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The contract details for Missouri men’s basketball’s four new assistant coaches are official.
Mizzou officially announced Tuesday that it has added four assistants to round out its staff for the 2026-27 season. Mizzou has hired Jason Crowe Sr., Zach Reynolds, Jimmie Foster and Tavaras Hardy as assistant coaches.
Crowe is the father of incoming five-star Mizzou freshman guard Jason Crowe Jr., and Reynolds is the former high school head coach at Zephyrhills Christian Academy of incoming five-star freshman Toni Bryant.
Both Crowe Sr. and Reynolds will be assistant coaches for player development at Mizzou.
Hardy is the former head coach of Loyola (Md.) and has been named the team’s offensive coordinator while working directly with Mizzou’s post players.
Foster has been a successful longtime college assistant, most recently at Colorado State and previously at Bradley. He also looks set to take on a role coaching Mizzou’s post players.
The Tribune requested the contracts for employment for the four new coaches via an open records request when the hirings were made official Tuesday. They were posted to the Missouri athletics website on the same day.
Jason Crowe Sr., whose son is widely expected to be a one-and-done player with Mizzou and head to the 2027 NBA Draft as a potential lottery pick, has signed a two-year deal with the Tigers that is good through April 2028.
Before incentives, Crowe Sr. will earn $500,000 per year in total compensation, which is split between base salary ($300,000) and non-salary compensation ($200,000).
Hardy, the former head coach at Loyola (Md.), has signed a one-year deal through April 2027 with a base salary of $250,000.
Foster, who joined Mizzo from Colorado State and was a longtime assistant at Bradley, also signed a one-year deal worth $250,000.
Reynolds, who previously coached incoming five-star forward Toni Bryant, has signed a two-year contract through April 2028 worth $200,000 per year.
Crowe Sr. is the only coach with listed non-salary compensation payments on their contract, which typically is in exchange for participation in marketing opportunities with the university such as television or radio appearances and apparel rights deals.
All four coaches seemingly have the same terms for terminating their deals before the end date on their contacts. If any of the new assistants terminate their contracts without cause, they would owe Mizzou their full remaining base salary. Since their total pay and deal lengths are different, that would work out to different amounts in all four contracts.
The same is true for Mizzou, should it opt to terminate any deal without cause. If the Tigers decided to fire any of the four coaches before the end date on their contracts, they would owe the coaches their full earned but unpaid base salary and incentives.
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"We have assembled a winning roster for this season, both on the court with our student-athletes and on the sideline with our staff," Gates said in a news release Tuesday. "We feature a lot of experience in our coaching staff that has won at every level of basketball — from high-major to mid-major and to high school. It is a very diverse staff that compliments each other well and brings proven track records to Mizzou.
“They have all shown the ability to develop players at a high level and set up their student-athletes to have success at both the college and professional levels.”
This article originally appeared on Columbia Daily Tribune: Contract details posted for four new Missouri basketball coaches
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Mizzou officially announced Tuesday that it has added four assistants to round out its staff for the 2026-27 season. Mizzou has hired Jason Crowe Sr., Zach Reynolds, Jimmie Foster and Tavaras Hardy as assistant coaches.
Crowe is the father of incoming five-star Mizzou freshman guard Jason Crowe Jr., and Reynolds is the former high school head coach at Zephyrhills Christian Academy of incoming five-star freshman Toni Bryant.
Both Crowe Sr. and Reynolds will be assistant coaches for player development at Mizzou.
Hardy is the former head coach of Loyola (Md.) and has been named the team’s offensive coordinator while working directly with Mizzou’s post players.
Foster has been a successful longtime college assistant, most recently at Colorado State and previously at Bradley. He also looks set to take on a role coaching Mizzou’s post players.
The Tribune requested the contracts for employment for the four new coaches via an open records request when the hirings were made official Tuesday. They were posted to the Missouri athletics website on the same day.
Jason Crowe Sr., whose son is widely expected to be a one-and-done player with Mizzou and head to the 2027 NBA Draft as a potential lottery pick, has signed a two-year deal with the Tigers that is good through April 2028.
Before incentives, Crowe Sr. will earn $500,000 per year in total compensation, which is split between base salary ($300,000) and non-salary compensation ($200,000).
Hardy, the former head coach at Loyola (Md.), has signed a one-year deal through April 2027 with a base salary of $250,000.
Foster, who joined Mizzo from Colorado State and was a longtime assistant at Bradley, also signed a one-year deal worth $250,000.
Reynolds, who previously coached incoming five-star forward Toni Bryant, has signed a two-year contract through April 2028 worth $200,000 per year.
Crowe Sr. is the only coach with listed non-salary compensation payments on their contract, which typically is in exchange for participation in marketing opportunities with the university such as television or radio appearances and apparel rights deals.
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All four coaches seemingly have the same terms for terminating their deals before the end date on their contacts. If any of the new assistants terminate their contracts without cause, they would owe Mizzou their full remaining base salary. Since their total pay and deal lengths are different, that would work out to different amounts in all four contracts.
The same is true for Mizzou, should it opt to terminate any deal without cause. If the Tigers decided to fire any of the four coaches before the end date on their contracts, they would owe the coaches their full earned but unpaid base salary and incentives.
More: Missouri basketball transfer portal scorecard. Did Tigers ace portal?
More: Where all former Missouri basketball players landed in transfer portal
"We have assembled a winning roster for this season, both on the court with our student-athletes and on the sideline with our staff," Gates said in a news release Tuesday. "We feature a lot of experience in our coaching staff that has won at every level of basketball — from high-major to mid-major and to high school. It is a very diverse staff that compliments each other well and brings proven track records to Mizzou.
“They have all shown the ability to develop players at a high level and set up their student-athletes to have success at both the college and professional levels.”
This article originally appeared on Columbia Daily Tribune: Contract details posted for four new Missouri basketball coaches
Continue reading...
