Because Mizzou. :doh!: Nothing else needs to be said . . . .

Stadium expansion and the most reeruned search firm in existence, apparently.

Alden spent $50K on a search firm to hire Kim Anderson, when all it would have taken is 1/2 tank of gas and a BIC pen.

Duncan, I like you man, but .... Ouch.

I made the mistake of underestimating the idiocy of Mike Alden. Never again!

Iowa State fans aren't nervous about Fred leaving anytime soon. He's a bigger Cyclone fan than I am.

That's hard to fathom.

There's no excuse. There is an explanation - the AD is a moron.

I don't even like basketball really, but the fact that they seem content with a true fan, Gunther, Romeo type of hire drives me up a wall.

So it's 1.1m guaranteed, 2.0m if he reaches incentives. That's a lot of cash. I wonder what the incentives are.

Hiring Marshall would've been a gigantic splash and would've made Mizzou the talk of college basketball. The press (and ticket sales) from such a hire would be easily worth 1.0m extra. If the SEC network really takes Mizzou from 21.0m/yr to 30.0m+ then why pinch pennies like that? I don't know what big donors want there but I'm sure there's a bored old rich guy who could stroke that check without blinking. Mizzou doesn't even have any debt costs with their Arena so where are their hoops expenses?

The SEC Network payout isn't going to be anywhere near what the Clay Travis' of the world have been shouting about.

Some of us knew this all along. Apparently Mizzou is just finding out.

No doubt that's some serious pie-in-the-sky. However, Mizzou basketball is insanely profitable due in large part to the State footing most of the bill for their debt-free arena. They have almost no expenses. In 2008 they were the 12th most valuable college hoops franchise in Forbes:
http://www.forbes.com/2007/12/27/col..._slide_13.html

Now, they are in the 21-25 range with Florida. Florida pays Donovan $3.7m. Obviously their football program makes infinitely more money than Mizzou so they can pay whatever they want but still there's no reason for Mizzou to go cheap.

Interesting to note that the Mizzou coaching search thread is right next to the 2013-4 NHL thread. It has 1,000 responses and 24,000 views while the NHL one has 1,400 and 24,000. So essentially in the matter of two weeks, nearly as many people here cared about a coaching search as does an entire season's worth of NHL.


Net: next time a Mizzou fan says college basketball doesn't matter or that "nobody cares", feel free to laugh once more at them.

Hockey in general, more so than any other sport, is a niche sport.

little preseason ranking from espn

http://espn.go.com/college-football/...eseason-top-25

meh

Preseason rankings are reeruned and these rankings are exceptionally reeruned. Try harder next time.