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Sterk on MU becoming a basketball school again

Posted on: September 21, 2017 at 11:11:23 CT
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http://www.stltoday.com/sports/columns/jeff-gordon/gordo-mizzou-s-sterk-undaunted-by-life-in-the-sec/article_bce73667-ec72-5cc0-b337-ba16c772dd9d.html

If the Tigers don’t rise up in football, though, Sterk must decide the next step. Earlier this year he ended basketball coach Kim Anderson’s futile three-run tenure and made a brilliant hire in Cuonzo Martin.

By securing the Porter Family Package, Martin fast-forwarded his rebuild. Missouri will have an NCAA Tournament-caliber squad for this coming season. With the 2018 SEC basketball tournament scheduled for Scottrade Center next spring, Martin’s team-building should also improve Mizzou’s flagging profile in St. Louis.

Increased basketball revenue will offset some of this season’s football losses and help Sterk keep things moving forward under tough circumstances.

Budget dollars are tight. School enrollment is down, forcing campus-wide cutbacks. Political pressures on the school are considerable. Sterk’s challenge is to keep building a better sports operation while the larger university regroups under new leadership.

“It’s good — it’s very good — the momentum we have in basketball,” he said. “I think it does help a lot of areas. It helps our alums, our fans and overall with the university.”

“We have momentum,” Sterk insisted during a Wednesday visit to the Post-Dispatch offices. “For me, I think, yeah, the SEC is tough. Some (rival school) budgets are $50 million larger than ours. But I think we have an opportunity to grow in donors, season ticket holders.”
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Sterk on MU becoming a basketball school again - FIJItiger MU - 9/21 11:11:23
     Can you imagine how awful it'd be with KA returning this - TheWildcat STL - 9/21 11:20:12
          It would be like last year with KA and BO at the helm. NM - JoplinTiger07 MU - 9/21 15:25:03
          Actually no. That would be like zero wins. - catbirdseat MU - 9/21 11:25:24
          Imagine it would be like 2016-17 - FIJItiger MU - 9/21 11:23:39
               Our football team has gotten worse (nm) - TheWildcat STL - 9/21 11:24:01
                    Our FB team was horrendous last year, lost to MTSU and - JoplinTiger07 MU - 9/21 15:26:45
                    Cheap azz coaches seem to cause that issue. - catbirdseat MU - 9/21 11:33:52
                         No more "True Son" hires!!! - JoplinTiger07 MU - 9/21 15:27:27
                    Worse than losing at home to Middle Tennessee State? - FIJItiger MU - 9/21 11:26:38
                         The writing was on the wall after the Middle Tennessee game. - Uncle John MU - 9/21 11:47:24
                              Agree. That is really what the losses - FIJItiger MU - 9/21 11:53:34
                         We lost a close one to Middle Tennessee State. It was - TheWildcat STL - 9/21 11:39:52
                              Why are you comparing Middle TN State to P5 opponents? NM - JoplinTiger07 MU - 9/21 15:33:29
                              Thankfully we won some of our last two games last year - FIJItiger MU - 9/21 11:42:40
     School Budget dollars are tight... - catbirdseat MU - 9/21 11:19:37
          WADR: AD Budget barely cash flows - ScottsdaleTiger MU - 9/22 20:10:53
          Gordo should have explained that differently... - Downstate UI - 9/22 10:53:40
          Did you read the article? We are 50 million dollars below - TheWildcat STL - 9/21 11:20:50
               CS1950, KA, and BO, all happened at the same time, and - JoplinTiger07 MU - 9/21 15:11:59
               Still a ton of - catbirdseat MU - 9/21 11:24:40
                    Mizzou has 4-5K fewer donors than the average SEC - wu-tangtiger MU - 9/21 11:27:17
                         I am not talking about swiping SEC coaches. - catbirdseat MU - 9/21 11:31:34
                              Spending that much would put us in the red.(nm) - TigerMatt MU - 9/21 11:37:51
                                   In the short term, then it would be wildly successful if - FIJItiger MU - 9/21 11:40:08
                                   3 million more dollars a year would not.(nm) - catbirdseat MU - 9/21 11:38:33




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