"The tree of liberty must must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants" - Thomas Jefferson
My fellow citizens, our beloved EMAW has been taken hostage by the very SLTH forces that plunged it into a 20-year period of basketball despair. While numerous elements are responsible for perpetuating the travesty that has befallen our beloved program, the buck stops at none other than one Johnathan "Rocky Top" Currie. As athletic director he has presided over the successful coup against our most successful basketball coach in the past 25 years. He has also been responsible for a tidal wave of rules, regulations, and overpolicing that has disenfranchised players and has had almost every athletic coach grumbling that they can't do their jobs properly.
While these crimes are grave and sickening, there is one transgression that stands above them all. A heinous act so grave that even some of the more enlightened shirt tucks are rebelling against this travesty. This act is, of course, the hiring of the SLTH to end all SLTHs, a coach whose other suitors were the College of Charleston and Southern Illinois, and who was fired by Illinois and rejected by SMU after being interviewed. In the process of hiring oscar Weber, John Currie has despotically cast aside any pretenses about caring about fan sentiment, and has acted unilaterally in his own interests to bring in an extremely conservative candidate to bolster his own resume. This has been done so that he can jump to a better job within the next 5 years.
Even if Weber pulls a rabbit out of a hat and wins big, the damage to KSU Athletics is already done. Currie is impossible to work with, stealthily throws coaches and student athletes under the bus, and is obsessed with projecting an image where compliance is no longer about creating a responsible culture, but is instead about excessive enforcement of the byzantine NCAA rulebook and persecution of any athletic figures who do not follow this archaic, confounding system of rules to the exact letter of the law. An athletic director is hired to sell a program to donors and upgrade facilities, be a responsible steward of the programs he or she presides over, and maintain healthy working relationships with the most important figures and coaches in the athletic department. Currie has only done the first of the three, and that requirement should be the most basic qualification of any athletic director hired at a Big 12 school. His neglect of the last two elements will inevitably lead to poorer results in the first. This is why he must go before any more damage is done.
As a small but passionate group of independently-minded K-State fans, we can either sit back helplessly and watch Currie slide us further back into irrelevance, or we can act.
I choose to act. This thread is your one-stop shop for posting and
executing ideas that will get Currie run out of Manhattan, Kansas on a rail.
Ground rules:
1. Don't do anything that would get the FBI sniffing around goEMAW. BSAC is too busy winning cases and slaying EMAWgeddons to defend you if some suits show up at your door.
2. If you want to defend Currie, go start a "Official Don't Go To War Against John Currie" thread and post in it. Don't clutter this thread up trying to defend him. We know the positives of what he's done here and yet they pale in comparison to firebombing our basketball program.
3. This thread also is not about debating/ranting about the merits of the Weber hire. We already have approximately 90,000 threads for that.
TO ARMS, EMAWTRIOTS!
