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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Samuel S" data-source="post: 129386812" data-attributes="member: 1754664">I don't know whether we could win the AAC this year. Maybe. We'd at least be in the hunt, but was Holgorsen brought in to field teams as good as good group of five teams or to build a program that could compete for the national championship?In three years we decided Stewart was not making progress toward that goal. If that's the standard, it was a fair assessment. He didn't come close to destroying the program despite the revisionist anti-historians here. In fact he did a good job at maintaining the program in the wake of the Rodriguez fiasco especially when you look at the players we lost after 2007 (Schmitt, Slaton, Reynaud and most of the starting defense). Still, we lost just 2 more games than we did in the "banner year" of 2007. Then we lost White following 2008 but still maintained in 2009 and 2010. Three years of 9-4 was not below par for WVU historically. how many teams in our history that did not have Pat White put together a better three year run? Granted the schedules were easier than before or  BE got poached or after we left, at least compared to schedules from the 1980s forward., but they are basically the same schedule difficulty Rodriguez faced 2004-07 and Stewart lost the same number of BE games each year that Rodriguez lost in 2007.   Objectively, if we put aside personal attacks on his looks, accent and rambling speaking style, he did pretty well. But, we decided that wasn't good enough. Not declining was not the standard he was held too. Fair enough. I can agree with the assertion he was not a guy who would take us to the next level.   Holgorsen was not brought in on the pretext that we were where we should be and all he needed to do to be considered a success was not let us get worse. Inarguably, he has failed to improve us. It's quite arguable that he has in fact let us get worse. He's had 2 more years than Stewart was afforded to show his stuff. What is the rationale, if we meander to another mediocre record,  for claiming it won't be time to see if we can bring someone in who can accomplish what we decided when we hired him  was the goal?</blockquote>

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