Former WVU Head Coach Bill Stewart dead at 59 years of age

• killer_ewok

  

  Apparent heart attack. Dang. RIP
• THE4RINGZ

  

  Rest in Peace.
  
  Sad loss.
• Midstate01

  

  Wow really sad. Rip
• killer_ewok

  

  http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-football/story/2012-05-21/bill-stewart-west-virginia-mountaineers-heart-attack
• The Equalizer

  

  Does anyone know if Branko has an alibi?
• vball10set

  Damn. RIP, Coach Stewart.
• Heretic

  

  He did have quite the interesting saga over the past few years.
  
  1. Long-time assistant gets head job after RR leaves for Michigan.
  
  2. Then gets strange deal where he stays as head coach for one final year to groom the guy who the school decided would replace him.
  
  3. Then steps down (or fired?) when it's revealed his wife was trying to smear the replacement. Don't remember all the details, but do remember thinking it was a really, really strange story.
  
  4. And now, dead.
• justincredible

  

  RIP Coach Stew. I wasn't a huge fan of his coaching but he always seemed like a good guy.
• chicago510

  

  Way too young. RIP.
• killer_ewok

  

  @PaulZeise: Regardless of what you think of Stewart as a coach, nobody loved being a Mountaineer and representing #WVU more than he did. RIP
• killer_ewok

  

  justincredible;1177826 wrote:he always seemed like a good guy.

  
  Co-sign
• justincredible

  

  My best friend (who turned me into a WVU fan) knew Bill personally. Coach Stew was friends with his dad. Always had nice things to say about him, except on game days.
• Footwedge

  Cardiovascular disease is truly the silent killer. I've lived through this shit twice in the past 14 months. People in their late fifties, otherwise healthy, playing 18 holes, expecting to live into their eighties...and then wham....dead.
  
  I feel for the family. They never had a chance to say good bye.
• Iliketurtles

  

  He really did seem like a decent guy just wasn't the best coach. RIP