Dana turning his back on WVU as you say was as much a WVU decision as it was a Dana decision. Dana had a chance to take the next step this past season and failed to do, yet he still wanted an extension and raise and thought he could levy Houston to get a new deal at WVU. Dana likes Houston, so the worst case scenario for Dana was WVU balked at the offer and he takes the Houston offer. Shane Lyons stood his ground and honestly wanted to finally bring in his own guy without having to fire Dana and pay a big buyout, so he told Dana he had not earned a new deal and they decided to part ways.
So the veiled shot at WVU is misinformed. You have not heard one single WVU fan complain about Dana going to Houston. It was time to leave and WVU, in my opinion, upgraded to a complete head coach. WVU called Dana’s bluff, then went out and got the best coach available this off season. Dana is a guy that wants to sleep in, didn’t use all his available practices for bowls, didn’t want to do any recruiting until the very end when he would swoop in to try and seal the deal, didn’t want to attend fund raisers, and couldn’t handle criticism that comes with the job of being a power 5 head coach. He will not have the same demands at Houston because the teams he will be competing against in conference will not have the same resources that Houston has, unlike the B12 where even the lower tier programs still have power 5 resources.
But, yeah, Dana turned his back on us and we are all just devastated by it. Probably won’t recover. It is exactly like the situation with Mike Leach.