A few things ...
-- Is Nike co-founder Phil Knight really ready to pull the plug on the Mark Helfrich era and pay a $10 million for another coach?
I don't know.
Knight and I have exchanged pleasantries a few times over the years. I find him polite and distantly friendly. But he never has consented to an interview with me, and I don't pretend to know what he is thinking.
ESPN sports business reporter Darren Rovell put the $10 million figure out in a tweet, and I don't think Rovell has anything substantive with which to back it up.