Got to remember that during that coaching search Chip Kelly (multiple BCS bowl wins), Scott Frost (undefeated season & claimed national championship after a NY6 win), and Dan Mullen (got MSST to #1, best OC Meyer ever had, & had developed multiple elite QBs at 3 different schools) were all hired.
Our AD spent months saying he was bringing in an elite coach and ended up announcing a hire worse than UF, Nebraska, & freakin UCLA’s hires. Everyone in the know knew that Schiano wasn’t even the #2 at tOSU, it was Day. Our AD tried to sell us on a coach that was good in the early 2000s b/c he could recruit the North East (something UT doesn’t focus on), failed at the NFL, then was brought back to tOSU where after a few years he wasn’t even considered as a possible replacement if Meyer ever left.