Friday, February 10, 2006

Quinn Not Essential

Sub-.500 Missouri is now rid of the boyish basketball coach Quinn Snyder, who "resigned" today. A few years ago I would have been lost in schadenfreude about now. But the more I learn about how that school is run (by the Athletic Director, Chancellor, and assorted fat cats) the less Quinn Snyder himself embodied what is Mizzou in my mind.

In fact, I have the same feeling toward Quinn Snyder right now that I have toward Norv Turner, formerly head coach of the Oakland Raiders. It's not the individual coach or player, it's the organization. In Oakland's case, until the Raiders have a true regime change, their head coach will continue to have the worst job in professional football. The Missouri regime that pushed to have Norm Stewart "retired" to make room for "their guy" may need to go as well.

So Quinn's departure may not be that significant. Whether you want to see the Tigers squirm or you want to see them rise like a Phoenix, getting rid of Quinn may have been curing the symptom, not the disease.

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