I think it's a little unfair to fault people or thumb your nose at people for buying tickets and going to the games. After the Fitz article and the apparent sentiment on GPC, it's pretty clear that many tucks have turned (enough) on oscar too. That said, if they still like k-state basketball and it's a fun part of their life, who are we to blame them for going to games?
I went to plenty of Ron Prince games after deciding that he needed to go.
This is where I fall too. I don't feel any need to get personal with coaches/admin.
The Artist Formily known as The Animal sure makes it hard to not hate him with his shut up and take the athletics we give you stance.
Meh.
I agree that he made some poor choices in responding to people on twitter and the block announcements are unnecessary. The latest screenshot on twitter is just an administrative response to a fan and doesn't bother me in the least. Kirk hasn't done anything to make me hate him, I've been around educational administrators long enough to see this is just what they do. He's still better than most IMO.
He is better than most, and I agree with that, he and his admin is very organized, but almost too much so that he's kinda inflexible when anything don't go "according to plan." I think the difference I am seeing now (other than general rabble rabble from the plebs that email and tweet at him which is something Wefald didn't have to deal with) is that Kirk didn't learn a Wefald lesson, and that is athletics are the gateway to the university, and instead of at least tacitly acknowledging that things are not ideal (in this email) and not where we'd like to be (which he can do without making oscar his employee look like a dumbass, even if he is) he would rather burns bridges and comes off as holier than thou. I'm sure in his mind he's seems himself as a braking mechanism to the inevitable meltdowns of fickle and vocal fans, (hence the line in the email about voting with feet and wallets, he knows the hands that feed him), but that's not what he looks like at all.
Overall, it's incredibly short sighted of him (and ADJC) to not see the opportunity in front of them. K-Staters love k-staters, especially successful ones who have played and continued to spend time here. Wasting that to support a coach that has little support going into next year, and having even the mouthpiece fitz turn to Brad shows PKS and ADJC are increasingly tone deaf to the needs and wants of the fans, and likewise @k-stateathletics.
