****Official 2013-14 Missouri Tiger Football Repository Thread****

['Hamas' Jenkins]

We have two things to look forward to this year:

1) The potential beginning of the Maty Mauk Era. Mauk represents the best chance for this program to get back to a level of respectability after horrendous QB play cost us multiple games last year.

2) The last year of the Gary Pinkel era. Pinkel's entrenched cronyism won't play in a conference this competitive, especially if he couples his abysmal gameday coaching with lackadaisical, worst-in-conference recruiting. Pinkel was the formerly adequate meal that has now turned into a four pound bowel obstruction. It's time to jam a Fleet's enema up our collective asses.

Here is the schedule. We dodge Alabama, LSU, and Arkansas in the west and the Non-con is decidedly weaker than years past.

8/31: Murray State
9/7: Toledo
9/21: @ Indiana
9/28: Arkansas State
10/5:@ Vanderbilt
10/12: @ Georgia
10/19:Florida
10/26: South Carolina
11/2:Tennessee
11/9: @ Kentucky
11/23: @ Ole Miss
11/30: aTm

Looks like 6-6. Undefeated in non-con, 2-6 in league play.

I will eventually update the OP with a list of high profile in-state recruits that decide to go elsewhere after a half-assed attempt to gain their services. The inevitable cavalcade of *** rejects, skeezers, skanks, and scalliwags we get will fill out the ranks.


Razors, cyanide capsules, and Jonestown Kool-Aid are available in the break room. Second door on the left.

Since every Mizzou thread eventually dies of AIDS, I recommend starting anti-retroviral therapy immediately. I believe Walgreens covers Express Scripts.


Premium In-State Players:

Roderick Johnson: **** OT, Florissant, MO.
Monte Harrison: **** WR, Lee's Summit, MO.
Jimmy Swain: **** LB, Lee's Summit, MO


Commitment List: From to and possibly

Spoiler!

Committed - Not Yet Signed

Name	Pos	Location	Ht	Wt	40	Rivals Rating
Paul Adams	OL	Nashville, TNChrist Presbyterian Academy	6'6"	270		5.5
Sam Bailey	OL	Lamar, MOLamar Jr/Sr R 1	6'5"	245		5.4
Andy Bauer	OL	St. Louis, MODeSmet	6'6"	304	5.2	5.9
Kendall Blanton	TE	Blue Springs, MOBlue Springs South	6'5"	225		5.4
Nate Brown	WR	Suwanee, GANorth Gwinnett	6'3"	215	4.5	5.7
Logan Cheadle	DB	Lee's Summit, MOLee's Summit West	5'10"	165		5.6
Kenya Dennis	DB	Raymond, MSHinds C.C.	6'0"	190		5.5
Michael Fairchild	OL	Overland Park, KSBlue Valley West	6'6"	262		5.4
Darnell Green-Beckham	WR	Springfield, MOHillcrest	6'5"	175		5.3
Zach Hudson	OL	Tampa, FLSickles	6'5"	280		5.5
Stepfawn Hughes	ATH	Fort Worth, TXDunbar	5'10"	170	4.6	5.5
Grant Jones	ATH	Columbia, MOHickman	6'3"	216		5.5
Lawrence Lee	WR	Pensacola, FLWest Florida Tech	5'10"	167	4.5	5.6
Rocel McWilliams	DE	Pensacola, FLWest Florida Tech	6'3"	240		5.5
Kevin Pendleton	OL	Lee's Summit, MOLee's Summit West	6'4"	329		5.5
Thomas Richard	WR	Nashville, TNChrist Presbyterian Academy	6'1"	185		5.4
Tavon Ross	ATH	Cochran, GABleckley County	6'1"	196		5.4
Finis Stribling IV	DB	Thompson's Station, TNIndependence	5'10"	170	4.5	5.4
Greg Taylor	DB	East St. Louis, ILEast St. Louis	5'10"	181		5.7
Trevon Walters	RB	Bradenton, FLManatee	5'10"	189		5.4
Jhonathon Williams	DE	Berrien Springs, MIBerrien Springs	6'6"	230	4.5	5.5
Thomas Wilson	ATH	Buford, GABuford	5'10"	176		5.5
Roderick Winters	LB	Arlington, TXBowie	5'11"	196	4.5	5.3
Ish Witter	RB	Tampa, FLAlonso	5'8"	190	4.6	5.5
Marvin Zanders	QB	Jacksonville, FLRaines	6'1"	175		5.5

[kepp]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Georgia's a good team. In fact they're a very good team.

But Mizzou's offense is absolutely legit. Have you seen anything in UGA's defense this year to suggest they should be able to hold Missouri under 30?

It will likely be a shootout. I don't care if you give Murray 4 walk-on WRs, he's just so smart out there that I think he'll be able to score against anyone. That's especially true if Mizzou goes into that shell defense again.

I don't think anyone's sleeping on GA, they're just confident that Mizzou's offense can give them a run. If you're within a score either way in the 4th, you're looking at a 50/50 game with these offenses, IMO.

Ugh...that 2nd half defense against Vandy (save for the DE play) was maddening. We half to stay aggressive against UGA.

