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Here's a great read...the mother of all coaching hires gone bad

....it's an article about when Missouri picked a new head coach a decade ago...
they narrowed their search to three fine candidates...

The guy they chose was Quin Snyder, the guys they turned down were Bill Self & John Calipari...

"When Mike Alden, the school's athletic director, selected the young Duke
assistant over his two other leading candidates -- a couple of guys named
John Calipari and Bill Self -- he raved that his new coach would bring energy
and excitement to a sound-yet-uninspiring Division I program."
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=pearlman/080418
 
Here's an interesting story....

Missouri AD Mike Alden tried to woo Matt Painter and lure him to coming to Missouri and offered somewhere in the range of $2.5 Million+...

And yet when Alden introduced Haith at Missouri last night he said this...

"Frank Haith was the only man offered the job".....hmmm..sound familiar??
http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2011/04/05/claiborne-faith-in-haith-do-i-have-a-choice/

"Most in these parts had never heard of Frank Haith...Haith is a coach with an average record,
who according to Athletic Director Mike Alden was the only person he offered the job to.
I guess that is why Matt Painter had to come out and say he was staying at Purdue
with a handsome raise because he was not offered the Mizzou job.
OK, I will play along."
 
funny that like 10 sources pop up saying Painter to Mizzou when he wasn't even offered


I hate missouri and felt like they would be getting a lucky steal if painter showed up...but it would have definitely been a downgrade
 
Future Walk-On said:
funny that like 10 sources pop up saying Painter to Mizzou when he wasn't even offered


I hate missouri and felt like they would be getting a lucky steal if painter showed up...but it would have definitely been a downgrade
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I understand you hate Mizzou.. you say it all the time. And I think many if not most posters would agree this would have been a sideways move at best for Painter.

But Missouri has a lot of positives.
Since 1998 Mizzou's athletic budget has gone from $13.7 to $65 million.
There is a new basketball arena.. new training center and a 165 million dollar facilities expenditure underway. I'm not sure Purdue can match any of that.. and they were underpaying Painter by league standards.

The Academic Progess Rates the NCAA uses to measure how well universities graduate their student-athletes, has ranked Missouri highly ranked among BCS public institutions.

I don't think it is quite the step down you do.
 
KillerB said:
I understand you hate Mizzou.. you say it all the time. And I think many if not most posters would agree this would have been a sideways move at best for Painter.

But Missouri has a lot of positives.
Since 1998 Mizzou's athletic budget has gone from $13.7 to $65 million.
There is a new basketball arena.. new training center and a 165 million dollar facilities expenditure underway. I'm not sure Purdue can match any of that.. and they were underpaying Painter by league standards.

The Academic Progess Rates the NCAA uses to measure how well universities graduate their student-athletes, has ranked Missouri highly ranked among BCS public institutions.

I don't think it is quite the step down you do.
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I was thinking along the lines of better program on the court, not how nice the weight room is...

I hate Mizzou if you didn't know.
 
Future Walk-On said:
I was thinking along the lines of better program on the court, not how nice the weight room is...

I hate Mizzou if you didn't know.
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I hadn't noticed.
And I would agree Purdue's basketball team has been better.. just going out on a limb here.. Could that be why Mizzou was after Painter in the first place?
 
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