Hiring MF is symptomatic of the fact that ND had its cake for so long with its own network and brand and dealing with everyone else on its own terms that it really doesn’t know how to compete in a modern world, assuming in the first place that it wants to.
So, in some ways, I blame MF, but in others, I don’t b/c he was a guy who was hired b/c he could be controlled and was naive enough to take the job and not realize the situation. But that’s the hubris of inexperience: my hard work can overcome any obstacles. It cant.