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Hmm. A long, complicated answer.  While going from a solid P5 school to a G5 is unusual it also potentially gives him a reset on his coaching career.  DH has been here 8 years now.  And while he has been pretty good he also hasn’t been spectacular and next year looks like it could be a rough one.

If he takes a step back at WVU he is probably gone.  He’s already working for an AD that didn’t hire him.  He is familiar with the area and apparently likes the area as well.  Winning a conference title is probably easier at Houston in the AAC than it is at WVU in the Big 12.  I think some natives are starting to get restless too.  Most of the fanbase thinks with this year’s roster and especially Grier at QB WVU should have finished with more than 8 wins.

I think he’s done an altogether pretty good job here but I would be ok if he left too.  It feels like he may have plateaued here. My biggest concern is getting the wrong guy here.  Some of our fanbase thinks 7 wins and a bowl is our floor.  It can be much worse.  There is very little in-state talent to draw from.  The facilities, even by the admission of the AD, aren’t up to par.  WV is one of the poorest and smallest states in the country.  We get the wrong guy here and we could be looking at a decade of Indiana like results.

Weird

Holgo had a decent enough resume to go to a higher profile/equal to WVU school for about the same pay. However he just never struck me as a guy who enjoys being small town royality. Or maybe he just liked living in Texas.

8 years, which is a lot longer than most coaches hang around and/or get fired. He did well.

that would be a good hire.

If the playoffs expands to 8 teams, it will be easier to get in coaching at houston than WV.    

Dana and WVU is a really unusual split.  Usually when a school and coach go their separate ways either the school/fanbase is disappointed the relationship is over or the coach is.

This isn’t the case here.  Dana goes to a town he seems to genuinely like, doesn’t take a pay cut, and gets one of the best G5 jobs in the country.  You can argue he actually just increased his chances to coach in a NY6 bowl.

A big portion of the fanbase thought it was a good time to turn the page and give someone else a shot and WVU gets a guy that the fans are ecstatic about and is being applauded by basically anyone who covers the sport.  They didn’t have to buyout any of Dana’s contract and, in fact, got a million dollars from Houston.

Can anyone off the top of their head think of a similar split?  I can’t.

Apparently Louisville was looking for a way to move from JLS to Petrino when MSU helped them out and hired him.  JLS got to go to a BCS job, and Louisville was able to promote the guy they were worried about getting hired away to a mid major head coaching job.

So Kingsbury goes from fired at a middling P5 job to being an NFL head coach?

Not bad