UPDATE: Athletic Director Shane Lyons sent out a tweet with a statement regarding the situation a short time after our story ran.

"I am not going into detail regarding various reports in the media. However, what I will say is that Coach Holgorsen and I have had great conversations this week, and he has made it very clear to me that he wants to be the head football coach at West Virginia University. He and his staff are currently out recruiting for the future of our program. I want him here at WVU and intend to keep working with him and his staff to improve and bring a Big 12 Championship to Morgantown."

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Shane Lyons hasn't spoken to his football coach since Wednesday evening, and he isn't alarmed.

WVU's athletic director told 247Sports.com Dana Holgorsen is busy recruiting, and that ongoing process was part of a larger conversation about the program and Holgorsen's plans moving forward.

Thursday's report that Holgorsen wanted the Texas Tech job but that the school declined to interview him didn't make sense to Lyons.

"To me, I don't think it's true," Lyons said.

He said neither Holgorsen nor his agent has notified Lyons that Holgorsen has spoken to or will speak to another school, and that is a requirement enunciated in Holgorsen's contract. Lyons said he has not been contacted by Texas Tech regarding a desire to speak to Holgorsen, reiterating something he mentioned to EerSports earlier in the week.

"I haven't heard anything formal," Lyons said Monday. "As you know, this is the time of year when there's just a lot of speculation about coaches and who's going to get what jobs, who's a good fit and not a good fit and all that. But I haven't heard anything from anyone."

Lyons said Thursday he and Holgorsen have spoken a few times since the end of the regular season. Lyons said he asked Holgorsen if he wanted to remain at WVU and that Holgorsen said he did.

Keeping Holgorsen around is something Lyons wants, too, even if the current contract only has a couple of years left.

"We're still in the same position we were before," Lyons said Monday. "By having more years -- let's face it. Look at some of the coaches who were dismissed and had numbers on their contracts. It's just a number. We're in a performance-based business. We look at how a coach is doing based on wins and losses. Obviously, other criteria goes into that as well, like academics, community service -- it's just a number of things, but it really boils down to wins and losses.

"Dana continues to perform at a pretty high level. You can have critics out there saying we should be 10-1 and all that, but at the same time, we are competing and knocking on the door. It's unfortunate we didn't make it, but we were knocking on the door of the Big 12 championship. We're going to bowl games. We're currently ranked in the top 15 in the country. Our program is going in the right direction. It's just a matter of cracking that one game or two games."

In eight seasons, Holgorsen has led his teams to a 61-40 record. The 61 wins are the second-most all-time at WVU, and they include a pair of 10-win seasons. He is in Year Two of his current extension, which has three years remaining. He makes a base salary of $3.6 million that will climb to $4.0 million by 2021.