****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

[Pepe Silvia]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Exactly - he tried to stroke that SC kick as well. It looks like he's just trying to blast everything through. I didn't see the GA XP, but I have to figure he did the same thing.

He needs to choke up on his swing, so to speak.

It will suck to lose another game but if we lose another game because of Bagget I will pull a Gus Fring.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by PackerinMo

If we lose another game that sucks but if we lose another game because of Bagget I will pull a Gus Fring.

Worse still, if we don't lose another game.

I sat through that entire TN game turning to a buddy of mine (fellow STH), shaking my head and saying - "9-0.....we should be 9-0"

All we could do was sigh.

I know, it's shitty fandom to sit there and complain about an 8-1 start in the SEC, but !@#$ me, the 'what might have been' is just too damn much.

[Pepe Silvia]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Worse still, if we don't lose another game.

I sat through that entire TN game turning to a buddy of mine (fellow STH), shaking my head and saying - "9-0.....we should be 9-0"

All we could do was sigh.

I know, it's shitty fandom to sit there and complain about an 8-1 start in the SEC, but !@#$ me, the 'what might have been' is just too damn much.

They should have kept pounding the damn ball on the final OT drive instead of settling for 3. SC couldn't stop Murphy, Pinkel is a **** head for even putting them in that situation. I'm glad I wasn't at that game because I would have made a fool of myself and I'm usually calm at the games regardless of what happens. It just frustrates me how Pinkel has always held Mizzou back, I appreciate the way he turned the program around but I just can't get over how he played not to lose all those years, in the end he let Mizzou down in that regard.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by PackerinMo

They should have kept pounding the damn ball on the final OT drive instead of settling for 3. SC couldn't stop Murphy, Pinkel is a **** head for even putting them in that situation. I'm glad I wasn't at that game because I would have made a fool of myself and I'm usually calm at the games regardless of what happens.

No you wouldn't have.

It was so dispiriting that you'd have been the same shocked zombie fan that the rest of us were. It really was a silent death-march out of the stadium. Some folks finally found their voices on the sidewalks back to the cars, but there just wasn't the energy for rage.

[Pepe Silvia]

You know what else really blows? Baylor is probably going to win a conference title before us.

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Originally Posted by duncan_idaho

They only took 17 last year (banked Hosick and Printz to 2012 class, lost Thompson and Abbington to juco). That gives them 8 spots to play with above 25.

They could take 33 if they can find 8 kids to enroll in January and count towards last year's scholarship limit of 25. More likely they take 3-4 extra. I know Bauer for sure is a January enrollee. Not sure about who else.

Marvin Zanders is looking around and may not be long for the commit list, so that potentially opens up another spot.

Thank you. I looked all over the place for info beyond the 25 scholarship limit yesterday, knowing that aTm took 30+ last year, and found nothing. I didn't know that early enrollees counted towards the previous year, although it makes sense.

As far as Zanders is concerned, unless he's lit it up, I can't say that I'm terribly worried. Were they really looking at him as a QB?

[Mosbonian]

Originally Posted by duncan_idaho

Both of the kicks Baggett has missed have been with the LOS inside the 20.

I think the bigger issue is not the distance but the placement. He clearly struggles kicking from the left hash. When they're in field goal range, that's something they should look at/think about. Especially if they're running the football.

On the 2 i have seen him miss it is like he is trying to bomb it thru like he is kicking from the 50 yard line. He's not kicking for show, he's kicking for accuracy inside the 20.

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Originally Posted by duncan_idaho

It comes from people searching for excuses for why St. Louis players are not awesome, I think.

If a kid (say his name is Wolandis Roodland) goes to Mizzou and never makes an impact on the playing field, it must be because the coaches are idiots and playing slow white boys (say his name is M.J. Toe) at his spot.

However, if Wolandis instead goes to Ohio State and never plays, well, he got his education and didn't develop enough to see the field.

Stupid double standard being driven by a few "connected" guys in the Lou, from what I can gather. St. Louis arrogance... they have quite a bit of it when it comes to football prospects, not really sure why (maybe because KC continually kicks their ass in state title games and it's an expression of insecurity?)

So, hypothetically, at least, Wolandis has been shit-talking the program?

[Mosbonian]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

The one he doinked against TN was absolutely smoked off the upright. It shook the goalposts at the base. It was hilariously centered and had enough velocity of the upright to make it all the way back out to the LOS.

He's kicking those chippies way too damn hard. Just be calm, line it up and guide it on through. Instead he's giving these full swings at them and kicking them dead straight.

It looks like he's just being an idiot to me and not adjusting his power to the need.

Guess I should have read more before I made my post....

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Originally Posted by Mosbonian

On the 2 i have seen him miss it is like he is trying to bomb it thru like he is kicking from the 50 yard line. He's not kicking for show, he's kicking for accuracy inside the 20.

If kicking is anything like hitting a golf ball or a baseball, and I can't see how it wouldn't be, he's most likely whipping his hips through the ball too fast instead of staying back for an extra tick and guiding the ball out to the right.

[Saul Good]

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

We have 25 right now. Are they expecting attrition in this recruiting class? Surely they aren't going to pull offers from committed players?

How are they expecting to balance guys like Wingo, Smith, and Brandon Lee? They're all significantly better recruits than almost anyone else in the class.

Smith is going to Iowa. Supposedly Mizzou put his offer on hold until he showed that he would qualify because we don't have room to burn a spot on someone who might not qualify.

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Originally Posted by Saul Good

Smith is going to Iowa. Supposedly Mizzou put his offer on hold until he showed that he would qualify because we don't have room to burn a spot on someone who might not qualify.

That's somewhat disappointing, but given that we seem to get annually ****ed by St. Louis non-qualifiers, I'm not all that surprised.

That said, Iowa recruits the **** out of St. Louis, and given their terrible, terrible program right now, it's tiresome.

[Mosbonian]

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

If kicking is anything like hitting a golf ball or a baseball, and I can't see how it wouldn't be, he's most likely whipping his hips through the ball too fast instead of staying back for an extra tick and guiding the ball out to the right.

Inside the 20 you are taught to get height not distance....you don't get extra points for distance beyond the crossbar. Besides what you posted above his problem is foot placement I am pretty sure.....

['Hamas' Jenkins]

I would just like to say that I always read your user name as Mo Bosnian, so I imagine you posting from underneath a shelled out concrete husk in Sarajevo.

[Saul Good]

Seems Mizzou isn't holding a spot for Wingo as long as he is going to take other visits.

Things are sorting themselves out via us turning up the heat on recruits to shit or get off the pot. Not a bad strategy.