Frank Haith - Career - Missouri

Missouri

On April 4, 2011, Haith accepted the head coaching job at the University of Missouri. The Missouri Tigers needed a coach after Mike Anderson left the Tigers to go back to Arkansas where he had been an assistant for 17 years. The job was originally offered to Matt Painter who turned Missouri down. Haith's first team will have six seniors and will have been to the NCAA tournament each of the last three seasons.

In August 2011 Haith was named in the Nevin Shapiro recruiting scandal at Miami in which Haith was purported to have "acknowledged" that Miami assistant basketball coach Jake Morton received $10,000 from Shapiro to recruit DeQuan Jones. Haith and Miami president Donna Shalala were photographed with Shapiro in a 2008 basketball fundraiser receiving a $50,000 check from Shapiro (which Shapiro said came from his Ponzi scheme). The move prompted Sports Illustrated columnist Luke Winn to urge that Haith be put on administrative leave before the season even begins (Winn had earlier been critical of Missouri's decision to hire Haith who had a 43-69 conference record at Miami). Haith said he would cooperate with the investigation and that the allegations "are not an accurate portrayal of my character."

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