- No big-name coach would live in Morgantown.
- WVU is a step down from the jobs that the big-names have.
- WVU won't pay enough.
- WVU is not a destination job for a big-name coach.
We Won't Get a Big-Name Coach to Replace Dana
- Thread starter Art Selwyn
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RichRod sure won't live in Morgantown after living in AZ. Morgantown is a HUGE negative against WVU.
The majority of big name coaches coached at small schools when they started out. Florida's new coach didn't come from a big school. Jim Tressel came to Ohio state from Youngstown state. I am sure Bo pelini would leave Youngstown state for wvu
Art Selwyn and Gerry Fleck...buddies in bad times...hey brothers, can ya spare a dime for a fella who's down on his luck???
wow......this one gets the daily award for whoa is me, inferior complex fan award post of the day!!!!
I somewhat agree, but Rod did turn down Alabama to remain at WVU once upon a time. He did give an interview saying you want to leave a place better than when you got there and in a good place for you to go back. Something along those lines. Was in Bob Hertzel's article.
Huggs is renowned in college basketball & left K-State. Yep he's a native & all that, but it still counts. He did come home. In the prior opportunity to return he did not.
Holg was highly regarded at the time of his hire. Other schools I'm sure would've wanted him.
Tommy Tuberville left Texas Tech for Cincinnati. Larry Brown is the coach at SMU.
The four items you listed may be reasons why Rod could end up being the best that could be got. That's if he may be a real option in the first place. There's a number of schools who have & still want him. Whit Babcock would cringe if WVU hired back Rod before he can get rid of Beamerball.
As to money, again I do not know why we joined the BXII & cashed in to still be so short & behind in the world.
Don't want another coordinator. Guys like Campbell & Herman are promising, but they're being talked about heavily & will be very difficult to get, in my opinion. Have to trust Gee & Lyons. Lyons is new to this as an AD. No clue how he'll handle it.
Huggs is renowned in college basketball & left K-State. Yep he's a native & all that, but it still counts. He did come home. In the prior opportunity to return he did not.
Holg was highly regarded at the time of his hire. Other schools I'm sure would've wanted him.
Tommy Tuberville left Texas Tech for Cincinnati. Larry Brown is the coach at SMU.
The four items you listed may be reasons why Rod could end up being the best that could be got. That's if he may be a real option in the first place. There's a number of schools who have & still want him. Whit Babcock would cringe if WVU hired back Rod before he can get rid of Beamerball.
As to money, again I do not know why we joined the BXII & cashed in to still be so short & behind in the world.
Don't want another coordinator. Guys like Campbell & Herman are promising, but they're being talked about heavily & will be very difficult to get, in my opinion. Have to trust Gee & Lyons. Lyons is new to this as an AD. No clue how he'll handle it.
Morgantown ain't what it used to be 10 years ago. It is booming with construction going on everywhere. Home values are at an all time high, and there's more to do than ever. I would give my left arm to be able to live in Morgantown....it is a great community! It is certainly better than some of the other Big12, Big10, cities I have been to. Way better than Norman, Manhattan, Ames, Etc. Way better than West Lafayette, or Champaign, etc.
How in the world did two guys (people) with eleven posts between them get together in a nano second to post such ridiculous comments? Seems I remember Motown being named one of the Top Ten small cities a couple of years ago. And poor Dana is having to live on a meager couple million (give or take a few hundred thousand) a year. Geeeeez....Life is tough in Motown!
Let me tell you that a Big Name coach will come to Morgantown. All you have to do is pay the man. When will you get it that...................money talks.....................bullshoot walks!
Lol. Yeah, there's a ton to do here. Like visit each and every one of the 10 billion Sheetz gas stations. I hereby proclaim this town's new motto to be, "Excess gas from taking too many Sheetz!"
Disagree with all due respect, WVU is an Excellent University and has a Superb Top 30+ Program with great Booster Money and Fan Attendance support! If Dana is let go, WVU will and can retain a Great CFB Coach!
