By "multiple threads" you mean one other thread:

https://www.cougarboard.com/board/message.html?id=29888911

And I'm hardly only pushing Odum, and am not sold on Odum being the best option. I brought him up again in this thread because Odum's trajectory is trending opposite that of Lance Anderson so doesnt fit the same narrative brought up by OP.

I think he is a good candidate where there are no realistic homerun hires. I've provided reasons why I think he might be. You disagree, that's fine. It just seems weird to me that you seem so antagonsitic towards him when the options you like more are Maile, Poppinga, Nua. I like all of those guys and they may be good. But they're largely unproven as DC on their own merits. I just don't get how those guys are seen as being so much better than Odum based on their track record. That's it.