Enough of the stupid "stepping stone" comments

[NoCheese]

No one is using MU as a stepping stone for more money and I'm not familiar with anyone stepping up to more success. Can someone please pull together the history of MU head coaches that have left to coach other programs and how they have fared? My short term memory doesn't recollect any coach leaving and finding more success elsewhere. It's more like MU is the pinnacle of a head coach's career.  - Gracias

[dgies9156]

No one is using MU as a stepping stone for more money and I'm not familiar with anyone stepping up to more success. Can someone please pull together the history of MU head coaches that have left to coach other programs and how they have fared? My short term memory doesn't recollect any coach leaving and finding more success elsewhere. It's more like MU is the pinnacle of a head coach's career.  - Gracias

KO -- Left for Tennessee. Discovered the most important sport in Knoxville was NOT men's basketball. Left for Northwestern. Discovered turning around an academically oriented school in the Big 10 is virtually impossible with young, poorly prepared kinds. Had a cup of coffee with the Toronto Raptors and could not turn around Southern California. A TV guy now.

TC -- Left for Indiana. Cleaned up a program beset by rogue telephone calls. Lots of them. Cut a deal with a facilitator for an AAU team as he became enamored with Indiana basketball talent. Recruited two Top 10 talents and was ousted in the second round of the 2013 NCAA tournament. Lynching party reportedly headed for his home outside Bloomington. Hasn't thrown a chair or told a media member he or she is asking dumb questions -- Yet.

My own view is that had KO stayed at Tennessee, he might have won a national championship. he had the interest, facilities and was making inroads to be really good. But when 99% of the athletic focus is on Volunteer football and 0.7% of what's left is women's basketball, KO couldn't handle it.