Yeah, any blame for the state of our program goes directly on Jeff Hathaway's shoulders. Nobody else. He ran the best coach in our program's history out of town while doing absolutely nothing to advance the program by way of stadium expansion, stadium improvements, more aggressive marketing campaigns, appropriately priced Fiesta Bowl packages (and other bowl games), and fund raising. In hindsight, as soon as Randy left, President Herbst should have sh1tcanned Hathaway so her hand-picked AD could be responsible for hiring our next coach.
Randy left because he didn't get along with Hathaway (not many did), got more money from a school who played in a Power conference that was rumored to be going to a better Power conference. All of that happened. Meanwhile, our program is dropping neutral site and home games against the likes or Army and SMU playing in one of the worst G5 conferences. Hard to blame Randy for wanting out.