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[QUOTE="elimunelson, post: 2652054, member: 615"]
I don't buy other programs caught us as much as other programs starting to hire the right guys. I think we need to contextualize the 90s and how inept Rutgers and Pitt were with their hires. The Temple win was an aberration and it happens to EVERY program. A one off. Rutgers and Pitt were programs that hired Terry Shea and a way past his prime Johnny Majors and it sunk them, similar to Greg Robinson.

Pitt was bound to wake up and Rutgers was bound to find a guy who would recruit NJ and build a system to win games. Ironically we have stolen the Schiano template on scheduling weak OOC now. If we had built that template early in 2000s Pasqualoni wouldn't have been losing to those stout OOC opponents we were matching up against.

It doesn't mean P wasn't getting stale or the AD didn't see the impact of dumping more money into the program. But the money was gonna come from the ACC move, not some wave of a magic wand. School didn't have the cash to dump w the Big East payouts. It's timeless what if. I think we tend to bottom line things alot and forget how the downfall happened to some extent.
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