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Everyone who was ever bad at a job impressed someone somewhere along the way who thought they earned the opportunity and then made a bad call. Sometimes it’s in their control, sometimes it’s not. But the vast majority of those failures aren’t nepotism hires even though you can retroactively call them “unqualified”.
Again you don’t understand the term or are purposely using it incorrectly. You can’t be a “nepotism” hire when you worked across the sport and across the league for decades, working your way up until you impressed someone enough for them to make you part of their staff when they got an opportunity. That’s just normal business networking. And like all hires who get a promotion to a job they’ve never done before, sometimes you get it wrong and they suck at the new responsibilities. Happens all the time and again, isn’t due to nepotism most of the time.
But Whitt was hired for various coaching positions and assistant promotions by plenty of people before he ever worked with McCarthy and eventually Quinn, who then wanted to keep working with him and give him more opportunities they felt he earned. That’s not nepotism.
And someone failing with an opportunity doesn’t always mean they didn’t earn the opportunity, it’s difficult to project people into new responsibilities and jobs, and everyone starts somewhere and is a risk to fail. You can’t retroactively decide that every failed promotion was an “unqualified” person to begin with. That’s obviously not true. Sometimes people deserve the opportunity and fail, or can’t live up to it.
If you wouldn’t call it a nepotism hire if he was elite, then it’s not nepotism. You’re making assumptions about whether someone was qualified, otherwise. Nepotism is obvious even if the person turns out to be good. That’s what makes it nepotism.
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