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Message: [QUOTE="FfldCntyFan, post: 4714076, member: 71"] This turned out to be a disaster but there were a number of contributing factors. [LIST] [*]Someone posted in one of the threads about the [B][I]dog and pony show[/I][/B] the B-12 ran in 2016 where they pretended to want to expand and ended up standing pat. The truth is they went into that believing we would be a solid addition and needed to determine who to bring in along with us and ended up being stunned at what a mess our football program was, realizing that we wouldn't be competent in a P-5 conference. This was when DB tried to get Diaco to bring in a veteran (I believe Kill) as a mentor to stabilize the program but Diaco refused. [*]DB knew he had to [I]fix[/I] the football program and was told by a few boosters that he needed someone with experience with our unique situation (basically given a presentation to bring in RE) to fix the program, let Diaco go with a large buyout and hired RE (the trustees were furious about the buyout). [*]When DB found out that Pitt was going to interview Dan Hurley, DB asked for approval to buyout KO so we could hire Hurley (if you believe bringing in Hurley was the right move, this was necessary). He was told that he had to wait a year to fire KO (buyout would have dropped) so he took a different approach so he wouldn't lose Hurley. The BOT showed their pettiness after this. [*]Even though RE was hired at a discount, the BOT tied DB's hands on money as a means to punish him for putting money at risk in replacing KO with Dan Hurley. We lose an offensive coordinator, RE has to did into his salary to replace him. We lose a second one, we have to have our offensive line coach pull double duty. [*]RE unfortunately knew only one way to build a program; rip it down to the foundation and then rebuild. We were in a situation where we really didn't have the time for an RE rebuild. This was compounded when we left the AAC and became independent as RE couldn't conceptualize the move as anything other than abandoning the football program. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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