Mitch Morse has jersey retired at St. Michael’s

http://kxan.com/2015/05/05/morse-hon...t-st-michaels/

Nice bit on Marcus Golden and the Mizzou Program from Arians and Keim.

http://www.azcardinals.com/videos/vi...b-ad5647967605

http://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/miz...zous-doubters/

If Mizzou starts 6-0?

So they're already assuming wins over South Carolina and Florida? Let's not get ahead of ourselves.

Without Golden, Ray, Webb, Murphy, and nearly every worthwhile receiver we had last year, I would be over the moon with 8-4.

The offense has a real chance to be horawful.

Don't forget Mitch Morse, who was a quality LT.

They're going to have to rely heavily on running the football effectively to really have any sort of offensive production, I think. Mauk was not impressive at the spring game and had the same issues.

Honestly, I'm not sure they'd be better off with him instead of Marvin Zanders. Zanders would be a dynamic running threat and is good at throwing on the run.

This but Ealy, Sam, Wilson, Britt, DGB, LDW, Lucas and Gaines, and I'm from 2014.

Perhaps we could deflate some balls?

It's pretty impressive how much talent has rolled through Columbia in the past 2 years. And nobody even mentioned Josey.

Another crazy thing is that of the four players from Mizzou drafted in the first two rounds, two were first year starters, one was starting at a new position last season, and the other didn't play football last season.

I still feel like we're just scratching the surface of how good this program can be.

The money from the SEC (and the network) is only going to help.

Recruiting still has to get better if we want to take the next step.

And getting a strong recruiting connection in Florida.
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Last year was pretty damned good. A connect in Florida would help, but imagine the 2015 recruiting class with Ofodile and Hentges, or the Davis twins. Still, far too much talent leaves the state.

Setting up a pipeline in Georgia has helped, and they've done really well in Tennessee, but as the Vols continue to rebuild it's going to be harder to get good players from that state. I think Florida is a hard sell, save for under-the-radar types.

Also:

http://i59.tinypic.com/2qtllhc.jpg

What happened with ofodile?

That can't be true. I've read on CP numerous times that the SEC isn't nearly as lucrative as the Big 12 and the SEC network is a dismal failure.

He was the latest in a line of hometown kids who was NOT all about playing for the hometown school. Not sure why, but that's an issue in Columbia.

Seems like the stud DE recruit at Rock Bridge in the 16 class feels differently, but time will tell.

I get the fullback that went to OU whose ne escapes me, but as a WR to slip to Oregon seems weird.

I got to know chase Patton a little in dental school (he was a year ahead of me and is practicing in Como I think) so it was cool to hear some stories about the program.

however, it wasn't cool that they always won the intramural football tourney.

Chase is one of the nicest human beings I've met, and certainly was the nicest top 50 national recruit that I ever interviewed. I met him at his house for an interview before his commitment to Mizzou, and he answered the door in rubber gloves - he had decided to spend a day off cleaning around the house to help his mom out.

Man, he could spin the ball. Just a cannon. And he married up, too. Ashley Guy is, if possible, an even nicer person than Chase. And a damn good athlete in her own right.

If they have a son, he'll play football or baseball at Mizzou, pretty sure of it.

It's not just Trey-tor Millard (OU FB). It's also the DT who went to Nebraska, and Ofodile, and seemingly every decent talent out of RB (Aron White, TE, Logan Gray, QB to Georgia).

Missouri has not had much luck getting the true stars out of Columbia, MO.

lulz, logan gray goes to my gym and works at the same bank as my girlfriend does (his mother is the big boss). nice guy, but he flamed out HARD at georgia.

Hell, goes all the way back to Gary Anderson.

Yeah, she's a sweetheart. They had a little boy around the same time we did, but I haven't talked to him in a while.

He could spin it, that's for sure. It was pretty unfair in flag football,lol.

He is a super nice dude though. He was a TA in one of the many labs we had, and the instructor always called him chase daniel. Pretty funny.

We made it to the semi's of that tourney on Stankowski with my law school squad in 2006. The team that beat us had one dude that was about 6'8'' and we'd keep getting pressure on them but they'd just chuck it up high and he'd go up and get it over double coverage.

It was like the Chiefs/Colts playoff game - we just couldn't stop 'em. Damn intramural teams. We had a guy actually tear his hamstring in one of those games - the back of his leg was bright purple for a month. I had a straight up Chris Carter moment diving out of the back corner of the endzone and dragging my feet to make an over the shoulder catch on a 2 point conversion. I guess I feel better knowing that we'd have just gotten housed in the finals by Chase Patton's friggen pickup squad.

