BleedGopher
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per Forde:
I was in Mack Rhoades’ office at Missouri last October. He was happy and enthused. Life was good.
He was just half a year into his job as athletic director at the school. He was a popular hire and had the support of an entrenched administration. He had the most stable of football situations with Gary Pinkel, best football coach in school history, who led the Tigers to improbable Southeastern Conference Eastern Division championships in 2013 and ’14. Men’s basketball was underachieving, but that was survivable in the short term and fixable in the long term.
I dropped in again on Rhoades in April. He looked like he’d been hit by a truck.
The president and chancellor who hired him were gone, swept out in the tumultuous aftermath of the Concerned Student 1950 hunger strike and campus protests. Pinkel abruptly retired, having been diagnosed with lymphoma. The search to replace Pinkel was arduous, with rejections from multiple candidates. The basketball program ended a second straight terrible year with a self-imposed postseason ban for NCAA violations, and the investigation is ongoing. An internal investigation of the softball coach’s leadership style was proceeding behind the scenes. By June, the baseball coach had resigned.
Given the way everything shifted under his feet, the news Wednesday that Rhoades is leaving Missouri was not surprising.
But leaving for Baylor? That says even more about the state of Mizzou, and it’s not a flattering commentary.
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/apparently-mizzou-is-a-bigger-dumpster-fire-than-baylor-215302615.html
Go Gophers!!
I was in Mack Rhoades’ office at Missouri last October. He was happy and enthused. Life was good.
He was just half a year into his job as athletic director at the school. He was a popular hire and had the support of an entrenched administration. He had the most stable of football situations with Gary Pinkel, best football coach in school history, who led the Tigers to improbable Southeastern Conference Eastern Division championships in 2013 and ’14. Men’s basketball was underachieving, but that was survivable in the short term and fixable in the long term.
I dropped in again on Rhoades in April. He looked like he’d been hit by a truck.
The president and chancellor who hired him were gone, swept out in the tumultuous aftermath of the Concerned Student 1950 hunger strike and campus protests. Pinkel abruptly retired, having been diagnosed with lymphoma. The search to replace Pinkel was arduous, with rejections from multiple candidates. The basketball program ended a second straight terrible year with a self-imposed postseason ban for NCAA violations, and the investigation is ongoing. An internal investigation of the softball coach’s leadership style was proceeding behind the scenes. By June, the baseball coach had resigned.
Given the way everything shifted under his feet, the news Wednesday that Rhoades is leaving Missouri was not surprising.
But leaving for Baylor? That says even more about the state of Mizzou, and it’s not a flattering commentary.
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/apparently-mizzou-is-a-bigger-dumpster-fire-than-baylor-215302615.html
Go Gophers!!
