Bingo. I do give credit to RV for overseeing the building of Apogee but he didn't get the vote passed.
As SE noted, in my opinion he was the reason (for reasons above) that the initial vote failed. He was advised (hmmm, by who?) to get it passed under the radar but he wouldn't listen. Neither would a lot of alums, to be fair. I do think we got a better stadium with Apogee than we would have after the first vote.
For what it's worth, I thought no way Helwig would be fired (he did too and told many of us several times) but it happened.
I have plenty of issues with RV (we have the worst marketing ideas in the history of....ever?) but there has been progress under him and to label his time a disaster would not be fair (how's that for faint praise). But at this point the AD is treading water (at best) and stale. As the old adage goes, we could do worse......but in my opinion we could do a whole lot better too.