Too lazy to dig back and find all of the Hardcore Husky "USC made a big dick hire; UW are pussies!" hawt takes at the time, but they were legion.
Not that I'm here to beat my chest, but I'm on record that I thought betting $126 million on a corch who's never fielded a competent defense in his career and hired Alex Grinch to fix that problem was the height of fiscal irresponsibility, "big dick" or not. Pointed out that $126 million buys you THREE DeBoers, and one of those three would almost assuredly be better than USC's big dick hire. Ergo USC was dumb and chased the clicks, UW was smart and chased the substance.
Turns out Riley bombed even more spectacularly and quickly than even I expected.
And it only took one DeBoer. $16.5 million > $126 million.
Not that I'm here to beat my chest or anything. Math, stats, facts.