John Capriotti and Steve Miller orchestrated the Van Hoy hire and bankrolled it. They made it worthwhile for VH to get out of the swamp hell of Mississippi to a temperate climate, unsaddled by a department that lives and dies on P5 media deals and the prospects of paying revenue share to football and basketball players under the employment and antitrust lawsuits. Cal Poly is a great training environment for distance and they have the patronage. And from every source VH has a much lower AHole quotient than Brosnan. Cal Poly is in a good place. Brosnan has been fired after one year. facts.