As usual, pumpers gonna pump....and realists gonna be real.
You can't sugar coat these 2 hires. As Law said, "would Alabama have hired either of these guys?" The answer is No. Saban would have hired them as analysts. Seriously. He would have somehow convinced them to quit their on-field coaching gigs to take an off-field analyst/quality control job w/ the offer of a raise and the chance to eventually become an SEC assistant somewhere. Instead, we hire two no-name "up and comers" from no-name schools. Unbelievable. After all the bullsh*t we heard about why the hires were taking so long. Unbelievable!
Bottom line; it is what it is for an 8-4/9-3 type of program.