Colin Dunlap Accuses Bill Stewart Of Attempting To Undermine Dana Holgorsen As Early As December
by Dr. Charley West on Jun 7, 2011 8:04 AM EDT
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Early this morning on 93.7 The Fan, former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette writer Colin Dunlap accused Bill Stewart of calling and asking him to "dig up this dirt" on Dana Holgorsen. This conversation included Stewart asking Dunlap to investigate into any DUIs or skeletons in Holgorsen's closet.
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According to Dunlap, this exchange occured on December 18, just four days after the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette first reported that Holgorsen would become the coach-in-waiting for the 2011 season.
The most damning quote from Dunlap:
Can you get the word ’scumbag’ tattooed on the front of the sports page?
If that's your head coach talking about your future head coach just four days into a full year's working relationship, then things are obviously not going to plan. These revelations go a long way toward illustrating just how dysfunctional the relationships inside the Puskar Center.
The audio and pertinent excerpts are after the jump, all courtesy of KDKA and Sports By Brooks.
It was actually my birthday, December 18, it was the day he (Stewart) was going to the bowl game because I distinctly remember there was a coaches convention in Pittsburgh with high school coaches. He was (then) flying from Pittsburgh down to Orlando to the bowl game for pre-prep work...
…He (Stewart) tried to flame-throw the guy (Holgorsen) in December by calling me and at least one other reporter because the reporter and I discussed it. He said, ‘can you get the word ’scumbag’ tattooed on the front of the sports page?
'(Stewart said) you need to dig up this dirt. You need to get it out on this guy.’ And I said, ‘hey man, I’m not a part of some witch hunt.
… If you want to go look at my cell phone records you can, I don’t need to hide from it. The conversation happened the day he (Stewart) was driving to the airport from the high school coaches convention in Pittsburgh. He was on his way to Orlando. (WVU assistant coach) Dave McMichael was in the car with him. The conversation happened.
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Here's what Dr Charley had to say back in December, and it was prescient.....
Maybe it was Stewart not fully coming to grips with the gravity of the situation back in November….. Still, there was an element of subversion in Stewart’s tactics since that initial meeting. If that element is still present next year, this arrangement surely can not work.
(Emphasis mine)
Coach Stewart, you could have kept getting a paycheck through the end of your current contract (Dec 2013) if you had gone along with the plan. But NOOOOO, you’ve tried to torpedo this deal since it was announced. I’m sorry, Bill, but you’re not being a good team player here. It’s time for you to go.
"Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy." ~ Joseph Campbell
Hey jerk, nobody is allowed to use the words written on this blog to show some on here have a moderate level of intelligence..
Now all the smarties are going to come on here and make me look even dumbberr.
by 5th Year Senior on Jun 7, 2011 9:33 AM EDT up reply actions
Ah gee, 5YS, I always thought your were a clever fellow.....
"Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy." ~ Joseph Campbell
by MtnEer_in_SC on Jun 7, 2011 9:55 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I'm floored by all of this. Absolutely floored.
Assuming all this is true (and I have no reason to believe it’s not at this point), Stew is not the kind of person we all thought he was. Talk about childish. At this point, I’m disappointed in Luck for trying to make this work but not seeing that it couldn’t (or wouldn’t), and I’m worried about what Jeff Casteel and our defensive staff think about what’s going on. How will they react? They’re a proven commodity, and they’ve been loyal to WVU. I hate to see them get burned through all this.
www.smokingmusket.com
You're a dick. Seriously.
Why don’t you try posting something that contributes to the conversation instead of constantly ripping on other people? All you do is try to stir things up.
You really thought all this time that Stew would do something to completely undermine other people and the university he purportedly loves? If yes, either you’re privy to more information than everyone else or you really are a sadistic asshole.
www.smokingmusket.com
by Country Roads on Jun 7, 2011 10:26 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Stewart constantly ripped Rich Rod in the media. Stew ripped Tahj Boyd in the media. Stewart passive agreessively ripped Jarrett Brown in the media. Stewart lied about meeting Holgorsen. Stewart was guilty of NCAA infactions. Stewart had a well publicized falling out with Doc Holliday. Stewart talked about his amazing success against South Florida and as WVU head coach when people criticized him.
