COLUMBIA, Mo. — Early in Laird Veatch’s tenure as Missouri’s athletics director, he did the rounds of the grounds.
Veatch met with every head coach. He talked with sport-specific administrators, facility staff and business personnel. And he toured all of MU’s athletic facilities.
His takeaway: There are some fixer-uppers.
“The Memorial Stadium improvement project is unquestionably the No. 1 thing that we need to be focusing on,” Veatch told the Post-Dispatch. “But there are some key things that need to be done that aren’t wants, they’re needs — particularly related to our playing surfaces and a few of our sports: baseball, track, soccer, tennis.