“can only point to one MO yeshiva”
I used to be a YU prof but I actually agree that having only one MO yeshiva was a big problem. Many of its leaders have tried to slander and sabotage the second one, Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, from its very start — even though Rabbi Avi Weiss was himself a YU professor and YU itself was trying to recruit Rabbi Dov Linzer to ITS faculty. It didn’t like competition. There are many MO yeshivot in Israel which is why MO religious Zionism is much stronger there. YU should have spun off many mini-YUs.