Yes and he compounded that with more bad or inappropriate OC hires, like I said confused about how to implement an offense.
You see how I mention Grinch here at times, he's got a nice long offensive lineage in his career even though he's a defensive coach. A good amount of influence and connections that you'd hope would help....Leach, Chip Kelly, Gary Pinkel his uncle, former teammates Matt Cambpell/Jason Candle and now Ryan Day/Kevin Wilson. Ash doesn't really have that for the most part except whatever he may have had at OSU, I think probably Herman which is probably how we ended up with DM.
I like to see who these guys coached with and what influences they may have so you might have an idea of which direction they go when filling the important positions of coordinators and how seriously they take the other side of the ball. For a defensive coach it's important to know his offensive influence and vice versa for an offensive coach.