Haven't watched a lot, but this defense looks BAD tonight. JFC.

I didn't see the first 25 minutes, but judging from the highlights of those, and the last 10 minutes of play, the safeties have really crapped their pants.

However, Mizzou has never, ever been able to defend a mobile QB. They weren't able to do it in the BXII, and the only time they faced a truly healthy running threat in the SEC, they've taken some pretty serious shit kickings.

Wow. Mitch Hall could not be worse at football.

What is it with the state of Missouri and terrible O-lines?

The D didn't play bad early in the game. I think they are gassed now with the crappy O play.

Yup. D is totally gassed. Thanks offense!

Just too easy.

What an ass beating

You know, I said after the Connecticut game that if the offense played like that they might win only one more game this year.

I didn't think it would actually happen.

Here's what worries me, though: our disasters hurt us more in recruiting than other teams' disasters seem to. I'm just worried about a mass exodus of recruits if this happens.

Another third down given up :shake:

This is just ****ing disgraceful. I'm sorry guys but Daniel, Gabbert, and Franklin didn't look this bad as freshman. That line blows but I don't see what's so good about Lock.

Those 3 guys had at least a few decent targets to throw to.

Franklin was basically a running back as a Freshman, Daniel and Gabbert threw 79 passes combined, and they were playing against BXII defenses with a lot more offensive talent.

Lock has shown some warts, but he has nothing to work with. Nothing.

What a run by Hunt. What a run.

Hunt has so many big runs this year...its hilarious to me....Witter has shown some life the last couple games, other than that though, Tyler Hunt has somehow been our most explosive playmaker.

Please strip Mitch Hall's scholarship. He is so, so ****ing awful.

He's ****ing awful.

Oh I know they didn't get much playing time but in that short sample size they showed me a lot more than what this kid has.

You have to keep telling yourself he's just a freshman, but jeez Lock is ku level awful

Don't worry guys. If Locke can hit a crossing route at 7 yards he will have open receivers and no pressure all day when you all play the Hogs. Should give you rose colored glasses going into the off season after you see him light it up against us.

This is part of the problem. The OC has no ability to call plays that would work. Crossing patterns and slants seem to not be allowed by Henson. In the rare occasion we send a receiver over the middle Lock effin ingnores him and throws to the sideline out of bounds. We had a man wide open and by wide I mean not one person within 10 yards of him, last night and Lock refused to throw him the ball. Missed an easy first down and YAC.

Lock is part of the problem in that he is locking onto receivers or deciding where he is going with the ball before the snap in my opinion. Of course that might be becuase he knows his Oline is suck a steaming sack of crap that he generally has 1.4 seconds to throw before he is on his back.

What's worse is there is apparently nobody better than him.

Was at work last night and listened as long as I could stand it. Even Mike Kelley has this barely contained contempt in his voice while calling the game.

What I don't understand is why haven't the coaches changed the offensive philosophy for Lock? He clearly has a different skillset than Mauk had, but they keep trying to force him into running the same plays designed for Mauk.

I could stomach this shit if I were confident it would lead to accountability after the season. But I'm fully expecting Mr. We Do What We Do to keep Ricker and Henson and tell them to just work harder.

I was planning on watching bits of the game, but got busy with other stuff and actually forgot about it. I remembered this morning and checked the box score & stats. Glad I did other things last night.

Something has to be done about Ricker, but I don't see it happening either. How many more years before Pinkel calls it quits and hands things over to Odom? Maybe Odom will have some balls in these situations.

I fell asleep at halftime, woke up 1/2 through the third quarter. Things escalated quickly!

Was told today that Pinkel hasn't been as stiff/short/angry with the media as he currently is since 2004. May be a sign that significant change is going to happen, as after that year he went away from the offense he had run/coordinated/designed for 25 years.

I also wouldn't be surprised if he just walked away/retired.

It's frustrating. There is a lot of young talent on this team at QB, WR, DL, LB and DB. The problems on the OL are significant enough, though, that you worry that even when the QB and WR have more experience and perform at a higher level, the line might not be there to support them.

RB is also a concerning area. Witter has shown a little bit more of late and could be solid... but Mizzou is in a situation in which it needs Nate Strong/Marquise Doherty/Chase Abbington to make major impacts next year, or be in danger of being woefully inadequate at the position again.

