The Bret Bielema era at Wisconsin could be a template for things going wrong at WVU. I’m not saying it’s going to happen, but it’s possible. Bielema took over, won 12 games with Barry Alvarez’s players, then won 9 games with less of Alvarez’s players, and then last year won 7. A general decay. I think that’s what most of the anti-Stew crowd is expecting in Morgantown.

If you write a FanPost/Shot and come up with a headline (reference) like this, it’s impossible not to make the front page. Well done sir, well done.

Stew is actually recruiting better players than RichRod did (White and Slaton aside, we’re talking overall talent level here), a decay of talent does not seem likely. A decay in coaching, possibly, but that is more easily fixed than a decay in talent. But to lump Stew in with Rod and Weis is ridiculous. On the other hand, the fact that a 9-4 year is a disappointment may be a sign that we have arrived as a program.

please don’t take this post to mean that going 9-4 is a new accepted norm, at least for me. Disappointing, somewhat…Bad (especially considering a coaching transition), hell no.