This has been going on for awhile,
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2024/12/17/mike-norvell-mike-gundy-brian-kelly-college-football-coaches-nil/77022107007/
An NIT championship would have been the most outstanding bullet point on Hodge’s resume so far and he did have a moral obligation to his players to finish out the season.
And if he HAD quit before the end of the tournament, that could have been used against him in recruiting at West Virginia by other coaches. “You want to play for Ross Hodge? He has a history of quitting on his players before the end of their season.”
All that said, Ross left this place better than he found it and he got offered so much more money than we could pay him that he really didn’t have a choice.
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