COLUMBIA, MO. • Missouri coach Barry Odom has added a veteran defensive assistant with SEC experience and a national championship ring. Vernon Hargreaves will join Mizzou's staff as inside linebackers coach after spending the last three seasons at Arkansas.
Details of Hargreaves' contract will be released when finalized. Hargreaves made $300,000 last year at Arkansas, according to published reports. Hargreaves was not retained on Arkansas' staff when new coach Chad Morris replaced Bret Bielema, who was fired shortly after the Razorbacks lost to Missouri on Nov. 24.
Hargreaves could join the Tigers as early as this weekend.