Mike Alden out as Mizzou AD effective Aug 31

[|Zach|]

Widely reported name your beat writer or Mizzou outlet. Hastily put together meeting at 4:15 and was announced today.

http://www.mutigers.com/genrel/012915aab.html

[alpha_omega]

That's big news.

[Buehler445]

Hmmm. What's that about? Is the basketball program that bad?

[|Zach|]

Mike Alden: "I'm just here so I don't get fined."

[Bambi]

uh-oh

[Buehler445]

Mike Alden: "I'm just here so I don't get fined."

ROFL

Please God tell me he said those words in a press conference

[|Zach|]

It's interesting there seem to be indications he is staying at Missouri in another capacity.

[redfan]

curlybil.jpg :toast:

[Bufkin]

Holy piss. This is huge.

[Pablo]

Good news for MU if true.

[Bufkin]

Kim Anderson was a good hire, but not enough to save his ass.

Will never be forgiven for Frank Haith.

[bowener]

Kim Anderson will definitely be gone after his second season now. Thank god.

[gblowfish]

I'm disappointed they haven't called me yet to step in to start fixing things in September...

[Pepe Silvia]

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[gblowfish]

From today's Columbia Missourian:

Missouri Athletics Director Mike Alden to step down
Thursday, January 29, 2015 | 4:34 p.m. CST
BY Aaron Reiss, Wade Livingston

COLUMBIA — Missouri Director of Athletics Mike Alden will step down from his position, effective Aug. 31.

Alden announced the move in a letter Thursday afternoon.

"After several months of contemplation, I have decided that it is time for a change, both for me and for the University that I so dearly love," Alden wrote in the letter.

Alden will remain at Missouri, working in the College of Education as part of the Positive Coaching Program and on higher education leadership courses.

"I look forward to continuing to work with all of you in the coming months and assisting with the transition," Alden wrote.

Alden began his tenure as athletics director in 1998. He oversaw Missouri's transition to the Southeastern Conference.

According to Missouri Athletics, when Alden arrived at Missouri, the athletics department's annual budget was $13.7 million. During his tenure, the budget grew to a $85 million.

Missouri Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin released the following statement Thursday:

“Over seventeen years of service to the University of Missouri, Mike has transformed our athletics program into one of the nation’s best, with world-class student-athletes, coaches, staff, facilities, affiliations and financial resources. He led our institution’s move to the Southeastern Conference and has been at the helm as our teams won multiple championships over the years. Though I am saddened that Mike will no longer be a member of our leadership team and leading our Department of Athletics, I am truly happy for him and Rockie as he embarks on a new challenge here at Mizzou. Mike will always be a part of our family.

"We have already begun a national search for Mike’s successor and I am confident we will find a tremendous leader to carry us forward.”

[DeezNutz]

I hope Kim Anderson decided to rent.

[gblowfish]

Keitzman thinks Alden may want to be available as the next commissioner of the SEC.

[Bufkin]

I hope Kim Anderson decided to rent.
Kim Anderson should have been the hire long before Alden showed up.

Anderson is here for the long run.

[Jerm]

Kim Anderson claims his first victim.....

[gblowfish]

I'd rather have Kim Anderson than Haith or Suitcase Mike. Need to give Anderson some time to re-build the basketball program.

[Jerm]

I'd rather have Kim Anderson than Haith or Suitcase Mike. Need to give Anderson some time to re-build the basketball program.

All Alden hires and I'd rather have none...

[Titty Meat]

Kim Anderson should have been the hire long before Alden showed up.

Anderson is here for the long run.

You are trolling.

[Prison Bitch]

You are trolling.

Beat me to it. His new Avvy is a dead giveaway. Love me some Bufkin

[Bufkin]

You are trolling.
Except I'm not. Everywhere but Chiefs Planet pretty much called the signing a no-brainer. A Mizzou guy by blood who just got done orchestrating a national championship with UCM. The Mizzou job was absolutely his the second Haith left for Tulsa.

[Bufkin]

Beat me to it. His new Avvy is a dead giveaway. Love me some Bufkin
You know I'm the biggest Prison Bitch fan on this board. With that said, I'm being serious. The Kim Anderson hiring was the right hire. Every where I went, all I heard was how fantastic the hire was. He will be given time to build his team. If he fails, then he'll be sent out.

