To couch his success as a product of his inside knowledge of the college game, and catching lightening in a bottle alone is to ignore everything former players have Saud about why what he built failed, and then why, after it failed, he struggled to recapture it. He overcommitted to the belief in human perservierance. And he fell on the sword of positivity above all else. It undermined everything else... accountability, Performance, excellence. There's a nuance to it all that goes well beyond the value of a qb or xs and os philosophy.
If Pete had brought in the right coaches to maintain excellence, accountability and performance, he'd still have a job and we'd be playing this weekend. He didn't. And we aren't.
But that's why Dan Quinn is so high on the Hawks list. Similar ethos, similar culture, but a willingness to be more adaptable.