We were told to kick back, relax and wait for the proverbial puffs of white smoke to start billowing from Jesse Hall.
The leap Mizzou athletics director Jim Sterk took last Saturday when he fired fourth-year football coach Barry Odom encountered significant turbulence Thursday, when the rumblings of an unimpressed UM System Board of Curators became loud enough for outsiders to hear.
For one moment, press pause on the public debates about which coach Sterk should hire, and Sterk’s ability to make that hire.
That debate Mizzou fans are having about Sterk and his ability to do his job?