****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

[duncan_idaho]

Originally Posted by Pitt Gorilla

What happens when you take cheap shots at Marcus Murphy out of bounds? Two plays later:

Was that the same guy?

[Saul Good]

Anyone listening to 810? Their college football expert just picked Mizzou to beat Alabama in the SECCG...and said we would win easily.

Said he likes our chances for a national championship more than Alabama or Florida State.

[Discuss Thrower]

Originally Posted by Saul Good

Anyone listening to 810? Their college football expert just picked Mizzou to beat Alabama in the SECCG...and said we would win easily.

Said he likes our chances for a national championship more than Alabama or Florida State.

Is this expert named Ick Nathan?

[Saul Good]

Originally Posted by Discuss Thrower

Is this expert named Ick Nathan?

No. it wasn't a local guy.

[patteeu]

Originally Posted by Saul Good

Anyone listening to 810? Their college football expert just picked Mizzou to beat Alabama in the SECCG...and said we would win easily.

Said he likes our chances for a national championship more than Alabama or Florida State.

Yeah, when I heard that I wondered if that's what he says on radio stations everywhere or if it was tailored to the audience. Apparently he's been down on Alabama's chances to win the SECCG all along though and as of now Mizzou is the most likely opponent so I guess it's consistent.

[Discuss Thrower]

Originally Posted by Saul Good

No. it wasn't a local guy.

See I haven't followed MU closely this year in favor of KC. Side effect of assuming Franklin was going to play like ass and post a nice 2-6 record in the SEC. This season has just been icing on a nice cake so I'm happy if they wind up in a decent bowl game.

An appearance in Georgia Dome would be nuts.

[eazyb81]

Originally Posted by Saul Good

Anyone listening to 810? Their college football expert just picked Mizzou to beat Alabama in the SECCG...and said we would win easily.

Said he likes our chances for a national championship more than Alabama or Florida State.

Ha. I love Mizzou but that is a ridiculous statement.

This team is great but there is no way we are beating Bama. Zero. Zilch.

[Pitt Gorilla]

Originally Posted by eazyb81

Ha. I love Mizzou but that is a ridiculous statement.

This team is great but there is no way we are beating Bama. Zero. Zilch.

My thinking as well. In fact, we're still going to have to play awfully well just to get to that game. None of the upcoming teams are going to roll over.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by eazyb81

Ha. I love Mizzou but that is a ridiculous statement.

This team is great but there is no way we are beating Bama. Zero. Zilch.

No way?

Nah, I can't get there.

It's damn unlikely, don't get me wrong. But upsets are made by turnovers. Turnovers are made by pressuring the QB. Mizzou pressures the QB better than any team in college football (and almost exclusively through their front 4).

And while 'Bama's defense is absolutely dominant, Mizzou presents matchup issues with it's WR size/speed that no other team 'bama has faced this year present.

IF we're able to hold serve (huge if) and get there, Mizzou has as good a chance to beat 'Bama as any team in the country, FSU excluded.

Matchups will be key and if there's any team that presents a difficult matchup for Alabama, it's Missouri. To say there's 'no chance' Mizzou can beat them is to also say that if they played 20 times, Bama would win all of them - I don't think so. With a few breaks and big plays, Missouri is capable of getting it done. It's unlikely, but not impossible.

[Saul Good]

Originally Posted by patteeu

Yeah, when I heard that I wondered if that's what he says on radio stations everywhere or if it was tailored to the audience. Apparently he's been down on Alabama's chances to win the SECCG all along though and as of now Mizzou is the most likely opponent so I guess it's consistent.

That guy has liked Mizzou all year, but he thought South Carolina was the class of the East followed by Georgia earlier in the year. He didn't sound convinced that we would beat SC (though he did pick us), but he said we would win the East either way.

[Saul Good]

His contention was that we have the best defensive line and the best skill players in the conference.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by Saul Good

His contention was that we have the best defensive line and the best skill players in the conference.

He's right.

And the O-line is experienced due to last years attrition.

We'll know more after this weekend, but this team has the look of a damn feisty opponent for the Tide.

[Pitt Gorilla]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

He's right.

And the O-line is experienced due to last years attrition.

We'll know more after this weekend, but this team has the look of a damn feisty opponent for the Tide.

Love guys like Britt. ** guy out of Nowhere, MO who blew out his ACL a year or so ago. But, the guy is also a champion wrestler and knows how to use quickness and leverage. People can bag on recruiting all they want, but Mizzou gets the kinds of players they want.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by Pitt Gorilla

Love guys like Britt. ** guy out of Nowhere, MO who blew out his ACL a year or so ago. But, the guy is also a champion wrestler and knows how to use quickness and leverage. People can bag on recruiting all they want, but Mizzou gets the kinds of players they want.

Britt's a great story, but he's still not an elite guy. He doesn't have the feet for it.

The teams that pull the elite recruits are able to keep someone like Britt at RT or even G. Mizzou has made him a credible LT at an extremely high level, but that's still not ideal.

Ideal is getting guys like Rhodes with regularity so that if one of them doesn't develop like you'd prefer, you have another guy with the bulk and athleticism to step up. If that player hits his ceiling, he's elite.

Britt, unlike so many, actually hit his ceiling. If we can get more talented players to do the same, we're going to be better off (obviously). That's the next step I want to see in the program.

[patteeu]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

No way?

Nah, I can't get there.

It's damn unlikely, don't get me wrong. But upsets are made by turnovers. Turnovers are made by pressuring the QB. Mizzou pressures the QB better than any team in college football (and almost exclusively through their front 4).

And while 'Bama's defense is absolutely dominant, Mizzou presents matchup issues with it's WR size/speed that no other team 'bama has faced this year present.

IF we're able to hold serve (huge if) and get there, Mizzou has as good a chance to beat 'Bama as any team in the country, FSU excluded.

Matchups will be key and if there's any team that presents a difficult matchup for Alabama, it's Missouri. To say there's 'no chance' Mizzou can beat them is to also say that if they played 20 times, Bama would win all of them - I don't think so. With a few breaks and big plays, Missouri is capable of getting it done. It's unlikely, but not impossible.

The guy Saul is talking about made the same point you do about Mizzou's particular ability to challenge Alabama through the air.