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Includes comments about the Petrino, Nutt and Phillips hires.West Virginia: No question Bill Stewart did a nice job in calming the waters and leading the Mountaineers to a resounding Fiesta Bowl thumping of Oklahoma. But his promotion to coach in the wake of that victory stemmed from emotion, nothing else. He had spent the past eight seasons on WVU's staff, serving as quarterback coach for seven seasons and as tight ends coach this season. He also was special teams coordinator. Stewart has been a head coach once, at VMI; he was 8-25 in three seasons and resigned in 1996 after using a racial epithet. Yes, he's a West Virginia native, which evidently was a necessity in the school's hunt for a new coach. Indeed, it's hard to believe WVU – which has become a perennial top-10 program – didn't cast a wider net in its search.
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