Coach took the Griz to their first championship game appearance in his 10th year at Montana and won. If he had stayed for the 1996 season, the Griz still would have been run over by Randy Moss. Coach Glenn picked up on that success and got out when the advantage was there after losing to Georgia Southern and barely getting by Furman in a games I attended where we should have won over GSU and it should not have been close, but the talent won despite the coaching. He went on to do very little at Wyoming before taking the job at USD not long after they moved up from D-II and didn't do much there either.
Back when I was at school, we had a basketball coach named Mike Montgomery who a lot of people thought should have been fired because he couldn't get the team to the NCAA tournament. He went on to be pretty successful at Stanford and Cal but never won a championship.
It's not easy to win a championship, but Coach Hauck has won a few big games outside of that, remember Washington? Or do you choose to operate from your selective memory?