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Kansas State athletics director John Currie has been hired to the same position at Tennessee, GoPowercat.com has confirmed, ending an eight-year tenure marked by significant fundraising and facility improvements and coming at the height of speculation regarding the future of the men’s basketball program.
Currie will replace Dave Hart, the Tennessee Vice Chancellor and Director of Athletics, who announced in August 2016 that he would retire as athletics director at the end of June 2017.
Currie arrived at K-State as athletics director on June 7, 2009 after serving as Tennessee assistant athletics director from 1997-2008. Under Currie, K-State has completed more than $210 million in comprehensive facility improvements for all 16 intercollegiate teams, and has staged arguably the most successful period in department history.
K-State’s most successful year in competition came in 2012-13 when the Wildcats either won or shared Big 12 Conference championships in football, men’s basketball and baseball. Currie was named 2013 Under Armour Athletics Director of the Year by the National Association of College Directors of Athletics.
K-State has enjoyed a superb APR rating and all-sports graduation rate and has experienced record attendance in several sports.
A renovation to Bill Snyder Family Stadium, the West Stadium Center, the construction of the Carl and Mary Ice Basketball Training Facility, the rowing facility, tennis stadium and new soccer stadium are crowned jewels under Currie’s watch.
However, it’s been long suspected that Currie hasn’t sustained the warmest of relationships with Bill Snyder. Although Currie made a successful hire with women’s basketball head coach Jeff Mittie, Currie was the object of some fans’ ire when Frank Martin parted ways with K-State after leading the Wildcats to four NCAA Tournaments in his five years.
Currie hired Bruce Weber, who was fired from Illinois, to replace Martin. Weber leads a K-State men’s basketball program that has missed the NCAA Tournament three straight years and is immersed in somewhat of a tailspin toward the end of Weber’s fifth season.
Weber is the only active Big 12 head coach to suffer eight losses in a 10-game stretch in two of the last three years and the Wildcats remain on the bubble for NCAA Tournament consideration this year.
Currie, who founded the slogan “Welcome to K-State,” leaves after K-State raised more than $200 million in total gifts during his tenure.
Kansas State athletics director John Currie has been hired to the same position at Tennessee, GoPowercat.com has confirmed, ending an eight-year tenure marked by significant fundraising and facility improvements and coming at the height of speculation regarding the future of the men’s basketball program.
Currie will replace Dave Hart, the Tennessee Vice Chancellor and Director of Athletics, who announced in August 2016 that he would retire as athletics director at the end of June 2017.
Currie arrived at K-State as athletics director on June 7, 2009 after serving as Tennessee assistant athletics director from 1997-2008. Under Currie, K-State has completed more than $210 million in comprehensive facility improvements for all 16 intercollegiate teams, and has staged arguably the most successful period in department history.
K-State’s most successful year in competition came in 2012-13 when the Wildcats either won or shared Big 12 Conference championships in football, men’s basketball and baseball. Currie was named 2013 Under Armour Athletics Director of the Year by the National Association of College Directors of Athletics.
K-State has enjoyed a superb APR rating and all-sports graduation rate and has experienced record attendance in several sports.
A renovation to Bill Snyder Family Stadium, the West Stadium Center, the construction of the Carl and Mary Ice Basketball Training Facility, the rowing facility, tennis stadium and new soccer stadium are crowned jewels under Currie’s watch.
However, it’s been long suspected that Currie hasn’t sustained the warmest of relationships with Bill Snyder. Although Currie made a successful hire with women’s basketball head coach Jeff Mittie, Currie was the object of some fans’ ire when Frank Martin parted ways with K-State after leading the Wildcats to four NCAA Tournaments in his five years.
Currie hired Bruce Weber, who was fired from Illinois, to replace Martin. Weber leads a K-State men’s basketball program that has missed the NCAA Tournament three straight years and is immersed in somewhat of a tailspin toward the end of Weber’s fifth season.
Weber is the only active Big 12 head coach to suffer eight losses in a 10-game stretch in two of the last three years and the Wildcats remain on the bubble for NCAA Tournament consideration this year.
Currie, who founded the slogan “Welcome to K-State,” leaves after K-State raised more than $200 million in total gifts during his tenure.
