COLUMBIA, Mo. — What if the best carousel ride isn’t a carousel ride at all?
When it comes to the coaching carousel, there’s plenty reason to avoid the churn. And across both football and men’s basketball, Missouri has largely avoided losing its collection of well-regarded assistant coaches — with a couple of notable exceptions — through this point in the offseason.
Coaches and players will quickly tout the benefits of the continuity that keeping assistants around provides, and the upcoming football and basketball seasons will put that to the test. But when looking at some of the jobs that have opened elsewhere around college sports, reiterated loyalty to Mizzou might reflect something broader.