RIP Bill Stewart

[Cosmo]

CBS Sports' Brett McMurphy tweeted that West Virginia announced former coach Bill Stewart died of a heart attack during a golf function.

Link from the Charleston, W. Va., paper: http://wvgazette.com/Sports/201205210072

 

[93Devil]

RIP

 

[dixiehack]

A mediocre head coach who didn't deserve the three-ring circus that erupted when WVU shoved him towards the exit. Always prefer to think of the pure joy on his face when he was carried off after winning the Fiesta. RIP

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

He was playing golf with former AD Ed Pastilong at Stonewall Resort.

It didn't sound good from the word go. It was first reported he suffered a "pretty serious heart attack."

 

[Moderator1]

I have yet to see one that isn't serious. Covered his teams at VMI. Interesting guy. RIP

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

I have yet to see one that isn't serious. Covered his teams at VMI. Interesting guy. RIP

Never heard of a mild heart attack, huh?

From initial reports it sounds like he died at the scene.

 

[Moderator1]

Yes. I have heard of one. Doesn't meant it isn't serious. Just isn't usually fatal.

 

[wicked]

All heart attacks are serious. My dad just had a couple "minor" ones (and is doing OK, thankfully).

Anyway, RIP. dixiehack said it best.

 

[SixToe]

Doctors said my father's enzyme levels showed he was about as close as he could be to having a heart attack without having one, and they found a third blockage during his bypass surgery. So I never want a mild one, a close one, a serious one or anything related to one, although I'm sure I'll probably have one. All of them suck.

RIP. More than one tweet says Stewart was pretty upbeat guy and, as Moddy said, interesting.

 

[Roscablo]

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.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

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.

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.

 

[The Big Ragu]

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.

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.

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.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

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.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

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.

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.

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.

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]

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.

In other news, Bob Stoops remains a walking punchline of a big-game coach.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

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.

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.

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.

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.

"No sizzle," was the oft-used quote of reasoning for dumping Uncle Billy.

 

[ivycool]

Covered his teams at VMI. Interesting guy. RIP

 

[zagoshe]

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.

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.

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.

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.

Except - Holgorsen won the Big East and a BCS bowl.