John Currie gets WAY too much credit for his financial prowess.
When Currie became our AD, KState athletics was the equivalent of a single parent with 7 kids, $7 large in debt due to an absentee spouse's gambling debts, living in a trailer in a park located top-dead-center in tornado alley. Krause, Prince, and Wefald were, in that order, impregnator, tornado, and impregnatee.
Enter Texas and Oklahoma threatening to leave the conference.
BOOM! Cash aplenty for all now-10 Big 12 schools!
Every school in the conference has been awash in cash since the break-up threat occurred. Think about it...have any Big 12 AD's been fired?
I rest my case. Stop giving Currie credit he did not earn. Fire John Currie.