On Tuesday, Mack Rhoades compared his first year as Missouri’s athletic director to drinking from a firehose. It was an apt comparison, considering the number of fires that needed to be put out in the athletic department — and the university — in the last year. It has been one of the worst competitive school years in MU history, with the football, men’s basketball and baseball programs combining for an 8-36 record in Southeastern Conference games. The basketball program is involved in a major NCAA investigation. And the football team’s boycott during November racial protests created an administrative nightmare, leaving the new AD trying to support his athletes, appease angry fans and fight the perception that MU is an unfriendly place for black students. -Joe Walljasper, Columbia Daily Tribune, Read More
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