His college teams have posted 201 victories. The 65-year-old Nehlen has been a head coach in high school in his native Ohio, for nine years at Bowling Green University and for the last 21 in Morgantown. I'm going to miss the football a great deal, but I don't think I'm going to miss the 85 hours a week it takes to get a team ready." "I'm not going to do much of anything for a month. "Well, I don't know," he said this week when asked about his plans for retirement. Then he'll figure out what to do with the rest of his life. Somewhere between that first job in 1958 as a high school assistant and the end of his 21st season as head coach at West Virginia, the 85-hour work weeks got to Don Nehlen.Īnd so the most successful coach in school history - one of just 17 men to coach 200 or more victories in Division I-A - will guide the Mountaineers (6-5) through the Music City Bowl against Mississippi (7-4) on Thursday. By TOM SHARP AP Sports Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn.
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