The bottom line is that Kim gets off the record stuff from Woody and Sark. He's not going to jeopardize that by letting criticism of those two on his main board. He's changing his boards around to fit his agenda. He's seriously worried that if Sark gets fired (no matter how unlikely that will be), he loses his key to the cookie jar. That's the reason for a new board.
Kim's motivation is access. His first critique of Willingham was that they closed off the team hotels on the road where Kim used to run around with his own homer in his sweatpants when Rick was the coach. He wants so badly to be an important media guy in Husky football and sports in the Seattle scene that its painful to watch.
Yep. Kim didn't care that Ty was a proven loser, he didn't like Ty because he received no access. Even then though he still defended Ty on his message board.
I'd love to live in a world where UW hires a good coach who is also a prick to the media. So our program is better AND guys like Kim aren't receiving access.
I'll disagree with you that Kim defended Ty. I thought he was critical of Ty, just not enough. But the problem is that Kim and Fleenor don't care as much about the W's as they do about access. If Ty would have won, Kim would still be pissing and moaning about the lack of access. Now that we have a mediocre coach rather than a completely worthless one, Kim - rather than looking at all of Sark's fuck ups - defaults to access as the tiebreaker. I'm sure in his head Kim thinks, "Well, he's a .500 head coach, but he gives me off the record stuff when it comes to recruiting so I like him."
