Couple good quotes from Bob Blitz, the UM System curator who
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has chaired MU’s search committee.
“No. 1 on the list is the ability to raise money, to get donors,” Bob Blitz, the UM System curator who has chaired MU’s search committee, said last week. “Athletics today, as you know, are more expensive than they’ve ever been — and it’s going up — so we need somebody who really knows fundraising, how to recruit people to fundraise, things like that.”
A not-too-distant second responsibility will be supporting coach Eli Drinkwitz and the Mizzou football program, which is fresh off an 11-win season and Cotton Bowl victory.
“We want to be in the (College Football Playoff),” Blitz said. “Somebody who’s a worker, somebody who will go in and do all the things that are necessary to build a championship, to get the players, to get the coaches.”