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<blockquote data-quote="spartansstink" data-source="post: 131841255" data-attributes="member: 1488840"><p>While I like your optimism, I am not quite as optimistic as you.</p><p></p><p>I look at all this with a "chicken or egg" view. Since WVU isn't a true blue blood, they need wins to build excitement around the program. To get those wins, they need quality players and high recruiting classes. So, with schools like WVU, you have to find a coach who can do both and those coaches are truly few and far between.</p><p></p><p>From the recruiting aspect, the better ranked classes I could give a pass to if the highest rated recruits came from offensive linemen or defensive linemen. The difference between a 4 or 5 star ranked WR or RB and a 3 star one could often come down to something as simple as height or weight differences. The difference between linemen is huge. As such, I don't excited over a 4 star skill player as much as a linemen because the linemen will make the skill player of any ranking look a lot better but it doesn't work the other way around. </p><p></p><p>I too would like to see the ceiling raised but to do that I believe WVU would have to really develop those players over time. Therefore, there are going to be those years when you are only going to win 7 games especially when you are having to play several underclassmen at a time. Then, as they age and mature, the wins keep increasing per year so that by year 3 or 4 your looking at a conference championship caliber team. It becomes cyclical, similar to what you saw with WVU during the Nehlen years - a great team, improvement over the next 3, then a great team again (think 88, 92, 96)</p><p></p><p>I like what Brown has done to this point - especially on the defensive side of the ball. Is he the coach that can do it all - I agree its still too early to tell. But to think the fanbase, the boosters, and/or the university would wait until year 12 or so might be pushing it. An annual top 25 team is never out of the question - that's an expectation. Going to a bowl annually is not out of the question either - that's an expectation. Doing something special once or twice a decade - that should be an expectation also.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="spartansstink, post: 131841255, member: 1488840"] While I like your optimism, I am not quite as optimistic as you. I look at all this with a "chicken or egg" view. Since WVU isn't a true blue blood, they need wins to build excitement around the program. To get those wins, they need quality players and high recruiting classes. So, with schools like WVU, you have to find a coach who can do both and those coaches are truly few and far between. From the recruiting aspect, the better ranked classes I could give a pass to if the highest rated recruits came from offensive linemen or defensive linemen. The difference between a 4 or 5 star ranked WR or RB and a 3 star one could often come down to something as simple as height or weight differences. The difference between linemen is huge. As such, I don't excited over a 4 star skill player as much as a linemen because the linemen will make the skill player of any ranking look a lot better but it doesn't work the other way around. I too would like to see the ceiling raised but to do that I believe WVU would have to really develop those players over time. Therefore, there are going to be those years when you are only going to win 7 games especially when you are having to play several underclassmen at a time. Then, as they age and mature, the wins keep increasing per year so that by year 3 or 4 your looking at a conference championship caliber team. It becomes cyclical, similar to what you saw with WVU during the Nehlen years - a great team, improvement over the next 3, then a great team again (think 88, 92, 96) I like what Brown has done to this point - especially on the defensive side of the ball. Is he the coach that can do it all - I agree its still too early to tell. But to think the fanbase, the boosters, and/or the university would wait until year 12 or so might be pushing it. An annual top 25 team is never out of the question - that's an expectation. Going to a bowl annually is not out of the question either - that's an expectation. Doing something special once or twice a decade - that should be an expectation also. [/QUOTE]
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