Looks like I have gotten under your skin. So I am wondering about your comment about not trusting Dana’s process, yet your belief that WVU should be happy settling for table scraps and knowing it’s place. So either WVU has no shot to ever do anything, or we trust the process of Dana and we excel... which is it?
Your question is dumb for the simple reason that every coach promises the moon when they get hired.
Regardless, since my response is clearly important to you, I will answer your question.
No man or woman on earth can tell the future.
I do know that WVU started a women’s soccer program less than 25 years ago and have been the dominant program in the B12, winning 5 straight conference regular season titles, and playing in the national championship game a couple of years ago. The WVU rifle team is the elite program in the country, winning 19 national championships. With the comparatively limited resources WVU has, there is no reason all other big time schools shouldn’t be doing better in those sports than WVU.
WVU has played for a national championship in football in 1988. We would have made the playoffs in 93 had they existed since we finished the regular season 11-0 and ranked #3. We would have been in the national title game in 2007 had RichRod not blown the game against Pitt. So the flashes of greatness have been there, which to me suggests the potential is there.
Comparatively speaking, Texas has all the resources in the world and has never made a final four, while little ole WVU has been to 2.
We are one of less than 10 schools to have played in at least 35 bowls and made at least 25 NCAA tournaments.
Had we had the benefit of being a part of a traditional all sports conference for the last 70 years like so many of today’s “elite” schools, there is no telling where we would be. Imagine where Texas would be if they had not had incompetent leadership wasting resources and making bad decision after bad decision.
If we had all the resources Texas has had and wasted, shoot, we would be the most successful program of all time.
So pound for pound, all things considered, resource to resource, WVU is one of the most successful schools in the country, period.
There is no reason WVU can’t be an elite school with the complete commitment from its stakeholders. So, no, Neal Brown was not just talking out of his butt.