KANSAS CITY — Missouri athletics director Jim Sterk, at one point choking back tears, did not pull any punches Tuesday in his first public comments since the NCAA thwarted Mizzou’s appeal in its academic misconduct case.
Holding a joint press conference with MU chancellor Alexander Cartwright at the Sprint Center, Sterk said he was “angry” for the NCAA’s “hurtful” decision and vowed to lead future reform measures to fix the NCAA compliance and enforcement process. Sterk said the AD, chancellors and presidents “need to collectively decide where we want to go because the current system is broken.