I have a question as to how the alumni and donors you reference do their evaluations? As an example would be how TC was criticized for poor relations with Indiana coaches. I never heard or saw statistics of how many Indiana coaches told their players not to attend IU or did not like IU. Is there a graph or spreadsheet somewhere that shows percentages?
I have no problem if the AD in charge of evaluating, hiring and firing for a University makes those decisions but the Alumni and donors holding a coach accountable for who he recruits would be like the school board holding a high school coach accountable because he or she did not put the board member's kids on the team.
A coach like any employee is hired to do a job in a way that best suits his or her personal style. To think that discussions by groups outside of the corporation/school should have any influence is scary and suggests the thought that colleges would better serve their students by not taking donations if they indeed are conditional. As a player looking to attend a college I wouldn't want to attend where I felt the coach was compromised to do what the donors wanted unless my dad was donating the most money