The difference between Flood and Ash was that Flood started with a system in place, one that had already worked. He tried to continue it, but it eventually fell apart on Flood's own merit. Ash followed Flood, and he got what was left over, which wasn't much. Flood at least tried to recruit. Ash didn't know how. And he ran his own system that no one has ever understood to this day. No one else in the country would have hired Flood as its head coach, an OL coach who had been demoted from co-OC. Ash was a somewhat hot young assistant, but there are always hot young assistants, and they often don't work out. Both were bad choices.