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MU Athletic Director confirms Frank Haith departure, Haith talks to ESPN

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The University of Missouri’s athletic director says basketball coach Frank Haith has taken the job of head coach at Tulsa and will be announced in a news conference at 1.

Mike Alden says Haith informed him of his decision in a text message this morning. MU assistant Tim Fuller will serve as interim coach but Alden hasn’t revealed candidates for a permanent replacement.

Haith was due to make $1.7-million for the 2013-14 season. His contract at MU was to have run through the 2016-17 season, and he will owe the University $500,000 for terminating that deal early.

ESPN reports Haith has been given a seven-year contract at Tulsa that will pay an average of $1.85-million a year. Haith also told ESPN he would take his Missouri staff with him, though one assistant was said to be pursuing another job and so might not go to Tulsa.

Haith tells ESPN he was attracted in part by the fact that the national champion came out of the American Athletic Conference, where Tulsa is moving next season.

“This has been a great basketball job at Tulsa with a great tradition with Tubby Smith, Nolan Richardson and most recently with Danny Manning,” Haith told ESPN. “There is great leadership here at Tulsa and they are showing a great commitment.”

This will be the third time Haith has guided a team through transition between conferences, first when the University of Miami moved from the Big East to the Atlantic Coast Conference and then when the Tigers went from the Big 12 to the Southeastern Conference.

Haith reportedly close to leaving MU for Tulsa job

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It appears Frank Haith is on the way out as Mizzou head basketball coach.

Frank Haith

Frank Haith

Haith is reportedly in negotiations to become the head basketball coach at Tulsa. ESPN.com is citing one unnamed source as saying that Haith has verbally agreed to the Tulsa job and that he is traveling to Tulsa to finalize the deal.

Haith just finished his third season at Missouri in which it missed the NCAA tournament despite a talented roster. His is also one of the Mizzou athletic programs that has suffered off-the-playing-surface problems lately with the arrest and dismissal of Louisville transfer Zach Price.

Haith is believed to have 3 years left on his contract at Mizzou, at $1.5-million a year. CBSSports.com cites sources as saying Tulsa is willing to pay him more than $1-million.

ESPN: MU did not investigate, report alleged rape of athlete

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ESPN is reporting that the University of Missouri did not investigate or tell law enforcement about the alleged rape of a member of its swimming team in 2010, after finding out about the incident more than a year ago. The alleged victim committed suicide in 2011.

Sasha Menu Corey

Sasha Menu Corey

Swimmer Sasha Menu Courey reportedly told a rape crisis counselor and a campus therapist as well as other campus employees about the assault. A former Missouri football receiver, Rolandis Woodland, also alleges Menu Courey was assaulted by more than one of his then-teammates, and says he saw a video of the assault after her death.

Federal law requires a school that knows or reasonably should know about a case of sexual violence should investigate it.

ESPN will air the report on “Outside the Lines” Sunday morning.

See ESPN’s full story

Tigers let lead and game slip away in 4th quarter

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Missouri vs. NebraskaIt was a strange night all around Thursday night at Faurot Field in Columbia. The lights in the stadium went out about 90 minutes before kickoff. The lights came back on, but the main scoreboard did not work. For three quarters, nothing was working for the Nebraska Cornhuskers either. Then, much like the lights flicked back on 30 minutes before kickoff, the light clicked on for the Huskers as they rallied in the fourth quarter with 27 unanswered points to beat Missouri 27-12.

The Husker offense just couldn’t generate anything in the third quarter. NU picked up just two first downs and gained just 10 yards in the third. After three quarters, they had 109 yards of total offense. In the fourth, Lee hit Niles Paul for a 56 yard touchdown pass on a 3rd and 8 and just like that, Nebraska was within 12-7 with 13:56 to play.

Then, on Missouri’s first pass on the next possession, Ndamukong Suh picked off a pass thrown right into his chest giving the Huskers 1st and 10 at the MU 20. Two plays later, Lee found Paul for a 13 yard touchdown as Paul ripped the ball away from cornerback Kevin Rutland. The Huskers, prior to that interception, had four or five passes that were in their hands that could have been picked off, but they were all dropped.

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