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Former WVU Head Coach Bill Stewart (RIP)

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Oh8ch;1049350; said:
The Pitt game was the game that would open the door to that next level. And incredible investment had been made. It was a home game - and the crowd didn't even show up when the team needed them. Morgantown is Morgantown.
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Unless you were there, you dont know what you're talking about. The week leading up to that game. Even after we beat Uconn the week before, you could feel the excitement in the air. during the day leading up to the game, and the people were estactic....pre-game the crowd was loud, during the senior introductions, the crowd was loud.....and when we picked off Pitt on the first pass of the game, the crowd was crazy....however, 2 missed fg's, numerous 3 and outs, and turnovers against a 4-7 team while they smack your team in the mouth and take away our shot to play for a National Championship, surely didnt give us much to cheer for......late in the game, when Devine ran the kickoff back to the other 40, and Pat White came back in....the crowd tried so hard to get back in the game, but another 4 and out quieted the crowd....

The crowd/fans were ready.....the team wasnt....
 
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Stewart at his press conference on NLOID, regarding Josh Jenkins (no link, I saw this on ESPN2):

"We're pleased, we're honored, we're thrilled" that Josh picked WV. "He kept his word, and that means a lot around here."
 
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BB73;1085566; said:
Stewart at his press conference on NLOID, regarding Josh Jenkins (no link, I saw this on ESPN2):

"We're pleased, we're honored, we're thrilled" that Josh picked WV. "He kept his word, and that means a lot around here."
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I would wager it does mean more now than last year
 
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WV assistants will now be making more than the group under RRod last year, but WV's total salaries will be less since Stewart is well below what RRod was paid last year.

si.com

6-figure contracts for WVU assistants
Stewart's staff paid more than any of former coach's

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) -- Six assistant football coaches under new West Virginia coach Bill Stewart will be paid more than any of the assistants under former coach Rich Rodriguez, according to figures released Friday by the university.

Doc Holliday, who left Florida to coach the Mountaineers' tight ends and linebackers and is the recruiting coordinator and associate head coach, will earn $400,000 per year in a guaranteed five-year contract, WVU said.

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si.com

Stewart, Huggins still without deals
WVU coaches working under handshake agreements

MORGANTOWN, W. Va. (AP) -- It's been a year since Bob Huggins' homecoming, and West Virginia's basketball coach still doesn't have a formal contract with his alma mater.

Neither does Bill Stewart, three months after his promotion from interim to permanent head football coach on the heels of a Fiesta Bowl win.

Unlike other universities and professional sports, where getting contracts finalized is a high priority, things appear to be more laid back and old school at West Virginia. Handshake agreements have been good enough for Ed Pastilong, the athletic director since 1989.

"I'm comfortable," Pastilong recently said of such agreements.

Huggins and Stewart, both state natives and staunch backers of WVU, are currently bound by term sheets that pay them $800,000 in the first year of five-year deals.

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Stewart got some death threats after not winning by enough points last year.

Post.Gazette

Death threats rile up, offend West Virginia's Stewart


MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- When is winning not enough?

When West Virginia University football is involved -- at least it seems that way sometimes to coach Bill Stewart.

So much so that he received a death threat last season -- after a win.

"I can't get frustrated if people -- the common fan, a sports writer, even one of my players -- question my place here as head football coach," said Stewart, 58, who carries a 19-8 record into his third full season. "I can't get side-tracked, I can't lose sight of my goal. I have to stay on course, believe in my daily walk, believe in my plan as a leader and that's it. That's all I can do."

This is a man who produced, arguably, the most memorable bowl win in the program's history -- a 20-point romp in the desert against Oklahoma in the 2008 Fiesta Bowl after former coach Rich Rodriguez bolted for Michigan. He has guided the Mountaineers to consecutive 9-4 seasons, his team finishing in the Top 25 at the end of both and winning one of two bowl games.

Last season, the Mountaineers enjoyed their first undefeated home season since 1993. No matter.

When his team beat Division I-AA Liberty by "just" 13 points in the season opener last year, then had to fight until the closing stages to pick up a 15-point victory against East Carolina the second week, Stewart drew plenty of ire from message-board inhabitants and fans grumbling as they walked out of Mountaineer Field.

"You are not going to win every game by four or five touchdowns or shut every opponent out," Stewart said in an interview with the Post-Gazette last week. "I've taken a knee at the end of a game out of sportsmanship, and I've gotten booed. I don't believe in that, I just don't. If there's any bad of college football, that's the bad. These are just young men out there trying the best they can."

The detractors shouted loudest when an early November game against Louisville (which won one Big East Conference game last season) was closer than anticipated, West Virginia winning, 17-9.

This time, though, something far more alarming happened.

"I got death threats, a guy e-mailed me death threats," Stewart said, sitting in an office, his index finger pointing to a computer on his desk.

"And I know it was because we didn't beat [the point spread]. I turned it over to the authorities, but that bothered me. I mean, you have to be kidding me. That's not what this is supposed to be about."

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CBS

Report: Bill Stewart to retire

Posted on: November 27, 2010 10:41 pm


Posted by Tom Fornelli

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Suddenly there are quite a few big name schools with coaching vacancies to fill if you believe the reports circulating on Saturday night. First we heard that Miami will be firing head coach Randy Shannon -- though this is yet to be confirmed -- and now it seems that West Virginia may have an opening as well.

Though this one won't be due to a firing.

According to a report, West Virginia head coach Bill Stewart is going to retire at the end of the season. This is from a report on EerSports.com, which is a pay site and can't be viewed without a subscription. There has been no official word on this from West Virginia or Bill Stewart.

Still, the same report also says that former WVU assistant Rick Trickett who now serves as Florida State's assistant head coach is a top target to replace Stewart, along with both Terry and Tommy Bowden.

Stay tuned to CBSSports.com for more information on this story as it develops.
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