Back in the 2001-2002 season, I first expressed my dissatisfaction with Quin Snyder. I wrote about the Stand and Dribble offense, the lack of fundamentals, the lack of an organized offense, the lack of blocking out, the lack of physical defense among other things. Substitute the names and four years later you have the same team, only not nearly as talented.

Snyder took that team, arguably loaded with talent, from a #2 ranking to a 12 seed in the NCAA tournament, barely squeaking in. Fortunately we had a weak draw, matching up against Miami, Ohio State and Steve Lavin's UCLA. For the next three years, Quin rode this Elite 8 appearance like a diplomat's limo through New York. It was the elixer that erased glaring inadequacies in his program, not to mention his penchant for taking shortcuts and playing fast and loose with NCAA rules.

My deepest, darkest fear is that some how, some way Quin does just enough to buy himself another year at Mizzou. After the Elite 8 run, most were wondering which was the real Quin product, the underachieving regular season team that lost to the likes of Baylor or the Elite 8 team that took OU to the wire in a Final Four bid.

Clearly as history has played out, it was the former. Unlike a 9th or worse place finish this year in the Big XII, Quin's departure is not a foregone conclusion. Despite getting Mizzou on probation and taking this program to unimaginable depths, Alden has continued to stand by Quin. He stood by him through one 6th place finish after the other, through one KU sweep after another, through one Illinois loss after another, through one loss to a cupcake team after another, through one loss to a top 25 team after another and remains unfazed. I mean come on, are there pictures involved?

So no, I don't want Mizzou to win another game this year. I don't want there to be any debate, not one shred of controversy that Quin Snyder has ruined this once great Missouri basketball program and has to be fired. I don't delight in seeing the black and gold go down, but this is the grim, unpleasant but necessary task of putting a lame horse down. I am first and foremost a Mizzou fan. Quin Snyder is not Mizzou.