There were signs that Stewart was an extremely prideful and maybe vindictive person. Plus, there have been articles the past two days that Stewart was leaking the information to Landon.
So, I am not surprised at Colin Dunlap’s revelation, no.
I don’t intend my comments to be mean spirited. I am sorry.
Sorry for the personal attack. Can we kiss and make up now?
I’ll agree to disagree about what can be deduced from your first paragraph, and the Landon connection is part of why I’m floored, since all this is coming out in rapid-fire style right now.
I can respect an opposing opinion backed up by some kind of reasoning, which you have now provided. But comments like that previous one that insinuate I’m somehow ignorant or stupid because I had supported Stew are what get under my skin. I’ll be the first to admit I don’t know everything or that I’m wrong about something, but nobody likes to be called out for it.
www.smokingmusket.com
by Country Roads on Jun 7, 2011 12:48 PM EDT up reply actions
I'm going to have to agree with The 25314
I’m not going to say I saw this coming, but I honestly do not believe HCBS is as folksy and country bumpkin as he likes to put on. While I do believe there are elements of this in his personality, I think he played them up. We have definitely seen him get “out of character” when questioned by the media, and then there was the withholding of information from the offensive coaches.
I am personally not shocked. Did I expect better? I hoped for it, but given the current climate of college football, perhaps I have become cynical and this comes as no real surprise.
This is exactly the perception problem that our state faces. Folksy and Country bumpkin have NOTHING to do with moral fiber. There has been this long standing thought that said traits equate to “good ol’ boy” and/or “he’s ‘good’ people”.
I saw through Stewart since the Colorado game and about every poster on here will reluctantly agree.
Wait??
You knew he wasn’t a good guy after a bad coaching job? And now you are taking credit for thinking he was a bad coach and bad guy.
What’s next? On the 1st day WVUColumbus said let there be light…
by 5th Year Senior on Jun 7, 2011 4:17 PM EDT up reply actions
Nooooooo….Immediately after that game I stated that Stewart “was arrogant and closed-minded” and I was roundly ridiculed….not for 1-2 wks, for 1-2 years…I stated, at that time, that he was not who many thought he was. For 2 years I routinely stated that Stewart was arrogant. Many laughed at me and thought that a “country bumpkin” couldn’t possibly be arrogant.
5YS-I’m surprised that you wouldn’t be the first person to come out and acknowledge that I was right about his CHARACTER because you (among others, like BurghMountaineer, IE97, etc.) were the posters that I remembered blasting me the most….. His coaching ability was never in doubt as I always knew he was underqualified from the start.
dude, seriously?
Most, if not all of us, have admitted that we were wrong over the last few months. It’s just a tired act and sad when someone, anyone, keeps coming around to just boast how right they were…as you keep doing
I Am Surprised, Too....
but then, maybe Bill just might be one of those gold-star attendance policy churchgoers who says all the right things, Praise the Lord, and the Golden Rule, and smiles and smiles and shakes hands, and asks after your mother, and your kids, then later, well you know, he beds a choir member’s wife, and steals from the collection plate, etc. etc.
It really is hard to believe that Bill would think a muck-raking campaign would have kept him in the job. I really think he ought to step down. At this point, wouldn’t that be the “honorable” thing to do. This is a guy who has iterated on several occasions that he wouldn’t let the school get dragged through the mud, and here we find he was slinging it in the background, and now, for the second time in the last five years, we are the center of a coaching story that has nothing to do with football, but rather, hidden agendas and betrayal.
Now is the time boys to make a big noise.
No matter what the people say,
For there is naught to fear, the gang's all here,
So hail West Virginia, hail.
If this is true....
Rich rod is breathing a big sigh of relief for not being the most hated man in the history of WV sports any longer.
I can’t help but love this irony. People hate Rich Rod because he left. People will hate Bill Stewart because he tried every tactic he could think of so he wouldn’t have to leave.
by The 25314 on Jun 7, 2011 10:06 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
That Is A Great Point....
Now is the time boys to make a big noise.
No matter what the people say,
For there is naught to fear, the gang's all here,
So hail West Virginia, hail.
but the common thread
is that both acted unethically. honesty and authenticity are in short supply from both and that is what is getting them loathed not the contrast of where they’d like to coach.
Bill probably doesn't often win at Battleship.
