Just to get this straight.
Miami fired Randy Shannon back on November 28, following their loss to South Florida and began their coaching search.
Pitt fired Dave Wannstedt on December 7.
According to reports after the fact, Pitt zeroes in on Al Golden within a few days. Miami however, after nearly two weeks of interviews and searching finally had zeroed in on Golden and made an offer culminating in him taking the job there.
Pitt presumably moved to Dana Holgorsen as the next target. It turned out, however, that WVU’s AD had already been seeking out Holgorsen. Trying to meet and interview with the guy back in the beginning of December, and started working out a deal with Holgorsen last week. That resulted in the whole one year as OC before becoming the headcoach.
In both cases there are two things in common. The obvious is the timeline. Miami and WVU got at least a week head start on Pitt in their searches or pursuit of the coaches they wanted. So it would does make sense that they would make the moves before Pitt could.
