One last thought: I don't think any extension negotiation will have any bearing on whether or not he leaves. If there's a job somewhere he thinks he has a better chance of being successful, he's gone. That's why Huggins left - he knew it was easier to recruit WVU and they had a lot of experienced talent in place - it had nothing to do with Weiser. This is what Huggs should have done after he beat Durant - then Weiser becomes the villain instead of Huggs. Now, Frank is a good guy when he leaves, and we will hate Currie, thanks to Keitz.
i agree, to a point. if he gets a great offer, he's gone, and there's nothing kstate can do about it. but he'll also leave to a worse job or an equal job for way more money. that is the event kstate has to prevent.
it is painfully obvious that most of you (those not agreeing with me) just don't follow college bball, and have no &@#%ing idea what the market for coaches is. whitlock, for example, is about on target with his 1.7 number. martin will absolutely get an offer in that range or higher if this season tracks as it has to date (round of 16 or 8). that's the market. he may not (probably won't) leave if the offer isn't a place where he feels he could sustain success, given that kstate should be at least as good next year as this. but he'll get bigger offers next year, and more of them. he's eventually gone.
look at people hired at high resource high majors last year, or those that had such offers and renegotiated and stayed. people with lesser and equal resumes got 1.5-2.0 pretty much across the board.
that doesn't mean kstate has to pay 1.7 to keep him. mu kept anderson for about 500k less than he was offered elsewhere. but anything under a million is a &@#%ing joke. and it was a &@#%ing joke before the season started too.
at the end of this season, the joke is going to start at 1.2 or 1.3. if not higher.
as daris is pointing out in every fifth post, to no avail: if martin wasn't insulted by his treatment to date, why did he have every media friend he has leak this? from every indication that we have available, kstate's ad has handled this about as poorly as can possibly be imagined.
which, honestly is not all that important, at least to me. whether kstate wants to &@#% around like amateurs and first underpay, and then overpay their caoch or wants to show some brains and balls sign him long-term to an appropriate contract as soon as they knew he was their guy ultimately doesn't impact me, or most other fans. as long as, a) they ultimately retain him, and b) i don't have to listen to you ignorant retards blather on about how kstate's ad hasn't acted like just as ignorant retards.
