Dennison's "Mantra" was PMA. Positive Mental Attitude. All Jim Dennison ever wanted was to be a football coach. at the time I don't feel he had aspirations to be the AD, but out of loyalty he stayed on as Associate AD. After the Adams fiasco he was asked to step in and try to make some one else's bad decisions work. The Meister is quite right that the MAC was going to ever let UA make the jump directly from l-AA, so we had to prove our intentions as an independent first. YMMV