In Todd Graham we have that person. Before taking the Tulsa job for four years, he coached for one year in at Rice. There he led the Owls to their first bowl game in 45 years and he was named the Conference USA coach of the year.
Even at Tulsa, it was wildly speculated that he was often looking for another coaching opportunity. He found it at Pitt, but that obviously didn't last long. In six seasons as a head coach, he is I think that he speaks sincerely about wanting to coach at Arizona State," ASU athletic director Lisa Love said at the news conference.
Arizona State, meanwhile, has had a curious coaching search, to say the least. Graham will replace Dennis Erickson, who was fired after five seasons and a record. The Sun Devils began this season , but lost their last four games and were left out of the Pac championship game. Erickson had one year remaining on his contract. The Panthers fired Dave Wannstedt after he went in six seasons, including last season. Coach Graham. Arizona State was looking for someone to turn its faltering program around after it failed to live up to expectations under Erickson.
A two-time national championship coach with Miami, Erickson led the Sun Devils to the Holiday Bowl and was named Pac coach of the year. Arizona State couldn't sustain the momentum after that, failing to become bowl eligible the next three seasons and foundering down the stretch this year, losing its final four games after a start. Erickson was fired on Nov.
After a couple of flirtations with other established coaches, Arizona State turned to Graham, who had been tabbed to turn around Pitt's program just a year earlier. A former assistant under new Arizona coach Rich Rodriguez at West Virginia, Graham had a successful stint in his first year as a head coach in , leading Rice to its first bowl appearance in 45 years. He left the Owls after just one season for Tulsa, where he led the Golden Hurricane to the first back-to-back win seasons in school history.
A defensive player and coach coming up through the ranks, Graham made his mark with an up-tempo offense that made Tulsa a perennial Conference-USA contender. The Golden Hurricane twice led the nation in total offense and his team set 29 school records, 15 conference marks and four NCAA records, including the largest margin of victory in a bowl game, over Bowling Green in the GMAC Bowl.
Graham went in four seasons at Tulsa and led the Golden Hurricane to three bowl wins before moving to Pittsburgh. The Panthers forced Dave Wannstedt out in after six underachieving seasons and replaced him with former Miami Ohio coach Mike Haywood, who was fired less than three weeks later after being arrested on a domestic violence charge. The fast-talking, fast-walking Texan preached "speed, speed, speed" during workouts and promised to wear down opponents with an up-tempo attack he believed could work immediately -- and propel the Panthers to their first outright Big East title.
The transition took a little long than anticipated as Pitt let winnable games get away while quarterback Tino Sunseri struggled to grasp the complex system. The Panthers allowed 57 sacks, easily the most in the FBS, and Graham raised eyebrows early in the season when he placed the majority of the blame on Sunseri, though he later backed off.
Pitt finished and was tied for second in the Big East, salvaging a bowl bid by beating Syracuse in the season finale.
The move caps a tumultuous season for the Panthers, who announced in September that they're leaving the Big East for the ACC by and will now be looking for their fourth head coach in the last 13 months. Three of Graham's assistants at Pitt this season -- Calvin Magee, Tony Gibson and Tony Dews -- left the program earlier this month to become assistants under Rodriguez at Arizona and Graham followed by telling Pitt athletic director Steve Pederson by phone Tuesday night that he was walking away after one season.
His face was on the cover of the media guide and on the tickets. And, as aptly pointed out by ESPN. But no, Pitt showed no commitment to its coach. Graham has spent the last month or so trying to repair his image to no avail. I don't think there's anything Graham could say to change the perception about him and that's not just at Pitt. His team hopping — four jobs in six years — has soured his reputation around the country.
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