New blood that hasn’t operated the same way for 25 years bc “that’s how we’ve always done it”) I think you would see it leaked to the media that he’s the next AD just to see what kind of skeletons come out of the closest before BYU makes anything official.

The phones would be ringing at upper campus about some shady activity over the years.

BYU needs a business person to run athletics moving forward. With Revenue sharing and so many new things that athletics departments haven’t had to navigate before, I would think that it would be the easier transition.