COLUMBIA, Mo. — Missouri basketball coach Dennis Gates is reuniting with an old colleague. Gates plans to make Florida State assistant coach Charlton Young his associate head coach, sources confirmed Thursday.
PowerMizzou.com first reported Young, 50, as a likely staff hire earlier Thursday. CBS Sports' Jon Rothstein later tweeted that Young had agreed to a three-year contract worth more than $1.8 million over the length of the deal, which would be the richest contract for a Mizzou assistant coach in the program's history.
Young has been on FSU's staff since the 2013-14 season and overlapped there with Gates for six years, both working under longtime Seminoles head coach Leonard Hamilton.