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<blockquote data-quote="Darth_VadEER" data-source="post: 129561431" data-attributes="member: 1536653">In Casazza's book Waiting for the Fall, he makes it pretty clear that Manchin and Pastilong politically bullied Garrison into the decision to hire Stewart and he (Stewart) seemed to be on the inside of that group lobbying. It seems Garrison didn't want to make the hire, and wouldn't have if it wasn't for the political pressure. He had a list of much better candidates and wanted a true search and competent replacement. So the President of the university wasn't even comfortable with hiring Stewart and knew it wasn't the right course of action.You are correct that Stewart showed great leadership filling RR's shoes and I commend him for it, but that should have been a one-off event. We all know there's more to being a head coach than getting a teamed prepared for one single game. I won't dive into his failures but Stewart was not equipped to be a HC for a major college football program and removing him needed to be done.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Darth_VadEER, post: 129561431, member: 1536653"] In Casazza's book [I]Waiting for the Fall, [/I]he makes it pretty clear that Manchin and Pastilong politically bullied Garrison into the decision to hire Stewart and he (Stewart) seemed to be on the inside of that group lobbying. It seems Garrison didn't want to make the hire, and wouldn't have if it wasn't for the political pressure. He had a list of much better candidates and wanted a true search and competent replacement. So the President of the university wasn't even comfortable with hiring Stewart and knew it wasn't the right course of action. You are correct that Stewart showed great leadership filling RR's shoes and I commend him for it, but that should have been a one-off event. We all know there's more to being a head coach than getting a teamed prepared for one single game. I won't dive into his failures but Stewart was not equipped to be a HC for a major college football program and removing him needed to be done. [/QUOTE]

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