WVGazette.com: Bill Stewart named WVU head football coach
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January 3 --- As Bill Stewart walked back to West Virginia’s locker room early this morning from the post-Fiesta Bowl press conference it was relayed to him that WVU president Mike Garrison had said a few minutes earlier that he was willing to talk to Stewart about the school’s vacant head coaching position “anytime and anywhere...’’ --- The time and place was apparently then and there...
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West Virginia Removes the "Interim" Portion From Head Coach Stewart
Published 1/3/2008 by Charles Rich at FanHouse
Filed under: West Virginia Football, Big East, BCS, NCAA FB Coaching, Breaking NewsThe only interim head coach to win a bowl game is also the only one to get a head coaching job. The outstanding job Bill Stewart did in taking control of the Mountaineers and getting them ready for the Fiesta Bowl and defeating Oklahoma handily was quickly rewarded.
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