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Both Pitt and Temple benefited buy getting into better conferences. I think having a series of aggressive younger coach has not hurt Cinci at all. My sense is that PP is here until he retires. Those kind of coaches never win big. They are collecting paychecks because the fire has gone out. They do enough to keep their jobs and they ride the loyalty train as long as there are factions at the school the value that trait. The best older coaches (Holtz, Paterno, Bowden) won in their prime, not late in their careers. Were PP's best years at Cuse and now Uconn gets the end of his career?
You have no choice other than to support what is there, mainly because of the kids that play the game for your enjoyment. You don't want failure, but is 7-8 wins really good enough? The bottom line is whether this coach and this staff has the fire to recruit the kids you need, and the aggressive play calling and philosophy that will consistently win 10 games. Because until Uconn is consistently 10-2 in the AAC and champion of the league for consecutive seasons, there will be no respect for the program and that hoped for invite will forever remain a hope.
It depends on what you mean by prime. Some of those guys coached to near 80. 15 years earlier they were Pasqualoni's age and winning big games.
Manuel has a football background. He didn't hire Pasqualoni. I tend to think those two factors alone would make him likely to fire him if the results are mediocre again.
Let's face it: you don't fire a coach after 2 years anywhere in college football. It doesn't happen. Kragthorpe, for instance, got 4 years. How many did Robinson get at Syracuse?