We painfully waited 12 years for Kelly to build the program up to where it's ready for a good coach to come in and win big right away, and we throw it all away (12 years of strife) taking a blind shot in the dark on a guy who was still proving if he was a great DC or not.
It was stupid then, it's stupid now, and the only thing that could prevent it from looking stupid down the road is pure blind luck.