Whitlock-MU is a Fraud

[KC_Connection]

http://www.kansascity.com/sports/col...ry/957217.html

SAN ANTONIO | When it was over, when the 12-point-favorite, former-national-title-contending Missouri Tigers finally subdued Northwestern in overtime, the Tigers danced across the Alamodome as if they’d beaten Kansas or won the Big 12 title.

When he was handed the microphone at the Alamo Bowl trophy ceremony, Gary Pinkel shrieked: “How ’bout dem Tigers?!?”

I wondered what game I’d just watched.

The one I watched was an embarrassment for the Tigers. An inferior opponent had outplayed them for most of the night, settled for a moral victory in the fourth quarter and gave up in overtime.

Congrats, Mizzou. Beating Northwestern 30-23 in overtime inside a half-empty stadium at the conclusion of a season that started with national-title hopes is now the signature moment at the end of the Chase Daniel-Dave Christensen-Spread Offense era.

I’m sorry to rain on the parade scheduled for Columbia today to celebrate the 10-4 Tigers. But I expected more. Coming off losses to Kansas and Oklahoma, I expected Daniel and Christensen to exit Missouri and the Alamodome amid fireworks they sparked.

Instead, while the Tigers were wildly celebrating their “big” victory, the Northwestern Wildcats were at the losers’ postgame news conference claiming a moral victory. Coach Pat Fitzgerald talked about how no one expected the Wildcats to be competitive in this game and how much they proved by taking Missouri into the fourth quarter.

Northwestern proved Missouri is a fraud. The Tigers’ over-the-top celebration let us know that they know they’ve been overrated and overhyped, benefactors of Bill Snyder, cupcake scheduling.

Yeah, they cooed about averaging 10 victories during the Daniel-Christensen era. Uh, 10 victories is like 1,000 yards in the NFL. It used to mean something when the NFL season was 12 and 14 games. Ten victories used to mean a lot before teams started scheduling four nonconference victories.

The Tigers have mastered the art of beating weak teams and sneaking past decent ones. We’ll call the Wildcats decent.

What should we call the Missouri Tigers?

I’m not sure. It’s all pretty much under review now — the Daniel-Christensen-Spread era.

Daniel seems more like a system quarterback now than a Heisman Trophy contender. He played miserably against Northwestern, tossing three interceptions and becoming progressively more inaccurate as the night wore on.

Christensen’s Spread seems flawed by forced diversity. On a night when the Tigers should’ve simply thrown the ball to Chase Coffman 20 times, Mizzou’s big tight end caught seven passes for 67 yards.

We might one day remember Coffman as the Michael Jordan of college football and Christensen as Dean Smith. Christensen might be the only man capable of holding Coffman to fewer than 10 receptions a game.

I spent all night begging Daniel to throw to Coffman. He caught everything in his area code and a couple of over-the-border balls. On a night when the Tigers just needed to move the chains, Christensen repeatedly got cute with reverses, fake reverses, the Wildcat formation and deep balls to receivers not named Jeremy Maclin.

It was very frustrating.

Pinkel and Christensen both need to write thank-you notes to Pat Fitzgerald.

Northwestern simply refused to score points in the fourth quarter. Fitzgerald stood on his sideline, dropped to his knees and prayed that the clock would expire during the final quarter. Rather than throw deep against Missouri’s vulnerable corners and safeties, Fitzgerald had his QB throw slants, screens and occasional dumps over the middle of the field.

With a chance to drive for the game-winning field goal at the end of regulation, Fitzgerald ran the ball once, threw sideways twice and punted. Herm Edwards must be his coaching role model.

Whatever, the Wildcats are always irrelevant when it comes to big-time football. Northwestern traveled to San Antonio to reveal things about the Tigers.

The questions that were raised about the Tigers in the losses to Kansas and Oklahoma were all answered on Monday.

The answers were unpleasant and unflattering. They put Missouri’s last two seasons in proper perspective. Gary Pinkel still has a lot of work to do. The Tigers have not arrived. They’re the kings of a pathetic Big 12 North.

Let’s save the ticker-tape parades and unseemly celebrations and shrieking until Pinkel puts a bit more on his resume.

And this is why I was laughing yesterday, Frazod.

[Sweet Daddy Hate]

Originally Posted by frazod

Do NOT lump me in with that piece of shit. I may hate Kansas, but I don't let it consume me to the point other Missouri fans can't even stand me.

Being like KC one who sucks the penis isn't something you should aspire to.

Is he really that bad? We'll see. I've barely paid attention to him. Better a total douche than "can't we all just get along"?

[luv]

Originally Posted by Darth CarlSatan

Is he really that bad? We'll see. I've barely paid attention to him. Better a total douche than "can't we all just get along"?

Yes.

[Sam Hall]

[Sweet Daddy Hate]

Yes sir, Mr. Davis! Right away, Mr. Davis! Can I tounge-bathe your sack, Mr. Davis?!

Sickening.

[Bearcat]

Originally Posted by luv

You said they were.

Anyway, I don't see how losing to MU last year made KU a fraud. MU had a very good team last year.

Of course they were frauds... they beat everyone they were supposed to beat, two teams people thought would destroy them (OSU and VTech... who were later deemed vastly overrated (and VTech was)), and lost to the supposedly vastly superior Mizzou by 8 points. EIGHT!!

Seriously though, I don't like how people jump at the chance to call a team a fraud. Both fan bases should be proud of what the programs have accomplished the last couple of seasons.

