Meant to add, I think Chancellor Ploughman is great, as I am sure most every alumnus or taxpayer does, but reviews on Boyd are mixed, to say the least. I attended the game with a recent (2021) grad, the nephew of my best friend from college, and he said that Boyd seems very political to him. I have heard much worse from a former resident of Knoxville that moved to Huntsville, none of which I will repeat pubically.
Personally I am mostly neutral to him, since I have zero direct contact with him and haven't really been following the University leadership activities that closely, but since he was a long time politician in the Knoxville area prior to his UT tenure, I think some wariness of him is quite warranted.
