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Mizzou football: Replacing Barry Odom is harder than it seems

Mizzou football got rid of coach Barry Odom less than a week ago. The Mizzou officials believed the program could not move forward under Odom and believed they could bring in a coach to provide more energy to a team that ran low at the end of the season. Not everybody loved the decision.

Remember those people who didn’t want to fire Odom because of the question: Who would you get to replace him? Well, those people who questioned the decision before and after still have a gripe, because the list is not great.

The Mizzou board reportedly is not happy with some of the targets from athletic director Jim Sterk and the Mizzou athletics department, according to the St.