ROFL

I will say that pulling the jersey up over his gut didn't do him any favors.

Stribling just won the 400 at state in Tennessee.

http://www.stltoday.com/sports/colle...3fe1298d1.html

Wow. Missouri officially has zero **** recruits from the 2013 class.

Bravo, Gary. Bravo.

This was part of that...

Abbington took some easy HS classes before he realized he was going to be a D-1 recruit that didn't count as core courses according to the NCAA and was unable to catch up.

Adios Pinkel

COLUMBIA — Around the first week of May, Missouri defensive coordinator Dave Steckel was at South Grand Prairie High School in Texas, checking in on a few prospects, when the school’s head football coach, Brent Whitson, dropped a bombshell on him.

“I said ‘Coach, I’ve got a kid for you that I think is gonna qualify,’” Whitson recalled. “The kid has a great highlight tape, so after five or six plays, we shut the video off and got him out of class.”
So began a whirlwind process that eventually led to Missouri’s latest addition to its 2013 recruiting class, as 6-foot-1, 295-pound defensive tackle DeQuinton Osborne officially pledged to the Tigers on Friday night.
“I honestly think Stec and I have talked every day for a month now,” Whitson said a laugh. “Missouri was waiting to see if someone they liked would qualify, rather than give one to somebody they weren’t excited about.
“There will be a story like DeQuinton’s every once in a while.”
Whitson said Osborne, a two-star prospect according to Rivals.com, originally had offers from Texas Tech and Baylor, but both were contingent on him qualifying academically. Things looked bleak for him on that end – he needed to raise his GPA in his core classes heading into his final semester of high school – and he committed to Kilgore Junior College in February, just in case he failed to make the grade.
“He needed 3 A’s and a B his last semester and he’d never done that before,” Whitson said, “but he pulled it off.”
Which, in turned, cleared the way for Missouri to take a chance on Osborne, who becomes the fourth defensive tackle in the Class of 2013 to commit to the Tigers, joining three-star prospects Josh Augusta (Peoria, Ill.), A.J. Logan (Columbia Rock Bridge) and Antar Thompson (Maplewood, Mo.).
Thompson, however, is expected to head to junior college, a possibility Osborne managed to avert with a strong academic push over the past several months. Whitson, however, says his star tackle has also come a long way on the field, especially since a disappointing junior season in which he was about 10 pounds too heavy and only a part-time starter.
“When (coaches) came, I wouldn’t show his tape,” Whitson said. “He’s a big-time player but he didn’t play that way. I felt he underachieved.”
But Osborne began to turn it around in spring 2012, when he asked Whitson what he needed to do play Division 1 football. Since then, Whitson said Osborne has done everything asked of him, including paring himself down to 295 pounds.
“He didn’t miss a day in the weight room in the summer,” Whitson said. “The kid was faithful to the program and a great leader.”
All that hard work paved for the way for a senior season in which he racked up 58 tackles (14 for loss) and four sacks from his nose tackle position, despite routine double teams. He also did it in Texas’ biggest classification, 5A, and in the same district as perennial powers Cedar Hill and DeSoto.
South Grand Prairie finished 5-5 and lost to both teams handily, but Whitson said he made sure Missouri had the film of Osborne’s play in those games.
“If you’re going to watch him, watch him play against the best in Texas,” Whitson said. “He plays with low leverage and he’s great with his hands. Coaches want to see arm length, fast hands and explosiveness and he has all those things.”
Steckel and defensive line coach Craig Kuligowski served as the lead recruiters for Osborne, who Whitson says benches 340 pounds, squats 555 pounds and has the arm length of someone who stands about 6-feet-4.
Whitson added that Osborne could eventually bulk up to 325 pounds or so, potentially making him an ideal one-technique nose tackle in Missouri’s Tampa 2 defensive scheme.
But for now, the coach of Missouri’s newest commitment will revel in a huge achievement for a player that’s worked hard for the opportunity, both in the classroom and out.
“The great thing is I get to point to that story now when I talk to other kids, at least until they run me out of town,” Whitson said with a laugh.

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2013/06/01...#storylink=cpy

While there seems to never be good news in this program...ever.

Mizzou had one of the highest academic performance figures from their football team in the country. Only Northwestern, Boise St., Duke, Wisconsin, Clemson and Georgia Tech did better.

It's not a bowl game, but hey, at least the student athletes on the football team are doing student things fairly well.

Congrats, Mizzou. Now please try to win 6 games this year - thank you.

Yippee,Like James Caan said in "The Program" , "When was the last time 80,000 people showed up to watch a kid perform a ****ing chemistry experiment" Win football games, now. Couldn't care less about academics.

This. Best thing for this program would be for Missouri to miss a bowl game and then hopefully Pinkel is finally shown the door.

Do you have a degree from there? I don't expect most folks to care much, but I live in Columbia, wife works for the University and my grandparents taught there for decades between them.

For those of us that are a fan of the University and not just their laundry, it does mean something, even if that something isn't as significant as a BCS game.

The program's not in fantastic shape right now from a W/L standpoint, but it is producing quality kids. As someone who views the University as more than just a football team, that's relevant, though certainly dispositive or even paramount.

We're struggling for good news here, fellas - you might want to take what you can get.

The academic support that Missouri student-athletes receive is excellent, as well as the degree of importance the majority of coaches place on academics at that university.

The next good news I'll care about is Stinkel and his whole shitty staff getting ****-punted out the ****ing door. Time to hire a competent, nationally recognized coach and get back in the game.

That's too bad. Players that are intelligent and able to perform in the classroom as well as on the field are a rare commodity. As such, the development of such athletes should be encouraged. Not only to create better student athletes, increase university prestige, etc. but from a football/coaching perspective, having smarter players generally allows you to be more creative and expand your playbook/philosophies. Working with dumb brutes who can't understand how to properly perform sight adjusts as an example, is a poor route to go down. While not every player is going to be a genius, ensuring that they are working academically also instills/builds discipline and prevents less opportunities for bad things to happen.