Beaver's response tells me he's just as shocked as anyone. He's basically come out and said he was supposed to get the fan base riled up for a coach at the caliber of Gruden, not necessarily Gruden. He did that, and knew the levers to pull to make it happen. He lied a bit in the process, it's a thing.
But if it's anything like what AV has said, who I think we all believe is a bigwig in this whole thing, the Schiano decision was made without any other boosters. I now believe Beaver is connected in some way to the whole thing. If even AV didn't know until someone called him while Currie was in Ohio, Beaver's tweets saying "this is an absolute joke" were probably what he actually thought at the time.
His tone has changed from downright comical and cocky to what I'd expect from someone who is trying their best to enact damage control and who is perplexed as anyone that his and his benefactors plans had been subverted. He sounds WAY more human.
I'm not a naive person, and I've always been skeptical of the things Beaver has said, check my record, but at this point it does sound like the whole booster community was completely betrayed by Haslam and Currie.
And if that's truly the case then I'm very very worried about how bad things have gotten.
Maybe I'm wrong, we'll never know, and I'll eat my crow, but this all just shows how much of a cluster the whole administration is with the Haslams still pulling strings.