available off cycle? People who may not be top candidates.

Then that hire inherits momentum from a run of about 3 great OL coaches and has some continued success from the leadership of who is still around and the culture that persists. So that makes it harder to fire him and go for someone else when he had success.

But as player leadership turned over from graduation and transfers he was exposed as not being nearly as good as Grimes, Pugh, and Mateos.

But they should have known from checking references that he should have just been a one year stop gap. But hard to make someone move if you explicitly tell them they only have a year. Hard to fire them when things went well that year. It was just a bad set of circumstances all from Pugh getting unfairly cancelled. Bad luck.