The thing with Bowman is more complex than "he's done a bad thing — but other people have done bad things too, why single him out." The bad thing that Bowman has done makes him uniquely unsuited to do this job. He was part of the leadership of an organization and found out that one of the organization's employees sexually assaulted another. He then helped lead the cover up of that sexual assault.
Can be contrite about this and seek to do better? Of course, and he should. Working with Sheldon Kennedy is a great step on that. I hope he continues to put in the work to raise awareness and change the culture that he was part of.
But that doesn't mean that he should have ever been put back into the role that he failed so spectacularly at. He shouldn't have even been considered. Jumping to scoop him up ... Yikes.
It's like Katz read Moneyball and thought "Gee, other organizations' desire to not be associated with sexual assault is a real market inefficiency, I wonder how I can exploit that..."
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