Didn't hear about that one. Multiple stories I've heard,(including from Russo himself in a shoot interview which another poster provided a link to a couple of posts up), is that Undertaker and HHH opposed him from joining the creative team for their own personal reasons, so he was labled as a creative consultant.(In the case of HHH, especially at that point in time, probably didn't want Russo mainly because of Russo's knack for giving everyone on the card something to do, which would take away from having his face all over Raw.)