***Official 2012-13 Mizzou football repository thread***

[duncan_idaho]

I figured it was time to start the new version of this...

2012 Schedule
April 14: Spring Game
Sept. 1: SE Louisiana
Sept. 8: Georgia
Sept. 15: Arizona State
Sept. 22: at South Carolina
Sept. 29: at Central Florida
Oct. 6: Vanderbilt
Oct. 13: Alabama
Oct. 20: OPEN
Oct. 27: Kentucky*101st HOMECOMING*
Nov. 3: at Florida
Nov. 10: at Tennessee
Nov. 17: Syracuse
Nov. 24: at Texas A&M

Still three games to be released here. I'd expect a mid-major in the Sept. 1 game, a FCS team on Sept. 29, and another mid-major on Nov. 17 (to get a November home game on the schedule).

Committed Recruits:
A list of all players committed to Missouri for the 2013 recruiting class.

*** LB Joe Burkett, Jefferson City
*** ATH Aarion Penton, Christian Brothers (St. Louis)
*** ATH Anthony Sherrils, Hogan Prep (Kansas City)
*** OC Alec Abein SLUH (St. Louis)
**** ATH Chase Abbington, Fort Zumwalt South (St. Louis)
*** OL Harneet Gill, Francis Howell (St. Louis)
*** QB Trent Hosick, Staley (Kansas City)
*** WR J'Mon Moore, Elkins (Missouri City, Tx) Soft verbal - still looking around
*** OT Clay Rhodes, Stillwell (Kansas City)
*** DT Antar Thompson, Richmond Heights (St. Louis)
*** LB Eric Beisel, Rockwood Summit (Fenton, MO).
*** DT A.J. Logan, Rock Bridge (Columbia, MO)
*** QB Eddie Printz, Lassiter (Marietta, GA)
*** DE Nate Crawford, West Florida Tech (Pensacola, FL)
*** DE Marcus Loud, Wheatley (Houston, TX)
*** DT Josh Augusta, Peoria (Peoria, IL)
*** TE Jason Reese, Trinity (Euless, Tx)
*** S SHaun Rupert, Carver (Montgomery, AL)
*** S Duron Singleton, Fresno CC (Fresno, California)
NR DE Charles Harris, Liberty Prep (Kansas City, MO)





Season Notes:
New uniforms to be unveiled at the Spring Game on April 14.

I'll try to be good about maintaining this, though I've set a ridiculous standard for myself.

[O.city]

So I'm looking at CB's for a mock draft and I figured you guys could help, who was MU's best CB this year? I remember seeing him flash alot but can't remember his name.

[duncan_idaho]

Originally Posted by O.city

So I'm looking at CB's for a mock draft and I figured you guys could help, who was MU's best CB this year? I remember seeing him flash alot but can't remember his name.

EJ Gaines?

He's a junior and not expected to enter the draft.

[O.city]

Got it thanks.

[BourbonMan]

Missouri announced the final piece to its 2013 football schedule Wednesday, adding a two-game series with Arkansas State.
The Tigers will play Arkansas State on Sept. 28 in Columbia and at Jonesboro, Ark., on Sept. 12, 2015.
The Red Wolves are coming off a 10-3 season and Sun Belt Conference championship. MU has won the two previous games in the series, including a 44-17 win at Arrowhead Stadium in 2005.
Missouri will play four nonconference games in 2013. The Tigers open the season Aug. 31 against Murray State at Memorial Stadium, then play Toledo at home on Sept. 7. They have the next week off before playing at Indiana on Sept. 21 before returning home to close out the nonconference season against Arkansas State.
Missouri’s first two Southeastern Conference games are on the road, at Vanderbilt on Oct. 5 and Georgia on Oct. 12. The Tigers return home to play Florida (Oct. 19), South Carolina on Homecoming (Oct. 26) and Tennessee (Nov. 2), then travel to Kentucky (Nov. 9) and Mississippi (Nov. 23). Missouri closes out the regular season at home on Nov. 30 against Texas A&M.
Season-ticket information will be released in late February and kickoff times will be announced at a later date.
Copyright 2013 The Kansas City Star. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2013/01/30...#storylink=cpy

[DJ's left nut]

Just a quick reminder about Mizzou football: It's a !@#$ing disaster at the moment.

We can't even keep the *** recruits anymore. DeMariya Mixon decommitted last weekend and is probably going to Nebraska now.

Glad to see Pinkel really seized the momentum from the switch to the SEC. Nice job, Gary.

I hope they just bottom the !@#$ out this season so they can start from scratch.

[OmahaChief]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Just a quick reminder about Mizzou football: It's a !@#$ing disaster at the moment.

We can't even keep the *** recruits anymore. DeMariya Mixon decommitted last weekend and is probably going to Nebraska now.

Glad to see Pinkel really seized the momentum from the switch to the SEC. Nice job, Gary.

I hope they just bottom the !@#$ out this season so they can start from scratch.

