NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The Tennessee Titans acquired a face of the franchise on April 30 when they drafted Marcus Mariota out of Oregon second overall.

More than at any time in recent memory, the team on the field has an identity.

Fans don’t, however, know who owns the team.

Forward facing, publicly known ownership is hardly a necessity in professional sports. An owner set on hiring good people and allowing them to do their work while staying in the background is actually an ideal scenario.

My read is that fans are pleased to see Steve Underwood running the team as interim president and CEO. But my strong sense is people in Nashville monitoring a team trying to climb out of a hole want to meet the people who have appointed him.

Kenneth Adams IV owns 11 percent of the team and works in the team’s front office. He spoke at the news conference when the team announced Nissan was taking over naming rights of the stadium. He was a third-quarter guest during Titans Radio’s broadcast of the team’s Sunday night game against the Rams.

I know him a bit off the record, and he’s a bright guy who is invested -- not just financially -- in the team in a big way. But publicly he has not addressed ownership philosophy or the big issues facing the team. He's not done much to tell us who he is.

And he's not the controlling owner.

His aunt, Amy Adams Strunk, holds that role now, after the ownership group shoved Susie Adams Smith’s husband, Tommy Smith, aside after a shaky 18 months as head of the team.

Everything I’ve heard about Strunk is positive.

During the summer, the team said it would produce biographies of each member of the ownership group. At the team’s website, however, there still are none.

I saw Strunk walking off the field in Atlanta back on Aug. 14 and introduced myself to her while she was on the move. My small talk amounted to a request that we talk sometime soon. She was perfectly pleasant, but didn't reach for her phone to check her calendar.

Head of #Titans ownership Amy Adams Strunk is at the game. pic.twitter.com/oy1ci4xJoS — Paul Kuharsky (@PaulKuharskyNFL) August 14, 2015

I think Strunk and Adams and all of the late Bud Adams' family now in control want to be private, and I respect that. Indications are they have the team pointed in a better direction, largely thanks to Underwood.

But I think fans generally want to know just who is benefitting from the money they spend supporting a team, and I respect that more.

Strunk and Adams don’t have to hold weekly news conferences or anything close to that. But I believe Titans fans should be able to identify them in a lineup.

I think they need to find a way to introduce themselves to the people supporting their product, and more importantly, to those on the fence about whether to sign up.

Admittedly, this opinion might be wrong.

The other extreme, with Jerry Jones in Dallas or Dan Snyder in Washington, is not at all healthy for setting up a functional franchise.

In the territory between daily doses of Jones and an anonymous Strunk, is there a scenario that jumps to mind where an owner speaking at a news conference or doing an interview has actually benefitted a team?

Underwood told me over the summer that he speaks for ownership. It's unconventional for an owner to be invisible. Is this an instance where unconventional is good?

The team has made a number of changes since Smith disappeared and Underwood stepped in, bringing leadership and order and beefing up a front office that needed more people.

So let's make this a question instead of an answer.

Do you want to meet and hear from Strunk?