The hiring of Missouri Southern State University assistant women's basketball coach Jaime Green should have been a bigger story than it was last year.
The stories about Green's hiring in March 2012 addressed her status as a former player for Coach Mary Ann Mitts and as an MSSU alumnus, but never addressed her controversial tenure as head coach at Newman University.
That was never addressed by either the university or the area's newspaper of record, the Joplin Globe, and now there is no need to since Green will no longer be with the program and Coach Mitts has resigned.
In its March 29, 2012 edition, the Globe ran this barely rewritten version of an MSSU news release:
