Bill Stewart Out as West Virginia Head Coach
By Ty Duffy
According to the Sporting News, West Virginia fired Stewart for “conduct detrimental to the University” but will allow him to resign publicly.
He was leaving after the season anyway. Even had he not been, there was no way to mollify that situation. His behavior was ridiculous. Not that problems to this extent could have been foreseen, but Oliver Luck deserves a share of the blame for announcing Stewart’s inadequacy, not firing him and forcing him to groom the path for his replacement.
Stewart finishes with a 28-12 record. He led West Virginia to identical 9-4 (5-2 conference) seasons each of his three years in charge.