Sorry, but in all of athletics there are only "hopefully he's a home run" hires. There are way too many variables. The right coach in the right situation is the model: and you can't know that absolutely until well after the fact. I'm not keen on hiring a co-ordinator who has no experience running the program, either; I was just pointing out that, when you look back on the history of college football, there are exceptions to every rule. Great coaches have come from everywhere, and whatever approach we take (i.e. "no co-ordinators") is just hedging our bets. You can miss out on a great coach thinking like that. I'll say again (as I said elsewhere), White has a phenomenal track record, and I'd bet that whatever criteria he uses will give us a coach who, in the right circumstance, could be the next great one. But it'll still be a "hopefully..." situation.