MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- Pick your favorite Dana Holgorsen eccentricity. There are a lot to choose from. The Red Bull. The hair. The two-point conversion he casually called against Texas a couple of weeks ago. They're all good, and they've all been parsed and praised and parodied enough times that it feels like a pretty unabridged biography of a coach who never wanted to be known as typical.
Still, the stories all seem to miss something critical about what really sets the West Virginia coach apart, about how the Red Bull fuels with his manic attention to offense that rarely coalesces during standard business hours, or how that madman confidence was built in the cornfields of Iowa as an eager kid who never imagined he'd carve out his own place in the spotlight.