i love the fball expansion and the practice facility. they are great achievements and there a lot of aspects of john curries job that i personally think he is really good at. i couldn't be more excited for the bsfs expansions.
i'm also very sad and upset because i'm pretty sure that having a winning basketball team is not on our athletic directors top 20 list of things he wants for the university and it shouldn't be this way.
it's also not as much about gottleib as you are portraying it. it really isn't. not even close. trust me. it just absolutely isn't.
most people (not just people here but kansas state fans in general) wish frank was still the head coach. most here think that frank would still be our head coach if john currie was not appointed as AD three years ago. now would we have the shiny bball practice facility or major upgrade to bsfs? i don't know. pretty sure we'd still have frank though. that's what half of this is about, i think.
the other half is that we really just went out and hired a coach that was given a basketball team full of future nba talent at a top25 basketball school, a school that has never fired a coach before for performance based issues and in three years our new coach managed to give them their worst six years in school history. john was reaching out to weber before frank was even officially gone for crying out loud. why? by all accounts he made no effort. none at all to retain frank. we effectively chased off frank to hire a coach that the university of illinois disliked so much that they paid almost 4 million to him so that he would STOP coaching them. it was not working at illinois and it was not going to work there so they sucked it up, paid the money and moved on. they are not and were not content with being a "bubble" team forever and should be commended for their actions.
there is no reason to think it will work here, none. i also personally don't need to take a wait and see approach to know this. i just don't. i like illinois basketball and i have seen enough over the past five years. i don't need to see five more. i also personally don't feel like i need to support mediocrity even at kstate when i also happen to feel like mediocrity was the goal and not the end result.
Currie didn't chase off Frank. He did that himself. I would argue Currie was placed in a no win situation with Frank -- would have been actually a tougher PR spot if Frank had stayed because of what would have happened. So if you're blaming Currie for that one, you are misled.
Not saying you have to love the hire at all. But actively trying to harm K-State because of it seems irrational to me.
currie began chasing off frank the second he got here imo. a different AD the past three years and i bet frank is still here and i bet nothing would "be happening". just a hunch. also, if currie is going to be here for the next five years will somebody please have all of the coaches fill out a briggs-meyer personality assessment and put the results of it in graph form or something and lay it on john's desk so he can figure out how to interact with each of them. not joking.
also, and i don't expect you to comment on this, but locking himself in a dallas hotel room and pouring over notes only to end up taking the word of a former kstate student and bff to oscar weber is an odd way to conduct a coaching search. again, just imo. also, gene keady does not care about kstate. not at all. i was with a group at kstate that worked for five years to try and get him to come back and visit. paid flight, meals, etc. no dice. he never considered it. they sure talked about it a lot in the presser though and i bet a lot of casual fans will eat it up.
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