John's tenure was really frustrating mostly because of his inability to keep his mouth shut. He didn't learn from his father that it's best to STFU when it comes to the media.
But he modernized the organization. He allowed significant change to occur. Change that was desperately needed.
I'm conflicted because he actually did a lot of good things that will allow us some good times over the next 7-10 years. Now, he likely did it knowing a sale was forthcoming so I'm not claiming it wasn't at least a little self serving. But in that process, he turned this isn't a big boy organization and implemented an analytics team that is absolutely essential to competition both now & in the future.