New Mizzou Director of Athletics Jim Sterk spoke at the Tiger Club of KC luncheon on Thursday, October 6, 2016.
Jim said the entire package of the University of Missouri is what brought him to Mizzou:
great-sized college town (“Columbia is basically Pullman on steroids”)
world-class university
major research institution and a land-grant university
competes in the SEC
As he was doing his research, he believed it was destiny to come to MU:
When doing research, he pulled up a historic photo of MU and saw Holstein cattle on the University property. Having grown up on a dairy farm, that stood out to him.
Pulled up to work one day during the process and a car with Missouri license plates was in front of him (which he had never seen in San Diego)
Wife went hiking one day and came across a guy in a Mizzou sweatshirt
Continued below. Here are his opening comments ...
