You are correct, but you forget what WVU sports is all about. It is about 2 things:
- For the majority out-of-state student body, providing quasi- big time sports environment for those turned down by the major schools in their home states and unwilling to settle for the second tier schools back home.
- For the non-alumni West Virginian, with a deep willingness to suspend disbelief, the illusion that this is something similar to what goes on at truly legitimate programs.
Holgy serves both groups quite well. He wins enough to support the annual August certain national championship and recruits well enough to make the ignorant believe that Johnny Twostar really turned down Ohio State, Alabama, and Notre Dame to play for a journeyman coach in a forgotten backwater town in a tiny state. He will be there as long as he wants to work. No body else wants him.
As to us, I am sad to say, we are in the end game, about to run off a solid, if unspactacular, football coach and a superstar, IMHO, AD. We will be the worse for it.
