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Message: [QUOTE="Nostical, post: 4743707, member: 749"] Hathaway was in many ways over his head. He wasn’t a fighter and always looked for the expedient route, the one that wouldn't require him to feel his stomach churn as he tried to sell the BOD on spending more. After Edsall left, we had just played in the Fiesta Bowl. That was the moment for him to announce to the BOD that “We can’t let our program backslide. We’ve seen the Big East get poached. We’ve seen us left behind already. We need to become a more committed and successful football program. And at this moment we need to spend the money for a big time coach with a national reputation.“ But when the idea of hiring Paul Pasqualoni became one of the options—JH liked that he came cheap and was already known and liked by the Chairman of the BOD. PP made it very easy for JH to avoid the confrontation he didn’t have the stomach for. At bottom, JH was an administrator. What he lacked was what we needed—an AD with a leadership gene. Those institutions who had AD’s with juice, somehow maneuvered and lobbied and figured it out. In the end, Pasqualoni offered Hathaway the one thing he always sought—an easy way out, [/QUOTE]