****Official 2016 Missouri Tigers Football Thread****

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Following the shitpocalypse that was 2015, almost anything would be an improvement.

Key Departures from 2015:

Kentrell Brothers
Connor McGovern
Evan Boehm
Ethiopia Dennis

Addition by Subtraction from 2015:

Maty "The Snowman" Mauk
AJ Ricker
Josh Henson

2017 Commits and Key Recruits:

Spoiler!

Commits:

DaRon Davis, RB, KC MO ***
Jafar Armstrong, AthAlete, Shawnee Mission, KS ***
Pompey Coleman, OT, Indianapolis, IN ***
Hyrin White, OT, Descroto, TX ***
Logan Christophsen, TE, Lemont, IL ***
Larry Borom, OL, Bloomfield Hills, MI **
Roderick Ford, WR, Fort Worth, TX ***
Case Cook, OL, Carrolton, GA ***
Aubrey Miller, LB, Memphis, TN ***
Jamal Brooks, LB Bessemer, AL ***
Joshuah Bledsoe, DB, Spring, TX ***
Reyondous Estes, QB, East St. Louis, IL **
Adam Bay, LB, Mesa, AZ Unranked


Key Area Recruits:

Larry Boyd, OT, STL, MO ***
Chester Graves, DE, KC MO ****
Marquis Hayes, OT, Maryland Heights, MO ***

2016 Schedule:

9/3: @ West Virginia
9/10: Eastern Michigan
9/17: Georgia
9/24: Delaware State
10/1: @LSU
10/15: @Florida
10/22: Middle Tennessee State
10/29: Kentucky
11/5: @South Carolina
11/12: Vanderbilt
11/19: @Tennessee
11/25 Arkansas

Hamas' Crystal Ball predicts 6-6.

[Prison Bitch]

Originally Posted by KChiefs1

This is embarrassing.

Meh,no shame losing to LSU, that Leonard Fournette is a special player

[Bob Dole]

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

They are doing way too much reading and reacting on defense and it has taken all of their aggression away. Until that changes, they are going to massively underperform expectations.

That would be tough, since Bob Dole's expectation for the season was 2 wins...

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Originally Posted by gblowfish

What an epic pants wetting. How's it feel to be Deleware State, you choking pussies?

I wouldn't call it an epic pants-wetting, but it pretty clearly established the ceiling of the team at six wins.

I mentioned after Miles' firing that it was likely LSU would come out and play a pissed off game, and that's what they did. It's not all that different from how MU played against BYU last year.

They showed how much talent they had and how much talent he wasted.

It's pretty clear that MU's offense is and hasn't been on the same level as other good offenses in the SEC, because the three times they've played the two elite SEC defenses (Alabama*2, LSU), they've scored a total of 21 points on offense.

They just don't have the horses on offense to compete with those teams (maybe '13 did), nor do they have the athletes in the back seven. In that way, it reminds me of the early 2000s Mizzou teams in the B-XII.

[KChiefs1]

PowerMizzou:

Mizzou Director of Athletics Jim Sterk spoke at the Tiger Club of KC luncheon yesterday.

Jim said the entire package of the University of Missouri is what brought him to Mizzou:

1. Great-sized college town (“CoMo is basically Pullman on steroids”).
2. World-class university.
3. Major research institution and a land-grant university.
4. SEC.

As he was doing his research, he believed it was his destiny to come to MU:

When doing research, he pulled up a historic photo of MU and saw Holstein cattle on the University property. Having grown up on a dairy farm, that stood out to him.
Pulled up to work one day during the process and a car with Missouri license plates was in front of him (which he had never seen in San Diego before).
Wife went hiking one day and came across a guy in a Mizzou shirt.

He talked to alums of Mizzou, especially those who had children attend the University, and they spoke very highly of the experience. Knows Mike Alden and was impressed that he stayed here so long. To Jim, it was just simply the right time and the right place.

