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Interesting info about Devaney and Missouri...
Posted on: June 6, 2024 at 10:21:41 CT
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Don Faurot Promised Devaney the Job
"They promised me the job at Missouri," Devaney said, adding that Faurot, the athletic director whose name still graces Mizzou's home field, told him: 'The job's yours. Just go home, get your staff organized, and we'll call you.' I started asking people about going down to Columbia with me, and I never heard from Faurot again, so I called him. He said, 'Oh, there's nothing to worry about; just get your staff together.'"
The next time Devaney called, Faurot told him he didn't have much say in the matter, and Mizzou was hiring Frank Broyles, who lasted one year in Columbia, then left for Arkansas.
A year later, Devaney chose the Wyoming job over another offer from Colgate, then spent five years in Laramie and led the Cowboys to a 35-10-5 record, including a 1958 Sun Bowl win and a 9-1 record in 1959 (a team that was not bowl eligible).
Devaney, perhaps rationalizing, thinks fate paved a smoother road from East Lansing to Laramie and finally, to Lincoln. "I knew the Wyoming job probably wasn't quite as good a job as the one at Missouri," Devaney said. "I mean, I didn't like the town at all. I didn't like anything about it. To me, it was just such a contrast to where I came from and where I had lived all my life. People were stilted in Columbia. They didn't seem like the kind of people I wanted to be around. I learned to love Wyoming. They wanted to win at Wyoming."
"They promised me the job at Missouri," Devaney said, adding that Faurot, the athletic director whose name still graces Mizzou's home field, told him: 'The job's yours. Just go home, get your staff organized, and we'll call you.' I started asking people about going down to Columbia with me, and I never heard from Faurot again, so I called him. He said, 'Oh, there's nothing to worry about; just get your staff together.'"
The next time Devaney called, Faurot told him he didn't have much say in the matter, and Mizzou was hiring Frank Broyles, who lasted one year in Columbia, then left for Arkansas.
A year later, Devaney chose the Wyoming job over another offer from Colgate, then spent five years in Laramie and led the Cowboys to a 35-10-5 record, including a 1958 Sun Bowl win and a 9-1 record in 1959 (a team that was not bowl eligible).
Devaney, perhaps rationalizing, thinks fate paved a smoother road from East Lansing to Laramie and finally, to Lincoln. "I knew the Wyoming job probably wasn't quite as good a job as the one at Missouri," Devaney said. "I mean, I didn't like the town at all. I didn't like anything about it. To me, it was just such a contrast to where I came from and where I had lived all my life. People were stilted in Columbia. They didn't seem like the kind of people I wanted to be around. I learned to love Wyoming. They wanted to win at Wyoming."
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Interesting info about Devaney and Missouri... - Lt. J. Dangle MU - 6/6 10:21:41