Scott Woodward has built his reputation as an athletic director on making the big hires. The splashy hires. Landing the fish no one thought he could land. The kind of hires that define a career.

At Washington, he lured Chris Peterson away from Boise State when no one thought he could to lead the Huskies to the national championship game. At Texas A&M, he lured Jimbo Fisher away from an increasingly unhappy relationship with Florida State. And at LSU, he got Hall of Fame women’s basketball coach Kim Mulkey to leave Baylor and stunned the college football world when he got Brian Kelly to leave Notre Dame, where he was the program’s winningest coach.

But big hires don’t always mean successful hires. Not everyone is a Mulkey. That’s certainly been the case with Woodward’s two biggest footbal

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