There's a significant difference between acting as the team's highest business executive, and serving on the Board, which is a lot more passive and sporadic, setting broad policies and engaging in oversight. But it is a good sign that he is staying on the board as that indicates he and the team are parting on good, mutual terms. He had a 3-year contract, and both parties are letting it run its course. They're just not renewing for one reason or another.
That would be nice, but also requires that the club engage in a search for a replacement high level executive with under absolute secrecy. That means nobody in the organization talks, which you can probably manage, but also that no candidates say anything, and that nobody notices meetings between club reps and the people who would be candidates. Better probably to just put it out there. I don't expect it to lead to instability.
This doesn't worry me either. For a deal of that size, any lead negotiator will need to consult with the board and ownership before committing. Patricof can make a deal between now and the end of his tenure if there is a deal to be made. If not, I I don't think there's a huge learning curve. You want someone familiar with NY politics and real estate, but becoming familiar with this specific task shouldn't take someone who knows those things more than a few days. And we've got Marty Edelman pulling a lot of that weight.
There has been a lot of bored lately.
And some of the other big ones are unfixable - acoustics, sightlines, the sprawling empty effect, etc. The two necessities for drawing fans are the product on the field and a (convincing) promise of a new stadium. If either or both of those significantly and continually fail, there are no fixes for that.
