If Mack Rhoades and Mike Alden were peacetime consiglieres, what is a wartime AD?
Rhoades strikes me as a good peacetime consigliere. To break out the Godfather lingo (and one of my go-to expressions*), Rhoades seems like the perfect AD for good times. He does have the AD lingo mastered — you could tell that from his very first press conference; he didn’t leave a single good-old-boy cliché unspoken — and when the job is going as it is supposed to (i.e. when you’re dealing mostly with coaching hires and fundraising and glad-handing), then that’s fine.