re: Mizzou AD Mike Alden stepping down

Alden was good at accepting large donor checks and giving the glad hand/speech like the best insurance sales agent, his staff level hires are a long litany of mixed failure and some success. Sports at Mizzou is not in a bad spot but could certainly be better, and while it may not entirely be his fault, he is in the chair that accepts responsibility. His last basketball hire may turn out to be his best hire, we still don't know.

I've heard such nonsense as "Alden is responsible for getting us into the SEC", this level of stupid from indeed a "lot of retarded fans" is no mark of success. If participation ribbons were conference trophies, Alden would go down as the king of college athletics. He has done an adequate job, but he's not really the 'big picture' guy Mizzou needs at this point in time.

Alden has been "in the chair" during some rough waters and when Mizzou has faced some bad(and unfair) press, while he's been good at talking up the program, his inability to deal with bad press is certainly a mark on his record that is not going away.