Taggart is a corporate safe hire.  He has proven he can build programs from nothing to something at both WKU and USF (Do a little research and see where those programs were 20 years ago and where they are today.).  Taggart knows how (compete for) and where to recruit in the west (Stanford assistant), the northern SEC area (WK), and the southern SEC (USF).  He obviously knows how to recognize unrecognized talent (ahem, Chris Peterson).  He also knows a wide range of coaches in a huge area of the country that are hungry and looking for a better job.  Mullens gets an "A" for this hire.  Additionally, the Taggart hire buys time for the "program" to get its act together and decide what it wants to be if nothing else.  I still think Helfrich should have been given another year and the grand strategic plan for the program (and OSU) should be to move to the Mountain West Conference.