Mizzou athletic department stupidly sells coaches’ cell phones full of intel

No one erased the address books, phone numbers and text message before selling Missouri Tigers basketball coach Mike Anderson’s cell phone, and now a guy who bought 25 cell phones from MU for $190 is holding them for a $3,000 ransom, the Columbia Daily Tribune reports.

The info on the phones doesn’t sound scandalous … so far.

One

cell phone, a Sprint Treo, belonged to MU basketball Coach Mike

Anderson, according to Bellman’s online inventory. Photos of the

phone’s screen show text messages between Anderson and MU football

Coach Gary Pinkel and Athletics Director Mike Alden. The messages

appear to be well wishes for upcoming games and congratulations after

victories.

Mike Bellman is “auctioning” the phones off as “collector’s items.” The university tried to buy them back for $190. No dice. Bellman wants his $3,000.

Mizzou even offered to delete all the info off the phones. Ha. No deal. Bellman claimed the info couldn’t be deleted because the phones are “damaged or because doing so requires special codes.”

Or, most likely, because erasing the info would kill the resale value.

Via Deadspin.