I agree with you on Heath, Holtz, and Taggert. Many prefer to play Monday morning QB then state this as the last 5 years have been disappointing.
As for having confidence in USF and the AAC to land a good hire, I believe the ultimate issue is our conference. With the demise of the BE, the AAC and new BE will decline as a destination conference to coach in. You are already starting to see this with Pearl and Williams. Heath probably wishes he stayed at Arkansaw. Masiello is probably a perfect hire for USF, young and good pedigree just like Taggart, but I believe USF's biggest challenge to landing him is whether or not he believes he can have another good year or two at Manhattan and land a job in AAC, Big Ten or SEC. I don't believe USF is as desirable as some think.
This is exactly it. Before USF was on the upswing and seemed like a place that could really take off. We were starting to get some national attention and things were looking like we just needed a bump in order to make the next big step. Then we hired the schmuck Holtz and everything went down the toilet. We went to a crappy conference that we will be trying to dig ourselves out of for years if not longer. Now we're just another mid level school at rock bottom.
Hopefully Taggart can bring us back to the upward trend.