I miss being athletic. Now I end up with sore feet after 2 nights of softball. Stupid old age...

The fact of the matter is that the money doesn't matter all that much anymore. By that, I mean the SEC schools have plenty, and so do the Big 12 schools. One league distributing 2-3 million a year more than the other in a given year doesn't make a difference.

What does matter is how the money is used. The Big 12 has been flat out told and shown that not having enough teams for a CCG puts them at a disadvantage. Unfortunately for them, they have chosen to ignore their huge issue because they're worried about losing money when they should be worried about losing playoff appearances.

All the money in the world doesn't do a football program a bit of good when you choose to guard it like the dragon in Beowulf.

Yeah, I hear ya.

I shredding a hamstring trying to stretch a double during school and couldn't hardly push the foot pedal to spin my drill in clinic. It was pretty embarrassing.

I dunno that chase would have been therr in 06, he graduated a year ahead of me in 2013.

But yeah, getting old Sucks. Gotta stick to golf and old dreams at this point

Looks like his first year on campus was 2004 as a redshirt so by 2006 he'd have been in his redshirt soph year.

You could be right - like I said, I never actually played him. I'm just choosing to believe that he'd have been waiting for us in the finals to grind us in to dust so I can let go of the fact that we could put like 8 guys on that damn massive WR of theirs in the semis and still couldn't stop him. !@#$

Oh, no this was at UMKC in dental school, after his days at MU.

Ah.

Well shit. Now I feel bad again.

I'm sure you guys would have lost anyway, so don't feel bad.

In my days at MSU, we had a pretty spectacular intramural ball team, composing of a few Hugh school all staters and such. We were well balanced, had good bigs etc.

But we always ran into the damn football team and clay harbour always beat us. Either the semi's or finals, every year save for 1, where the soccer team just out ran us.

Yeah, I miss being an athlete though.

I don't think Patton would have been waiting for you, but Corby Jones might have been. I forget which year he graduated, but it was around that time. He destroyed my intramural team single-handedly one year.

We had a guy break his tibia in intramurals against Corbs and company. He was playing deep safety with me, and we both went up for a deep ball over the middle. I picked it off and had a decent return, he broke his leg (hairline). He didn't realize it, went home, was still feeling the pain and finally went to the doctor. Turned out it was broken, and the damage inside was putting the nerve and his lower leg at risk.

After he got out of surgery, the doc told him if he'd waited another 6 hours, they might have had to amputate the lower leg due to the interior damage and nerve issues. Or something like that.

What year did you graduate law school? If you were there in 06, you were there at the same time as my wife.

Unless he was just chilling on campus waiting to kick teeth in, Corby had already moved on to dominating alumni golf tournaments as a young associate at Shook Hardy by then. I'm pretty sure he graduated the year before I got there.

I graduated in spring '07.

Corby is practicing in KC now, right?

I saw him at a Mexican bar down by the med/dental school a few years back and an mu alum I was with thought thats where he was

I believe he works at Shook.

He started his own shop but it didn't work out for whatever reason.

I thought he was at Spencer Fane? I suppose it's possible he went back to Shook.

He's had an interesting legal career. I think he's probably a pretty decent attorney but I wonder if firms aren't bringing him in largely for name value and one-off cases here and there. He seems to be something of a nomad that's never really stuck on a partnership track.

Admittedly, that could be wildly unfair and is based only on the fact that the novelty of Corby Jones practicing law keeps his name floating about silly legal sewing circles, but that's the impression I've gotten.

It's dog-and-pony show, I think. Firms bring him in to get the name recognition, but I have no idea how effective he actually is as an attorney.

He's back at Shook according to LinkedIn.

In the "Because Mizzou" folder for this week: Marcus Loud was kicked off the team for an unspecified violation. I'm sure someone knows more than I do about this.

What, for the last two years has arguably been the best tandem of DEs in the country is now a potential significant weakness. Kuligowski will definitely earn that raise this summer.

Is Charles Harris going to step up this year and make a name for himself?
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He's certainly the most likely one to do it. Walter Brady, Rocel McWilliams, Frazier (the JuCo transfer) and Spencer Williams are the other guys who will be in the rotation.

Brantley is going to be the big playmaker this year. I think he's another potential first rounder. Augusta can really step up this year, too.

