Not exactly. It was more stupid to give it to Whitney (another "least" likely target) when Dawn pretty much knew that Cochran had flipped and when Coach told Ozzy to his face that he was on to their ruse vs. going along with Plan A knowing that there were major doubts.

Upoli didn't play their HII because they had inside info, right? So what some have suggested is that if Dawn warrned her tribe that Cochran was thinking of flipping before he spilled his guts and told the other tribe that Rick (or whomever) was the target....they could have offered the HII to Cochran as a good faith gesture/to reassure him about pulling rocks and that might have been enough to keep him loyal and perhaps he wouldn't have even accepted the HII. Or alternatively, Dawn could have warned her tribe that Cochran flipped, then they could have adjusted their target vs. wasting the HII. It's hard to say if either would have worked out, esp. knowing now that Cochran had a supposed F4 pact, but certainly Savali could have played it smarter. (In fact, they could have offered Cochran an F4 pact.)