Dana 50 wins

[ChattanoogaEER]

This kind of slipped through the cracks last Saturday, but Dana Holgorsen became only the fourth coach in school history to win 50 career football games at WVU.

He now trails Don Nehlen (149), Rich Rodriguez (60) and Art Lewis (58) among the school's all-time wins leader.

What is so significant about Holgorsen's 50 wins here is that they have come against a major-conference football schedule - not against the Southern Conference or a watered down Big East.

When you take that into consideration, I believe the only other coach who has faced what Holgorsen has gone up against while at WVU is Nehlen, whose entire 21-season career here was coached against Eastern independents and a Big East Conference that included Miami, Virginia Tech and Boston College.

Of Art Lewis' 10 seasons at West Virginia, just three of them were spent in what could be considered a major conference. That's the 1950, 1951 and 1952 seasons in the Southern Conference before the Tobacco Road schools broke off to form the Atlantic Coast Conference.

Pappy's three-year overall record against a pre-ACC Southern Conference? 14-15.

The same goes for Rich Rod, whose seven-year tenure including four seasons coaching against a Big East Conference without Miami, Boston College and Virginia Tech. Against them and the rest of the league, he was 20-17. Afterward when USF replaced Boston College, Louisville replaced Miami and Cincinnati replaced Virginia Tech, he was 40-9.

Just a little something to store in the back of your mind.

 

[WVUALLEN]

Rod was not winning until he started Pat White. 28-21 before White 32-5 with White starting. If not for White, Rod would have been around the 7 to 8 win seasons. He needs to thank Pat White for helping get the Michigan Job. Rod should apologize to Michigan fans for destroying their program.

 

[GetYaNumbersUp]

Pretty crazy that when he's done here Dana will be the second winningest coach in program history.

 

[GetYaNumbersUp]

Rod was not winning until he started Pat White. 28-21 before White 32-5 with White starting. If not for White, Rod would have been around the 7 to 8 win seasons. He needs to thank Pat White for helping get the Michigan Job.

This is dumb. They both had an equal amount to do with each others success. RR still had to recruit PW and develop him into the perfect QB for his system. Everyone else thought he was a WR and it's important to note that PW did not have much success with out RR.

They were the perfect match.

 

[Rootmaster]

wow if DH is here for another 8, 9 or 10 years he might move up a step or so...might.

 

[hbeacheer]

DRod owes trickett a huge thank you and should slide the man a couple of mil since he’s been stealing money off of the success of pat white ever since. Without trickett recruiting White he probably doesn’t even end up at wvu.

 

[Cuyahoga Falls Eers_rivals]

This kind of slipped through the cracks last Saturday, but Dana Holgorsen became only the fourth coach in school history to win 50 career football games at WVU.

He now trails Don Nehlen (149), Rich Rodriguez (60) and Art Lewis (58) among the school's all-time wins leader.

What is so significant about Holgorsen's 50 wins here is that they have come against a major-conference football schedule - not against the Southern Conference or a watered down Big East.

When you take that into consideration, I believe the only other coach who has faced what Holgorsen has gone up against while at WVU is Nehlen, whose entire 21-season career here was coached against Eastern independents and a Big East Conference that included Miami, Virginia Tech and Boston College.

Of Art Lewis' 10 seasons at West Virginia, just three of them were spent in what could be considered a major conference. That's the 1950, 1951 and 1952 seasons in the Southern Conference before the Tobacco Road schools broke off to form the Atlantic Coast Conference.

Pappy's three-year overall record against a pre-ACC Southern Conference? 14-15.

The same goes for Rich Rod, whose seven-year tenure including four seasons coaching against a Big East Conference without Miami, Boston College and Virginia Tech. Against them and the rest of the league, he was 20-17. Afterward when USF replaced Boston College, Louisville replaced Miami and Cincinnati replaced Virginia Tech, he was 40-9.

Just a little something to store in the back of your mind.

Good stuff and further evidence that 10-3 in one season might be no more impressive than 8-5 against stiffer competition. The same with players. How can you really compare Major Harris against Marc Bulger or Pat White or Geno Smith or Will Grier. None of the 4 faced the same-sized mountain. But we do anyway. So do I. I think Grier may be alongside Harris and White if he stays another year Or above if he can win the dang national title for WVU. We haven't done that since 1922. Unfortunately, Clarence "Doc" Spears didn't have writers and coaches polls to declare him national champs even those he never lost a game that season and won the East-West game which was the precursor to the Rose Bowl.


M istakes by special teams + absence of Simms & Long = loss to Virginia Tech, 31-24

O bliterated East Carolina, 56-20

U nhinged Delaware State, 59-16

N ot sharp but beat Kansas, 56-34

T ops statistically but tough loss to TCU, 31-24

A mbushed Texas Tech, 46-35, with 20:49 minute goose egg

I ncinerate Baylor

N ullify Oklahoma State

E rectile dysfunction Iowa State

E masculate Kansas State

R eam Texas

S hock Oklahoma

 

[Rootmaster]

How can you really compare Major Harris against Marc Bulger or Pat White or Geno Smith or Will Grier. None of the 4 faced the same-sized mountain

You know...some of your comments are so either ignorant or friend me seeking that it confounds me. Get off the Big 12-2=10 is sooooooooooooooooooooo much better than the Big East and old rivals etc of yesteryear. Is this more just more proof of your claim to having been a major sports writer? What community weekly was your home? Virginia Tech and Miami are in the ACC now and we would have to step up to them. Maryland is doing ok in the BIG. I could go on but your pollyanna views wouldn't see the point. Except for Oklahoma there is no year by year "power player" in the Big 12-2=10. It is simply the conference, which was in deep trouble, that we found a desperate home in.

 

[Cuyahoga Falls Eers_rivals]

You know...some of your comments are so either ignorant or friend me seeking that it confounds me. Get off the Big 12-2=10 is sooooooooooooooooooooo much better than the Big East and old rivals etc of yesteryear. Is this more just more proof of your claim to having been a major sports writer? What community weekly was your home? Virginia Tech and Miami are in the ACC now and we would have to step up to them. Maryland is doing ok in the BIG. I could go on but your pollyanna views wouldn't see the point. Except for Oklahoma there is no year by year "power player" in the Big 12-2=10. It is simply the conference, which was in deep trouble, that we found a desperate home in.

Have a good night's sleep. You're making it so hard for me not to look down on and feel sorry for you. But my parents taught me to be kind to my inferiors. I love you.

 

[Rootmaster]

C...good reply!

 

[WVUALLEN]

This is dumb. They both had an equal amount to do with each others success. RR still had to recruit PW and develop him into the perfect QB for his system. Everyone else thought he was a WR and it's important to note that PW did not have much success with out RR.

They were the perfect match.

Recruiting him and coaching up. He still couldn't win until he found the QB needed for his offense.

Yet Rod has failed at other P5 schools. He is hanging by a thread at Arizona.