re: Antoine Mason officially transferring to Auburn (basketball)

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Haith tried that a Mizzou, there was no reason for Haith to do that at Mizzou because Mizzou has enough talent surrounding them where a program can be built/sustained instead of trying to put a good roster together from year to year.

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Except that Mike Anderson had not done that hence Haith having to go the transfer route to have any chance of an experienced roster at all. CMA had screwed us so bad that there were only 3 scholarship players returning for Haith's second year. Anderson had let Otto Porter, a Missouri kid with two Mizzou alum parents who had us as his leader for a long time and had never so much as even been on an airplane before his senior year of high school, go off to Georgetown without even trying b/c Anderson knew at that point he was gonna take the job with you guys.

I think Haith probably rode the transfer train a little too long bleeding into this past 2014 season and that was a big part of what turned the fanbase against him, but initially at least I do understand why he did it for 2013 b/c Anderson had left a barren wasteland of a roster.