Don't forget dinners with John and Ruth Ann. On the University dime of course.
Yep, lots of reacharounds during the Weifdom heyday. The boys were living high on the hog, filling up those bank accounts, and not doing very much actual work.
Ol’ Timmy Weiser could sure hoist up the time honored K-State tried and true “We’re just a bunch of poor farmers that have to outwork you because we can’t outspend you” routine to play to the tucks and he was perfectly content to make sure the books were balanced just enough to make sure he got his 250K a year performance bonus for keeping the department in the black. Not so much when it came to actually doing things that were necessary to maintain a competitive advantage in a BCS conference –you know stuff like marketing, ticket pricing, enhancing fan experience, extending the brand reach, facility projects that strengthen recruiting and generate revenue, etc...
I laugh at the fact that a 37 year old John Currie, junior AD at Tennessee, comes to K-State in the worst economic climate since the Great Depression and in two years has already single handedly raised more money privately for facility enhancements than the previous 20 years of athletic directors combined. And is now embarking on the most ambitious university or athletics building project in school history. All the while, we’re paying him a fraction of the previous AD’s salary and still pumping money into Weiser’s bank account for his buyout settlement while he pushes paper down at the league office in Dallas.
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