To me, this would be just revealing the candidate to be an ego monster. I mean seriously you are going to take everything Mike has going for him, not the least of which is 20 years as an assistant here and the unqualified recommendation of the 2nd winningest coach in the history of the game and say "I mean, sure yeah, the guy deserves an interview."
And then the idea that through your AD superpowers you will somehow divine something in the 2 hour interview that went unrevealed during said 20 year tenure and unnoticed by said HOF guru of coaching that is so severe that it warrants risking a landslide of negative consequences associated with essentially firing Hopkins (which is what not hiring him as HC is tantamount to because there is no way he could or would stay after that).
This level of ego would make the "DOCTOR Gross talking on two cell phones at the same time" thing pale in comparison!