Missouri Softball was a shining example of excellence for the Mizzou athletic department for over a decade under head coach Ehren Earleywine. But with EE’s firing less than two weeks before the start of the 2018 season, the program is truly at a crossroads.
Of course, not everything was hunky dory leading into the upcoming season to begin with. After a 2016 investigation under former AD Mack Rhoades brought the program into an unwelcome national spotlight, the Tigers in 2017 — minus two top transfer pitchers and having lost three of the school’s all-time greats to graduation — struggled to their worst season since 2006.