Dana Now 11-19 in B12 Games
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My theory is that people create inflated images of themselves when they proudly declare something/someone unacceptable. It's like a power rush. "That Is Unacceptable!"
Meanwhile their declarations of acceptability/unacceptability have changed not one thing in the real world. And that's what they really can't accept ... their own powerlessness.
Meanwhile their declarations of acceptability/unacceptability have changed not one thing in the real world. And that's what they really can't accept ... their own powerlessness.
It's acceptable because this state is content with mediocrity. West Virginian's get comfortable and don't like risk/change since it might shake up the status quo. If you want great rewards you have to take great risks. Oliver Luck understood this when he hired Dana. Just because Dana isn't working out now doesn't mean it wouldn't be worth it to take another great risk.
Also, it doesn't help that WVU isn't exactly a "destination" job considering the lack of in state recruits.
The number of available in state recruits has absolutely no bearing on whether or not someone would consider coaching here.
WVU head coach is a better job for a college coach than:
Every coaching job in a non-power conference.
Every job at every Power 5 school except head coach.
The head coaching job, at the very least, is better than than the jobs at: Kansas, ISU, Pitt, Wake Forest, BC, NCSU, Kentucky, Vanderbilt, Maryland, Rutgers, Indiana, Northwestern, Purdue, Minnesota, Colorado and Washington State.
You could make a case it's as good or better a job (not necessarily that we have as good a coach or team as we speak) than at KSU, Texas Tech, TCU, Baylor, Georgia Tech, Illinois, Louisville, UNC, Virginia, Iowa, Utah, and Oregon St.
I'd say there are less than 40 jobs in ALL OF COLLGE FOOTBALL that are clearly better jobs and some of those aren't better by much.
Of those <40 schools, the vast majority will not be hiring a new football coach.
Given that, and the number of coordinators at successful big-time programs and the number of successful head coaches at lesser programs, does anyone really believe we should base the decision on what to do with Dana on the claim there is little chance we could find someone good to take the job?
There are three possibilities with a new coach. He will be a better coach, he will be about the same or he will be worse. Are we so afraid of the last we won't shoot for the first?
Only if you think Dana is an above average Power 5 head coach would the odds we get someone worse exceed the odds we get someone better. Does anyone really believe he is above average?
Every coaching job in a non-power conference.
Every job at every Power 5 school except head coach.
The head coaching job, at the very least, is better than than the jobs at: Kansas, ISU, Pitt, Wake Forest, BC, NCSU, Kentucky, Vanderbilt, Maryland, Rutgers, Indiana, Northwestern, Purdue, Minnesota, Colorado and Washington State.
You could make a case it's as good or better a job (not necessarily that we have as good a coach or team as we speak) than at KSU, Texas Tech, TCU, Baylor, Georgia Tech, Illinois, Louisville, UNC, Virginia, Iowa, Utah, and Oregon St.
I'd say there are less than 40 jobs in ALL OF COLLGE FOOTBALL that are clearly better jobs and some of those aren't better by much.
Of those <40 schools, the vast majority will not be hiring a new football coach.
Given that, and the number of coordinators at successful big-time programs and the number of successful head coaches at lesser programs, does anyone really believe we should base the decision on what to do with Dana on the claim there is little chance we could find someone good to take the job?
There are three possibilities with a new coach. He will be a better coach, he will be about the same or he will be worse. Are we so afraid of the last we won't shoot for the first?
Only if you think Dana is an above average Power 5 head coach would the odds we get someone worse exceed the odds we get someone better. Does anyone really believe he is above average?
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3 losses to top 15 teams--playing with the big boys now. How many D1 recruits from TX and OK compared to WV ? Maybe 300 to 2.
In state recruiting wasn't any better in ' 93, '98, or '07! Didn't stop Nehlen or RR from being on the cusp of a national title. They had lackluster facilities, no recruiting budget, and an entire university who wouldn't spend much money to help the coaches do any better. And still you figured that in our rebuilding years we'd at least be competitive. And in the above average years the coaches were good enough to at least make a run at it. Dana hasn't proven that! That's where the difference lies. Nehlen and RR earned the benefit of the doubt. I simply doubt Dana is of any benefit. We have been absolutely slaughtered in our down year and in the senior laden "UP Year" we are a middle of the pack team at best. Dana isn't building towards anything. It's the same storyline every season. Sputtering through the Big East and beating an unprepared Clemson team has blinded some of you. You keep waiting on Dana to catch that lightning in a bottle again. Sometimes it's a shooting star that burns up never to be found. That's what the Clemson win was. It was awesome to watch but was ever so fleeting. Now reality is setting in an Dana is running out of excuses.
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