Dave Matter of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch wrote a cool story about the pending reunion of head coaches Barry Odom and Matt Luke, who first became friends when Odom was selected to take part in a youth camp during Fiesta Bowl festivities his junior year at Mizzou. While both shared dreams of wanting to be coaches way back in 1998, they knew it was highly doubtful they’d each end up working for their alma maters, let alone as head coaches.
“We both knew we were getting into coaching, but we were never naive enough to think he’d be at his alma mater and I’d be at mine here,” Odom said.