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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Bell Tolls for Thee" data-source="post: 130953221" data-attributes="member: 1812660">Refer to WVUAllen's post breaking down Dana's wins since you are so fact oriented.Did you think DH truly had WVU on a path to compete for the Big 12?  After 8 seasons, the last was the only one where WVU was in contention.  I don't recall WVU ever improving much after September, but recall plenty of swoons.  His teams frequently had breakdowns in discipline such as poor blocking techniques by receivers, stupid penalties (like the one that negated a huge run against OU), and awful tackling fundamentals.  Sure people like to ignore the woeful defense because Dana is an offensive minded coach.  Yet he is responsible for that as well and if the one he delegates that to can't get the job done it is the HC's responsibility to change that.  Seems Bill Stewart got a lot of flak, and rightly so, for an anemic offense despite great weapons when Mullen was the OC.  But then when the "good team" of OSU as you deemed them is down 3 scores at the half, you let it slide that the offensive minded guy with a loaded roster suddenly can't score more than 10 points or even sustain a drive against the defense that gave up 31 points already?  You defend his bowl losses because of losing QB's, but whose responsibility is it that the cupboard not be bare?  I don't recall WVU becoming completely toothless when Hales had to play for Marshall or Jarrett Brown for Pat White.  Ultimately, DH had big problems at QB this year which always spells doom for his teams.  Houston offered 5 years, 20 million guaranteed which you would be stupid to match given the culmination of 8 years was to finish 4th due to 2 losses (OSU and ISU) that were winnable games.  And DH would be stupid not to take such a lucrative, guaranteed contract.  Why Houston is willing to spend that kind of money when no other power 5 school was sniffing this guy is beyond me.  I'm not, and most board members you are maligning are not, ordaining Brown as the greatest coach ever.  We just saw the ceiling for Dana as HC at WVU was a season like 2018.  We feel that the reason for that was his aloof nature and sacrificing fundamentals for flash.  We think that turnover after a coaching change is inevitable even at the blue blood level and accept that us non elite programs have to go through a rebuild after a coaching change be it 3-8 with RR or the embarrassing opening season loss to ECU with Stewart.  We think Brown has a better chance with his approach of bringing in guys and developing them into 3+ year players which is what programs that don't take in the top high school athletes have to do to be competitive.  But, ultimately we think that even though Brown may not even turn out to be as good a HC as Dana was, at least there is hope for better as Dana was a known commodity with a known ceiling which was not high enough for a Big 12 championship.</blockquote>

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