That's not the question though. And, frankly, that the attitude that propels bad owners to keep fielding bad teams.
Yeah, the owner writes the checks but he ain't the one scouting dudes in dimly lit gyms. He's not the one traveling overseas, when no one's watching, to put the work in to tell who's good and who's not. He's not the one speaking to folks behind the scenes to gain an understanding of which kids are real and which are fake as {insert porn star}'s boobs.
In that realm, to suppose that simply writing the checks makes you an eggspert is to court disaster.
I get it. If the guy wants to just throw his weight around like that then he needs to understand that's not the model of wining franchises. But hey, since he writes the checks it's his prerogative to stay in the lottery I guess.