****Official 2013-14 Missouri Tiger Football Repository Thread****

['Hamas' Jenkins]

We have two things to look forward to this year:

1) The potential beginning of the Maty Mauk Era. Mauk represents the best chance for this program to get back to a level of respectability after horrendous QB play cost us multiple games last year.

2) The last year of the Gary Pinkel era. Pinkel's entrenched cronyism won't play in a conference this competitive, especially if he couples his abysmal gameday coaching with lackadaisical, worst-in-conference recruiting. Pinkel was the formerly adequate meal that has now turned into a four pound bowel obstruction. It's time to jam a Fleet's enema up our collective asses.

Here is the schedule. We dodge Alabama, LSU, and Arkansas in the west and the Non-con is decidedly weaker than years past.

8/31: Murray State
9/7: Toledo
9/21: @ Indiana
9/28: Arkansas State
10/5:@ Vanderbilt
10/12: @ Georgia
10/19:Florida
10/26: South Carolina
11/2:Tennessee
11/9: @ Kentucky
11/23: @ Ole Miss
11/30: aTm

Looks like 6-6. Undefeated in non-con, 2-6 in league play.

I will eventually update the OP with a list of high profile in-state recruits that decide to go elsewhere after a half-assed attempt to gain their services. The inevitable cavalcade of *** rejects, skeezers, skanks, and scalliwags we get will fill out the ranks.


Razors, cyanide capsules, and Jonestown Kool-Aid are available in the break room. Second door on the left.

Since every Mizzou thread eventually dies of AIDS, I recommend starting anti-retroviral therapy immediately. I believe Walgreens covers Express Scripts.


Premium In-State Players:

Roderick Johnson: **** OT, Florissant, MO.
Monte Harrison: **** WR, Lee's Summit, MO.
Jimmy Swain: **** LB, Lee's Summit, MO


Commitment List: From to and possibly

Spoiler!

Committed - Not Yet Signed

Name	Pos	Location	Ht	Wt	40	Rivals Rating
Paul Adams	OL	Nashville, TNChrist Presbyterian Academy	6'6"	270		5.5
Sam Bailey	OL	Lamar, MOLamar Jr/Sr R 1	6'5"	245		5.4
Andy Bauer	OL	St. Louis, MODeSmet	6'6"	304	5.2	5.9
Kendall Blanton	TE	Blue Springs, MOBlue Springs South	6'5"	225		5.4
Nate Brown	WR	Suwanee, GANorth Gwinnett	6'3"	215	4.5	5.7
Logan Cheadle	DB	Lee's Summit, MOLee's Summit West	5'10"	165		5.6
Kenya Dennis	DB	Raymond, MSHinds C.C.	6'0"	190		5.5
Michael Fairchild	OL	Overland Park, KSBlue Valley West	6'6"	262		5.4
Darnell Green-Beckham	WR	Springfield, MOHillcrest	6'5"	175		5.3
Zach Hudson	OL	Tampa, FLSickles	6'5"	280		5.5
Stepfawn Hughes	ATH	Fort Worth, TXDunbar	5'10"	170	4.6	5.5
Grant Jones	ATH	Columbia, MOHickman	6'3"	216		5.5
Lawrence Lee	WR	Pensacola, FLWest Florida Tech	5'10"	167	4.5	5.6
Rocel McWilliams	DE	Pensacola, FLWest Florida Tech	6'3"	240		5.5
Kevin Pendleton	OL	Lee's Summit, MOLee's Summit West	6'4"	329		5.5
Thomas Richard	WR	Nashville, TNChrist Presbyterian Academy	6'1"	185		5.4
Tavon Ross	ATH	Cochran, GABleckley County	6'1"	196		5.4
Finis Stribling IV	DB	Thompson's Station, TNIndependence	5'10"	170	4.5	5.4
Greg Taylor	DB	East St. Louis, ILEast St. Louis	5'10"	181		5.7
Trevon Walters	RB	Bradenton, FLManatee	5'10"	189		5.4
Jhonathon Williams	DE	Berrien Springs, MIBerrien Springs	6'6"	230	4.5	5.5
Thomas Wilson	ATH	Buford, GABuford	5'10"	176		5.5
Roderick Winters	LB	Arlington, TXBowie	5'11"	196	4.5	5.3
Ish Witter	RB	Tampa, FLAlonso	5'8"	190	4.6	5.5
Marvin Zanders	QB	Jacksonville, FLRaines	6'1"	175		5.5

