hero in this thing, that he directly pumped in a bunch of money to cover Coach Young's salary and thereby got him to consider coming here - isn't that what was really claimed, and that turned out to be NOT true?

And all this ring-around-the-rosey stuff, this money-delivered-through-a-shell-game, suggesting here that Smith and BYU essentially did the same thing through Cougar Club is just another sheer speculation.

And that's my whole point: the collective acceptance of a false assumption on the board led to acceptance of something that wasn't even true, that really had no referenceable basis in fact.