[duncan_idaho]

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

I think everyone here is underrating Georgia. They lost a close game to Clemson on the road. They beat LSU and South Carolina. Yes, they laid eggs against UNT and Tennessee, but those were classic trap games, not all that dissimilar from how Missouri stumbled all over itself against Ark. St. and struggled mightily with Toledo.

Yes, they are banged up, but they are also coming off of a flat performance. Missouri is going to get their A game on Saturday and the Tigers will be playing their second straight conference road game.

I'd be extremely pleased if Missouri keeps it within a touchdown. I'd say they have a 10% chance of winning.

I won't argue with 10 percent, though I think it's a little low.

Like I said, Georgia might be banged up at WR and RB, but it still has great athletes at those spots and it has advantages - Great QB and Great OL - that should help those RBs and WRs succeed.

I still think Georgia is awesome and still worry about Murray carving up Missouri's soft defense.

To win, Missouri would need:

1) Its defensive line to continue playing well against the run and continue to put heavy pressure on the QB (Tall task against UGA's OL)

2) it's offense to continue hot knifing through defenses (35+ points vs. UGA a must)

3) To protect the ball - at least +1 in TO battle

4) Its back seven to limit after-tackle yards

5) To stay out of a situation where Aaron Murray can win the game on a last drive (because he probably would)

[Titty Meat]

Carrington Harrison says Missouri is a title contender if they beat Georgia

[|Zach|]

Watching Missouri and Kansas City side by side each week is a funny feeling. They feel similar but in different ways. Each has one side of the ball that gets the hell after it and another one that has lapses but absolutely shows up when you need it to.

[duncan_idaho]

Originally Posted by Bo's Pelini

Carrington Harrison says Missouri is a title contender if they beat Georgia

It feels weird to say, but he might be right.

If Missouri manages to knock off Georgia in Athens, it has the next two biggest contenders for the SEC East (Florida and SC) at home. It also gets aTm at home (at Kentucky, at Ole Miss).

It wouldn't be a cake walk by any means, but a 6-0 Mizzou team would have to become the favorite for SEC East champ.

I don't think Missouri would have a shot against Alabama in the SEC title game, so I don't buy the real title shot thing. But an 11-1/10-2 BCS bowl/championship game appearance would seem to be on the table.

[Pepe Silvia]

Win or lose we have to protect franklin.

[Pepe Silvia]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Georgia's a good team. In fact they're a very good team.

But Mizzou's offense is absolutely legit. Have you seen anything in UGA's defense this year to suggest they should be able to hold Missouri under 30?

It will likely be a shootout. I don't care if you give Murray 4 walk-on WRs, he's just so smart out there that I think he'll be able to score against anyone. That's especially true if Mizzou goes into that shell defense again.

I don't think anyone's sleeping on GA, they're just confident that Mizzou's offense can give them a run. If you're within a score either way in the 4th, you're looking at a 50/50 game with these offenses, IMO.

Agreed.

[|Zach|]

Originally Posted by duncan_idaho

It feels weird to say, but he might be right.

If Missouri manages to knock off Georgia in Athens, it has the next two biggest contenders for the SEC East (Florida and SC) at home. It also gets aTm at home (at Kentucky, at Ole Miss).

It wouldn't be a cake walk by any means, but a 6-0 Mizzou team would have to become the favorite for SEC East champ.

I don't think Missouri would have a shot against Alabama in the SEC title game, so I don't buy the real title shot thing. But an 11-1/10-2 BCS bowl/championship game appearance would seem to be on the table.

Yup

[Saul Good]

I can't recall a season this far along in which the upside is so high and the downside so low. 10 wins wouldn't shock me...but neither would 6.

[duncan_idaho]

Wow. Just looked at some stats on CFB stats.com (Great site, btw).

Georgia defense ranks (SEC):
14th in scoring defense
13th in YPA (8.1 YPA)
14th in INT (1)
12th in QB rating allowed (147.64)
6th in YPR (3.78, one spot behind Mizzou)
10th in total defense

They are middle of the pack in most of the other defensive categories.

The two best offenses they have faced are Clemson and LSU, and Missouri is a pretty good comparison to those offenses.

Of course, now that the facts show Mizzou should have great success against Georgia's D, they will pitch a shutout or something...

[Saul Good]

Georgia's Rivals reporter just said that he "would be shocked" if Gurley plays Saturday.

[Mosbonian]

Funny...or not so funny observation....how much of a difference one year can make. At this time last year we were all upset about where we were headed in our first season of SEC football.

Now look at us....

[Saul Good]

The line is down to 8...a three point drop in two days.

[Pepe Silvia]

Originally Posted by duncan_idaho

Of course, now that the facts show Mizzou should have great success against Georgia's D, they will pitch a shutout or something...

I was thinking the same thing but I'm trying to be positive. lol After last year it feels good to be ranked again, I didn't think we would see a number next to our name in this conference for a while, even if it's for just 1 week.

[Pepe Silvia]

Originally Posted by Saul Good

The line is down to 8...a three point drop in two days.

Must be because Gurley is doubtful.