****Official 2014 Missouri Tigers Football Thread****

['Hamas' Jenkins]

None of this matters. Fire Pinkel.

[Pitt Gorilla]

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

So, it's understandable when the Davis twins go to Nebraska because their uncle played there (and it's in a different ****ing state) but "Oh well" when Ofodile, who lives in the mother****ing town, whose dad played there, and whose dad coaches the ****ing Rock Bridge team, goes to Oregon.

Stop settling.

Who are you talking to?

[Pitt Gorilla]

Originally Posted by duncan_idaho

I'm not "oh well" or understanding on either situation.

I have been resigned to Ofodile leaving for quite a while. That writing has been on the wall for a few months.

The Davis twins hurt. Talented, big kids that I hope Andy Hill is still dug in on. They were huge early favorites to Mizzou but we didn't get them locked up early enough and the Nebraska offer swayed them.

The Davis twins were much bigger misses, IMO.

[Pepe Silvia]

Lock is going to realize he committed too early and open his recruiting back up, this is why we can't have nice things.

Because Mizzou

[Pepe Silvia]

Originally Posted by duncan_idaho

It's especially irritating because if there's one thing Mizzou should be able to sell to recruits, it's that the Tigers' staff will prepare them to be NFL linemen.

Sheldon Richardson, Aldon Smith, Kony Ealy, Ziggy Hood, CJ Mosely, Aatiyah Ellison, with Markus Golden and Shane Ray waiting in the wings.

Even less-recruited guys like Michael Sam, Stryker Sulak, and Domonique Hamilton have gotten looks in the NFL after working with Coach Kul.

Well said. I agree. There's no excuse for it. There's a reason they're missing out on all of these guys. I'm having second thoughts about locking pinkel up.

[duncan_idaho]

Update:

OL Coach Bruce Walker (and waste of sperm recruiter) is retiring, for good, this time.

My guess for his replacement is current team GA Nick Oetterbacher, who has been with the program for a while. I believe he played at Washington and got connected to Pinkel through that coaching tree.

[Pitt Gorilla]

Originally Posted by PackerinMo

Well said. I agree. There's no excuse for it. There's a reason they're missing out on all of these guys. I'm having second thoughts about locking pinkel up.

You really are insane.

[Pitt Gorilla]

[Pepe Silvia]

Omari Stringer chooses Indiana over Mizzou. You just have to laugh.

[Pepe Silvia]

btw someone on SEC rant made that outrageous claim about Lock but it irritated me because it can possibly happen if Beckner doesnt commit.

[duncan_idaho]

Originally Posted by PackerinMo

Omari Stringer chooses Indiana over Mizzou. You just have to laugh.

Was not a priority target and was not highly rated, either. I don't get the outrage.

[Pepe Silvia]

Originally Posted by duncan_idaho

Was not a priority target and was not highly rated, either. I don't get the outrage.

It's not the player that pisses me off, its the fact he would go to Indiana before Mizzou. **** this recruiting BS. Why did they make the move to the SEC if they can't ****ing recruit? All I hear is it's Mizzou we can't get good players. Fine then don't make a bold move to a conference like that if you can't handle the expectations.

[ChiefsCountry]

Originally Posted by PackerinMo

It's not the player that pisses me off, its the fact he would go to Indiana before Mizzou. **** this recruiting BS. Why did they make the move to the SEC if they can't ****ing recruit? All I hear is it's Mizzou we can't get good players. Fine then don't make a bold move to a conference like that if you can't handle the expectations.

A two star recruit from Chicago suburbs chose a Big Ten school. I don't really see the outrage.

[Captain Obvious]

Originally Posted by PackerinMo

It's not the player that pisses me off, its the fact he would go to Indiana before Mizzou. **** this recruiting BS. Why did they make the move to the SEC if they can't ****ing recruit? All I hear is it's Mizzou we can't get good players. Fine then don't make a bold move to a conference like that if you can't handle the expectations.

Having one of those heavy flow days, huh?

[duncan_idaho]

Originally Posted by PackerinMo

It's not the player that pisses me off, its the fact he would go to Indiana before Mizzou. **** this recruiting BS. Why did they make the move to the SEC if they can't ****ing recruit? All I hear is it's Mizzou we can't get good players. Fine then don't make a bold move to a conference like that if you can't handle the expectations.

Your freak out is a bit much in this case.

They're going to offer 100+ kids a year. They're going to miss on kids that are high priorities. They're also going to not sign kids like Stringer, who was not a priority (hasn't even been mentioned since his visit 2 months ago on PowerMizzou and is a mid-tier 3-star recruit).

He might have a Mizzou offer, but that doesn't mean they'd take a commitment right away.

[Pitt Gorilla]

Originally Posted by PackerinMo

It's not the player that pisses me off, its the fact he would go to Indiana before Mizzou. **** this recruiting BS. Why did they make the move to the SEC if they can't ****ing recruit? All I hear is it's Mizzou we can't get good players. Fine then don't make a bold move to a conference like that if you can't handle the expectations.

Rivals lists Missouri having offers out to at least 130 kids. Even if they weren't taking a smaller class this year (they are), they wouldn't accept commitments from 130 recruits. I'll let you deduce their reasoning.