Missouri AD Mike Alden announces resignation

Missouri athletic director Mike Alden announced Thursday he was stepping down after 17 years with the program.

Alden’s resignation is effective Aug. 31, 2015. The school will hold an official press conference on Friday.

Alden, one of the nation’s longest-tenured athletic directors, helped transition the Tigers from the Big 12 to the SEC, a conference in which it has won back-to-back SEC East title in football.

Alden wrote in a note to fans that while he’s leaving his post as athletic director, he won’t be leaving the university. Alden will help launch the Center for Global Service Learning Leadership on campus as well as teach in the College of Education.

“As one chapter ends, another one begins and I am excited that I will be part of the College of Education as an instructor where I will participate in the Positive Coaching Program and higher education leadership courses,” Alden wrote.

Alden became the athletic director at Missouri in 1998, replacing Joe Castiglione, who left for Oklahoma.

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