I want CK to do so well that a school throws stupid money at him to try and poach him. Do you think anyone's going to try and steal a marginally better than .500 coach who keeps his besties on his staff with him wherever he goes?
I think it's pretty naive to think not replacing the OC is all that's preventing CK from achieving significantly more than he is now.
Let's ask ourselves this question a different way. We had a defense that was good enough to win the conference this year. There were only 3 teams able to score more than 30 points on us all year, and all 3 of those teams spent time in the top 10 rankings. Most opponents struggled just to make it to 20, including current #9 Baylor. Even a marginally above average offense in the Big XII should be able to score 4 touchdowns and a field goal. Instead, in 12 games, we limped along and constantly struggled to score points in the 2nd half of games despite having a pretty decent 6th year QB and arguably one of the better RBs in program history. Messingham has had questionable play calling follow him his entire career, so the issues are not just isolated to our program, and this season it was on full display in several of our loses.
What is the case for keeping him? How would we NOT improve by replacing him with a better coordinator?