So as Missouri says goodbye to just its third baseball coach in 80 years — Hi Simmons (1937-73) and Gene McArtor (1974-94) were the others — Rhoades has the nation’s best conference to dangle in front of applicants but not much else.
Regardless of who Rhoades hires, he has to decide how serious he is about the sport. He could hire a replacement for roughly the same salary as Jamieson — $208,000 — with a similar assistant coaching salary pool and hope for the best. Or he could really invest in the sport, which would require spending twice as much and probably building a new stadium for a sport Missouri fans have never fully embraced.