I am not sure if I fall under that category as far as your concerned, but here is what I've stated about Ricketts so far. An owner has basically two jobs to build a successful franchise. First is to provide the financial resources to put together a successful organization. Second is to hire the right people at the top to make decisions on how to use those resources. Lets look at those two categories.
1. Currently the Cubs payroll is 134 million according to Cots which I believe is second only to the Phillies in the NL. 134 million spent wisely is more than enough to build a successful major league team. Beyond that this team is likely to have spent more on signing amateur draftees than ever before, more on international free agents, and building a new academy in the Dominican Republic. If the payroll continues to drop though, and by the drastic amounts Dews has suggested, than my opinion on number 1 changes, but as of right now I don't see how anyone can argue that Ricketts isn't providing the resources needed.
2. Putting the right people in charge. He clearly has failed at that so far. However, I will say that I don't think it was wrong for him to bring back the same leadership structure last year. However, after that debacle a change should have been made, and the obvious one would have been to bring in a real President of Baseball Operations to oversee this organization. He didn't do that. If the report is true, that Hendry and everyone else is to be retained, then Ricketts will have failed at this too.
So that is why I have been saying that if those 2 things happening then my attitude towards Ricketts is going to change from mostly indifference right now.