Coaching searches are a crapshoot. Your job as the athletic director is determine what your pool is, interview as many of the people in your pool as possible, and pick who you think is the best person to win big at your school. Most of the time it doesn’t work out, and the coach ends up getting fired or taking another job before they can be fired.
So the likelihood that Missouri is hiring their next Norm Stewart is remote if nonexistent. Too often fans and media get caught up in the chase and looking for what is going to be exciting.