It's definitely unsettling to go with the option that's 0/0, though perhaps less unsettling than the plethora of options that are 0/1 or 0.5/2? It would have been nice if Collins's success at NW could have been more than a flash in the pan.
Seems like it was decided long ago that we were going to stay in the family. While I agree with you, unless we were going to poach someone truly elite, like Stevens or Wright, which was unlikely, I think anyone else we chose would have had similar risks.