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<blockquote data-quote="deedoubleyou" data-source="post: 132898848" data-attributes="member: 1621419"><p>You nailed it. He was building an elite program at WVU for sure. They definitely told him no on a lot of things he knew we needed to build a top tier program. On top of it, Rich Rod didn't want to play Marshall either and it was a big deal. He wanted to schedule tougher teams for out of conference games. The opposite of Neal Brown of course. But Joe Manchin used his power to get us into the lame *** Coal Bowl, and that very much upset Rich Rod in a big way. I heard it directly from the decision maker at the time. Rich was pissed. Ice the cake with death threats after the Pitt game and he was done. What Rich really did wrong was leave without saying anything. Otherwise all he did was take a better job after a lot of frustration and egos colliding. I am not going to hold a 20 year hurt butt over that personally. He's a good coach who knows WVU and what it means to coach here. Hire him, imo.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="deedoubleyou, post: 132898848, member: 1621419"] You nailed it. He was building an elite program at WVU for sure. They definitely told him no on a lot of things he knew we needed to build a top tier program. On top of it, Rich Rod didn't want to play Marshall either and it was a big deal. He wanted to schedule tougher teams for out of conference games. The opposite of Neal Brown of course. But Joe Manchin used his power to get us into the lame *** Coal Bowl, and that very much upset Rich Rod in a big way. I heard it directly from the decision maker at the time. Rich was pissed. Ice the cake with death threats after the Pitt game and he was done. What Rich really did wrong was leave without saying anything. Otherwise all he did was take a better job after a lot of frustration and egos colliding. I am not going to hold a 20 year hurt butt over that personally. He's a good coach who knows WVU and what it means to coach here. Hire him, imo. [/QUOTE]

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