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<blockquote data-quote="Buckaineer" data-source="post: 131672834" data-attributes="member: 1428007">The fallacy re: Brown is the statement &quot;walked into a less than ideal situation&quot;.&nbsp; This is a rewriting of history.WVU was averaging over 8 wins for the 4 years prior to Brown coming to WVU.The team from the year before was a top 10 offense and also was mere points from being in the BIG 12 CCG, losing narrowly to playoff bound Oklahoma.&nbsp; There were many players left over for Brown to have immediate success.&nbsp; In fact much if not most of his production the next two years offensively and defensively came from players left over.&nbsp; But Brown pushed out over 20 players, some starters, when he came into the program too--losing that many players, many with experience through Brown's own doing played a large part in his failure to win games.But bottom line, he didn't walk into some complete rebuild or even a poor situation, that is altering history.As far as Huggins, he has had his ups and downs.&nbsp; He can't bring a championship at the conference or national level to WVU for whatever reasons--most believe its the lack of offense and keeping players at WVU.&nbsp; He at least has won more than lost, but after seeing what Baylor did, and seeing how close WVU came to beating the champs and runners up its becoming painfully clear WVU fans just won't get over that hump.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Buckaineer, post: 131672834, member: 1428007"] The fallacy re: Brown is the statement "walked into a less than ideal situation". This is a rewriting of history. WVU was averaging over 8 wins for the 4 years prior to Brown coming to WVU. The team from the year before was a top 10 offense and also was mere points from being in the BIG 12 CCG, losing narrowly to playoff bound Oklahoma. There were many players left over for Brown to have immediate success. In fact much if not most of his production the next two years offensively and defensively came from players left over. But Brown pushed out over 20 players, some starters, when he came into the program too--losing that many players, many with experience through Brown's own doing played a large part in his failure to win games. But bottom line, he didn't walk into some complete rebuild or even a poor situation, that is altering history. As far as Huggins, he has had his ups and downs. He can't bring a championship at the conference or national level to WVU for whatever reasons--most believe its the lack of offense and keeping players at WVU. He at least has won more than lost, but after seeing what Baylor did, and seeing how close WVU came to beating the champs and runners up its becoming painfully clear WVU fans just won't get over that hump. [/QUOTE]

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