That's what I am hoping for at this point as well. The recruiting is going to kill us if we keep Pinkel around. Dude cannot even keep the good talent in his own state. Everyone says...well we got DGB last year. Big deal that is one guy. I would trade that one high level guy to keep the other 3 or 4 that got away. They also seem to have no idea how to recruit Texas now. Other schools recruit Texas just fine that are not in the Big 12 but we keep hearing how much that has hurt us. Sounds more like an excuse to me.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by OmahaChief

That's what I am hoping for at this point as well. The recruiting is going to kill us if we keep Pinkel around. Dude cannot even keep the good talent in his own state. Everyone says...well we got DGB last year. Big deal that is one guy. I would trade that one high level guy to keep the other 3 or 4 that got away. They also seem to have no idea how to recruit Texas now. Other schools recruit Texas just fine that are not in the Big 12 but we keep hearing how much that has hurt us. Sounds more like an excuse to me.

This class looks a lot like the 2011 class; just nothing to it. A bunch of *** guys isn't going to cut it down there.

[duncan_idaho]

Missouri's biggest problem is that it is carrying a bunch of guys who are average-at-best recruiters who don't seem to work all that hard.

Andy Hill is a stud. Works his a$$ off in KC and also helps out the other guys a lot, as well as being the primary JUCO guy and a secondary rural MO guy.

Cornell Ford (St. Louis) and Josh Henson are OK. Both have good reps, but I wouldn't call either a spectacular recruiter. Ford has a lot of big wins, but he also has lost some St. Louis guys by not recruiting hard from the get-go (Case in point: EE. They thought they had some cushion with him because of his roots and focused elsewhere early. Ooops)

Beyond that?

Brian Smith and Bruce Walker are below-average to awful reruiters. Nice, boring guys that are never in on more than 2-3 kids a year. They're also average at best coaches. Real minuses on this staff, in my opinion.

It looks like Pinkel's nephew might fall in that category as well.

The new WR coach, Pat Washington, I think it's too early to tell. He has a decent background, but who knows?

Also, "fun" tidbit I heard recently... they liked a former player for the vacant WR job. He was ready to leave his previous job... turned it down to accept a job with the TSF making like $25k a year. Encouraging...

[duncan_idaho]

Oh, also, Jamone Boyd got arrested... again. This time for burglary.

Will be interesting to see if he and Ramirez ever play a snap for KSU.

[DJ's left nut]

The entire staff needs to be broomed. If they can retain Hill, so be it. But Henson's whole appeal was his ability to make inroads into the South and recruit down there...he's done crap. I've thought pretty highly of Ford, but this is about to be 2 below average classes out of 3 and Ford's misses have had a big part in that.

It's just a bad staff at this point. Steckel's probably about average at his job, Hill us very good. Apart from that, they don't have a coach on this squad that would be difficult to replace. There aren't any Christensen's. Hell, there aren't any Barry Odom's. It's just a bunch of guys that are tight with Pinkel and are average or worse at their jobs.

It's a bad staff with an unimaginative leader and that's just not going to work anymore.

[duncan_idaho]

I left out Craig Kuligiowski, which is unfair. He's a good recruiter and great DL coach.

[DJ's left nut]

So does the Dontre Wilson to Ohio State thing make us a dark horse for EE again?

Hearing anything?

[duncan_idaho]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

So does the Dontre Wilson to Ohio State thing make us a dark horse for EE again?

Hearing anything?

I think there's a decent chance. Awful lot of noise from the family of late - after nothing at all for 18 months - about it being a race.

I know OSU feels like he is sealed up, but EE's dad is creating an awful lot of hope for his alma mater if that's the case.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by duncan_idaho

I think there's a decent chance. Awful lot of noise from the family of late - after nothing at all for 18 months - about it being a race.

I know OSU feels like he is sealed up, but EE's dad is creating an awful lot of hope for his alma mater if that's the case.

He re-tweeted a Mizzou post about how all the OU fans banging on MU right now are also making fun of his parents and looking kinda dickish.

It was an odd thing to re-tweet if you're not thinking hard about Mizzou.

It would still make this a sub-par class (afterall, we're still dying in the trenches and the secondary, IMO), but it would help ease the sting a little.

[duncan_idaho]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

He re-tweeted a Mizzou post about how all the OU fans banging on MU right now are also making fun of his parents and looking kinda dickish.

It was an odd thing to re-tweet if you're not thinking hard about Mizzou.

It would still make this a sub-par class (afterall, we're still dying in the trenches and the secondary, IMO), but it would help ease the sting a little.

Losing Donavohn Jones today was disappointing. I thought he had a shot to be an excellent safety. The JUCO safety, Duron Singleton, is likely to commit tomorrow and is the best JUCO S in the country, according to JUCO Junction.

I am worried about the secondary recruiting, though I think Aarion Penton is going to be a good CB.

Trenches... losing Jake Campos hurts. Clay Rhodes is going to be really good, I think. Gill should be serviceable. Sounds like they have an OK shot to land the former Florida OL commit from Georgia (friends with Printz).

DL... if Augusta and Antar Thompson can qualify, that's a strong pairing in the middle in this class. Losing DiMariya Mixon hurts a lot, because he already is a bigger guy and can be a great big DE or penetrating DT.

If they close, best-case scenario....

RB Ezekiel Elliott
S Duron Singleton
OL Josh Outlaw

This can be an ACCEPTABLE class (one that's good enough to help you stay in the 7-8 win range). The opportunity was there for this to be a foundation class that helped establish something better than that, and missing on it hurts a lot.