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2. HOOPS RECRUITING CONTINUES
All quiet on the Jeremiah Tilmon front. Kevin Knox II hosted coaches from his five finalists on Tuesday (Florida State and Kentucky) and Wednesday (North Carolina, Mizzou and Duke).
And, a new name has since emerged as a guard option for Mizzou: Canisius grad transfer Kassius Robertson. Read more about this recruiting development.
On Mizzou athletics recovering from the 2015 campus protests and racial unrest: “We went through a couple tough years on campus with things that happened. We stubbed our toe a little bit. That impacted some recruiting, which is unfortunate, because what we went through on campus is going to propel us to be an even greater campus. We didn’t sweep things under the rug. We’re addressing things head on and learning from them and being open minded and growing from them. That’s awesome. That’s why it’s going to help us become that much stronger. When you’re going through it, it might hurt you a little bit, but in the big picture, some of the things we’ve put in place not only in the athletic department but on campus it’ll help us grow.”
4. QUIN AT 50
It was 18 years ago this month that Missouri handed its men’s basketball program over to Quin Snyder, then just a 32-year-old Duke assistant with no head-coaching experience. The Tigers are now on their fourth coach since the program unraveled under Snyder’s watch, but at age 50, he’s having his best season in coaching. (And he barely looks a day older than 38.) In his third year as an NBA head coach, Snyder led the injury-riddled Utah Jazz to 51 regular-season wins, the franchise’s best mark in eight years, and the No. 5 seed in the Western Conference playoffs. The Jazz and Clippers are tied 1-1 and play Game 3 Friday in Utah, the franchise’s first home playoff game since 2012.
Snyder has been interviewed countless times since Mizzou fired him in 2006 but he’s rarely discussed his downfall that put him on a long, windy road to Salt Lake City.
“It’s a pretty serious discussion,” Snyder told the Orange County Register this week. “If you would write about that, you could write a book.” (Yes, please!)
When the Jazz hired Snyder away from the Atlanta Hawks’ staff in 2014, it became his sixth coaching job in the pros since he left Mizzou.
“When you go through adversity and you want to keep doing it, you find out you’re in the right place and are doing the right thing,” Snyder said in the interview. “I just try to keep working and keep learning. I just love being around people.”
Newly committed 2018 quarterback James Foster was bumped up to a four-star recruit by ESPN.com and ranks as the nation’s No. 89 overall prospect for next year’s class and the No. 5 dual-threat quarterback.
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