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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Coolridge69Vette" data-source="post: 129403007" data-attributes="member: 1481886">Sure, most fans would feel better if the team could win the last 5 games and go 8-4....but most realistically believe that it is just as possible to go 0-5 and finish at 3-9.  Lord I hope that doesn't happen, but I have a fear that the team won't bounce back and win enough games to even make a bowl game.I also understand why some fans would like to see RR return to WVU.  They long for the success he had with Pat White, and Steve Slaton.  If I remember correctly though, wasn't RR's offense fairly new at that time....being labeled as gimmicky?  I mean, it wasn't new, but there certainly were not many teams across the country that used it compared to now.  In conjunction with that, I pose that most defenses of those days were not nearly as equipped to deal with that kind of offense (i.e. a logical explanation for some of RR's success running it.....that and having Pat and Steve toting the ball).......now fast forward to today.  It seems like most teams are running a spread offense or some variant of it and the defenses around the country have been playing against it for several years now.  That being said, unless RR recruits players with the same dynamic that Pat / Steve had or that Baylor and TCU currently has, do you think he would be posting the same variety of win/loss records in the B12 that he did in the BE several years ago?  While he may have some degree of success (maybe even more than Dana), I have a hard time imagining that simply having him on board again would result in 10-11 win seasons year in and out in the B12....maybe occasionally, but not regularly.I had hoped to see more out of Holgersen by now, but I can remember hearing the same sort of complaints and grumblings about RR back when he was here and would lose......."stupid play calling or poor clock management" were the biggest complaints in those days too.I just think that if WVU brings RR back, then they are moving backward not forward.  If he came back on board, it would only be a short period of time before the masses wearing rose colored glasses would have heartburn over not seeing 10-11 win seasons like the good 'ole days.  If Holgorsen has reached his ceiling and needs to be replaced, I hope for a fresh face.  One with a proven record in a head coaching position.....not just a coordinator that wants a chance to be a head coach.  Who would that coach be..............beats me!</blockquote>

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