****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.

[KChiefs1]

Dolphins' secretive approach helps land Charles Harris

DAVIE, Fla. -- The Miami Dolphins ran their first misdirection play of 2017 on Thursday when they drafted Charles Harris with the No. 22 overall pick. Not many pegged Harris as a target for Miami, and that was by design.

Dolphins general manager Chris Grier said the team collectively determined it wanted Harris “a month ago,” which Grier said was unusual. The Dolphins avoided working out Harris and didn’t bring him in for one the team’s 30 available visits. That mostly helped prevent the media and opposing teams from tracking the Dolphins' strong interest in the former Missouri pass-rushing defensive end.

The Dolphins’ only personal interaction with Harris was during an interview at the NFL combine.

“We tried to stay away from him purposely,” Grier said with a chuckle after making the pick. “I know everyone looks for how everyone is doing things and who is going where. But this is a player we really, really liked and we’re excited about him.”

What wasn’t a secret was the Dolphins were looking to add a defensive playmaker in the first round. They were 29th in total defense and 30th against the run last season. Miami needed to get younger, more athletic and add disruptive playmakers on that side of the football. Harris, who led Missouri with nine sacks and 28 quarterback knockdowns, checks all of those boxes.

The Dolphins received trade offers from two teams interested in moving up to the No. 22 pick. But after successfully fooling everyone by hiding their interest in Harris, the team felt it was best to complete the plan and take the player it wanted to select as far back as March.

“Honestly, we didn’t really talk about what they were offering,” Grier said. “Because this was a player that everybody in the building, from personnel to coaches, [wanted].”

Miami’s reasoning for selecting Harris is sound, especially long term, but there are immediate questions.

First, Harris will start the season behind a trio of veteran defensive ends in Pro Bowler Cameron Wake, starter Andre Branch and veteran backup William Hayes. Ideally, you’d like to get an immediate starter in the first round. Harris will begin training camp as the team’s No. 4 defensive end, although that will almost certainly change in a year or two.

Second, the Dolphins passed up a projected top-10 talented in former Alabama linebacker Reuben Foster. Foster had character and medical concerns, which included a diluted urine sample at the NFL combine and a prior shoulder injury. However, on the field Foster could have provided an immediate impact at outside linebacker, which remains a major position of need.

Foster was taken No. 31 overall to the San Francisco 49ers, nine picks after Harris. The development of both players will be worth keeping an eye on.


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[KChiefs1]

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[Titty Meat]

Well gentlemen looks like Cameron Brown will be announcing today. Between Mizzou and Nebraska.
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[Bowser]

Originally Posted by BigMeatballBillay

Well gentlemen looks like Cameron Brown will be announcing today. Between Mizzou and Nebraska.
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He's a 'Sker

http://www.omaha.com/huskers/footbal...8992323d8.html

[Titty Meat]

Yeah I saw that they are the 9th rated class Riley has hired some great recruiters.

Do you think Odom will stick around? It seems like Brown is the kind of kid you should win and if Mizzou didnt Pinkel would find some 2* and coach them up into a stud.

[WhawhaWhat]

Early SEC football over/unders per ESPN:

Alabama 10.5
Arkansas 7
Auburn 8
Florida 8
Georgia 8
Kentucky 6
LSU 9
Miss St 5.5
Missouri 6.5
South Carolina 5.5
Tennessee 7.5
Texas A&M 7

Mississippi and Vanderbilt were not listed.

[Titty Meat]

N got a kid from Lee's Summit who was being recruited by tosu and Clemson. Doesn't someone on here coach for Lee's Summit North or something like that?
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[DJ's left nut]

Mizzou gets Knox.

Speed, speed and more speed with this kid. Pretty nice get in that his ceiling is as high as anyone we've had here in a long time. At 6'0'' he's no midget slot player; the kid can be the no-shit stud X receiver we've lacked for a very long time.

Obviously there's a ton of ways for him to miss on that potential but the potential itself is NFL caliber.

[Prison Bitch]

So the ESPN scroll last night said that Auburn is petitioning the SEC to move to the East and have Mizzou move West. Any thoughts?

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch

So the ESPN scroll last night said that Auburn is petitioning the SEC to move to the East and have Mizzou move West. Any thoughts?

Well that would be unfortunate...

[Prison Bitch]

Geographically it makes sense. AUB prob wants to get out of Bammy's shadow anyway. They'll replace their game with UGA for Bammy. Tennessee probably won't like losing their rivalry with Bammy tho.

[duncan_idaho]

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch

So the ESPN scroll last night said that Auburn is petitioning the SEC to move to the East and have Mizzou move West. Any thoughts?

Auburn whines about that every year now.

Unless they're going to the East with Alabama, it won't happen.

One of Auburn or Tennessee would lose its rivalry game with Bama every year, and that's a non-starter.


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[jjchieffan]

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch

Geographically it makes sense. AUB prob wants to get out of Bammy's shadow anyway. They'll replace their game with UGA for Bammy. Tennessee probably won't like losing their rivalry with Bammy tho.

Auburn Alabama is a big rivalry that I would think they would want to preserve. The Iron Bowl goes back over 100 years.

[Prison Bitch]

Originally Posted by jjchieffan

Auburn Alabama is a big rivalry that I would think they would want to preserve. The Iron Bowl goes back over 100 years.

Obv that would stay, the SEC, the state (and the sport itself) would never allow that to go away. But yeah, TENN would be disapoint

[NWTF]

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch

So the ESPN scroll last night said that Auburn is petitioning the SEC to move to the East and have Mizzou move West. Any thoughts?

It does make sense. Would be funny if they also decided Alabama and Vandy should also swap for the sake of rivalries. No doubt getting away from Alabama is the mission here for Auburn.