The University of Missouri and Mizzou Athletics Director Jim Sterk mutually agreed he will step down from his position after his replacement is hired. The words mutual agreement leave these situations wide open to interpretation. The news release did not say why the two were parting ways, Sterk was rumored to be a candidate for athletic director at the University of Central Florida earlier this year.
Sterk was the 20th A.D. at Missouri and oversaw record fundraising, maneuvered through a pandemic and oversaw major facility projects, including new home of Mizzou Football, the $98M South End Zone Facility, opened in the summer of 2019, and ground is scheduled to be broken in the fall of 2021 on a new $34 million indoor football practice facility that will be located southwest of Memorial Stadium.
Mizzou broke the Tiger Scholarship Fund’s record in raising $55.5 million this past fiscal year to surpass the previous mark of $50.4 million set in 2017 by more than $5 million.