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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 2652405, member: 40"]
Spot on.  The decision to let P go the way that it went down was an early sign of the general incompetence that was to follow from that "leadership" team.

But the reality is that our program was in a bad spot in relation to the arms race.  We weren't getting much money from our Big East conference affiliation, and that put us in a huge hole relative to other programs.  Our facilities were painfully antiquated, and the University didn't have the discretionary investment spend appetite to remediate the situation.

And on the P front, the program had gotten stale.  We'd gone from having one of the more innovative offenses in college football to not being able to land QB prospects to get the job done.  The fall off post-McNabb was stark, especially when Vick reneged on his verbal commitment.  Part of the issue was that other programs suddenly saw value in recruiting our profile of athletes to play QB, and suddenly it wasn't just us and Nebraska chasing the same prospects anymore.

Add it all up, and it wasn't going to improve.  The program was trending down at the end of the P era, our facilities were subpar, we didn't have a lot of $$$ to spend, and we had a collection of buffoons calling the shots -- which led to a nitwit like GRob getting paid several million dollars to run our program into the ground.

Thank god for the ACC.  Not suggesting that everything is rainbows and unicorns with our program today, as things currently stand, but getting that influx of revenues into the Athletic Department coffers was a godsend, and actually enabled us to go out and hire an experienced head coach / staff, with a proven track record of success, and to begin incrementally tackling the infrastructure challenges.
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