Does anyone in power at West Virginia football look good right now? The decision to have Bill Stewart coach one more season with coach-in-waiting Dana Holgorsen operating as offensive coordinator was idiotic. If you want Holgorsen as your head man, then hire him as such. Having a lame duck situation cannot be a good thing, unless the coach-in-waiting is taking over for a guy looking to leave. It worked very well at Kentucky, for example, where Rich Brooks was looking to go and the school wanted to keep Joker Phillips around.
I assumed that Stewart was gone after the team--and especially the offense--performed so poorly in losing the Champs Sports Bowl to North Carolina State last year by a 23-7 score. Holgorsen had been a hot commodity and it looked wise for AD Oliver Luck to snap him up. But neither coach was happy with the situation and from the looks of things Stewart and his wife were so determined to stay that they began sniffing around for some dirt on the new guy to get him fired. Holgorsen, meanwhile, was asked to leave a casino in the middle of the night and was therefore not helping the situation. suddenly rumors were flying around that Holgorsen had a drinking problem and that he had been in trouble with the law numerous times since being hired by West Virginia.
While it is difficult to know exactly what happened, Holgorsen's problems were exaggerated by the Stewarts, who now became the bad guys in this soap opera. But all of this could have been avoided by removing Stewart after the 2010 season. That was Luck's decision. And he had better hope that Holgorsen wins and stays out of trouble.
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