COLUMBIA, Mo. — In January 2003, a party full of college students in Columbia became a headache for Laird Veatch.
The current Missouri athletics director was, at the time, an associate athletic director at Iowa State. After his football career at Kansas State and the start of his sports administration experience at Mizzou, Veatch had moved north for a tough-to-pass-up opportunity.
And then the scandal set in.
That party, which took place the night after the Tigers beat the Cyclones’ men’s basketball team, featured a prominent and problematic guest: Iowa State coach Larry Eustachy.
Photos of him at the party circulated the morning after.