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Message: [QUOTE="Nostical, post: 1874877, member: 749"] This announcement means a lot more than who got the head job at Mizzou. It ratifies a reality I've been espousing ever since my first encounter with SH. She has an expansive vision for our future and a knack for evaluating personnel that our prior presidents sadly lacked. Herbst took office on June 1, 2011. Her first two decisive personnel moves were the firing of our AD Jeff Hathaway in August and our Provost Peter Nichols in January. She replaced them with Warde Manuel and Mun Choi. They were hired not just for their qualifications but to accomplish specific purposes, Choi to enhance the excellence of our curriculum and faculty and Manuel to fix an APR issue that was vexing the school and its athletic reputation. Manuel was later hired as AD at Michigan and now Choi is President at Missouri. Those moves to highly respected venues speak loudly about her ability to find people who aren't merely comfortable bureaucrats but coveted professionals. That's a gift. She then hired David Benedict from Auburn as our new AD. Why? To fix what she knows is an existential crisis if we can't capture the big money of P-5 status schools. Her replacement for Choi will no doubt further her relentless march toward making us academically acceptable for an AAU invite. As bad as the hand is that we've been dealt I'm comforted in knowing we've got a real pro playing it. Watch this space. [/QUOTE]