John Currie is one of three candidates to become Maryland’s next athletic director. He’s up against interim Maryland AD Damon Evans and Temple AD Patrick Kraft for the job.
Currie has a story unlike any you’ll find in an athletic director candidate. And, uh, not in a good way.
He served as athletic director at Kansas State from 2009 to February 2017, at which point he assumed that position at Tennessee, where he’d earned his master’s degree and held various athletic department positions. In December 2017, Currie was fired.
What happened in between was the most bizarre coaching search you’ve ever seen.