Odom out as Missouri’s coach

Missouri fired football coach Barry Odom, ending the four-year stay of a respected former player who took over a program in disarray but could never get the Tigers over the hump in the brutal SEC.

The Tigers finished 6-6 and 3-5 in the conference after beating Arkansas on Friday. That left Odom with a 25-25 record, a perfectly middling mark after Gary Pinkel’s successful run.

Athletic director Jim Sterk called the dismissal a “difficult” but “necessary” move.