RIP Bill Stewart

Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!! · May 22, 2012

Sounds like Stew was dead before he hit the ground .. .
Damn ...

Former West Virginia University Athletic Director Ed Pastilong says former Mountaineer football coach Bill Stewart died suddenly on the golf course at Stonewall Resort in Lewis County Monday.
“There was no consciousness from the point he fell down there on the golf course,“ Pastilong said Monday night on MetroNews Statewide Sportsline.
Pastilong, Stewart and Nick Mavromatis were playing in a threesome as part of an annual golf outing.
“It was a tremendously enjoyable day here. The weather was nice and Billy was in a real jovial mood,“ Pastilong said.
Pastilong says the three had teed off on one of the holes and were standing within a few feet of one another when they were set to take another shot. Pastilong says they were joking about something and Coach Stewart broke into a story about a former boss, retired Air Force head coach Fisher DeBerry.
“He said, ‘Fisher DeBerry always said…‘ and boom—-I looked over and he was on his back,“ Pastilong said.
Stewart, 59, who hadn’t said anything about not feeling well according to Pastilong, had no response from the time he fell to the ground.
Pastilong says Mavromatis immediately began CPR and Stonewall Resort responded quickly with medical personnel. He says Coach Stewart was in the emergency room at Stonewall Jackson General in Weston within 45 minutes where a team of doctors tried to revive him.
“The doctors were very courteous to Nick Mav and I and they would come out and say, ‘There’s no response, but we’re going to continue,‘ they continued for almost an hour,“ Pastilong said.
The former athletic director, who hired Stewart as head coach just a few short hours after the Mountaineers upset Oklahoma in the 2008 Fiesta Bowl, says there was nothing anyone could do.
“It was one of those situations whereby it was one of those huge heart attacks. It was massive. It was over,“ Pastilong said.
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BitterYoungMatador2 · May 22, 2012

The Big Ragu said:

Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!! said:

Roscablo said:

I was at that Fiesta Bowl whipping of Oklahoma and it was quite fun to watch. It may have been an impulse to name him coach, but the players obviously loved him at that point. Whether he panned out or not, what a terrible thing. RIP.
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The rumor - which i suspect is more true than not - is after the OU whipping, Ed P, Joe Manchin (then Gov.) and a handful of other big boosters were hanging out in the hotel room drinking and decided to give Stew Daddy the job. He was summoned up to their room about 3:30 a.m. and promoted.

He woulda had a better image among WVU fans had he not bad-mouthed Holgerson, anonymously, to a number of WVU beat writers after he had been pushed out the door.
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He was already doing recon on Holgerson before he was pushed out the door. He saw the handwriting on the wall and went to the dark side.

That said, he won 9 games every year, I believe (correct me if I am wrong; no checking) and he did a credible job after RichRod. That has to count for something with that fan base, even if they were maybe expecting even more.

And yes, he was a fairly well-liked guy. In general, and you got the sense that his players liked him too. Genuinely.
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I enjoyed that Stew was pushed out for only winning 9 games a year and replaced by Holgorskullet, who only won 9 games with dumb losses to Syracuse and Louisville.

king cranium maximus IV · May 22, 2012

Roscablo said:

I was at that Fiesta Bowl whipping of Oklahoma and it was quite fun to watch. It may have been an impulse to name him coach, but the players obviously loved him at that point. Whether he panned out or not, what a terrible thing. RIP.
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In other news, Bob Stoops remains a walking punchline of a big-game coach.

Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!! · May 22, 2012

BitterYoungMatador2 said:

The Big Ragu said:

Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!! said:

Roscablo said:

I was at that Fiesta Bowl whipping of Oklahoma and it was quite fun to watch. It may have been an impulse to name him coach, but the players obviously loved him at that point. Whether he panned out or not, what a terrible thing. RIP.
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The rumor - which i suspect is more true than not - is after the OU whipping, Ed P, Joe Manchin (then Gov.) and a handful of other big boosters were hanging out in the hotel room drinking and decided to give Stew Daddy the job. He was summoned up to their room about 3:30 a.m. and promoted.

He woulda had a better image among WVU fans had he not bad-mouthed Holgerson, anonymously, to a number of WVU beat writers after he had been pushed out the door.
Click to expand...

He was already doing recon on Holgerson before he was pushed out the door. He saw the handwriting on the wall and went to the dark side.

That said, he won 9 games every year, I believe (correct me if I am wrong; no checking) and he did a credible job after RichRod. That has to count for something with that fan base, even if they were maybe expecting even more.

And yes, he was a fairly well-liked guy. In general, and you got the sense that his players liked him too. Genuinely.
Click to expand...

I enjoyed that Stew was pushed out for only winning 9 games a year and replaced by Holgorskullet, who only won 9 games with dumb losses to Syracuse and Louisville.
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"No sizzle," was the oft-used quote of reasoning for dumping Uncle Billy.

ivycool · May 22, 2012

Covered his teams at VMI. Interesting guy. RIP

zagoshe · May 23, 2012

BitterYoungMatador2 said:

The Big Ragu said:

Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!! said:

Roscablo said:

I was at that Fiesta Bowl whipping of Oklahoma and it was quite fun to watch. It may have been an impulse to name him coach, but the players obviously loved him at that point. Whether he panned out or not, what a terrible thing. RIP.
Click to expand...

The rumor - which i suspect is more true than not - is after the OU whipping, Ed P, Joe Manchin (then Gov.) and a handful of other big boosters were hanging out in the hotel room drinking and decided to give Stew Daddy the job. He was summoned up to their room about 3:30 a.m. and promoted.

He woulda had a better image among WVU fans had he not bad-mouthed Holgerson, anonymously, to a number of WVU beat writers after he had been pushed out the door.
Click to expand...

He was already doing recon on Holgerson before he was pushed out the door. He saw the handwriting on the wall and went to the dark side.

That said, he won 9 games every year, I believe (correct me if I am wrong; no checking) and he did a credible job after RichRod. That has to count for something with that fan base, even if they were maybe expecting even more.

And yes, he was a fairly well-liked guy. In general, and you got the sense that his players liked him too. Genuinely.
Click to expand...

I enjoyed that Stew was pushed out for only winning 9 games a year and replaced by Holgorskullet, who only won 9 games with dumb losses to Syracuse and Louisville.
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Except - Holgorsen won the Big East and a BCS bowl.

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