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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- West Virginia coach Bill Stewart is the kind of cat who readily uses his allotted nine lives. Folksy and idiosyncratic, the third-year Mountaineers coach has guided a winning program through the wake of Rich Rodriguez's bitter departure. While he has aggressively embraced the state and the program, the feeling has never been fully reciprocal. Although one of their own, Stewart has been sort of an odd fit, a good-guy hire who stuck around and then shocked the world in 2008 with a dominant Fiesta Bowl victory over Oklahoma, 48-28.
Since then, he's won more than he's lost, but we're talking about college football where style matters and takes on a substance of its own. Stewart's style of conquest has been more trench warfare than his predecessor's Viking raids. Some may not like this reality, but the distinction matters.
The Big East has been there for anyone's taking this year, particularly for an upper-tier program like West Virginia. However, back-to-back losses attributed to a sleepy offense reminded people once again why they've been upset with Stewart. It manifested in an ugly way an hour before kickoff when a plane flew a banner outside Milan Puskar Stadium reading: "Mr. Luck, leave no doubt, fire Luther."
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