Dick Harmon joined Cougar Sports to discuss resource allocation between Kalani Sitake and BYU:
Q: My biggest question mark right now is resource allocation. What is it that Kalani wants, and what have you learned about that conversation?
Dick Harmon: I'll give you an example. During a football game, you have donors walking around with highly valuable sideline passes. I know of one case where a guy has donated $1,700 in his life to BYU, and he's standing on the 50-yard line with the team. Kalani has no say on that.
Another example is the loges sold to donors and corporations. They make a huge contribution, but where does that money go, and who determines it? What about parking and free tickets? The person with access to those tickets has a tremendous amount of power. If you have a Thanksgiving pie and everybody has their fingers in it, but you're the mother who cooked it and you have no control—how would you feel?
Q: I always say you want to eat what you kill, right?
Dick Harmon: Exactly. If the athletic department is bringing in $155 million, and the football program is generating $100-$120 million of that, don't you think the football coach ought to have a say—or at least some transparency—in where that money is going? This move helps satisfy a lot of the concerns Kalani Sitake has had for years.
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