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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 2014011, member: 40"]
Agreed.  I loved Coach P -- I was probably one of the longest holdouts in terms of hoping he'd be retained, and I used to get into it with the "coachPmustgo.com" culpruits -- both of whom are great fans that I respect and enjoy interacting with here now.

And many of the factors that led to the decline were outside of P's control.  He presided over one of the most fun and extended successful eras of program history.  BUT the decline was in large part attributable to that staff's inability to land a successor to McNabb at QB, and for the many QB prospects who flopped despite the recruiting accolades [Cecil Howard, Perry Patterson, Chad Elliot, to name a few].

When our offense came back to earth, it was the beginning of the end.  Things became stale under P at the end -- again, not all due to circumstances associated with his coaching--but stale nonetheless, and a change was required.

The fact that the administration botched his firing and replacement--and man, did Cantor et al REALLY screw things up--doesn't change that, in my mind.
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