Is he? Seems fairly average to me, possibly a bit better than average. This is his 11th season as an NBA coach. In his previous 10 full seasons, what's his high point? He's never made it past the conference semi-finals (3 conf semi's, 4 first round exits, 3 misses). His career winning % in the regular season is is .566 (not bad), in the playoffs it's .404 (not great).
His career high point is probably the run to the elite 8 in '02 as a 12 seed, but in his 6 full seasons as a college head coach, he never finished higher than 5th in the big XII.
Would I prefer him to RT? 1000%. But I would be somewhat underwhelmed. For the money we would have to pay him, fuck no. His salary of $8M would make him the 3rd highest paid coach in cbb today. He ain't that.
Maybe it's just that I'm not that high on him, but if that's who we ended up with, I wouldn't hate it, but I would feel that we missed a golden opportunity when Texas resources are separating from the pack.