Guest Column: Karen In Morgantown Is Not Happy About West Virginia Football
by Dr. Charley West on Dec 30, 2010 1:55 PM EST
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PrintWe're always happy to have guest columnists here at The Smoking Musket. Today, consider ourselves lucky to be hearing from Karen in Morgantown (listen here). Enjoy.
Bill Stewart is a loyal man. In my book, there is no greater quality in a head coach than loyalty. Certainly not winning. Or avoiding losses. Or recruiting. Loyalty is my sole measuring stick and should be the same for the rest of the country.
Really, the more I think about it, the entire scoring system of football should be reconfigured to reward the proper amounts of loyalty. And when I say the proper amounts of loyalty, I really mean that you can't have too much loyalty. Since Bill Stewart is a loyal man, WVU would be immediately awarded 15-20 points at the start of each game. This would properly reflect how good Bill Stewart is as a coach, since he is very loyal. Loyalty.
Dana Holgorsen, on the other hand, would not have any points added to his scores. He is not loyal. In fact, if his offenses score too much in any game, points will actually be deducted because it's rude to achieve such success. Points are crass and not at all loyal. All points forfeited will then be dispersed around the college football landscape to other loyal yet unsuccessful coaches, much like carbon credits. To denote these loyalty points, gold star stickers will be used. If no gold stars are available, potential replacements include scratch-and-sniff strawberries and Mr. Yuk, the poison control mascot. These will be the symbols of loyalty and loyalness and other made up words with loyal in them.
Personally, I think this small change in the way college football does business is a huge step in the right direction. Finally, tyrants like Nick Saban will finally be put in their place. Meanwhile, bastions of loyalty and all things loyalty related will be hoisted a top the pedestal of the sport, which will have its TV contract usurped by competitive eating and men's beach volleyball, very loyal sports in my book of loyalty.
Sincerely,
Karen In Morgantown
PS: In other news, I will be starting a Loyalty in College Coaching Museum, which will be located off Route 19 in Osage. It will be open weekdays from 10-4 with the gift shop staying open until 4:30. Make sure to swing by and pick up your official loyalty gold star sticker for that special someone in your life. Let's just hope they're loyal and not your ex-husband, who wasn't loyal at all except to Trina the waitress at Garfield's. What a whore.
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I’d heard about that call, but this is the first time I’ve heard it. Karen is hilarious. She really earned respect for female sports fans.
Wholly unrelated, what is the name of Bill Stewart’s wife?
Wait a second.
Do they still have the Loyalty Points system for student ticketing? Hopefully, because WVU has been on the cutting edge of the loyalty movement since 2004 and it would be sad to see them regress after making so much progress in that area.
Also, can someone please explain to me how Stewart was loyal?
Because from where I am sitting, he is lucky to be in football. He has nowhere else to go.
Lucky to be in football? Taking it a little far aren't you?
It’s not like the only job he ever had was at WVU. He was an assistant at Marshall, UNC, Navy, Air Force, and Arizona State before he was head coach at VMI and an assistant in the CFL. It’s not like he was the coach at New Martinsville High for 23 years before Nehlen hired him.
Fine, you can question Stew’s loyalty all you want. I don’t think he was exceedingly loyal by any stretch of the imaginaiton. He did what basically any other coach would have done. But lucky to be in football? C’mon. Don’t undermine your credibility with absurd statements like that.
by Country Roads on Dec 30, 2010 6:23 PM EST up reply actions
I'm pretty sure
he’s done more in football than you have. So he’s got that going for him, which is nice.
by BurghMountaineer on Dec 30, 2010 7:24 PM EST up reply actions
Jeff Casteel. That’s loyalty.
He could have left to go to Michigan. He could easily find another job after his successful season this year, but it appears he is staying with Holgorsen.
That’s loyalty.
Besides, you want loyalty, hire a cocker spaniel.
This ^ is truth
As far as I can tell Stewart stuck around because he had no where else to go. Casteel stuck around because he wanted to be at WVU.
On a separate note, I got into an argument with some other WVU fans at the Champs Sports Bowl. They were holding up signs that read “The only bad ingredient in WVU’s STEW is LUCK” and “Billy’s got class, but Oliver can kiss my @$$” I told them they were delusional and I welcomed the coming change.
"My goal is to win a national championship at West Virginia University" Dana Holgorsen
by MtnEer_in_SC on Dec 30, 2010 8:00 PM EST up reply actions
I stand corrected
"My goal is to win a national championship at West Virginia University" Dana Holgorsen
by MtnEer_in_SC on Dec 31, 2010 10:25 AM EST up reply actions
Doing What?
Coaching the kick off team when he managed a 117 out of 119 ranking here at WVU.
Helping with the offense that he ran into the ground at WVU with hand picked OC?
Helping the defense that he had nothing to do with at WVU?
Make him the Ball Security Czar since that has been one of our strengths under his leadership?
Make him Bowl coordinator for the impressive performances vs FSU and NC State the past two years?
Rich may be trying to make amends like an alcoholic working the 8th step but that doesn’t mean Stew is in any kind of demand in cfb coaching circles.
I think he meant when RR left.
Stew’s special teams were decent under RR, and he was (and still is) a heck of a recruiter. He was a pretty good assistant, just not a great head coach.
by Country Roads on Dec 31, 2010 12:44 PM EST up reply actions
Thanks for Straightening Me Out
I got lost in the thread.
Any chance Stew is tapped to replace Doc in 2012 in Huntington? A 9-4 average record in the BE over 3 seasons might look pretty good to a mid-major who has been struggling.
"points are crass and not at all loyal"
what in the hell does that mean????? i sincerely hope that this is just Dr. Charley West making this whole thing up and not really what a HC’s wife actually said.
After listening to the call, I have to agree.
Karen was pretty emotional there about how Stew was forced out. Definitely sounds a little more personal than just admiration for a coach.
But at the same time, would Stew’s wife really be that bold to call in and go on a rant like that? I doubt it, but part of me has to wonder.
by Country Roads on Dec 31, 2010 9:45 AM EST up reply actions
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