I listened to Rabs talk to JMV the day after the firing. Rabs specifically discussed several conversations that HE had with Dane directly. Included in one conversation was Rabs telling Dane he shouldn't have made the negative comments about NIL when the university appeared to be embracing it. Dane supposedly told him later, "Yep, I guess you were right, I got in trouble for that one".
My point being, while I'm certainly no Rabjohns homer (and I also happen to believe the press release sounded a bit "off"), but if he's relaying some items that DF told him directly, I'm not so sure what all of the "Hit Piece" narrative is about.