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Mike Alden killed MU basketball
Posted on: February 23, 2022 at 15:01:59 CT
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Alden came to MU initially as Norm's new boss. Shortly thereafter Norm stepped down/was pushed out either because he couldn't work with Alden or Alden felt it necessary to secure a new arena and that was the means of doing so. Either way the two were not on speaking terms for several years thereafter.
Quin Snyder quit in the middle of the season, after being informed by MU's play by play announcer that regardless of what happened from that point he would not be retained. This is after being scapegoated for an NCAA investigation in which numerous secondary violations were allowed to be rolled up into a major violation and serious penalties enacted. Quin had not been on speaking terms with Alden for quite some time by that point.
Mike Anderson's introductory press conference conflicted with the Board of Curators meeting deciding whether to fire Mike Alden on the same day. Alden survived, and Mike Anderson eventually left MU via text message and snuck out the back door of the arena after addressing the team. He took what at best was a lateral move after exploring several other coaching opportunities leading up to that decision. Alden was entirely blindsided by this development.
Alden hired Haith despite what normal due diligence in the industry would have revealed to be an investigation at Miami. After forcing him to accept an NCAA suspension their relationship degraded to again non-speaking terms and Haith surprisingly left MU for a vacancy at lowly Tulsa when he was not given an extension by Alden.
In his final coaching search, Alden hired someone who would not have have been on the list of considered candidates for any other major conference job in the nation. Someone who was at the time a D2 coach and last associated with D1 as an assistant in the prior century. He was the only candidate to receive a formal interview. MU's program quickly became a joke and never recovered.
Every one of those guys essentially ended their MU tenures on non-speaking terms with their boss. We can assess each of them and their reasons for not working out independently, but there is a rather obvious common thread between them. In Alden's first coaching search at MU he was able to officially interview 4 interested candidates for the job: Quin Snyder and Larry Drew went on to be NBA head coaches and Bill Self and John Calipari went on to win NCAA championships. In his final coaching search he was interviewing D2 candidates and he finally killed off MU basketball as a serious program.
Quin Snyder quit in the middle of the season, after being informed by MU's play by play announcer that regardless of what happened from that point he would not be retained. This is after being scapegoated for an NCAA investigation in which numerous secondary violations were allowed to be rolled up into a major violation and serious penalties enacted. Quin had not been on speaking terms with Alden for quite some time by that point.
Mike Anderson's introductory press conference conflicted with the Board of Curators meeting deciding whether to fire Mike Alden on the same day. Alden survived, and Mike Anderson eventually left MU via text message and snuck out the back door of the arena after addressing the team. He took what at best was a lateral move after exploring several other coaching opportunities leading up to that decision. Alden was entirely blindsided by this development.
Alden hired Haith despite what normal due diligence in the industry would have revealed to be an investigation at Miami. After forcing him to accept an NCAA suspension their relationship degraded to again non-speaking terms and Haith surprisingly left MU for a vacancy at lowly Tulsa when he was not given an extension by Alden.
In his final coaching search, Alden hired someone who would not have have been on the list of considered candidates for any other major conference job in the nation. Someone who was at the time a D2 coach and last associated with D1 as an assistant in the prior century. He was the only candidate to receive a formal interview. MU's program quickly became a joke and never recovered.
Every one of those guys essentially ended their MU tenures on non-speaking terms with their boss. We can assess each of them and their reasons for not working out independently, but there is a rather obvious common thread between them. In Alden's first coaching search at MU he was able to officially interview 4 interested candidates for the job: Quin Snyder and Larry Drew went on to be NBA head coaches and Bill Self and John Calipari went on to win NCAA championships. In his final coaching search he was interviewing D2 candidates and he finally killed off MU basketball as a serious program.
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Mike Alden killed MU basketball - FIJItiger MU - 2/23 15:01:59