CC, nobody is saying Currie didn't help get the facility project on the ground. If anything, we know it will make the "get Currie canned" campaign harder.
I do think however that any good "salesperson" can sell two winning programs (as well as Frank and Bill) to donors for money. Currie was all but a salesman. If you want to give someone credit for managing the Athletic Department's money, give it to Reid Sigmon. Reid has eyes of a hawk, and watches every single dollar that comes in and out of that foundation.
Frank situation aside, I think everyone is frustrated how Currie handled the coaching hire. He took one week to get one of the least desirable coaches on the market, yet for a price we were unwilling to pay Frank. Weber's hire made the thought of Boyle being our head coach a wet-dream. I think any one of us could have made a hire as equal or better. Add the terrible press conference, not knowing who he would bring with him, and the likelihood of Underwood bailing is sending everyone over the edge.
Now we have national media looking down on us, throwing out the "Manhattan is hard to recruit" type excuses our direction to validate the Weber hire. I mean how many schools have hired a head coach a month after he was fired? Right, nobody. This hire sucks, and so was the effort put out by Currie.
Goddammit, I siad I was done, but I keep getting pulled back in. Feel free to move this discussion to ball board, don't want to hijack FB threads.
Agree with you on Reid, but he is acting on directive and feedback from JC. So, you have to credit him for that as well.
Coaching search was quick, but thorough. Weber was not first choice. Know that Boyle said no. Current assistants at other schools were interviewed, but in the end JC wanted previous head coaching experience. Personally don't have any fault with conduct of search. He wanted to move fast, he wasn't doing anything else but the search.
I would not have picked BW myself, but I am willing so give it a chance. Not sure who is a better choice -- we weren't getting Mack or Cronin or people like that. You can name off assistants like Hurricane -- but who's to say that dude can recruit at a place that's not like Kentucky? JC wanted previous HC, preferably at a BCS level. It's perfectly acceptable to want that.
PC was a little rough -- but he did know who he wanted for assistants. You can't just rattle them off at a PC, especially if some of them are still on the job elsewhere. It's called discretion. Staff is going to come together quickly this week, and some good names will be on there.
Listen, I am not saying you can't be upset. But maybe turn the rage dial down to single digits before one of you sets a bomb off in the training facility as a "show of support for Frank". You're never going to accomplish your goal if people see you as fanatical about it. And maybe, just maybe, wait to see what the staff is, what recruits gets signed, etc before slitting wrists.
