The one thing that Warde has always failed to understand is, you don't fire an important position without knowing you are going to hire next. Warde is a bad leader for many reason, but his lack of future planning might be his biggest weakness.
Case in point, Coach Whitt comes in and has his coordinators lined up before he got to Ann Arbor. He also knew the priority was keeping the current roster in A2 and lining up great players in the portal. You can't bring in a new GM at that point and do that. So he keep Magee around until this week to serve that purpose.