Nobody doubted that this season would suck. Rome wasn't built in a day.

And I'll preface everything by saying I'm a die hard BYU fan. My thoughts on Mizzou basketball are merely an observation.

['Hamas' Jenkins]

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[Titty Meat]

Except I'm not. Everywhere but Chiefs Planet pretty much called the signing a no-brainer. A Mizzou guy by blood who just got done orchestrating a national championship with UCM. The Mizzou job was absolutely his the second Haith left for Tulsa.

He's done a horrible job so far and the attendance is awful. That isn't going to fly with the boosters.

[Prison Bitch]

You know I'm the biggest Prison Bitch fan on this board. With that said, I'm being serious. The Kim Anderson hiring was the right hire. Every where I went, all I heard was how fantastic the hire was. He will be given time to build his team. If he fails, then he'll be sent out.

Nobody doubted that this season would suck. Rome wasn't built in a day.

And I'll preface everything by saying I'm a die hard BYU fan. My thoughts on Mizzou basketball are merely an observation.

There are times when I'm envius of you. You are able to "cloak" your trolling better by the day. I can sense the dark side of the force growing in you.


Eventually you will pick me up and toss me into the space station exhaust shaft and become Dark overlord

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Kim Anderson is, and will prove to be, the worst coaching hire in the history of either the basketball or football program, relative to their level of prominence.

There is a good chance that there is going to be a mass exodus from the basketball team this year, and he is an abysmal recruiter.

[Mr. Flopnuts]

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ROFL totally called this.

[Bufkin]

They just had a really awkward Kim Anderson story on the news. I just can't get over how much Kim Anderson looks like the dad from 7th Heaven who just got busted diddling little girls.

Like identical.

[KChiefs1]

Keitzman thinks Alden may want to be available as the next commissioner of the SEC.


That would be a win-win for Mizzou.

[Stanley Nickels]

Without Alden, we probably don't get Pinkel. Without Pinkel, the football program would likely be similar to the shitfest it was in the nineties. Without a strong football program, there's no SEC move, and we're still in the Longhorn Conference.
Alden kept the pace with other universities in the fundraising rat race, but any competent AD could've as well. He hired the Three Stooges as basketball coaches. But, in the end, his tenure will be remembered as wildly successful for that first big decision to hire Pinkel.

[Pitt Gorilla]

Kim Anderson claims his first victim.....
Yeah, no. Alden has been outstanding as a fund raiser. If he's stepping down, I'm guessing he's looking to move up.

[HonestChieffan]

Amazing. He is stepping down...the asshats that run MU never had the balls to fire his ass. On to a new loser.

[Saul Good]

Yeah, no. Alden has been outstanding as a fund raiser. If he's stepping down, I'm guessing he's looking to move up.

He's being pushed.

[Eleazar]

Well... bye

[ChiefsCountry]

I'm not a Mizzou fan but I really don't get all the Alden hate. Yeah your basketball program has sucked and he keeps hiring duds. I actually think Snyder was a good hire. That was the closest MU had to somebody who actually did a goof job recruiting the state of Missouri, only really lost David Lee in state up until the Ricky Clemons fiasco. The other sports have done really well - football, wrestling, volleyball, softball etc have been outstanding. Facilities are top notch.

[TLO]

Ha ha.

['Hamas' Jenkins]

I'm not a Mizzou fan but I really don't get all the Alden hate. Yeah your basketball program has sucked and he keeps hiring duds. I actually think Snyder was a good hire. That was the closest MU had to somebody who actually did a goof job recruiting the state of Missouri, only really lost David Lee in state up until the Ricky Clemons fiasco. The other sports have done really well - football, wrestling, volleyball, softball etc have been outstanding. Facilities are top notch.

It comes from basketball and the issues with student athlete conduct. No one wants to work for the guy because he's seen as meddlesome. The Snyder saga brought a great deal of embarrassment to the University, and that was his best hire of the four.

Far worse, though, is the tutoring escort service that existed for years and the multiple sexual assaults committed by prominent basketball and football players, most damning of which, was the handling of the Menu Corey fiasco.

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Also, there is little excuse for a University like Missouri, the only Power 5 school in a state of six million people with two major metro areas, not to be a perennial top 15 program in both revenue-generating sports.

