Official KU - KSU - MU Bashing Thread

[CoMoChief]

As much as this goes on, there really should be a thread on it. So here it is. So did anyone hear that Mike Anderson's contract includes a clause that he cant come out and publicly say anything negative about the AD or any other boss of his in the athletic dept? I mean i know its not smart to criticize your boss anyways, but why would there be a clause in it saying that he doesnt get his 850K a year if he does speak out. Looks like Anderson is gonna be Alden's puppet for a while. Great hire by Mizzou by the way. :rolleyes: MU will be in the bottom half of the Big12 for a long while IMO, epsecially the way other teams are stepping up in the conference. MU seems to be the only program that is suffering instead of getting better.

[PastorMikH]

As much as this goes on, there really should be a thread on it. So here it is. So did anyone here that Mike Anderson's contract includes a clause that he cant come out and publicly say anything negative about the AD or any other boss of his?

I did not know that. That could explain the "I'm a Mike Alden guy"

[Saulbadguy]

Mizzou's a mess, but nobody's perfect

By Kurt Caywood
The Capital-Journal

To those who wonder how Mike Anderson could walk into the quagmire that is Missouri's athletic department, I give you two words: Bill and Self.

Three years ago, Self took the job at Kansas, took on the pressure of replacing a larger-than-life predecessor, with no athletic director in place and dysfunction, if not decay, all around.

It was far from an ideal situation, although at its worst, KU wasn't Missouri bad. As grocery-store tabloid athletic departments go, Missouri is an all-timer.

From Ricky Clemons' juco credit hours grad to his jailhouse tapes and probation-violating escapades at the house of the system president ... from Quin Snyder's mismanagement of basketball to his defiant ramblings and spectacular flame out ... from AD Mike Alden's mishandling on Snyder's ouster to his alienation of both the basketball program's patriarch and its most popular hero, the place is a zoo.

And that was before Anderson's introduction Sunday was delayed so the Missouri Board of Curators could consider firing Alden.

Every AD in the country is glad he isn't at Missouri, but none is throwing stones. This is modern day college sports. There's too much celebrity and interest and attention for foibles and missteps to go unnoticed.

I give you the rest of the Big 12 North as evidence, if not as college sports in microcosm:

• Colorado: Uh, let's see ... sex scandal complete with department-arranged strippers at parties, athletic director out, president out, and, finally, football coach fired -- but not until he lost three in a row. Last week dropped men's tennis as red ink grew deeper.

• Iowa State: Replaced basketball coach amid flurry of beery party pics, replaced athletic director, replaced replacement basketball coach amid recruiting scandal and possible violations. Silver lining: It's been years since anybody got caught surfing child pornography on a university computer.


Kurt Caywood
• Kansas: Pending NCAA judgment on secondary violations reported in an inch-thick report last summer. Hard feelings among a fan base that feels increasingly disenfranchised by department's new corporate approach.

• Kansas State: Hands-on president postponed basketball coaching change and prolonged mediocrity a year. In maze of personnel dynamics, hired unknown Ron Prince to replace legendary Bill Snyder as football coach. Followed four months later by hiring Bob Huggins, one of basketball's most controversial figures.

• Nebraska: Fired Frank Solich after a 10-win season and bungled the hiring of his replacement. AD Steve Pederson, with a Bush-like job approval rating, this month kept men's basketball coach this year not because of his popularity or success but because of fan ambivalence and the difficulty of a good hire in a heavy-turnover offseason.

Missouri is the worst, but it's not alone. So if the question is why Anderson would take the Tigers' head coaching job, the answer is, "Why not?"

I have to figure that Anderson sees it the way Self did three years ago. A smart coach who can recruit can, at the very least, make his program an island of success in the stormiest department.

And besides, waiting for the perfect athletic program is like waiting for the day you can afford it to have your first kid.

It's never going to come.

[CoMoChief]

I did not know that. That could explain the "I'm a Mike Alden guy"


Yeah, why would MU put a clause like that in the contract. There is so much political bullshit in the athletic dept., not to mention MU just shit on the people that made the bball program a national prominence. Thats just wrong IMO. Stewart built that program, and Alden and Co. shit on him.

[CoMoChief]

• Colorado: Uh, let's see ... sex scandal complete with department-arranged strippers at parties, athletic director out, president out, and, finally, football coach fired -- but not until he lost three in a row. Last week dropped men's tennis as red ink grew deeper.



With all due respect, Katy still couldn't kick the ball through the goal posts, she was a terrible kicker.

That interview was very very very funny. I even taped it.

[WilliamTheIrish]

Yes, but does Mizzou "win at all costs?" ..(and all other non sequiters)

[Saulbadguy]

Yes, but does Mizzou "win at all costs?" ..(and all other non sequiters)
No. They lose at no cost, and pass the savings on to you! Cha-ching!

[teedubya]

isn't hope cute?

[WilliamTheIrish]

isn't hope cute?

I work with a chic named Hope. She's cute.

[Spott]

I work with a chic named Hope. She's cute.

I've know a few girls named Hope. They were all strippers. I can't remember what their faces looked like, but I'm sure they were cute, too.