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When a coach is hired at the college or professional level, the first order of business is for them to “win the press conference.”
That is, to get fans, boosters and everyone around the program and team excited about the hire.
On Saturday night in the bowels of the Scottrade Center, Missouri State Director of Athletics Kyle Moats and President Clif Smart held an impromptu press gathering to announce there will be no change in the men’s basketball coaching staff.
Moats and Smart lost that press conference.