I think it will be very difficult for oscar to keep his job if we don't make the tournament.
The scenario you then laid out doesn't seem difficult at all, especially when Currie can influence the narrative on the momentum/attendance concepts, and to date, has shown he wants to inflate them positively.
If we don't make the tournament but have considerable forward momentum then he stays and deserves to do so. The CBI or CIT isn't good enough. We'll need to see a couple of big wins and more importantly big crowds at Bramlage. I don't think Currie will have any tolerance for thousands.of empties in February.
It'd be awkward if he were to cite lack of progress and down attendance when nobody's been a bigger proponent of kstatembb success in those fields than himself. However, he could shut down an NIT berth and then cite lack of being in a "major" tournament as the dealbreaker.
I didn't know people actually take these marketing talking points seriously, I thought you guys were gEing this entire time. Do you really think he or any other AD are going to give you true insight as to their evaluation when discussing programs publicly?
K-State Men's Basketball- "Come out to see the guy I gave one more year to in hopes that he makes my decision more tolerable. Call 1-800-221-CATS"
K-State Football- "Contact the Ahearn Fund today to renew your donation. The amount of cash this program is generating is the only thing that makes dealing with this intractable fossil tolerable."
K-State Volleyball- "Buy tickets to Saturday's matchup with Texas Tech for $3 with your football ticket because we need to squeeze every dime out of this better than average program we can. Sure we'll never allocate resources to make this program any better than it is now, but you don't care and neither do we. Did we mention like the whole team is once again academic all conference?"
K-State baseball- "Buy your season tickets today to see boring college baseball with substandard facilities...BEER!!!"
K-State women's basketball- "COME WATCH JEFF MITTIE, HE'S GOOD I HIRED HIM! PLEASSSSEEEE COME WATCH, WE CAN'T LET HIM LEAVE, I HIRED HIM GUYS!"