Yes, I thought letting Tuioti go was a bad idea. But again, such decisions are beyond my pay-grade>

my beef with Chow is he being a brand new HC and elects to hire grad assistants and promote them to “assistant coaches” who had very limited experience coaching – then he bumps Tuioti and installs a new DL coach who was a grad assistant at Utah

I have no idea how good they were as players, but I will presume that they were adequate and totally no knowledge of their teaching and interpersonal skills

Time for my two-cents – and it is only worth that much.

Coach Chow spent most of his life at BYU as a player and a coach.
I would imagine that he made a bunch of friends/associates etc there.

As boss-man at UH, I would suspect that he would hire people that he knows.
It would be great if he hired people from So. Cal where we do our major recruiting but his tenure there was not as long (and fruitful) as it was in Utah.

So the Utah connection is logical and understandable.