Other folks may have said this already (I'm too lazy to look it up), but I'm starting to feel like Leavitt is the perfect hire for Currie in one or two years.
The shirt tucks love him because he was "Snyder's Choice". From an actual 'resume' perspective, it's a defensible hire. The guy wins. He goes to bowl games. He built a program from nothing, literally, to being an annual contender in an AQ conference. He was once on the radar for the Alabama job. And there's always the fallback cop out which is, "Well, it was the best we were going to do at Kansas State with our budget."
Money will keep coming in, buildings will keep being built, and JC's resume will keep growing in the areas that matter for SEC schools: money and buildings. They can hire whoever they want because they have the money to do so; he doesn't have to have a great eye for coaches. He just needs to keep the money coming in to hire the best and retain the successful coaches. He extended Frank Martin. He extended Brad Hill. He promoted an obvious HCIW at KSU. He got a practice facility built. He worked and got a stadium renovated.
Honestly, I'm almost certain if JL is hired, he'll be the HC. I don't think Currie is going to care. It will be such a massively popular hire right now that if he even gets this defense remotely average in the next two years, all Currie has to do is sit back and count the donations because shirt tucks will be shoveling it at him.
Brilliant move by Snyder. One last big eff you. He knows how it works here, and he knows Currie is upwardly mobile. Don't rock the boat, and the money will come, and you can get the Hell out of here.
Damn. Game. Set. Match. Old Balls.
