Missouri dismissed Green-Beckham last spring after he was accused of forcing his way into an apartment and shoving a woman down stairs.

She wrote that she was “stunned” when Stoops was atop a recent poll of college football head coaches, who were asked which coach they’d most want their son to play for.

McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat, wrote a column for USA Today in which she takes aim at Stoops for adding troubled wide receiver Dorial Green-Beckham to the OU roster last summer.

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“I have been a fan since I was a child growing up in Columbia, and even worked in college as a tutor and recruiting hostess for the football program,” McCaskill wrote. “I have followed Mizzou for my entire life through ups and downs, victories and defeats. My university is no different than many others in that its record is not perfect in terms of dealing with misconduct by its athletes. But I don’t think I have ever been prouder of my team and university than the day coach Gary Pinkel and athletic director Mike Alden announced the decision to kick DGB off the team.”

McCaskill, a former sex crimes prosecutor, concludes her column by writing, “It is time for real leaders in the world of big-time sports to do a soul search on character. Every decision they make reflects on them in ways that a won/loss record never will.”

It should be noted that McCaskill is a champion of Title IX sexual misconduct investigations on college campuses. The University of Oklahoma recently suspended one of its best players, linebacker Frank Shannon, after he was accused of sexual assaulting a female student, despite the fact that Shannon was never charged in criminal court.

A recent ESPN “Outside the Lines” report didn’t paint the University of Missouri in the best light when it comes to Title IX investigations. Former Mizzou tailback Derrick Washington was accused of several violent crimes against women — a fact university officials knew, but did nothing about — before he left campus in 2010.