COLUMBIA, Mo. - When Missouri applied its full-court press on Eli Drinkwitz a year ago at a Hampton Inn in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, the school’s campus leaders asked him for his hypothetical wish list should he accept their head-coaching job.
“He said, ‘Give me a few months. Let me think about it. Let me look around and evaluate things,’” UM System Board of Curators member Darryl Chatman told the Post-Dispatch on Friday.
After accepting the job, Drinkwitz took his time and by February came up with an answer.
“He said, ‘You know, after thinking about it, an indoor facility,’” said Chatman, a St.