Rivals rates the new college football coaching hires (1 Viewer)

[Jazzbo]

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.

Includes comments about the Petrino, Nutt and Phillips hires.

"Expect Rich Rodiguez to be successful at Michigan"

 

[BELOWSEALEVEL]

Do you have an opinion on Stewart?
I hope your not a sheep in rivals flock.

He seems to be building a pretty nice staff.
You can look em up if ya want.
All have solid recruiting skills. No worries.

 

[Jazzbo]

Do you have an opinion on Stewart?
I hope your not a sheep in rivals flock.

He seems to be building a pretty nice staff.
You can look em up if ya want.
All have solid recruiting skills. No worries.

Nah, just presenting a different POV on him. I don't know him well enough to form an opinion.

That said, you do seem to be pretty high on him considering he wasn't even on your radar screen during WVA's coaching search:

Jimbo Fisher
Bud Foster (vt ties)
Doc Holiday
Nick Saban
Jim Grobe
Rick Tricket
and a few others all have west virginia ties.

wvu will find a quality replacement. count on it

http://saintsreport.com/forums/showthread.php?p=841883#post841883

You were apparently hoping for a bigger name but I'm sure Stewart will be just fine

 

[BELOWSEALEVEL]

We did get Doc......and Jimbo was considered.

In the end..... a guy with wvu ties got the job.

No shocker there. I'm all In.

I know one thing, Stewart 1, Stoops 0.

Stewart has been one of our top recruiters.
Doc was the Florida Gators #1 recruiter.
Beatty will own Virginia if he doesn't already.
Lockwood aint too shabby on the road either.

With a coach like Stewart, nobody will outbid us
on assistants. He's happy making a high 6 digit salary
and surrounding himself with higher paid staff members.
Sharing the wealth, what a concept.

As for saving the recruiting class, I think we can salvage it.
We've dropped roughly 30 spots in the rankings once the craap
hit the fan. There's still plenty of time to make a dent.

 

[Jazzbo]

I know one thing, Stewart 1, Stoops 0.

That put a smile on my face, too