He’s very passionate about the experience provided to the student athletes. Academics, athletics, personal. “They come in as 18-year-olds and they leave as adults.” Mentioned the 3.00 average GPA of the student athletes last year. Said that there is no concentration higher than 8% in any one major for athletes (we’re not forcing them into one easy graduation path). Spoke about the four-year MizzouMade program and how important it is.

Said last year seven teams finished in the top 25 in their sport. He is proud of what the staff is doing.

He is headed to a meeting to go over facilities plan with the Board of Curators.

He knows they are focused on the President search, but was ready to give a PowerPoint presentation of what is being planned (South end zone, football building, indoor practice facility and use of the MATC).

Why the South End Zone project first?

As soon as he finished his introductory news conference, Coach Odom took Jim on a tour. “Barry is not a shy person. He is very direct.” The MATC has been added to since being built in the 1950s, but Coach needs more. “My job is to help him.” Jim was prepared for this. Said he had talked to Mike Slive, who he had known for some time, and to Greg Sankey and they said Mizzou is...good people and in need of facilities.

The newer East Side Premium Seating is 97% full. That means it’s time for MORE premium seats.

New softball facility will be one of the best in the country and the SEC. Will be completed in March but may need to use the current stadium at the beginning. Hearnes Center is nearly irreplaceable. He is looking at it, but it would cost $5 million just to demolish it and it has a lot of use left in it.

How do we keep up in the SEC arms race?

Premium seating, maximize our equal share of the SEC money, talk to people/groups who were involved money-wise but aren’t now. Has added TSF staff to do this type of outreach. Have to broaden our base. Says he has about $56 million of the $75 million for the current SEZ project. Can go to bonds if needed, but he wants to get started now instead of waiting to do a $150 million project later.

If anyone in the room had $1.5 million he would put the turf in for baseball this summer. He is very much in favor of it, just needs to find the funds.

Kim Anderson has had two arms tied behind his back these past two years. His clock is starting now, Jim says, and he likes what he is hearing, about the overseas trip and about the guys on the team. He seemed stern about his expectations, but also optimistic that it will get turned around by Coach Anderson.

Mizzou, Jim says, has a very bright future. We don’t brag enough. The "Show-Me" slogan being used is good, but we just put it out there. Let the state and country know how good we are. He doesn’t have the PR answer yet, but he’ll figure it out. Need to use guys like AJ Ofodile, Bill Roundtree, Howard Richards who have a passion for Mizzou and can share their story. Will lean on Mike Owens in St. Louis and has tasked Gary Pinkel to help with seeing what makes great football facilities.

[Spott]

If he thinks Anderson is turning anything around, he is an idiot.

[duncan_idaho]

Originally Posted by Bowser

Looks like Duncan dug deep into his pockets.

I wish. Haha. Pockets aren't that deep, yet.

Originally Posted by KChiefs1

PowerMizzou:

Mizzou Director of Athletics Jim Sterk spoke at the Tiger Club of KC luncheon yesterday.

Jim said the entire package of the University of Missouri is what brought him to Mizzou:

1. Great-sized college town (“CoMo is basically Pullman on steroids”).
2. World-class university.
3. Major research institution and a land-grant university.
4. SEC.

As he was doing his research, he believed it was his destiny to come to MU:

When doing research, he pulled up a historic photo of MU and saw Holstein cattle on the University property. Having grown up on a dairy farm, that stood out to him.
Pulled up to work one day during the process and a car with Missouri license plates was in front of him (which he had never seen in San Diego before).
Wife went hiking one day and came across a guy in a Mizzou shirt.

He talked to alums of Mizzou, especially those who had children attend the University, and they spoke very highly of the experience. Knows Mike Alden and was impressed that he stayed here so long. To Jim, it was just simply the right time and the right place.

He’s very passionate about the experience provided to the student athletes. Academics, athletics, personal. “They come in as 18-year-olds and they leave as adults.” Mentioned the 3.00 average GPA of the student athletes last year. Said that there is no concentration higher than 8% in any one major for athletes (we’re not forcing them into one easy graduation path). Spoke about the four-year MizzouMade program and how important it is.

Said last year seven teams finished in the top 25 in their sport. He is proud of what the staff is doing.

