Mizzou hires UAB's Mike Anderson

[Bizzarofelice]

preliminary reports sayin'.

[MuchoBulls]

Good hire. Anderson is a very good coach and his style of play is exciting to watch.

[Mook]

Cool....hopefully now "40 minutes of Hell" will mean something different than watching most games coached by Quin Snyder.

Rack!

[helmet]

Good for Anderson.

Do Arkansas and Missouri still play each other every year?

[War Wagon]

Dear God, GOD, and Norm Stewart, please let the nightmare that has been Mizzou hoops over the past few years be OVER!

Amen.

[Adelpiero]

he's stuck with a team full of garbage players. so he must recruit his ass off the next 2 years.



Solid coach, we'll see what 40 minutes of hell does in Big12.







ps could we get off of norms nuts, noone did little in tourney with so much talent. Norm stewart, the king of 1 and done!

[War Wagon]

Wags, do you think Mike Alden needs to be whacked?

A year or two ago, I would have said yes. But I think the problems go way above Alden.

Did you read Whitlock's column this morning?

I happen to agree with him on this. That doesn't happen often.

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Posted on Mon, Mar. 27, 2006
It’s time for some Blunt action. Write the governor.


If you care about the University of Missouri’s athletic program, if you’re embarrassed by the constant public-relations disasters and petty in-fighting, if you’re tired of Mizzou’s football and basketball programs never reaching their full potential, write Gov. Matt Blunt.

He’s the only man or woman capable of cleaning up the mess that is the Missouri athletic department. Blunt is the only person who can stop the numerous political agendas that make it virtually impossible for any athletic director and chancellor to effectively lead Mizzou’s athletic department.

If you ever wondered why Joe Castiglione ran away from his alma mater and then helped Oklahoma return to football glory and basketball excellence, your answers have come in the last week. Missouri’s leadership structure isn’t set up for success. It’s set up to empower wealthy busybodies who put their own agendas ahead of the university’s.
It would be easy to blame Mike Alden for turning Mike Anderson’s first day on the job as Missouri’s latest basketball coach into one of the most painfully comic days in the history of collegiate athletics. But that would be a cop-out.

This was a group effort led by the Board of Curators. Its members called a meeting to discuss Alden’s job status on the same day Anderson agreed to sign a contract, and then did nothing. The members of the board are just as responsible for turning Alden’s coaching search into a national laughingstock as Norm Stewart, Jon Sundvold and Gary Link.

Members of the board, using their puppet — system president Elson Floyd — called for the pointless second investigation into Alden’s forcing out Quin Snyder. The second investigation was nothing more than a slap in the face of chancellor Brady Deaton, who conducted the original investigation.

Floyd, damaged by his wife’s counseling of Ricky Clemons, has no choice but to kowtow to the whims of the Board of Curators. Floyd is trying to hang on to his own job, so he has to bend over backward in an attempt to please the board.

Are you following this?

A group of wealthy busybodies — men and women qualified to do little beyond gossip, play golf, plot their next power grab and tailgate with the Kroenkes and Lauries — are trying to run the Missouri athletic department. They’re using Floyd to squeeze Deaton and are squeezing Deaton to bully Alden.

This has been going on for years. It explains why Castiglione bolted and became one of the country’s most respected athletic directors at Oklahoma. But it explains more than that. It explains why Missouri fans feel as if they’ve been trapped in the Twilight Zone for 30 years.
It’s not bad luck. It’s bad leadership.

Tyus Edney, the fifth down, the flea-kicker, the premature NCAA Tournament exits under Norm, Tony VanZant, the contract extensions, Stipo shooting himself, the jailhouse tapes and all the other hard-to-forget blunders and mishaps were in some small way a product of Missouri’s overall horrendous leadership.

The cliché is true: A fish rots from the head.

The Board of Curators is at the head of this university. It has repeatedly undermined the leadership of the chancellor and the athletic director.
Gov. Matt Blunt is the only person who can weed out the agenda-ridden board members, set parameters on their influence, install a new system president or empower the one already in place and give the chancellor and athletic director a chance at leading Mizzou’s athletic teams.

You have to write Matt Blunt. His address is: Missouri Capitol Building, Rm. 216; Jefferson City, MO 65101. His phone number is: (573) 751-3222. His e-mail address: mogov@mail.state.mo.us. His fax: (573) 751-4458.

[Mook]

I think Anderson is a good hire.......however his first couple of years could be tough unless he really recruits well and quickly. With inferior athletes and talent his "40 minutes of hell" will only be applicable to Mizzou. I would expect some massive blowouts of the Tigers next year and even the following year. I just hope the Tiger faithful are patient enough to wait this out, because when he gets the athletes, his system will play well in the Big 12.

[Bizzarofelice]

The players that would do well to stay at Mizzou for Anderson are Horton, Lyons and Marshall Brown. Jason Horton needs a more open style of play, Lyons needs lanes and Marshall is a damn good athlete.

Gardner won't defend.
Kalem Grimes can't push like that. If he can clear some driving lanes from time to time that would help, too.
Glenn Dandridge has shown some heart, but with the Quin gone the "run down the court and throw up a 3" system left.