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[QUOTE="kemba, post: 4050856, member: 1133"]
I agree the beginning and end of this but not so much the middle.

That 3rd year I remember the Towson game very well unfortunately and it felt like they beat us down not pulled off a fluke upset.  Michigan required some big breaks to be in that game.  One of our 3 touchdowns came off a punt that took a bad hop and hit a michigan player inside the 10 that we recovered, and another came on a somewhat self inflicted fumble that we returned for a touchdown.  Play that game again and I think its more likely to be uncompetitive than us winning.  And that team didn't show any significant improvement until they put Casey in.  Maybe if we realized how good he was early that season might have been different, but that's a lot of hindsight.  I don't see any evidence PP would have been able to develop Boyle.  The offensive coaching was terrible and Boyle needed a lot of work.

Diaco certainly took us to new levels of bad that we still haven't come close to recovering from so in that sense he was worse, but PP took over a team with a lot of talent, coming off the Fiesta Bowl, still in the Big East.  Much better situation.  Diaco took over a team that needed a total rebuild, and clearly he was the wrong one to lead it
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