You can call me Naive if you so choose. What did you expect Wildhack to say? He is going to say no no matter what. He’s not going to admit if he interviewed him because then why didn’t you hire him and/or you are telling people you couldn’t land someone that was interested. It’s a bad look all around.
Not to mention, my follow up would have been, why wasn’t he contacted. He is one of the best offensive minds in the game and his resume speaks for itself. He is one of, if not the top coach available that is not currently at a school.