Look at Louisville which was quite literally the rock bottom of all p6 programs the last couple years. I'd be pissed if we weren't good immediately under a new coach.
I don't really get the fascination with Donovan. It's been 10 years since he's been in the college game and, while not totally his fault, he's been with the most lifeless, directionless team in the NBA for 5 years and hasn't really had a year you'd say he's overperformed over expectation ever? At least Snyder has shown more ability to win and improve teams more recently but neither guy is inspiring and neither is leaving an NBA job so Snyder is almost definitely out of the picture and Donovan feels like a 50/50 at worst to stay in Chicago. It also feels like we'd be buying Donovan at the lowest his stock has been. I also place way less emphasis on recruiting given teams focusing way less on high school recruiting and have been on record wanting a competent offensive minded coach since before Beard which we haven't seen in Austin in at least the last 15 years.
That kind of leads to Wade who fits the mold of great recruiter, mediocre at best coach that we've had. Very cool that he's outtalenting teams in the Southland, that's not the a performance that should lead to being hired at Texas.