He is headed to a meeting to go over facilities plan with the Board of Curators.

He knows they are focused on the President search, but was ready to give a PowerPoint presentation of what is being planned (South end zone, football building, indoor practice facility and use of the MATC).

Why the South End Zone project first?

As soon as he finished his introductory news conference, Coach Odom took Jim on a tour. “Barry is not a shy person. He is very direct.” The MATC has been added to since being built in the 1950s, but Coach needs more. “My job is to help him.” Jim was prepared for this. Said he had talked to Mike Slive, who he had known for some time, and to Greg Sankey and they said Mizzou is...good people and in need of facilities.

The newer East Side Premium Seating is 97% full. That means it’s time for MORE premium seats.

New softball facility will be one of the best in the country and the SEC. Will be completed in March but may need to use the current stadium at the beginning. Hearnes Center is nearly irreplaceable. He is looking at it, but it would cost $5 million just to demolish it and it has a lot of use left in it.

How do we keep up in the SEC arms race?

Premium seating, maximize our equal share of the SEC money, talk to people/groups who were involved money-wise but aren’t now. Has added TSF staff to do this type of outreach. Have to broaden our base. Says he has about $56 million of the $75 million for the current SEZ project. Can go to bonds if needed, but he wants to get started now instead of waiting to do a $150 million project later.

If anyone in the room had $1.5 million he would put the turf in for baseball this summer. He is very much in favor of it, just needs to find the funds.

Kim Anderson has had two arms tied behind his back these past two years. His clock is starting now, Jim says, and he likes what he is hearing, about the overseas trip and about the guys on the team. He seemed stern about his expectations, but also optimistic that it will get turned around by Coach Anderson.

Mizzou, Jim says, has a very bright future. We don’t brag enough. The "Show-Me" slogan being used is good, but we just put it out there. Let the state and country know how good we are. He doesn’t have the PR answer yet, but he’ll figure it out. Need to use guys like AJ Ofodile, Bill Roundtree, Howard Richards who have a passion for Mizzou and can share their story. Will lean on Mike Owens in St. Louis and has tasked Gary Pinkel to help with seeing what makes great football facilities.

What I would expect Sterk had to say. I think he's smart enough to realize that if Kim Anderson's arms were tied behind his back, that Kim tied them himself. I hope.

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

I wouldn't call it an epic pants-wetting, but it pretty clearly established the ceiling of the team at six wins.

I mentioned after Miles' firing that it was likely LSU would come out and play a pissed off game, and that's what they did. It's not all that different from how MU played against BYU last year.

They showed how much talent they had and how much talent he wasted.

It's pretty clear that MU's offense is and hasn't been on the same level as other good offenses in the SEC, because the three times they've played the two elite SEC defenses (Alabama*2, LSU), they've scored a total of 21 points on offense.

They just don't have the horses on offense to compete with those teams (maybe '13 did), nor do they have the athletes in the back seven. In that way, it reminds me of the early 2000s Mizzou teams in the B-XII.

Definitely exposed the depth and the couple of lazy years the staff had on the recruiting trail following the SEC move. I think the freshman and sophomore classes are strong and good groups to build on, but the three classes above them were not great.

Hopefully Odom's staff can get 4 good classes on the roster at the same time. Pinkel's group never really did that (but that's what happens when you carry dead weight like Brian Jones, Bruce Walker, etc.).

The most atrocious aspect was, without a doubt, the LB corps. That is just a pitiful group, and the more PT the young guys (Terez Hall, Brandon Lee, especially) get, the better. Scherer, for a slow, smart white guy LB, sure does misdiagnose and overrun and awful lot of plays, and he whiffs on an awful lot of tackles he's in position to make.

Burkett and Newsome are supposed to be physical freaks, but they look slow, stiff and nonathletic. Both are pretty terrible and offer nothing.

[GloryDayz]

MIZZOU and Drew getting embarrassed..

[gblowfish]

Oh well, at least I can watch KU and laugh my ass off...

[GloryDayz]

Yay..

