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<blockquote data-quote="Samuel S" data-source="post: 129388047" data-attributes="member: 1754664">The thing with Nehlen is that even though his first season was only very slightly better than Cignetti's last in term of record (very similar to Holgorsen's first being a very slight improvement over Stewart's last), anyone with eyeballs and a more than superficial understanding of the game could see that the team was better coached, more focused, more disciplined and that Nehlen had a better grasp of how to use the personnel to maximum advantage.Then, of course, he went 35-13 over the next four years&nbsp; and won 3 bowl games when it was much harder&nbsp; just to&nbsp; make a bowl game. During those first 5 years,&nbsp; he beat Penn St. for the 1st time in 28 years, beat Pitt twice when Pitt was still a very good program and chalked up big wins over Florida, Oklahoma, ranked Maryland and BC teams, etc.&nbsp;&nbsp; It was undebatable&nbsp; that he elevated the program substantially. By the time he had any struggles, he had earned his stripes many times over. No one who calls himself a Mountaineer should ever think about denigrating what Don Nehlen did for our program. Period!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Samuel S, post: 129388047, member: 1754664"] The thing with Nehlen is that even though his first season was only very slightly better than Cignetti's last in term of record (very similar to Holgorsen's first being a very slight improvement over Stewart's last), anyone with eyeballs and a more than superficial understanding of the game could see that the team was better coached, more focused, more disciplined and that Nehlen had a better grasp of how to use the personnel to maximum advantage. Then, of course, he went 35-13 over the next four years and won 3 bowl games when it was much harder just to make a bowl game. During those first 5 years, he beat Penn St. for the 1st time in 28 years, beat Pitt twice when Pitt was still a very good program and chalked up big wins over Florida, Oklahoma, ranked Maryland and BC teams, etc. It was undebatable that he elevated the program substantially. By the time he had any struggles, he had earned his stripes many times over. No one who calls himself a Mountaineer should ever think about denigrating what Don Nehlen did for our program. Period! [/QUOTE]

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