One main thought: I believe its already leaked that the Pegulas do plan on keeping Russ Brandon as a OBD employee, but not in his current role. They're planning on separating the business and football operations, similar to the Sabres set up currently.
Russ Brandon will be in the Ted Black role, running the business side and being the mouthpiece for the media. All business operations members would report to him.
A consultant with a large amount of football experience will likely be hired and will either run the football side of things or assist with a search to hire the "Football Czar" who Whaley and all of football operations would report to. Football Czar and Brandon would then report directly to the Pegulas.