Maybe Urban Meyer will buy a house in Star City! LOL!!!
Morgantown = garbage
Correct. Then we have another problem: If he loses, we fire him after 4 or 5 years. If he wins too much, he leaves for a college higher on the totem pole, like Jim Carlen and Bobby Bowden and Rich Rodriguez. Even Don Nehlen was ready to leave till the Ohio State deal fell through.
WVU is just too far down the totem pole to do otherwise. So we had to make-do and try to do more with less. In 1988 and 1993 and 2007 it worked well. But those are few and far between. I just enjoy Mountaineer football, and go to Mountaineer Field for every game.
Good, because we are not replacing Dana anyway. BTW, Pitt fans are liking your post...congrats.
You have one defeatist attitude if I have ever hear one. And, you could not be more wrong. I have been to many college towns that wish they had what Morgantown had to offer. Morgantown is a great place to live and raise a family. Tell me, have you ever been to State College, PA, or Manhattan, KS, or Blacksburg, VA? Our football program has been too good in the past for what you say to be true.
We couldn't get a "big name coach" when we fired Cignetti or Stewart either.
One "little name" worked out pretty well, the other didn't. Might have a lot to do with what was behind the names and amounted to substance.
Just because "little name" Holgorsen, who was only a full-fledged OC for 3 seasons, 2 of them at a Group of 5 school, has shown the downside of taking foolishly reckless gambles on people with extremely limited experience and a reputation based mostly on hype, doesn't mean that taking a calculated risk on a "little name" with a resume that puts him in the ballpark of being qualified for a Power 5 HC job will fail.
Making a prudent hire doesn't guarantee success but the odds are much better if you don't go full-bore stupid.
One "little name" worked out pretty well, the other didn't. Might have a lot to do with what was behind the names and amounted to substance.
Just because "little name" Holgorsen, who was only a full-fledged OC for 3 seasons, 2 of them at a Group of 5 school, has shown the downside of taking foolishly reckless gambles on people with extremely limited experience and a reputation based mostly on hype, doesn't mean that taking a calculated risk on a "little name" with a resume that puts him in the ballpark of being qualified for a Power 5 HC job will fail.
Making a prudent hire doesn't guarantee success but the odds are much better if you don't go full-bore stupid.
1. If you mean Meyer or Saban or Lombardi, no they won't. But there is a list of current "hot D1 coaching candidates" most of which would come to WVU. Morgantown is a great small city.
2. News flash - we are in the B12, I mean, your post must be a joke - right!?
3. Yes, we can and will
4. There are about 10 schools in the country that are "destination" jobs. We don't need someone to coach for 40 or 50 years, 4 or 5 will do.
Ok.
Money talks and BS walks. And right now your missing a shoe
This isn't Conference USA football or Huntington. Try again
Money talks and BS walks. And right now your missing a shoe
This isn't Conference USA football or Huntington. Try again
Why does everyone think Morgantown automatically makes our job unattractive? 90% of college towns are run down towns where the entire local economy revolves around where the students go to eat/shop. Jobs in "bigger" markets like Miami (The U right now), Pittsburgh (Pitt), NYC (Rutgers), Cincy (UC) are all second rate jobs where the support goes to pro teams. Our small college town atmosphere is exactly the hand that is dealt to just about every big time school, why does everyone here perceive it as a negative?
Because they are the same person. It's better to support your own post than to rely on another to agree with you. Screen names dug deep from IMdb.
The biggest problem we could face is trying to get a coach to live in West Virginia. That is a deal breaker for many people (especially their wives).
Yet the best programs in the country are in places that resemble WV. The wives also love the money that comes with being a coach's wife, shove enough of that in their face and they'll be trading in their sundresses for flannels and jeans ASAP
Anyone that would criticize Morgantown has obviously not been to the cow pasture that is Blacksbush, VA