...times on the horizon and didn’t want to have to go through that and face fan displeasure? His last several recruiting classes were pretty bad, ranked in the mid/high 60’s to low 70’s. He had to know A hard rains A-Gonna fall and he’d face some lean years.

The UVA job comes open, the prior coach had done an incredibly good job recruiting, had 3 consecutive recruiting classes in the 20’s and 30’s who were just beginning to hit the depth chart there at a school that hasn’t had a lot of success so expectations would be low. Fans would be happy with 6 wins and a bowl game. And it came with a pay raise.

Not a hard decision.