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[QUOTE="javadoc, post: 307438, member: 338"]
Good thoughts on the end of the P era.  I have heard from a trustworthy source at one of the tailgates that the decision to fire P was not Gross's.
 
Marrone said flat out that when he was hired, we were the smallest and slowest team in the Big East (!!! where does that put us nationally?).  The university put us in a bad position, top to bottom, through its funding and hiring decisions when P was fired.
 
No doubt we have recovered nicely.  I have come to respect Dr. Gross - he seems to be moving the entire AD in a positive direction, even if not every step is forward.  He came into a bad situation and was brash at first, but as things are stabilizing now, he is quieting down and running the show from more of a position of strength.  Folks here will carp about it, but his decision to buy out the @Wyoming game a few years ago was a good indicator of where he was taking us.  That was a big-boy move, at a time when lots of people thought we shouldn't be acting like a big boy.
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