In retrospect, Mizzou sports fans were warned right from the start that athletics director Mack Rhoades didn’t have much patience.
Rhoades surely didn’t mean it as a threat at the time, but it’s quite telling to look back at the comments he made at his introductory news conference at the University of Missouri.
“I’m not a real patient person,” Rhoades said on March 10, 2015. “I want to get moving. For me to sit here and say, ‘Jeez, there’s a glaring weakness here or a hole there,’ I don’t see it right now.”
Rhoades made those comments to a standing-room-only crowd at Mizzou’s Student Center, according to the story Post-Dispatch Mizzou beat writer Dave Matter wrote that day.