Otto Porter, Ben McLemore, Bradley Beal, Josh Tatum, Michael Porter Jr. just in the last several recruiting classes. There's a good chance those are five top 7 picks in the NBA Draft, and not one of them went, or will go, to Missouri.

[jonzie04]

Sad to hear, Aldens a good guy.

[duncan_idaho]

I'm not a Mizzou fan but I really don't get all the Alden hate. Yeah your basketball program has sucked and he keeps hiring duds. I actually think Snyder was a good hire. That was the closest MU had to somebody who actually did a goof job recruiting the state of Missouri, only really lost David Lee in state up until the Ricky Clemons fiasco. The other sports have done really well - football, wrestling, volleyball, softball etc have been outstanding. Facilities are top notch.

He hired Quin Snyder when the other two finalists were Bill Self and John Calipari. That's not a good hire... it's an epic fucking fail. (I'll also point out that Tyler Hansbrough and Brandon Rush went elsewhere under the Quin regime, largely because of what a dirty piece of shit he was).

Alden is a slimy fucking asshole who has done a good job raising money and who got really lucky in hiring and being loyal to the most important coach he hired - Gary Pinkel.

Other than that, he has made some nice hires in non-important sports while continually getting clown-shoed in the press for embarrassing incident after embarrassing incident, while overseeing a mediocre athletic department that is entirely too satisfied with its mediocre accomplishments.

Cowtowing to the boosters and hiring TrueSon Anderson is just the final fail in a long list of fails for Mike Alden.

Fuck him. They can and will do better.

Oh, and while we're here... fuck Kim Anderson and his no-recruiting, mediocre coaching ass. I can't wait to see how they do next year after losing Tremaine Isabel and JaKeenan Gant and brigning in nothing but unranked three-star players with mediocre offer lists. I can't wait to watch first Justin Tatum and then Michael Porter choose other schools because Mizzou hoops is a shit-show.

I'm sure those guys are going to turn it around, though. Cullen VanLeer is like the 17th best white HS basketball player in the history of his league. He's going to be AWESOME in college.

[Jerm]

Yeah, no. Alden has been outstanding as a fund raiser. If he's stepping down, I'm guessing he's looking to move up.

You really think he's going on his own accord? Ha ok....

[hawkchief]

KU fans are forever grateful fo pretty-boy Alden and his hiring of Cocaine Quinn over Future HOF coach Bill Self. Alden should have been fired for that stupidity over 10 years ago, but for some reason MU has allowed him the opportunity to display his ineptitude for another decade, turning Mizzou hoops into a perennial laughingstock.

[duncan_idaho]

Yeah, no. Alden has been outstanding as a fund raiser. If he's stepping down, I'm guessing he's looking to move up.

Move up?

He's taking a job as a professor at Mizzou. That's a significant step down, not a step up.

Maybe he's biding time for a bigger move, but gods help the SEC if Alden is named the commish down the road. He's entirely too satisfied with mediocrity.

[Sure-Oz]

Might be cause he hired Gary Pinkel and he's helped them get a lot of $$$$ football drives everything. He has run basketball to shit though

[Prison Bitch]

Also, there is little excuse for a University like Missouri, the only Power 5 school in a state of six million people with two major metro areas, not to be a perennial top 15 program in both revenue-generating sports.

Otto Porter, Ben McLemore, Bradley Beal, Josh Tatum, Michael Porter Jr. just in the last several recruiting classes. There's a good chance those are five top 7 picks in the NBA Draft, and not one of them went, or will go, to Missouri.

Top 15 in both? Crazy. No program does that. But your fans keep telling me "basketball doesn't matter" so why would you care if your program is down?

[Prison Bitch]

KU fans are forever grateful fo pretty-boy Alden and his hiring of Cocaine Quinn over Future HOF coach Bill Self. Alden should have been fired for that stupidity over 10 years ago, but for some reason MU has allowed him the opportunity to display his ineptitude for another decade, turning Mizzou hoops into a perennial laughingstock.

Quin, the coach of the Utah Jazz? He was a good hire who did well for a few years before a weird collapse late. Who knows where MU would be had they just stuck with him for a year or two. It's obv he's well-regarded in the basketball world. Elite 8 too.

