re: Just got off the phone with a well connected friend***BOC APPROVES HIRE***

Unique, desperate, take your pick. We need a big name hire that can get the program back on it's feet and the fans excited again.

I love Kim and what he has done in his coaching career, but we are talking D2 here. Only a small portion of the fan base would be excited about this hire. Everyone would be if he came out of the door winning, sustained it with good recruits and kept winning. People say he is the low risk candidate, I say he is the high risk candidate because there is a good chance he would fall on his face at Mizzou and we are back to square one in a worse position than we are now.

I could be totally wrong on Marshall, but my gut tells me he would leave Mizzou for a better opportunity down the road. I'm sure he would leave us in good shape, but would be back to a coaching search in another 4 to 5 years.

Howland to me is the homerun hire as far as exciting the fanbase, being a premium coach who can recruit, plays tough defense, a history of rebuilding programs, and at his age, could see him wanting to build something special and retire in 8 to 10 years. I think he is every bit as good as Marshall as a coach, if not better. That's why I hope it's Howland, but still would be excited if Marshall was hired, just don't see it happening.

So many rumours are flying around because the search has been tight lipped, some crazy and interesting scenarios are out there. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if we had another "coming out of left field" hire, let's just hope it's a good one, or after this much time has passed, hired a search firm, just to be deflated with an Anderson hire wouldn't surprised me. By the way, one of the rumours is Howland is the guy, Alden didn't like the thought of Howland at first, but the search firm came back after investigating and said Howland was good to go.