Porter Moser was 35 and had 9 years as an assistant and 3 years as a head coach when he got hired at Illinois State.
Ben Jacobson was 35 and had 10 years as an assistant and 2 years as Coach-in-Waiting when he got the UNI job.
Dan Muller was 36 and had been an assistant for 11 years before he got the Illinois State job.
None of them were handed the dumpster fire that Missouri State is they still struggled mightily in their first two years and now you think you can bring in a guy 6 or 7 years younger with a fraction of the experience and be successful? I sure hope you aren't paying him much for when you have to pull the trigger on that buyout in three years.