for most people. Not sure why you are having such a hard time grasping it.
Greg Byrne is the only person who should be PUBLICLY deciding who the candidates are to replace Polk. Polk should not publicly endorse anyone to take his position - it's not his place to do it and it puts our athletic director (whose job it ACTUALLY is to replace Polk) in a very awkward position in a public light. If Byrne doesn't hire Raffo, the impression will be given, fair or not, that he thumbed his nose at Raffo and Polk. If Polk wants Raffo to succeed him, he has every right to suggest that privately to Byrne, and I'm sure Byrne would have considered Raffo anyway, regardless of what the little troll said in a public statement. He's handcuffing his boss and painting him into a corner to salve his own massive ego.