The 2019 season brings uncertainty, as the protracted appeal over a ridiculous "scandal" with a single actor still has not been resolved. On the field, Mizzou faces what appears to be a much easier schedule than in years' past. The early season is loaded with home games before a protracted road stretch from mid-October through November.
Schedule:
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8/31 @ Wyoming
9/7 vs. West Virginia
9/14 vs. SEMO
9/21 vs. South Carolina
10/5 vs. Troy
10/12 vs. Ole Miss
10/19 @ Vandy
10/26 @ Kentucky
11/9 @ Georgia
11/16 vs. Florida
11/23 vs. Tennessee
11/29 @ Arkansas
Recruiting:
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Commits:
Jalen St. John, OG: **** 5.8 RR, St. Louis, MO
Brady Cook, QB: *** 5.7 RR, St. Louis, MO
Jay Maclin, WR: *** 5.7 RR, Kirkwood, MO
Mitchell Walters, OL: *** 5.7 RR, St. Louis, MO
Kevon Billingsley, DE: *** 5.7 RR, East St. Louis, IL
Robert Wooten, DE: *** 5.7 RR, Stafford, TX
Drake Heismeyer, OL: *** 5.6 RR, St. Charles, MO
Elijah Young, RB: *** 5.6 RR, Knoxville, TN
Cooper Davis, DE: *** 5.6 RR, Melbourne, FL
Will Norris, LB: *** 5.6 RR, Columbia MO
Dominique Johnson, RB: *** 5.6 RR, Crowley, TX
Ray Curry, OL: *** 5.5 RR, Memphis, TN
Harris Mevis, K: Unranked, Warsaw, IN
Javian Hester, WR: **** 5.8 RR, Tulsa, OK
Jalen Logan Redding, DE *** 5.6 RR, Columbia, MO
In-state talent is noticeably better than 2019, but the depth is not as impressive as the 2018 class that Missouri missed badly on. There are 7 4+* recruits per rivals, and as per usual, Ohio State has poached one of the two best in-state recruits, with Notre Dame taking the first 5* prospect in several years, Jordan Johnson. The program has de-invested in Georgia after making inroads in and around Gwinnett, and has dug further into Texas to compensate. Whether or not this is a good strategy is yet to be borne out.
The previous best recruit, Antonio Doyle, an ILB from St. Louis, decommitted on Thursday
The Class Rankings are in the low 50s from Rivals and 24/7 and again near the bottom of the SEC.
Hamas' Crystal ball sees a lot of variance. I could see this team winning as few as 7 and as many as 10 games. Georgia is the only certain loss. Florida is likely still overrated by name, but time will tell.
Official prediction: 9-3. Recruiting prediction: slightly disappointing
Originally Posted by Spott:
Isn’t that how they got Pinkel?
Yeah. 20 years ago.
When they averaged 4 wins/season over the previous decade, had among the worst facilities in the country, wouldn't pay anyone and had viewed football as an afterthought for nearly 20 years.
That job SUUUUUUUUCKED.
At that time, a hire like Pinkel was absolutely as good as Mizzou could have done.
But with huge improvements made to their facilities, they're at/near top 25 nationally in that regard. They have a ton more money to spend on the program and their level of commitment is higher than its been. They're also in a conference that has more prestige and reside in a division that gives them a path to stealing the damn thing here and there with a credible coaching performance.
This job is VASTLY improved over what it was when Pinkel took it over. Yet, we're looking at the same tier of candidates.
And to be fair, those can work out. They just have a significantly higher bust potential and again, put Mizzou back down a tier to a stepping stone school rather than where I figure they should be, which is again - just a step removed from a destination program.
Mizzou should be a place that loses its football coach to around a dozen schools. Yet if they're shopping at this level STILL, it tells me they don't even view themselves in that light.
And it probably suggests that they're right. And I simply cannot understand why that is the case. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DJ's left nut:
Yeah. 20 years ago.
When they averaged 4 wins/season over the previous decade, had among the worst facilities in the country, wouldn't pay anyone and had viewed football as an afterthought for nearly 20 years.
That job SUUUUUUUUCKED.
At that time, a hire like Pinkel was absolutely as good as Mizzou could have done.
But with huge improvements made to their facilities, they're at/near top 25 nationally in that regard. They have a ton more money to spend on the program and their level of commitment is higher than its been. They're also in a conference that has more prestige and reside in a division that gives them a path to stealing the damn thing here and there with a credible coaching performance.
This job is VASTLY improved over what it was when Pinkel took it over. Yet, we're looking at the same tier of candidates.
And to be fair, those can work out. They just have a significantly higher bust potential and again, put Mizzou back down a tier to a stepping stone school rather than where I figure they should be, which is again - just a step removed from a destination program.
Mizzou should be a place that loses its football coach to around a dozen schools. Yet if they're shopping at this level STILL, it tells me they don't even view themselves in that light.
And it probably suggests that they're right. And I simply cannot understand why that is the case.
That’s possibly Jimmy Sexton, Healy’s agent, at work.
If they’re pursuing Healy, Sexton is going to be looking for leverage in contract talks. He has a lot more of that if Healy is connected publicly to Ole Miss.
Not dissimilar to Sexton’s failed attempt to connect Odom to the Miss State job a while back and negotiate a bigger contact to stay at Mizzou.
It’s also barstool. Just as easily a blind toss or troll attempt as something that guy actually was told. [Reply]
Originally Posted by duncan_idaho:
That’s possibly Jimmy Sexton, Healy’s agent, at work.
If they’re pursuing Healy, Sexton is going to be looking for leverage in contract talks. He has a lot more of that if Healy is connected publicly to Ole Miss.
Not dissimilar to Sexton’s failed attempt to connect Odom to the Miss State job a while back and negotiate a bigger contact to stay at Mizzou.
It’s also barstool. Just as easily a blind toss or troll attempt as something that guy actually was told.
Yeah, a buddy of mine has the whole Ferris Buehler's girlfriend's cousin who works at 41 flavors thing going on with someone in the Athletic Department and said it's Sexton trying to extract his pound of flesh over the Odom firing.
I have a tendency to believe it's really just an attempt to get more money for Healy, but if he can do that AND fuck over Mizzou, he's gonna try to go that route.
Someone is saying we're interviewing the guy from Arkansas State.
We've gone SUB Toledo at this point. We're no longer looking at candidates that are even on par with where Pinkel was when we got him. We're looking at guys that KU would've turned their noses up at.
This team has somehow torched pretty much every shred of positive equity it built over a decade of being among the 20 or so most successful programs in college football. It's just a complete mind-fuck. [Reply]
As a Missouri taxpayer I want a fine example for young people attending one of our universities. I hope Missouri hires Skip Hultz to set that example for our young students [Reply]
The basketball loss today just proved it. I don't think you can trust Jim Sterk to make any decision now.
I wonder if this is the best move forward:
1) Fire Sterk
2) Leave Haley as the interim HC for this year to eat shit and deal with the restrictions
3) Hire an AD, have them find a football coach after '20, then a basketball coach after Cuonzo's 4th year.
You can't recover from losses like this. It's a complete indictment of the entire program. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Titty Meat:
As a Missouri taxpayer I want a fine example for young people attending one of our universities. I hope Missouri hires Skip Hultz to set that example for our young students
Are thiany mods in here that can boot this troll from the thread? [Reply]
