So if there’s bad blood (there’s not), he could literally screw them over?
i mean i guess - but then they'd fire him early and replace him then
it doesnt stop GMs from getting fired on black monday or anything like that but that's when a lot of the front office and scouting personnel promotions, changes etc. happen
it's normally not when you'd be doing an external hire for a new GM but it is often when you promote scouts and execs to new roles when working within your organisation
it's really difficult to hire a scout before the draft and expect anything out of them in that time - so their contracts focus on the draft so that they get the whole year to do their job (which takes that whole time)
but yes hypothetically that could happens... closest to that is when the jets fired mike mccagnan in 2019 after the draft seemingly out of nowhere and blamed it on alcholism