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[QUOTE="billsin01, post: 260832, member: 837"]
Yeah, and part of what I think can be overlooked about P's successes, particularly in terms of recruiting, is the context of what other regional programs were doing at the time. While P was inheriting a program that was humming along from Mac, BC didn't make a bowl for a 5-year stretch in the 90s, lived through the dan henning era, had the gambling scandal and then had a 21-game losing streak against ranked opponents that finally ended in 2001.
 
RU was in the midst of the Terry Shea era and spent five years (I think) under Doug Graber, who was OK but still under .500 and no particular threat.
 
Temple was, well, asked to leave the big east.
 
Pitt was Pitt except not recruiting like Pitt has since the start of the Wanny/Heinz Field era.
 
WVU was enduring the end of the Nehlan era and struggling as well.
 
UConn wasn't around until 2001.
 
I like P, think he did a great job and is an excellent coach. But I think it's tough not to feel like some of the success he had was at the expense of these other schools being down. Would he have been better than GRob? It would be hard to argue otherwise. But let's not pretend he would have been tearing up the recruiting trail vs. the likes of Petrino/Kelly/RichRod/Wanny (who shockingly seemed to be pretty good at this)/Schiano and even Edsall.
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