He’s the kind of guy that tries to play a 0 from an Uno deck in a high stakes poker game.
by Dr. Charley West on Jun 7, 2011 9:10 AM EDT up reply actions
surprised but not shocked
I never bought into the Saint Stewart bit in the first place. In a sadistic way, I’m glad he’s proving me right that he’s not only kind of a bad coach but also kind of a bad guy.
by Simple Jack on Jun 7, 2011 9:17 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
It is time to put this coaching situation behind us and focus on the team. HCBS, it’s time to step out as you have obviously shot yourself while trying to take down Holgorsen. Dana may not be squeeky clean, but who out there is? It is time to focus on the players and the upcoming season. Ride off into the sunset Stew, while you still can. You really don’t want to be run out of Morgantown, do you?
Some questions that need answered
Why did Colin Dunlap wait until June 7, 2011 to drop this information? Why not use it when he was covering WVU in his blog or a tweet or a column? Why wait until after you got switched over to the Pirates beat, then quit your position do you bring this up?
I’d love to know why he waited until now, and why he wants to get involved in this? Something smells fishy and I haven’t been to a strip club lately.
Also, say this is true. Put yourself in the position of Bill Stewart. Would you want to find out all you can about the guy who’s coming to take your job away from you? Would you sit back and take it and do nothing? I can honestly say, I wouldn’t. I’d fight. I’d dig up dirt. I’d not be happy with the situation at all. Maybe it’s not what is benefical to the team and the program right now, but if he thinks this is what he needs for self survival, I’m not sure I can blame the man.
That all said, if it’s true, I don’t think I’d be asking a Pittsburgh Post Gazette beat writer that I have little or no history with to be digging up dirt for me.
by BurghMountaineer on Jun 7, 2011 10:47 AM EDT reply actions
digging up dirt for me.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend…right?
by MountaineerMaxx on Jun 7, 2011 11:08 AM EDT up reply actions
This sucks
The “I told you so” crowd should shut it. I can’t take the word of a Pittsburgh journalist as gospel, but we should all be concerned.
by Jim America on Jun 7, 2011 11:03 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
I think it works out well for WVU.
Stewart wasn’t fired in Dec. because too many people would have been angry.
Stewart was head coach during the spring, allowing Holgorsen to focus completely on installing his offense.
Stewart allowed to show his true colors and lose his support.
Now you can fire Stewwithout backlash for being insubbordinant and promote Dana.
Problem solved. Let’s win some football games.
Yes, let's win a LOT of football games......
Including that one that seems to get away from us all the time.
"Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy." ~ Joseph Campbell
by MtnEer_in_SC on Jun 7, 2011 11:11 AM EDT up reply actions
Hey, I agree with you too.
Absent some type of exonerating evidence, Stew needs to go.
I just hope Holgorsen steps up and becomes the type of head coach we all hope he will be.
www.smokingmusket.com
by Country Roads on Jun 7, 2011 11:59 AM EDT up reply actions
Stewart's Ego
Egos can be terrible things. This is a perfect example of just how bad they can be. It is understandable to become angry at the prospect of someone taking your job but to blatantly sabotage someone because of it is a matter of ethics. I thought he was supposedly better than this? I never did think so, now it is confirmed. All that I am concerned about is the boys on the team, I hope they are not adversely effected by all of this high school drama nonsense. It is pathetic to say the least.
With all this stuff coming out about Stew...
People are forgetting that Holgs probably hasnt done anything wrong, and is more than ready to lead this team.
The Mardi Gras casino event has been confirmed.
So yeah, Holgorsen hasn’t been entirely above reproach here. But at this point, Stew is the one who needs to be worrying about his job. Holgs just needs to learn his lesson and start acting like the leader that he’s about to become. I think he can, and will, do that…but it still needs to be proven.
www.smokingmusket.com
by Country Roads on Jun 7, 2011 12:09 PM EDT up reply actions
to ADOL
run bill stewart out of town, run him out, talk about his ethics and how he should never ever be the face man of another football program again…at any level. talk about his lack of ethics, his utter disdain for higher ups, and go at length about how he is the type of guy to make someone else look like a fool only to make himself look better.
thanks
mountaineer fans the desire honor above all else in their program
" Lord Stanley, scratch thier names on your fabled cup" Mike Lange june 12, 2009
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