Given the recruiting success despite lack of on field success you would categorize his coaching, in its totality, this year, as "clown coaching"? I think he could've won more games, maybe not his way, but he could have. I would have but he chose to do it his way to see who was about it and who wasn't and weed out the weaklings that don't fit. Clearly those guys have hit the portal and the successful p5 teams haven't raced to pick these kid's up with the exception of 2-3 of them.
Jury is still out and he needs to make adjustments but I wouldn't characterize our highest-rated recruiting class in 15 years a small feat by any means.