Well, looks like Mora wouldn't have been a home-run hire for UW anyway. To a certain extent the whole coaching thing is a crapshoot. Oregon's PKs have a better record than most.
Even the Helfrich hire makes sense in a way, in regards to Chip probably said when he left "keep the staff together for continuity's sake, they can ride Mariota to a NC." And we? got close.
Also, we? don't have UW 's "upper campus" problem. People with good track records are saying the Chipster's coming back to Eugene, and if not Chip, PJ Fleck seems like a pretty solid second choice. Nobody else whose names are floating around (Frost, Baldwin, Harsin) move the needle. And it already took over $12M to move that needle the first time. UO's AD is almost KGB-like in its secretiveness. I also think that in the long run they are willing to support losing this recruiting class to make the right hire.
I expect absolute radio silence out of Eugene from now until the hire is made.
But maybe Darren Rovell wasn't completely full of shit.