How could a guy that hired Kiffin possibly turn so bad and hire chicken nuggets?
It's rough ridin' baffling, isn't it?
My only explanation is that he honestly just doesn't give a crap about basketball...like, he's so SEC that he basically just hired who "they" said to hire and moved on.
This Kiffen selection has my attention. I was not aware Curried played that prominent of a role. Very impressed....
he didn't. i'm sure he was part of the search, but saying he had any input whatsoever is pretty far fetched. him having something to do with the hiring of pearl is much more realistic.
currie at tennessee was more less a guy who oversaw the raising of funds as well as stadium renovations and building of a new basketball training facility. he's obviously pretty good at those things and super aggressive on the fund raising side even to the potential of being detrimental to the academic fund raising people, which i personally think is great.
getting along with talent (read important coaches) is something that he is apparently horrific at though and should cause concern for all involved. i mean, frank and bill are two of the best things to ever happen to kstate and he's run off one and is about to run off the other. allegedly.
From UTSports.com release announcing he was leaving to come to KSU
"In June of 2007, Currie also helped lead the search for the Vols' new baseball coach, Todd Raleigh, as well as the 2008 football search which brought Lane Kiffin to Knoxville."
I guess they could be in on the conspiracy to bring down KSU Athletics too though...tough to tell who to believe in these turbulant times
http://www.utsports.com/genrel/051809aaa.html
you do realize that john currie probably wrote that press release himself, right? i mean the last half of it is just a bunch people who worked at tennessee saying nice stuff about him. i mean jesus.
what's your point? that currie helped with those searches? because i already said above that he did.
Which was immediately qualified by saying
but saying he had any input whatsoever is pretty far fetched.
I guess my point is that just because you loathe someone doesn't mean everything they've done in the history of ever has been loathesome? I mean it is OK to go ahead and coalesce to the fact that John Currie has done SOME good in the past, he may have even taken a risk or two (obviously on Pearl, and whatever role he played in Kiffen, he didn't kill it despite obvious red flags) on a hire...they weren't all white bread like Weber.
Still, we've gotten off topic, all I was curious about was what his relationship was w/ Fullmer? I mean, if nobody thinks he was high enough to be involved in the hire of Kiffen, is it realistic to think he had nothing to do with the firing of Fullmer? Is Fullmer worth talking about or would he LIOF, or would we even want him if he & Currie were tight?
he did not take a risk on pearl because he was not the one that hired him. he also didn't kill those hires because he couldn't have, due again to the fact that he was not in charge. do you john currie was the AD at UT before he came here? he wasn't. also, i don't loathe john currie. not even close. also, i wish to god people would just shut up about him and god damn UT like it's some sort of pipeline to ksu or something. just stop. phil fullmer will never become the coach and kansas state. just stop it.
I realize he wasn't the guy that ultimately put the contract in front of Pearl or Kiffen @ UT.
"Currie managed the coaching search in March 2005 that resulted in the hiring of oscar Pearl,"
I don't view that as a bit part either. If he really did "Manage" it, or if he was just a part or it is semantics to me...he WAS CLEARLY part of a search that didn't look at Pearls resume and kick it out of the pile for past indiscretions!! Is it
possible that there was an x man search committee that Currie was on, and he was jumping up & down at the end of the table, "Don't hire oscar Pearl!!! COMPLIANCE IS KING!!!!!!" and the committee laughed at him, & told him to shut up & sit in the corner while grown me do their business? I guess it is possible...I also assume that is similar to the scene that plays out through most posters minds when imagining said scenario @ KSU (hence the foil hats - which wasn't meant to be directed solely at you, neither were the 'loathe' comments). It simply isn't the picture I have.
As to the pipeline comments...that is a little out of left field, but again, I think it is rational to start where the person that will be making the hire is comfortable. If JC & PF were Skeet shooting buddies (for some reason I think Phil Fullmer would just love shooting Skeet) or something stupid, I think it is entirely possible that JC would reach out that way. I mean, he did win a NC and if memory serves PF ran a hell of a clean program, which brings my post full circle I believe.
