Coaching basketball at Missouri is a much better job than coaching at Cal. Cuonzo Martin is a much, much better coach than poor Kim Anderson.
So this Martin-Mizzou marriage makes sense for both sides.
Mizzou gets a respected coach capable of building a consistently competitive program after Anderson's disastrous 26-67 regime. Many fans wanted athletic director Jim Sterk to make a sexy hire that had "Final Four" written all over it.
But landing, say, Wichita State coach Gregg Marshall was never going to happen. The school didn't have the standing or the resources to land an elite coach.