I AGREE WITH TIM FITZGERALD!!!!

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All Currie has to do is choose to be the unanimous hero to the fanbase.

Has there ever been an easier move in the history of AD stuff? 

Not hiring oscar weber.

[Panjandrum]

All Currie has to do is choose to be the unanimous hero to the fanbase.

Has there ever been an easier move in the history of AD stuff? 

Not hiring oscar weber.

I think KK was hands down correct in saying it was a panicked move, but what mystifies me is A) why he panicked, and B) what on earth made him think that this move, of all moves, was a good idea.

[PowercatPat]

All Currie has to do is choose to be the unanimous hero to the fanbase.

Has there ever been an easier move in the history of AD stuff?

For AD's who care about wins and losses, no.

[CNS]

All Currie has to do is choose to be the unanimous hero to the fanbase.

Has there ever been an easier move in the history of AD stuff? 

Not hiring oscar weber.

This is even easier.

[Dr Rick Daris]

All Currie has to do is choose to be the unanimous hero to the fanbase.

Has there ever been an easier move in the history of AD stuff? 

Not hiring oscar weber.

I think KK was hands down correct in saying it was a panicked move, but what mystifies me is A) why he panicked, and B) what on earth made him think that this move, of all moves, was a good idea.

maybe, but i've heard enough random crap over the past four years that i think weber was the only one considered and was maybe/probably even being considered and talked to behind the scenes before frank left.

his overall career win percentage, illinois attendance while he was the coach, national champ runner up, wouldn't cost more than frank, less of a headache than frank, very strong support from kstate great gene keady.

[Panjandrum]

All Currie has to do is choose to be the unanimous hero to the fanbase.

Has there ever been an easier move in the history of AD stuff? 

Not hiring oscar weber.

I think KK was hands down correct in saying it was a panicked move, but what mystifies me is A) why he panicked, and B) what on earth made him think that this move, of all moves, was a good idea.

maybe, but i've heard enough random crap over the past four years that i think weber was the only one considered and was maybe/probably even being considered and talked to behind the scenes before frank left.

his overall career win percentage, illinois attendance while he was the coach, national champ runner up, wouldn't cost more than frank, less of a headache than frank, very strong support from kstate great gene keady.

The last line makes me wonder...

Is Currie so out of touch that he thought a vote of approval from Gene Keady would matter?  He realizes that the relationship between KSU and Keady is pretty much non-existant to negative, right?

[CNS]

I honestly didn't even realize we had ties until the oscar fiasco came up.

[Cartierfor3]

All Currie has to do is choose to be the unanimous hero to the fanbase.

Has there ever been an easier move in the history of AD stuff? 

Not hiring oscar weber.

I think KK was hands down correct in saying it was a panicked move, but what mystifies me is A) why he panicked, and B) what on earth made him think that this move, of all moves, was a good idea.

maybe, but i've heard enough random crap over the past four years that i think weber was the only one considered and was maybe/probably even being considered and talked to behind the scenes before frank left.

his overall career win percentage, illinois attendance while he was the coach, national champ runner up, wouldn't cost more than frank, less of a headache than frank, very strong support from kstate great gene keady.

Captain Crap has implied that at least one candidate turned the job down. I've always assumed that was Tad

[Ptolemy]

Where's Eddie Fogler when we need him?

http://www.foglerconsulting.com/index.php/

[catastrophe]

Isn't the obvious solution to hire Brad and allow oscar to stay on as associate head coach?

[slackcat]

Isn't the obvious solution to hire Brad and allow oscar to stay on as associate head coach? and mow Brad's lawn.

[Ptolemy]

Isn't the obvious solution to hire Brad and allow oscar to stay on as associate head coach? and mow Brad's lawn.

Three words: Turf Management Supervisor. oscar would LOVE it!

[slackcat]

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All Currie has to do is choose to be the unanimous hero to the fanbase.

Has there ever been an easier move in the history of AD stuff? 

Not hiring oscar weber.

This is even easier.

No it isn't.  There's a lot of steps involved in actually executing this easy choice.  Back then, all that had to be done was do anything other than not hire national laughingstock oscar weber.  Like, they could've done absolutely nothing and waited weeks to hire somebody or just gone w/o a coach and it would've been better than making a 2nd trip to the trash can (this time, figurative) and pulling out oscar weber and slapping a purple blazer on him.

[ChiComCat]

All Currie has to do is choose to be the unanimous hero to the fanbase.

Has there ever been an easier move in the history of AD stuff? 

Not hiring oscar weber.

This is even easier.

No it isn't.  There's a lot of steps involved in actually executing this easy choice.  Back then, all that had to be done was do anything other than not hire national laughingstock oscar weber.  Like, they could've done absolutely nothing and waited weeks to hire somebody or just gone w/o a coach and it would've been better than making a 2nd trip to the trash can (this time, figurative) and pulling out oscar weber and slapping a purple blazer on him.

Hiring just about any coach then would've brought some criticism.  Now he can make a coaching choice that is unassailable.  He essentially has an easy button sitting on his desk and all he has to do is push it.

[Panjandrum]

Brad Underwood is 99.9% approval from day one.  The .01% will be standing behind oscar at his going away press conference.

[CNS]

If this doesn't happen, no way brad ever ends up here unless Currie is gone.

[kso_FAN]

Brad Underwood is 99.9% approval from day one.  The .01% will be standing behind oscar at his going away press conference.

There are very few things that Currie could do that would rally pretty universal K-State support than this.

[Panjandrum]

Brad Underwood is 99.9% approval from day one.  The .01% will be standing behind oscar at his going away press conference.

There are very few things that Currie could do that would rally pretty universal K-State support than this.

If we were to find a way to hire Chip Kelly to replace LHC Bill Snyder, I think it would be several percentage points below hiring Brad.

There is literally no box he doesn't check as a candidate.  Kansan.  Alumni.  Played for Hartman.  AHC during our best stretch in 30 years.  Unprecedented winner.  Media darling.

There are zero drawbacks to hiring Brad.  Zero.  I am at a loss to think of any other potential hire, in any sport, that would draw so much universal support at any school in this conference.

I mean, if KU said they were going to hire Brad Stevens after Self retired, that wouldn't get the level of support Underwood would get here, day one.

[Kat Kid]

I would say it is a slam dunk hire, but I've watched enough bad K-State basketball to know this has a higher rate of success than a slam dunk.

[kso_FAN]

I would say it is a slam dunk hire, but I've watched enough bad K-State basketball to know this has a higher rate of success than a slam dunk.

[ChiComCat]

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Hiring just about any coach then would've brought some criticism.  Now he can make a coaching choice that is unassailable.  He essentially has an easy button sitting on his desk and all he has to do is push it.

Yeah, it's super easy, but still not as easy as NOT hiring oscar weber.  I'm not talking about who he'd have hired instead, just not hiring the guy who weeks earlier had been featured on sportscenter for having the most lol presser of the year and was subsequently mocked nationally by every college hoops person in america.  And then fired.  And with no other options than college of charleston.

Saying "nah, we'll keep looking" was an even easier thing than the incredibly easy thing of trying to get underwood.

[kso_FAN]

I'm imagining how much better Boyle would have been than oscar. Or even the Alford rumor.

[michigancat]

I'm imagining how much better Boyle would have been than oscar. Or even the Alford rumor.

Yeah. I remember being kind of pissed at both of those rumors. We were so spoiled back then.