[WhawhaWhat]

KU fans are forever grateful fo pretty-boy Alden and his hiring of Cocaine Quinn over Future HOF coach Bill Self. Alden should have been fired for that stupidity over 10 years ago, but for some reason MU has allowed him the opportunity to display his ineptitude for another decade, turning Mizzou hoops into a perennial laughingstock.

Allegedly, Alden wanted Bill Self and the money guys wanted Quin, but I have no idea how true that is. Calipari and Kim Anderson also interviewed for the job.

[duncan_idaho]

Allegedly, Alden wanted Bill Self and the money guys wanted Quin, but I have no idea how true that is. Calipari and Kim Anderson also interviewed for the job.

That is accurate. The $25 million dollar donation from Laurie for Mizzou Arena was contingent on Alden hiring Quin Snyder as the next head coach.

Search committee had the final three rated as follows:

1) Self
2) Calipari
3) Snyder

It's fitting that his first and last major hires were both hires dictated by money guys.

[hawkchief]

Quin, the coach of the Utah Jazz? He was a good hire who did well for a few years before a weird collapse late. Who knows where MU would be had they just stuck with him for a year or two. It's obv he's well-regarded in the basketball world. Elite 8 too.

Yeah, after he rehabbed for 10 years and quit banging his college players girlfriends, and while Self was racking up Big XII championships, Final Fours and a National Title, he's finally turned his life around. I guesss Quinny the Pooh was a great hire:shake: Kudos to Alden for doing so much for MU!!

[Pitt Gorilla]

Gabe D's report from PowerMizzou:

Mike Middleton, R. Bowen Loftin, Mike Alden about to speak and take questions at the stage. After that we'll get a chance to talk to them in smaller groups along with current Mizzou coaches who are here. Will update this thread as we go.

Mike Middleton starting things off by saying he has mixed emotions.

Middleton says "Mike had a real commitment to doing the right thing the right way."

Middleton says Alden has taken Mizzou "well beyond where it's ever been."

Middleton: "I'm not very happy to be here for what we have to say because we are losing Mike as Athletic Director."

Loftin says this came up recently, was Alden who brought it up. "I don't like it but I respect it."

Alden says he will be "forever indebted" to Richard Wallace and Missouri for the opportunity.

Alden talking about his older brother John, fighting back tears. Says he is "my hero." "He never left me. Ever."

Alden says he told his wife Rockie in 1991 in front of the Theta house that he would one day be the athletic director at Missouri. Called it his dream job.

Alden says athletics is in no way the most important part of the campus. Says it is "an advertising vehicle."

Alden says finances "weren't in real good shape" in the AD in 1998.

"Have we made some mistakes along the way? Absolutely we have."

Alden starts his current state of the state address saying how proud he is of the academic achievement of his programs. Says they are one of the top academic athletic departments in the country.

Says they have come a long way in facilities and fundraising.

"The move to the SEC has been an amazing impact not only on this athletic program, but on this University and the state of Missouri."

"When I came in 1998 people said, national championships, what are you talking about? We just gotta win some games."

"I've cried a lot over the course of the last five or six days."

Why now? "This is part of our journey."

Alden says this is a "perfect time" to step down. Says if you truly want to be selfless, this is a good time to pass the baton.

Alden calls his wife Rockie up. Says his father in law told him, "Don't ever stay too late at the party." That's why it's the right time to leave.

Alden says he has been "toying around" with when to retire for "a couple of years." Became more serious last spring/summer

Alden says announcement now to allow #Mizzou the best timetable to recruit his replacement. Says Feb-May is the ideal time for that. Says Loftin allowed him to choose when to make the announcement and he chose this time because he thought it was best for Mizzou.

Alden says the most important lesson he learned in 17 years is how to humble himself.

Alden says he is willing and happy to provide any assistance Loftin would request in search for his replacement.

Loftin says he will lead the process, will consider a search firm. Probably will decide that in the next week.

Loftin says he didn't try to talk Alden out of his decision, but "my heart sank a little bit because we've never been doing better."

"You can't replace Mike Alden."

[Bambi]

Top 15 in both? Crazy. No program does that. But your fans keep telling me "basketball doesn't matter" so why would you care if your program is down?

