I’ll be honest, I hate grading coaching hires before the guy has been on the sideline at all. It’s strange to me that you assess and grade something that has no foundation or evidence at this stage. Yet here we go, from CBS Sports:
Missouri did OK for grabbing its fourth choice, or maybe fifth choice, in Drinkwitz. None of that is the coach’s fault. The search became public, and the board of curators got involved shooting down names (Skip Holtz, Blake Anderson, Jeff Monken). Drinkwitz appealed to curator chairman Jon Sundvold, an ex-basketball star at Mizzou who wields a lot of power.