The dust hasn’t quite settled on Desireé Reed-Francois’ shock departure earlier this week. The comments on our posts are still hopping and, almost surely, DRF’s boxes haven’t been fully packed as of yet.
But as is the nature of college sports, movement begets movement, which means someone else will be boxing up their things and shipping them to Columbia, Missouri in the near future. That someone, Mizzou’s Athletic Director, has yet to be decided. However, there are plenty of good options for the administration to consider. Thanks to Mike Alden’s prolific AD tree and all of the young up-and-comers who have been mentored in Columbia over the years, there are a fair number of sitting athletic directors or candidates arguably ready to take the big job that all have Mizzou connections.