Was mot the right guy to be our OC. I think he was using the ND situation to get a better deal at Utah. It’s easy to think ND screwed-up but none of us really know the truth as to what happened.
We can speculate but that’s not fair to Freeman, Ludwig or Swarbrick. If we had Ludwig we miss out on Denbrock.

screwed the hire up, evidently because of a mistake by one of his subordinates whom I won't name (but you can find it if you look). Not even the homer beat writers tried to assert otherwise. At best, you'd see euphemisms like "confusing" or "puzzling" or "unfortunate," and the like. Simple as that. It was keystone cops all the way down.

And the Denbrock hire, whether good or bad, and I'm ambivalent at best, does not address my response to SEE, which is that last year Swarbrick did NOT meaningfully support Freeman when Freeman needed it. That point is wholly independent of whether Ludwig would have been better or worse than Denbrock.

whitewash what he did re Ludwig.