“I believe oscar Weber is the right coach for our program,” Currie said Monday in an interview with The Eagle.
ok, i don't.
“Clearly, he has the right values and he has been embedded in the community with his support of different things – Coaches vs. Cancer, the United Way, you name it,” Currie said.
WHO THE eff CARES
“But ultimately, it’s about the players he has brought into our program. Look at D.J. Johnson, Westicles and Claws, those are K-State guys. And they are all K-State guys who have a chance to have great seasons next year. That is a reflection of their coach.”
WHAT THE eff DOES THAT EVEN MEAN
“If we look at where we were 12 months ago and where we are now, there is a night-and-day difference. We know now today who our leadership is: seniors that have battled through adversity and young players that are, frankly, playing the best basketball of their careers.”
Okay? And won 5 conference games.
“I believe at this time next year I am going to feel really good about the progress we have made,” Currie said. “Just as good, if not better, than the progress we made from last year to now.”
I disagree.
“There is no pressure I could put on oscar Weber, LHC Bill Snyder (football), Suzie Fritz (volleyball) or Brad Hill (baseball) that they don’t already put on themselves,” Currie said. “Seriously, like I’m going to say, ‘Coach Snyder, I am really sorry about the last game, but you better win the next one.’ Come on. It’s not like they aren’t already saying that themselves. For our coaches, every season is a must-win.”
Okay, but, you CAN fire them after getting worse every year for four years.
“I was really proud of Coach Weber making some strong decisions last year,” Currie said. “But I am more impressed with the fact our freshmen this year were impressive players, good guys. They had a lot of success. Their individual stats are better than the current four-year stars in our league had as freshmen.
We won 5 conference games.
“We fought really hard this year. Obviously, we lost more games than we wanted to lose, but we had very consistent effort as a team that I really liked. I don’t think there is anybody that hasn’t seen progress that wishes to see progress. He has done a really good job of managing that bump in the road and emerging on the other side.”
ME. I want to see progress and haven't seen progress.
“There are a lot of examples where coaches in their fifth, sixth and seventh years really show progress,” Currie said.
“I totally get that fans don’t like losing. I don’t like losing, either,” Currie said. “But people like our team. That is what I hear. Out in the social media world, I know there is going to be someone who doesn’t like something I do or doesn’t like a decision I make or doesn’t like oscar Weber. But we had good crowds at Bramlage Coliseum even though we lost some games. We had a lot of students there, too.”
“We don’t want to get in the business of excuses, but there is a fine line between excuses and analysis,” Currie said. “If you look at football and basketball this year, we had significant injuries at quarterback and point guard. Those things are factors. We don’t like them. We want to build our programs to overcome those things. But I think it is significant that this basketball team, just like our football team, got their backs to the wall and continued to fight and play well. You saw us battle in some games where we were over matched. We also won some games that, when you have lost your team, you don’t win. I think that was impressive.”
The Kamau injury is the biggest fake scape goat i've ever seen. It's not like we were on some path toward the NCAA tourney when Kamau was playing. Hell our only good win vs OU came when he was hurt. God damnit.
