I doubt other teams with national title aspirations would have hired Jeff Scott and Tony Elliott to be OC’s in 2014 when Clemson promoted them to be co-coordinators either. Worked out ok for them. Rees has value here he doesn’t have elsewhere, just as those two did at Clemson.
As for the laziness, maybe it is, I can’t really say. I don’t know how the search went. It certainly appears to have been in the bag from the beginning though, but maybe that’s just spin in hindsight. I assume we’ll find out more from the beat in the coming days.