you're assuming that better than Blough would have been "a lot of money". I don't know how true that is. Even Daniel really wasn't that costly at 3/13, but I find it hard to believe you couldn't have paid less and still not done better than Goff (or apparently Blough) could do today.
But it goes back to the more basic question of how much they cared about how much the lost this year. I think the answer all along has been not much.