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[QUOTE="MikeSU02, post: 5705362, member: 60"]
I think it's a spectrum.

I think Tennessee fans would say there hve been moments in time that Haslam basically was the puppet master (so he could still have plausible deniability) and Phil Knight and Lanning and Oregon has been pretty out there.

Now, would any of them go on record and say "yeah, I have given $1Bn to athletics and I get to do what I want", of course not.

But I would imagine, even if the search committee, BoT, other administrators are the ones that give a formal head nod that is documented, they would be keenly aware of what someone who has given upwards of 8 or 9 figures thinks the right decision should be. For better or worse. Especially with funding the rev share and NIL and other athletics-associated donations.

Hypothetically, if we had a potential benefactor come out and explicitly say that they would give $1Bn to SU athletics if he thought that SU bball was heading the right direction. And then, independently (wink wink), also said he thought Bryan Hodgson was an incredible head coach, you would have to assume that would impact the final selection.

Now, I'm using extreme hypotheticals for the Cuse example, but I would EXPECT the search committee and board to understand what comes with each of the HC candidates.

So maybe to the letter of the law these people are not singularly and formally making the selection, but I do think we have to at least expect that the influence is at such a level that it makes the decision one that is all but certain.
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