Mater thought that Nate Howard might get PT, but given his frame and as a fall enrollee, I think it would be better to RS him.

I agree, Brantley will be the man. CH seems to fit the mold of all our past DEs who blew up out of nowhere. I just wonder if he has a mobster year does he jump if he is a likely Rd 1/2 guy. Or does he come back to solidify a Rd 1 grade.
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I sure hope Beckner qualifies.

I don't really know what happened with him other than him generally being a bit of a head case due to distractions in his home life. It's a bad situation and he didn't successfully escape it.

I think Charles Harris is going to have a really big year/breakout year. He has a great first step and has gotten much stronger. He could have a Shane Ray/rs. sophomore type of breakout.

Walter Brady is probably the next best of the rest. The JUCO, Frazier, was also brought in to be an immediate contributor. Hopefully he's ready.

With loud, it Seemed less like "if" he would be kicked off the team and more like "when".

I also think the pass rush will be less dependent on great DE play than it was under Steckel and Eberflus.

Odom apparently ran "vanilla" in the Spring game, and it was significantly more creative than ANYTHING the other two ever ran.

Blitzes from the corner, S and LB were actually effective and not "super tricky" delayed blitzes.

If the DEs aren't getting it done, I'm comfortable with Odom being good enough to scheme pressure from other spots.

Odom was a huge get, just as loud is a pretty big loss in terms of on the field play. He looked like he was really coming on in the spring. In terms of being a teammate, though, this could be addition by subtraction.

Yeah, you kept hoping he'd get it figured out and on occasion he'd say the right things.

But in the end, this just seemed like a foregone conclusion. I never expected him to be the guy hugging Gary with tears in his eyes on Senior Night. He wasn't going to have the Markus Golden ending.

I just really worry about this season. Without any returning threats on the outside, losses on the OL, and the biggest strength of the team becoming a significant question mark to weakness, 7-8 wins might be a best case scenario, especially since Mauk had a terrible spring and has never shown the ability to elevate the play of others.

We've got a wildly favorable schedule, but we're due to lay an egg. Every team in the East is very flawed. Georgia looks like the team to beat, but their schedule is a bitch, and they're breakng in a new QB.

I don't think they can do much worse than that rat bum, Mason. Chubb is going to be an animal this year, though.

They've had nothing but studs at RB every year.

Anybody have the "news" on Beckner on the PowerMizzou message board?

He likely is going to qualify. Grades must have come back in good enough shape to work with current ACT scores.

Eh, it's sort of what we've known all along. No guarantees, but he'll likely make it to mizzou on time.

Beckner has been cleared.

Yes!

PBJ:thumb:PBJ:thumb:PBJ:thumb:PBJ:thumb:

Going to be critical for the DL. Need Beckner to provide some depth at DT.

But but but immoral sign and place!!!!

Bambi and PB are as dumb as the day is long.

2015 #Mizzou DL commit @JoshMoore_08 has has been approved by NCAA clearing house and will be enrolling in summer classes.

Bummer..

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Apparently, Mizzou added 4* DE Tre Williams.

It would be pretty tough to lose a premier DE talent in your own back yard after the success they've had developing DEs.

It's a get, but I'd have been more annoyed had they lost him than I am excited that they got him.

Given the talent from Columbia they lost out to in recent years, I'm pretty excited he's committed.

Stud players are stud players. It's a big get.

Nice get

#2 kicker in the country commits to Mizzou.

http://kohlskicking.com/profile/tucker-mccann/7003/

Beckner looks like he has no sunshine in his life. Love that for a mean d lineman.

Speaking of, Lock is the exact opposite.

Which I like in a QB...could be a great combo.

Beat out Alabama for him.

I'm probably more excited about this than I should be, then again, our kicking game has been such a cluster**ck since we went to the SEC.

Hopefully that will take care of this problem for a few years, at least.

I think we landed the #3 punter last year.

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That dog will hunt.

I assume fingers are crossed that Doherty doesn't go too high in the MLB draft.

Mizzou lands another really good one. Per PowerMizzou:

Cypress Falls athlete Trey Baldwin has committed to Mizzou according to sources.

Nice to see we can still recruit Texas.

He didn't.

It sounds like he is starting to believe his best pro future is in football.

Beating out North Texas, SFA, Sam Houston St. and Texas St.

Doesn't change the caliber of the player. Big schools will be on this guy. It's good to have him in the fold.