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[QUOTE="tep624, post: 368446, member: 430"]
Don't disagree at all, although I think the selection of Todd Graham was a larger reason in that than letting Wannstedt go. Wannstedt was a great recruiter, maybe the best the New Big east has seen, but he couldn't translate that into being a consistent top 10 program. And therein lies the rub. The hard part with Wanny was that he was a winning HC, not like other great recruiters that didn't pan out like Locksley or Ed Orgeron.
 
The hard part in all of this is that it's not necessarily the firing of a coach, but what you follow that up with. In a lot of cases, I feel that the firing is the right decision, but the timing of it is off. It's kind of like when you want to switch jobs - most people wait until the right opportunity comes along and tolerate their current lot as best they can until they get it - but they make the decision months/years in advance. I feel like Pitt should have waited for the right guy to become available, and if that meant keeping Wanny on for a year or two more so be it. It's not like they were a losing program.
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