This vaults Mizzou into the top of the football world and probable to be National Champs!
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Just saw the score. Congrats MU fans.
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So Vandy will beat Mizzou next week knowing the history of Missouri football.
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Drink put on a clinic with the playcalling....what a win.

Amazing to see what change can do, dude is already made me forget about the disaster that was Barry Odom.

Excited for the future with him at the helm....
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Drink is certainly getting a lot out of the talent. That O-line is pretty patchwork (as were the WRs and DL) and they still played pretty well.
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Oh shit, is Bo Pelini LSU's defensive coordinator?
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Nick Saban just gave up 650 yards with a defense filled with 5* players. It's actually amazing how little he gets out of his talent on that side of the ball.
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Yep.
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Good win guys. Said it earlier this year when your new coach was doing work in recruiting you guys have the right man at the helm.
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I just have a feeling Coach Drink will be a shortimer. He seems like a fast upcoming coach willing to take quick stepping stones to the bigtime.
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Hopefully that win will convince some good players to pick MU for football when signing day comes around.
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Nice win! Too bad they lost to Tennessee last week. But hopefully, this is the beginning of a turnaround with coach Drink. I know that it won't happen overnight. Don't get me wrong. But a win like this will build confidence that this season isn't lost. That can go a long way.
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And that's fine. Get the best coach you can. Keep them as long as you can. Let them build things up. Keep doing a good job hiring.

Don't worry about whether you can keep them long-term.

I think there's a chance Mizzou can hang onto Drinkwitz for a while - a la Jason Campbell at Iowa State - but if nothing else, he can improve the program and put them in a better spot to hire a coach than they were when they hired him.
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Although you're most likely correct, I have hope that he can stay. Simply because Mizzou is an SEC team. If he can build it up to a team that makes it to the College Championship Playoff, then he's coaching a powerhouse team in a power 5 conference. Why leave that?
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If Drinkwitz left due to success, where would he go?

SEC East:

Georgia
Florida
Tennessee

All of those programs have better bloodlines than Missouri. Even if he took Mizzou to 2007-2013 levels, I don't think that anyone could blame him for taking the first two jobs. But if Tennessee has another opening and needs a rebuild, is it really a better job?

SEC West:

Alabama--Best program in the country
LSU--Almost anyone takes this job

Auburn--Hard place to satisfy, but unquestionably a premier program

Texas A&M--Just so many resources


I don't see the other SEC jobs as being definitively better than Mizzou *if* he's building it to the point where he's using it as a stepping stone.

ACC:

Clemson--Now an elite program

Miami and Florida State are better programs with more resources to draw from, but if I'm winning at Mizzou and I've seen Miami struggle for 20 years and Florida State fall into a tailspin over the last five plus years, do I want to go to those environments?

A winning Mizzou program is on par with a Virginia Tech, and I don't see why he'd leave for North Carolina or Virginia

Big X:

Ohio State: A top five program
Michigan, Penn State: Historic programs that have issues

Michigan State, Nebraska--If you're winning at Mizzou, do you want to go there?

Big XII:

Oklahoma, Texas: Elite programs, but Texas is a giant pain in the ass
Oklahoma State: If you're winning at Mizzou, do you want to go here?

Pac XII:

USC: Tremendous potential, but a meddlesome department
Stanford: A lot of challenges here given the student profile


If he's winning 10 games a year there are a lot fewer programs that he'd probably want to go to. If he's winning 8 games a year, I could see numerous programs that could lure him.
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