This board is horrendous at nuanced takes. All of these things are true:
- JC stupidly thumbed his nose at the NCAA by blowing off the APR instead of gaming it like everyone else and practically begged Emmert to hammer us with penalties
- JC did a horrible job coaching in 2012, probably the worst of his career
- KO did a good job coaching up the 2012 players over 2013-2014
- KO benefited tremendously from JC's recruiting. He could not have done what he did with his own recruits, he needed JC's tough-minded recruits. In fact, we know this because KO failed spectacularly at identifying talent and coaching up his own recruits.
tl;dr: JC gave KO the pieces, but KO molded them from there. Both deserve some credit.