[duncan_idaho]

I'll be watching and, for the first time in my life in this matchup, rooting for kU to thoroughly demolish Missouri.

If it's bad enough, Mizzou will move on from CuonzNO this season despite the price tag (more on that below). And because it's Mizzou basketball, probably make a not-great hire.

How bad did hiring Kermit the Frog as Mizzou's coach screw things up? So badly the AD gave Martin a golden ticket simply for making the NCAA tournament (despite it being well-known that Michael and Jontay Porter would be switching to Mizzou after Romar got fired at Washington). Martin's buyout is $6M, and he can't be fire "without cause" before May 1.

A completely embarrassing loss to kU would be helpful in motivating those with big pocket books who care to write some checks to make him go away.

And from there? Who knows. Maybe they hire a hoops version of Eliah Drinkwitz and it takes off quickly. Maybe they hire another flawed and doomed-to-failure coach. IDK.

But it would at least generate some hope, of which there currently is none.