Playing devils advocate but...
Hypothetically if he were to go off to the NFL in 3-4 years, that doesn’t automatically mean he won big here. Look at Kliff Kingsbury. AZ hired him after his disaster of a tenure at TT.
Maybe? They just had their BEST regular season in program history lol. Tennessee also went 5-7 the year before he got there, his first season they went 7-6. Along with FAU, as you mentioned.