For more on Tennessee’s new athletic director, we checked in with Bring On The Cats, SB Nation’s Kansas State blog. Our thanks to Jon Morse, the blog’s managing editor, for answering our questions:
Describe the landscape John Currie walked into at Kansas State in 2009.
K-State was in a bit of turmoil when Currie arrived. Bob Krause had just been fired after only 11 months over the mini-scandal of offering Ron Prince a secret contract extension with an increased buyout just months before Prince was fired. Krause, in turn, had replaced Tim Weiser, who had left to join the Big 12 office partially to dodge the question of Prince's future.