This is a reasonable argument. But even if you finish the list up as...
Prohm
McDermott
Chizik
...then the red team is still beating the stuffing out of the blue one on the quality of hires.
Pollard has had three true "hits" -- Campbell, Fred, and TJ -- and all of those were him zeroing in on one man with which he had a good relationship and just going and making it happen.
Seems Pollard is at his best when going for the kill, not when following open-ended processes.
For the most part isn't this not a bad practice for how hiring goes?
Obviously there's certain standards but for something like this, knowing what the program needs, and how the candidate really fits the mold is pretty important.
Also seems to be the 'back against the wall' kind of cases.
BBall needed an interjection of a mindset, and football needed a foundation.