(01-01-2019 02:50 PM)kevinwmsn Wrote: I think it something that Houston a non power 5 team can hire away a power 5 head coach. I don't know about that WVU job, not exactly the best recruiting area. If Neal Brown does get that job, I wish him good luck. I wonder who Troy would get next.
There are more than a few reasons why this is happening:
1)Right now WVU has no DI IA QB, they have 2 scholarship QBs on the roster:
Jack Allison who played in the bowl game and was sacked at least 4 times because he couldn't slide right or left to throw the ball away
Trey Lowe III who has yet to see the field in a college game
They also have 2 walk on QBs but who knows if they will even be there come fall
2)DH is a bad communicator, he has never connected with his supporters in The Hole, I doubt that changes where ever he goes
3)He is a mediocre coach at best:
His win per year avg is 7.4 at WVU
He is 2-5 in bowl games
He has only finished ranked twice (2011 at #17 and 2016 at 16) despite being ranked every preseason at WVU
He is 10-21 vs Top 25 (0-11 vs Top 15)
4)He isn't the current AD Shane Lyons hire, DH was an Oliver Luck hire
DH had one of the top 5 College QBs in the nation the last two years and could only muster a 15-10 record (2017 7-6, 2018- 8-4) and lost both bowl games.
Why Houston or anyone else would want him is beyond me. Before being named HC at WVU all he ever was is a QB coach. He also held the title of OC but never played a call.
DH is getting out of The Hole before he is fired after next year.