[petegz28]

I said week 1 this team was turible.....and they are turible. Drew Lock or whoever he is, is overrated as ****. I hear all these people tell me how great he is and I haven't seen anything but below average play from him more times than not.

[Hamwallet]

D did good. O shit the bed. Score didn't reflect how good our defense did today.

[KChiefs1]

KC Star:

Mizzou receives $8 million gift toward football facility project

Missouri received another multi-million-dollar donation toward a proposed football facility project in the south end zone at Memorial Stadium.

The Tigers’ athletic department announced Wednesday that it had received an $8 million gift from a donor who wished to remain anonymous. Mizzou has raised roughly $67 million of the proposed $75 million cost for the project.

New Tigers athletic director Jim Sterk, who was hired in August, presented a vision for the project to the University of Missouri System Board of Curators during a meeting Oct. 6 at UMKC.

The new football facility would open space at the Mizzou Athletics Training Complex by shifting football operations — including a training facility with a new weight room, trainers’ facilities, cafeteria, locker rooms, coaches’ offices and recruiting area — to the stadium.

Sterk also said additional suites and premium seating would be included, but that Memorial Stadium won’t expand its capacity.

“We are so grateful for such a transformational gift,” Sterk said in a release. “We’re very excited to continue this process and keep momentum going. Our next steps include meeting with architects to determine all of the details of the project and then our goal will be to present our final plan with the funding model to our Board of Curators for their approval in February.”

Last month, Mizzou announced a $10 million donation from the Kansas City Sports Trust, the second-largest donation to the athletic department.

With the announcement of Wednesday’s gift, the Tigers have received two of the five largest donations in athletic department history since Sterk arrived from San Diego State.

MU also announced a $1.675 million gift toward the project Sept. 28 from another anonymous donor.

“This is such an exciting time for our program, and I’m so impressed with our donors and the support they’re giving for this project,” first-year Tigers football coach Barry Odom said in a release. “I can’t say enough just how thankful we are for gifts like this. We’re going to create a first-class facility, something that our fans will be proud of, and something that will have a huge impact for years to come for our student-athletes.”


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[KChiefs1]

PowerMizzou:

We're coming up on the five-year anniversary of Mizzou's move to the SEC (November 6 is the official anniversary). Over the last few weeks, I have done a good number of interviews with people who were directly involved in the process. My pitch to them was simple: "We know the basics. I want to tell the story that hasn't been told. I want to give fans a look at how the process really went down and what you were thinking as it unfolded."

Tomorrow, we will publish my complete oral history of the move from the Big 12 to the SEC. The timeline begins with the Big Ten announcement it will look at expansion on December 15, 2009 and ends with the SEC announcement on November 6, 2011. We then continued with some thoughts on what has happened in the Big 12 since Missouri's departure and asked those involved for their thoughts on the move and the process five years in hindsight.

Today, we set the scene. This sneak peek focuses on the day the decision was made:

https://missouri.rivals.com/news/loo...ove-to-the-sec

Brady Deaton:
“One of the other seminal moments for me was when my colleague at one of the other institutions, a major AAU institution, called up and said, ‘I think we should join another conference out here that would yield a revenue of maybe $4 million a year when at the time in the Big 12 we were probably getting 12 to 14 and we knew the SEC was in the 20 range at that time. It’s now up to about 40, fortunately. It was a very sobering moment. I said to that individual, the other president, I said, ‘I don’t think we can afford to ever do that.’ Then we had the very realistic discussion, ‘Well, yes, but what happens for next season if we’re here and we don’t have the other members of the conference and we’re stuck with one of the lesser tier conferences?’ Those were very sobering moments and phone calls for all of us.”

I have learned the school was Kansas and the conference was the Big East


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[KChiefs1]

Great read from PowerMizzou:

https://missouri.rivals.com/news/zer...ern-conference







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[siberian khatru]

Originally Posted by KChiefs1

Great read from PowerMizzou:

https://missouri.rivals.com/news/zer...ern-conference







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Bernie Machen: "You can see how messy it’s gotten right now with the Big 12 and all the bullshit they’re going through."