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He left the B12 just a year or two before KSU ends up in the Mountain West.

He's gotten a huge raise.

And he's landed in a program that you get a lifetime extension if you just get an invite to the Big Dance.

Yeah, he needs his head examined!

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Let's see.... Less pressure. More money. Easier to recruit to. Better city.

He'll have the Gamechickens in the NCAAs within two years and as TigerVols pointed out, he'll be worshiped and appreciated for it.

 

With the new TV deal, the Big 12 is in good shape. I seriously doubt a fear of K-State being in the Mountain West had anything to do with it and if he kept going to NCAA Tournament's I'm sure he could have expected a raise at K-State. This is a lateral move and one I highly doubt he'd have made if he was getting along with the AD.

 

Hope Eddie Fogler is still enjoying counting money from his lifetime extension while sitting under his 20-foot statue on campus.

People claiming that Sakerlina is a lost cause have very little perspective. They've won before and they'll win again. Being bad at basketball is a curable disease.

 

And in hoops, it can be cured very quickly. If Martin pulls in the right recruit or two it could be cured by this time next year.

 

K-State isn't going to the Mountain West unless Kansas goes as well. That was one of the big reasons why KU was barely mentioned during the defections to the Big 10, Pac-12 and SEC. I'm guessing the SEC and Pac-12 would have gladly taken Kansas, but they didn't want K-State and by all accounts, it's a package deal.

 

Martin may not get along with his AD, but let's not pretend those are the only reasons he would make that move.

He gets out of KU's huge shadow, gets $600K a year more guaranteed and gets to leave Manhattan, Kan. That last part is huge.

 

And he gets to go to a school where the AD likes him, at least for the time being.

 

This. The move to So. Carolina wasn't about money. Currie will be gone before football begins.

 

Frank strikes me as the type to carry a Zippo and a can of accelerent to any bridge he might want to cross.

 

Similar to what Olbermann did when he left ESPN. "Keith didn't burn the bridge with ESPN, he napalmed it."

 

I definitely agree. But at a school that one employed Eddie Fogler, that may still put Martin in the "warm and fuzzy" category by comparison.