RealitySmackdown

Pitt isn't that good, UCF Chad, you should know that. Didn't UCF beat Pitt in Orlando in the last couple of years, does anyone remember the score from that game?

Griffin was good, but what I find funny about your fondness for him is the "mediocrity" that engrained itself at USF during Griffin's tenure.  Who did he fire for performance related issues?  Not to be a JoeBulls, but where were our higher expectations then? Griffin was good at what he did, but Herman would have noted that the man had no personality.  To be clear, Griffin accomplished a lot at USF while not posessing a cup of personality and allowing mediocre sports success.  I'm thankful for what he did, but I will not make him larger than life to overshadow other ADs, past and present. We got in the BE because of LRS and his team of people that worked tirelessly promoting USF to the Big East.  We'll be successful in the BE because of people like DW and his team. You are so wrong about Paul Griffin and winning. With Paul Griffin as USF's AD USF did nothing but win. He hired the only coaches to take our men's and women's basketball programs to the NCAA tournament. In Conference USA, for the years under Griffin, USF had more combined NCAA appearances, plus C-USA regular season and tournament titles than any other school. We didn't have the budget of Louisville or Memphis but no school won more than USF. The leadership of USF Athletics today, was still mostly hired by Griffin, these department leaders lead USF into the Big East (LRS as one of them, who was also wisely hired by Griffin) I am confident that in time history will record that Paul Griffin was the driving force that lead to USF's rise to greatness. Other AD's will be at USF for national championship and other great accomplishments, but PG and the people he hired laid the fondation for the greatness. By the way, he had a personality and a great sense of humor if you got to know him, but he was also smart enough to realize his limitations and the voice of USF Athletics during his tenure was LRS and Coach Leavitt (another pretty good PG hire).