If uninformed means I don't know the man or his family personally, I'm no longer connected to GF, and am looking at this objectively, then guilty as charged.
I agree with what you are saying, but I would constitute "business as usual" to consist of among other things, filling a head coaching vacancy at this point in time.
The whole "can they recruit the Upper Midwest" thing doesn't hold water with me. The right guy will surround himself with a staff with those types of connections and cultural fit. This was Lennon's downfall in Carbondale...surrounding himself with the Dakota good ol' boy network.
I don't see Caruso entering the mix at this point. More of a private school kind of guy I think...maybe ends up at an Ivy or somewhere out east in a few years.