Dana Holgerson News

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What's amazing is that everyone's up in arms about Holgerson possibly being hired, yet there's a rumor going around that UT contacted Dabo Swinney, who WVU obliterated last year.

If Hart truly did cancel on Gruden to hire a Swinney/Holgerson type coach then God help him to get out of Knoxville alive.
 
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rocketskates said:
I would hope not. Holgerson wins his games via offensive shoot out and that strategy typically doesn't work for us.
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Correct we score 44 against UGA and lose, we have some fans that need to get a grip.
 
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Found the OP's seat.
 
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Dagreek1998 said:
First off, for people that know wvu, Holgerson is a hell of a coach. His issue this year had been the travel and the impact on his players there first road game was Texas and they won. They got back late sunday and were not ready for a return trip the follow week. From there it just snowballed. He hates the fact that his closet conference opponent is over 1200 miles away. He also had limited funds to hire a dc. He got outbid by clemson for venables and knows that won't happen at UT.

I was told by a friend who's wife works in the athletic department that hart believes his offense is exciting and can beat bama since Kingsbury is a deciple of Dana's. He also believe Dana can get bray, Patterson, and hunter to stay and Dana is also a hell of recruiter in Texas. He has promised resources to get Dana a solid dc staff. He also has a solid Florida recruiter on his staff in Robert Gillespie.

People are also reporting that Dana is bringing a big time Texas qb Childress that will sit out next year and have three years to play once bray leaves
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Manure. Egg on your face. Trollster!
 
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bam15 said:
Not as fast. Streamlined the Air raid stuff. Got rid of mesh. He started adding 21 personnel and a lot of diamond backfield sets. He has made a living off of keeping the box contained with pa. He and Franklin both took the base Air raid/tfs stuff and added quicker tempo and a more concise pass game. His stick/draw and y-cross/screen packages were way ahead of CFB. I'm probably his biggest fan on this board. So, yeah. Agreed on last part.
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yeah...what he said
 
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zidanefan said:
What's amazing is that everyone's up in arms about Holgerson possibly being hired, yet there's a rumor going around that UT contacted Dabo Swinney, who WVU obliterated last year.

If Hart truly did cancel on Gruden to hire a Swinney/Holgerson type coach then God help him to get out of Knoxville alive.
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Dabo can flat out recruit
 
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Dagreek1998 said:
And for non believers, I setting in the press box at the north end about two rows behind Ollie's group. He has been on his phone and has been called away about five times already. Sounds like hart made contact with Dana's agent and made a sizable offer that was matched late last night, but Dana has rejected it and had decided to go to UT
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Good God nobody is buying this $hit. He went 7-5 in a mediocre Big 12. His teams are even worse defensively than UT's. Where do people come up with this crap. Its Strong, Fisher, Gundy and maybe Fedora with Strong being the guy.
 
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VOLorNuttin said:
He was certainly a hot name the first half of the season, but after WVU imploded, there has been no chatter about him at all. I think he'd be a great hire if we game him a fat budget to hire big on the defensive side of the ball. He's got lots of talent to start with.

Get Randy Shannon (currently LB coach at TCU, but one of the best resumes as a DC in CF), and they could do some serious damage in the SEC.
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I could agree with that :salute:
 
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jasonvol18 said:
Good God nobody is buying this $hit. He went 7-5 in a mediocre Big 12. His teams are even worse defensively than UT's. Where do people come up with this crap. Its Strong, Fisher, Gundy and maybe Fedora with Strong being the guy.
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While I agree with the sentiment of your post, it is almost impossible for anybody's defense to be worse than Sunseri's defense.

Having said that, I wouldn't be surprised to see Hart make a Holgerson type hire and retain Sunseri.
 
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Dagreek1998 said:
And for non believers, I setting in the press box at the north end about two rows behind Ollie's group. He has been on his phone and has been called away about five times already. Sounds like hart made contact with Dana's agent and made a sizable offer that was matched late last night, but Dana has rejected it and had decided to go to UT
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Ha.
 
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jasonvol18 said:
Good God nobody is buying this $hit. He went 7-5 in a mediocre Big 12. His teams are even worse defensively than UT's. Where do people come up with this crap. Its Strong, Fisher, Gundy and maybe Fedora with Strong being the guy.
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Didn't he inherit the DC from the previous coaching staff. Also how many of the defensive players that were on the current team do you think he recruited. So I think it is a bit unfair to put his teams inept defense on him at this point. I honestly think he would be a good hire with the right DC. Take the 5 mil we were prepared to give Gruden to hire him AND Randy Shannon and I think we will be just fine. As far as recruiting goes both can recruit FL very well. Holgersen is smart enough to let Shannon do his thing and for him to do his. JMO
 
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orangelo said:
Didn't he inherit the DC from the previous coaching staff. Also how many of the defensive players that were on the current team do you think he recruited. So I think it is a bit unfair to put his teams inept defense on him at this point. I honestly think he would be a good hire with the right DC. Take the 5 grand we were prepared to give Gruden to hire him AND Randy Shannon and I think we will be just fine. As far as recruiting goes both can recruit FL very well. Holgersen is smart enough to let Shannon do his thing and for him to do his. JMO
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For 5 grand!!!!! No wonder Gruden wasn't interested.
 
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Had me laughing ad Holgeron could convince Patterson to stay...it should be more like convincing UT to letting someone alter Patterson's attendance records and grades...........
 
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I can absolutely confirm this post is 100% bull****.

Im a WVU alum and former student employee in the office of former WVU president David Hardesty. Still have great relationships within the AD, academic wing, and Hardesty family who still reside in Morgantown and very active with the university.

However little tid bit. Contact was made from Arkansas back in October. Nothing much came from it.

As far as wvu travel issues and isolation in the Big 12. That problem will be not existent in the very near future. Keep your eyes on the Big Ten. They aren't stopping at 14.
 
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WVU05UT09 said:
I can absolutely confirm this post is 100% bull****.

Im a WVU alum and former student employee in the office of former WVU president David Hardesty. Still have great relationships within the AD, academic wing, and Hardesty family who still reside in Morgantown and very active with the university.

However little tid bit. Contact was made from Arkansas back in October. Nothing much came from it.

As far as wvu travel issues and isolation in the Big 12. That problem will be not existent in the very near future. Keep your eyes on the Big Ten. They aren't stopping at 14.
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Don't see them jumping ship and coming up with buyout money to leave another conference especially with new tv deal involving big 12. This board has been fed a lot of bull by "sources" lately.
 
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WVU is not leaving the Big 12 ever. University is very very happy there compared to what you read by all these national media heads.

What the Big Ten is about to do will result in wvu no longer being on an island.
 
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