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[QUOTE="Rocco, post: 1108947, member: 51"]
It was driven into the depths of hell IMO.  Robinson was an all-around terrible HC, which along with PP's lack of recruiting over his last few years, combined to sink the program down to those levels.  Yes, he recruited some good players but the majority of them weren't D1 talent.  When you lose by 14 to Akron in the Dome, there is no explanation. 
 
People will look back on the incredible job Marrone did for this program and realize how impressive the turnaround really was.  He kicked over 20 players off the team his 1st season because they were simply not going to play.  He then started working with what he had and recruiting players to fit his system.  He brought us to a bowl game in his 2nd year with a hacked up roster.  How "abruptly" he left us isn't nearly as important as what state he left our program in, which was back to almost normal.  Shafer will hopefully continue to push the envelope. 
 
I will say that Robinson's era was the depths of [I][U]our[/U][/I] football hell (at least I hope we never see anything close to that again) and that Marrone looks even that much better because of what he was able to do in 4 years.  From 2003-2008, I was in a bad mood quite a bit as I'm sure the rest of you football junkies were.  Moving on...
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