his career his coaching seemed a bit stale - and the criticism became "7-4, but Rutgers, Temple, and a nobody in the opener - meant Nehlen was going 4-4 against the Syracuses, BC, VaTechs, and Miamis. I *think* I remember planes flying banners against him at the end... telling him to resign. The other criticism was he couldn't win bowl games. He lost 8 in a row. Strangely though, he was 3-1 in his first 4 bowl games - with 2 being upset wins. The 26-6 win over Florida was considered a huge upset. [/QUOTE]

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