Here's a question I'm not qualified to answer or speculate on, but I've wondered: how hard of a worker is Pinkel?

It seems like the narrative around the 2012 situation was that, aside from injuries, he had grown someone complacent. I can't speak to its veracity, though.

Is he the type of guy that burns the midnight oil, or does he have an approach to work similar to Spurrier? Somewhere in between?

This just has the look of a half-assed coaching job this season.

He's a CEO-style guy, from what I know of him. He gives a lot of autonomy to his coordinators and really lets them run the show.

I know Yost was completely burned out when he left. It is conceivable the same has happened to Henson.

I think there is definite complacency with the staff, which is why some guys last forever. I also think the decision to make Andy Hill the QB coach was a mistake... Should have just kept him with the WRs, where he was best, and found an actual QB coach.

4-star WR DaRon Davis commits to Mizzou. Davis is a 3-star recruit on Rivals.

https://www.seccountry.com/missouri/...from-4-star-wr

Good get, but he's a 2017, just to clarify.

Huge get. Hopefully he isn't blocked behind all of our existing superstar WRs.

Players going on strike?

Just saw that on SECrant. Is this for real? Anyone have an article with the backstory?

Thank you for letting Alex Grinch become the D coordinator at Wazzu. He is doing good work already.

Seeing the strike stuff on twitter and on deadspin.

Definitely for real. Many of the players have tweeted about it.

http://deadspin.com/missouri-footbal...rending_test_c

Wow. I can't imagine this is going to end well. I mean, you can't let the athletes hold you hostage like that, but you can't really just move forward and ignore them. Hopefully you all can field a football team by Thanksgiving. :eek:

What a cluster****....

I've never been more proud of any Mizzou athletes.

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I agree 100%....

Of course the coaches are supportive. Anything to distract from the shit show they put on the field.

Same

They picked a bad year to do this. The ultimate troll would be to send them a tuition bill.

If the racial incidents turn out to be hoaxes....

I kinda selfishly hope AJ Ricker shows a racist streak through all of this :D

There's lots that's happened on campus this semester that couldn't be some activist false flag, mostly screwups from administration: http://www.themaneater.com/special-s.../mu-fall-2015/

I just don't get how the president is responsible for some ass smearing shit on a wall.

Read the link in my last post. There's LOTS more to this than just the feces swastika.

I don't think you have any idea how totally ****ed up nearly everything at MU is right now

Seems like a bunch of bs about very little. I get the grad school stuff, but protesting a Thomas Jefferson statue? Eff off.

Yes. That is all that this is about. You're an astute reader.

I see a bunch of protesting about planned parenthood and some racial protests. That link provides two incidents where one random moron did something racist.

This will all pass. Pinkle has been amazing and done so much for the University and its overall reputation. A year ago he was a hero and this year his players have let their coaches and the Tiger Nation down with poor play, bad work ethic, and lack of focus.

So much going on on campus is so negative, people need to step back and embrace the excellence Coach Pinkle has brought to Mizzou

A student at Mizzou created an anonymous messaging app that several students have begun using.

Here are some of the posts from Thursday:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">These are students <a href="https://twitter.com/Mizzou">@Mizzou</a>. This is how they feel about their peers. <a href="https://t.co/5q7KuGRzjZ">pic.twitter.com/5q7KuGRzjZ</a></p>&mdash; Payton Head (@MSAPresident) <a href="https://twitter.com/MSAPresident/status/662352241823715328">November 5, 2015</a></blockquote>
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So out of all that I got 3 actual racial incidents.

1. MSA President gets racial slur yelled at him by a group of students driving by
2. Swastika drawn on residence hall stair well - student was arrested for this
3.Feces swastika in residence hall bathroom

There were a lot of protests and the University leadership didn't exactly handle it well...but I am still wondering where all this institutional racism is.

I get it that the whole grad student health care issue and the planned parenthood issue all happened this semester too, so all put together it just seems like a giant cluster****, but outside of a couple shitty acts of immature racial BS, where is all this racism on campus?

Not even addressing the terrible micro aggression of having a statue of Jefferson on campus.

So, there are racists on the MU campus. I'm pretty sure everyone already knew that, along with the fact that being anonymous makes people do really shitty things.

I didn't know they don't like black people in missouri. Said nobody ever

To be fair, you haven't had many opportunities.

wrong thread

Someone needs to kill you...

