i think people are a little too quick to dump on P. so far let's look at what we know about him. his recruiting in unquestionably better than what we previously had. obviously we won't know if the kids are good for 3 years, but he's winning head to head battles against other BCS schools, including a lot of big name ones. he's also gotten kids from some really good programs that Edsall was never able to crack. not bad considering he's been here less than a year. Edsall brought in the occasional kid with another late BCS offer, but for the most part we were losing head to head battles against schools like Temple, and always Rutgers (did he ever get a common target to choose us?).
on the field his results have been mediocre, but i wouldn't say horrible. WVU and Pitt aside, all of the games we lost were close, and in reality the WVU game was very close for the most part. when you consider that Bonislawski would probably be the hands down starter at QB this year, i really don't know what else people expected. obviously we hoped for better, but it's unrealistic to expect a team with no QB to win the conference, especially considering Edsall left our RB cupboard pretty bare (i still don't understand how he never did better attracting RBs). having no QB is one thing when you have 2000 yards of RBs on the team, but we don't this year. that being said i like McCombs a lot, but he's not Todman last year, or Brown 3 years ago, or Dixon/Todman 2 years ago.