Originally Posted by Mizzou_8541

Back-to-back 10 win seasons. Not many teams can boast that (including Kansas).

Whatever you need to hang your hat on, I guess.

[luv]

Originally Posted by Bearcat

Of course they were frauds... they beat everyone they were supposed to beat, two teams people thought would destroy them (OSU and VTech... who were later deemed vastly overrated (and VTech was)), and lost to the supposedly vastly superior Mizzou by 8 points. EIGHT!!

Seriously though, I don't like how people jump at the chance to call a team a fraud. Both fan bases should be proud of what the programs have accomplished the last couple of seasons.

Completely agree. I guess overrated and fake mean the same thing, from what I hear. I just hate the term fake or fraud. A team can be overrated, but still be good. Fraud just brings a negative connotation to me. In my mind, I would say MU was overrated this year, but I would not call us frauds. That may be contradictory, but oh well.

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by luv

You said they were.

Anyway, I don't see how losing to MU last year made KU a fraud. MU had a very good team last year.

The problem was Missouri was the only good team Kansas played in 2007, and they lost to them. They had zero quality wins, sat out championship weekend, yet still advanced to a BCS game. THAT was the fraud part. Every reasonable Kansas fan acknowledges that Missouri was the better team and fully deserved the Orange Bowl berth. Kansas was a good team; they certainly deserved a decent bowl. But they did not deserve the bowl they backed in to, any more than Ohio State deserved to play in the national championship. Period.

Sure Missouri choked this year. But I never predicted they would win it all, although I certainly hoped they would. Who doesn't hope for the best for their team? I've always known, and said, that they would not truly make the leap to the elite until they beat Oklahoma. Last year they were at least competitive in their losses; this year they got killed. If you're looking for "going to the 'ship!" predictions, check the posts by ****ing douchebag who started this thread- the same one who endlessly humps my leg over this crap.

[Extra Point]

OSU's loss isn't going to help the power rankings for the Big 12. MU played against a NW'ern team and coach that out-prepared MU, but the ball was thrown enough times to get the W. I won't take anything away from MU, and I sure won't call them frauds! (Maclin part of a fraud?! Bull***t!) I'm rooting for the Big 12, no matter which team plays.

If you were a UMKC grad, wouldn't you root for the Big 12 football teams? We can barely compete in basketball. I will be suntanning on the north pole before UMKC gets a win in mid-March.

[Bowser]

The entire Big XII North was below average this year. KC Connection keeps trying to throw it in the face of Mizzou fans what frauds the Tigers were this year, when realistically Tiger fans knew there wasn't going to be a National Championship for MU after the Buffalo game, and certainly after the Okie State game. MU fans had their hopes of a championship riding on the belief that the defense was much stronger this year than last, and it didn't take real long to figure out that it wasn't (our secondary was god awful, and we had zero pass rush).

This thread has done nothing more than accurately portray the butthurt of at least one KU fan that Mizzou was even considered in the championship talk, while his team was not. KU ended up right where most thought they would, and still had a good season with a chance to go back-to-back in bowl games.

Go ahead and keep throwing out what frauds we are, KC Connection. Go ahead enjoy that and KU's win over us this year, and we'll enjoy our back-to-back-to-back 10 win seasons, back-to-back North Champions, and back-to-back bowl wins. See you in Arrowhead next fall.

[Bowser]

And just to throw it out there, I think I'm less worried about Kansas next year than I am about Nebraska. The Cornhumpers came on strong last year for a first year coach.

[FloridaMan88]

In fairness the whole Big 12 is a fraud in football this year... as is starting to become apparent during the bowl season.

[Sweet Daddy Hate]

Originally Posted by KCChiefsfan88

In fairness the whole Big 12 is a fraud in football this year... as is starting to become apparent during the bowl season.

Good lord...

[Mizzou_8541]

Originally Posted by KCChiefsfan88

In fairness the whole Big 12 is a fraud in football this year... as is starting to become apparent during the bowl season.

Because we are 1-1 so far this year?

[Sam Hall]

Originally Posted by Bowser

And just to throw it out there, I think I'm less worried about Kansas next year than I am about Nebraska. The Cornhumpers came on strong last year for a first year coach.

The problem for Nebraska is they travel to KU and MU.

[Chiefs_Mike_Topeka]

Originally Posted by frazod

The problem was Missouri was the only good team Kansas played in 2007, and they lost to them. They had zero quality wins, sat out championship weekend, yet still advanced to a BCS game. THAT was the fraud part. Every reasonable Kansas fan acknowledges that Missouri was the better team and fully deserved the Orange Bowl berth. Kansas was a good team; they certainly deserved a decent bowl. But they did not deserve the bowl they backed in to, any more than Ohio State deserved to play in the national championship. Period.

Sure Missouri choked this year. But I never predicted they would win it all, although I certainly hoped they would. Who doesn't hope for the best for their team? I've always known, and said, that they would not truly make the leap to the elite until they beat Oklahoma. Last year they were at least competitive in their losses; this year they got killed. If you're looking for "going to the 'ship!" predictions, check the posts by ****ing douchebag who started this thread- the same one who endlessly humps my leg over this crap.

The team didn't choke; they were no where near as good as you and the rest of the misery fans pretended they were. Typical for misery fans as a whole; always think more of your athletic programs than you should and think you are being personally attacked when someone points that out. Does not make you much different than any other programs fans other than in my opinion misery fans take it up another notch and have no historical reason to do so.

And as much as it hurts you; KU and MU are on the same level. Both are good programs building to something even better. Except KU will ultimately reach higher than misery will!