Well, now I do have some inside knowledge. Just got back from getting some coffee. Ran into my NDSU acquaintance, who is well connected. When I say well connected, you have no idea, but for the sake of Bison trolls around here, I will not reveal any more info about him.
Our discussion this AM started about Mr. Adams, who I know a little and, I'll call my SU source, Mr. X, , who said he considers Whiskey Joe "a dear friend".
Mr. X said Joe was "very clever", "intimidating", "felt a sense of entitlement", "was arrogant"...just to quote a few things.
Mr. X said he confronted Joe about his inappropriate actions that have been discussed in this thread, and Mr. X said he has access to all the financial info, and said Joe's blatant abuse of power and his blatant circumventing of the "system" was beyond what even he imagined.
"Joe screwed up really bad and I told him "You have to go"." quote per Mr. X.
Mr. X stated on this surface it wasn't one specific thing, but there was a "pattern" in the arrogance of Joe that caused him to bully people to make bad decisions for him
Mr. X said he doesn't know Mr. Adams personally, but doesn't doubt anything Mr. Adams is saying is not accurate.
"I still consider Joe a friend, but I also saw in the end his true arrogance." "Joe never admitted he did ANYTHING wrong and because of that I just couldn't support him any longer."
Interesting...