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Tortoises and hares: Mizzou counters other athletic departments with slow-paced AD search

COLUMBIA, Mo. — The break’s over, so when’s the takeover?

Spring break has ended at the University of Missouri, but the school’s search for a new athletics director is very much continuing. There are plenty of questions still rippling around the process, and the onset of April brings about another one: Is this the month Mizzou gets its next AD?

That’s a rhetorical question for most, save perhaps MU’s 11-member search committee and Turnkey ZRG, the executive search firm hired by the university.

When that tandem elects to proceed is its own decision. Patience, so far, has been the approach since Desiree Reed-Francois left Missouri for Arizona’s AD gig on Feb.