Moir was in hot water over the Russell Pierre thing, Allen was his longtime assistant who took over on an interim basis and was made HC based on his interim performance.

Hussey replaced Bill Foster, again, an assistant under Foster at the time who Bill pushed hard for to succeed him at VT. Note, rarely does the promotion of an assistant coach end up really well, Dabo Swinney excepted.

Johnson, and before him Stokes, were yard sale hires by Jimbo. If they had worked out Jim would have been deemed brilliant but they had a small likelihood of that. Not sure Johnson replaced a good coach, SG was a decent coach. I don't think his phone is ringing off the hook at ESPN to return to coaching. He over promised and under delivered mostly.