My problem with Stewart came after he tried to renege on the deal he agreed to, via backdoor means with the Pittsburgh press. For a man who would often claim his word was his bond, he certainly proved otherwise. I lost all respect I had for him over that incident. Before that I thought he got a raw deal.
There's an old saying that "A card laid is a card played." Stew thought he could pull a joker from a Pittsburgh deck.
If he hadn't died before it all sank in, he would likely be more hated than Rich for what he tried to do to the university.
I've heard a lot about everything that went down with all of that and it greatly depends on who you are talking and how they seen through their own jaded glasses.
Stewart was told by his boss what was going to happen over the coming couple years and he thought to change things in his favor and he didn't mind throwing WVU under the bus to achieve his goals.
People really dont want to address the real problem that occurred with Stewart and Dana's hirings. They were allowed to hire people that were woefully underqualified for positions that they should have never been in.
EP let Stewart hire Mullins and Johnson
Olly let Dana hire DeForest and Roberts
That is one hiring an OC that was never an OC and one hiring a DC that was never a DC. They both were allowed to hire buddies and what they did was detrimental to WVU who were paying them millions. They put doing a favor for friends above WVU and all of WV.
No one ever wants to talk about how culpable Garrison and EP were for the Stewart fiasco along with Clements and Oliver Luck for the Dana fiasco.
No oversight on their hires and we paid for it.