This is incredible.

Those chat apps are usually not anonymous

lmao at the never been more proud post. This team is a ****ing shitty ass joke, it's easy for them to just give up because they ****ing suck. Now if they had a good record and were going to go to a decent bowl then it'd be a little more impressive, as it is they're giving up because the suck dick worse then the cheufs.

Yup. Kentrell Brothers, who is playing for his professional livelihood and has maybe three or four games left in his college career, decided to quit.

10/10. Would read again.

What an absolute disaster. I applaud the students and the athletes to stand up like this, but I just can't see how any of this ends well. If the president does indeed step down like they want, what kind of precedence does that establish? But, if they drop their protest, will they just enable and empower the cowardly ****s to continue on with their anonymous dipshittery? What a mess.

My kid goes to school right next door at Stephens. She has many friends that go to Mizzou, and she hasn't spoken word one about any of this. I guess that's good for her.

:rolleyes: Like playing on that shit team is going to do anything for his "professional livelihood." If anything he'll try to use it as a feather in his cap with the media. "Amazing Mizzou athlete only being blackballed from the NFL because of standing up for his beliefs." He'll use it generate interest just like that one who sucks the penis sam.

I'm on Mizzou's campus every day. I didn't even know about the hunger strike until yesterday.

It's not the first time this has happened at Mizzou. If any of you went during the 1980s, you may remember Shantytown. They didn't just keep doing that over and over because the University acquiesced to one set of demands. They made their point, affected a positive change, and moved on.

You seem nice.

OMFGZ you broke da truce!!!!!!

Poop swastikas are serious business

Racism at Mizzou, who knew? I mean a state that proudly brags about burning down Lawrence and being on the wrong side of the civil war and slavery

LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO

Reported! LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO

Let them strike!

The way I see it there's a line that's been drawn in the sand that can't easily be moved. If you fire the man, the athletes will forever more run the show. If you don't, a poor performing team on the field simply won't perform (at all), so who cares. But it's pretty clear that the athletes are taking advantage of a terrible/lost season to see if they can manipulate their management. ANYBODY who thinks they'd do this if they had an .800 winning average is a complete and total ****ing idiot.

So MIZZOU should handle it professionally, pay a fine if must for not fielding a team, play other kids if they can, but I'd recommend they let the one kid decide when he's hungry enough to eat, and these others can start paying for their education somewhere else.

That being typed, knowing MIZZOU, they'll cave to the kids..

I wonder if there are any provisions in the NCAA rule book for kids like Drew Lock to get the hell out of Columbia and make the move to one of the many other schools who offered him a ride without sitting-out for a long time? Minimally he, and others, should find out because MIZZOU seems like it could be the pit of athletic doom for many years to come.

Who the **** are these people putting hate symbols on campus? What's the logic? "Yeah bruh, I'm going to take a shit and make a swastika out of it. That will like totally show them."

Probably a false flag op.

This is a question I ask myself a lot. I think the student population has shifted a lot since I graduated in 05.

The biggest downside to the SEC move was associating with - as a University - the Bible Belt states, which lead the nation in obesity, stupidity, and racism.

There are many, many more students at Mizzou now from Texas/Georgia/Alabama/Mississippi than there were 10 years ago. Pair that with Missouri becoming more of a red state, and K think you've seen a little bit of a geographical shift in the student population... The more "southern" you are, the more racism is going to be an issue.

My sister is 8 years younger than I am. She also graduated from Mizzou. Spending time around her and her friends was pretty eye-opening. Much more open racism amongst them than kids I knew when I was in school (and we ran in very similar circles, right down to the sorority my sister was in, which is the same one my wife was in during our college days).

I think it has a lot more to do with the ridiculous reaction to Ferguson than with a supposed increase of racism at the university.

Go **** yourself.

Student awareness surrounding systemic racism has changed in recent years too. I hesitate to say that anything new is happening at Mizzou. More students of color are asserting themselves at campuses across the nation -- insisting on rights, getting elected to student government, forcing their way into segregated institutions (ala old row sororities at Alabama) -- and along with that comes more visible backlash from the deep veins of racism that had already been there all along.

I think so too. After all, Missouri is the Show-Me State. Young black persons in Missouri, from the Ferguson protests to #ConcernedStudent1950, are saying "you're going to have to show me that activism doesn't work."

I'm proud and inspired.