Very unlikely for this to happen...

Ohio State, Florida in the mid 2000's, Kansas in the late 2000's, but it's extremely difficult to maintain.

I wouldn't even consider Missouri in that discussion. No need to blame Alden for unrealistic expectations.

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Top 15 in both? Crazy. No program does that. But your fans keep telling me "basketball doesn't matter" so why would you care if your program is down?

Ohio State, Oklahoma State, Michigan, Michigan State, Texas, Florida all do it pretty consistently. Tennessee was pretty close to doing it with Bruce Pearl, and Louisville isn't that far away from it.

Basketball is irrelevant to football in terms of revenue generated, so in that sense it doesn't matter, but I want a good basketball program.

[Bambi]

Ohio State, Oklahoma State, Michigan, Michigan State, Texas, Florida all do it pretty consistently. Tennessee was pretty close to doing it with Bruce Pearl, and Louisville isn't that far away from it.

Basketball is irrelevant to football in terms of revenue generated, so in that sense it doesn't matter, but I want a good basketball program.

That's not true at all. Football expenses are much higher than basketball leaving it as a loser in most schools financially.

College Basketball ad revenue for networks and in turn conferences/schools is much higher than college football. It's not even close.

http://kantarmedia.us/sites/default/files/images/2013-post-season-sports-natl-tv-spend.jpg

http://kantarmedia.us/sites/default/files/images/national-tv-ad-pricing-for-major-sporting-events.png

['Hamas' Jenkins]

That's not true at all. Football expenses are much higher than basketball leaving it as a loser in most schools financially.

College Basketball ad revenue for networks and in turn conferences/schools is much higher than college football. It's not even close.

http://kantarmedia.us/sites/default/files/images/2013-post-season-sports-natl-tv-spend.jpg

http://kantarmedia.us/sites/default/files/images/national-tv-ad-pricing-for-major-sporting-events.png

Not this stupid fucking argument again.

[Prison Bitch]

Ohio State, Oklahoma State, Michigan, Michigan State, Texas, Florida all do it pretty consistently. Tennessee was pretty close to doing it with Bruce Pearl, and Louisville isn't that far away from it.

Total nonsense and unworthy of a response.



Basketball is irrelevant to football in terms of revenue generated, so in that sense it doesn't matter, but I want a good basketball program.

Just so I read your post correctly: You feel entitled to be one of the best 15 basketball teams (out of 351) because.....just because? Sorry but life doesn't work that way, success takes effort and your fans + admins give zero effort ( or $) to basketball.

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Total nonsense and unworthy of a response.





Just so I read your post correctly: You feel entitled to be one of the best 15 basketball teams (out of 351) because.....just because? Sorry but life doesn't work that way, success takes effort and your fans + admins give zero effort ( or $) to basketball.

It's true, dipshit. It's inarguable. Nor did I say that it's due to entitlement, but the fact that Missouri is the only Power 5 school in the state with two major population centers, and the state has produced a five top seven NBA picks in just the last several recruiting cycles.

This isn't Wyoming, dipshit. Missouri has some significant natural advantages that it has never capitalized on.

[Bambi]

Not this stupid ****ing argument again.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/03/sports/ncaafootball/uab-cancels-football-program-citing-fiscal-realities.html?_r=0

[Prison Bitch]

Believe what you want Hamas, no school (outside maybe Ohio State) gets both programs ranked consistently. But even if that were true MU wouldn't "deserve" to be included anyway.


Here is the basketball attendance for schools that surround your state:

Kentucky. 22,964
Kansas. 16,437
Tennessee. 15,475
Nebraska. 15,419
Illinois. 15,246
Iowa. 14,976
Iowa State. 14,192
Arky. 14,023


All top-20 draws. Mizzou was 50th at 8,856 and its even worse this year. You get what you deserve in life, pal.

[WhawhaWhat]

That is accurate. The $25 million dollar donation from Laurie for Mizzou Arena was contingent on Alden hiring Quin Snyder as the next head coach.

Search committee had the final three rated as follows:

1) Self
2) Calipari
3) Snyder

It's fitting that his first and last major hires were both hires dictated by money guys.

Alden said in his presser that he became more serious about leaving last spring. Did he want another basketball coach again this time and the money guys wanted KA?