[duncan_idaho]

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

It's a classic example of the archaic line of thinking in football. It's the most resistant of all American sports to change, and it is run in the least intelligent manner. The fact of the matter is that 8 or 10 games of Danario Alexander is worth more than 16 games of a replacement level player, but teams resist signing players like that for dirt cheap because they buy into moronic truisms like Bill Parcells' "You can't help the club from the tub."

"Can't be a reserve WR if you can't play ST." -- fuddy duddy NFL GMs

On this Winters kid... his rating and lack of offers are due to his size, I think. Most teams aren't interested in a LB that size.

If they can get him to 225 LBs or so without losing the athleticism, he probably will be a pretty effective college player, even if he's too small to play in the NFL at LB.

[duncan_idaho]

Originally Posted by Trevo_410

New commit,

http://rivals.yahoo.com/missouri/foo...xA2bR52dgas5B4

5.7 rating wooooooooooooooo exciting!

oh wait, he's a dexter mccluster without speed.

yay go tigers.

Don't place too much stock in reported/recorded 40 times on a Rivals profile. He ran that before his junior year. Most guys - even little ones - get faster as they get older and stronger.

Also... had a Tennessee offer.

[beer bacon]

Lee ran a 4.45 40 this summer. That was probably hand timed, and he probably isn't that fast. Even so, he's fast.

[|Zach|]

Looking forward to the season.

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Originally Posted by Trevo_410

New commit,

http://rivals.yahoo.com/missouri/foo...xA2bR52dgas5B4

5.7 rating wooooooooooooooo exciting!

oh wait, he's a dexter mccluster without speed.

yay go tigers.

[O.city]

So, what ends up being the "killshot" to the Gary Pinkel era in Columbia? And who comes next?

['Hamas' Jenkins]

The 5-7 record this year will be the killshot. I'm thinking we lose to IU on the road and win the Tennessee and Kentucky games. This team probably has a 7 win ceiling if everything goes right, and in the case of a stumble, 3-9 is a definite possibility.

Mizzou will likely target a low BCS coach about to be shitcanned.

[Mizzou_8541]

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

The 5-7 record this year will be the killshot. I'm thinking we lose to IU on the road and win the Tennessee and Kentucky games. This team probably has a 7 win ceiling if everything goes right, and in the case of a stumble, 3-9 is a definite possibility.

Mizzou will likely target a low BCS coach about to be shitcanned.

It's funny because it's probably true (though I think we lose to Kentucky and win @Vanderbilt).

[Sorter]

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

The 5-7 record this year will be the killshot. I'm thinking we lose to IU on the road and win the Tennessee and Kentucky games. This team probably has a 7 win ceiling if everything goes right, and in the case of a stumble, 3-9 is a definite possibility.

Mizzou will likely target a low BCS coach about to be shitcanned.

I can't envision MU losing to Indiana on the road.

[Mizzou_8541]

Originally Posted by Sorter

I can't envision MU losing to Indiana on the road.

I couldn't envision us losing to Vanderbilt or Syracuse at home last year, but we managed.

[Sorter]

Originally Posted by Mizzou_8541

I couldn't envision us losing to Vanderbilt or Syracuse at home last year, but we managed.

I thought those 2 were plausible.

The Vandi one was last minute. I definitely thought Syracuse would come out with a win though, especially as the season progressed and Franklin turned into Black Cassel.

[Pepe Silvia]

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

The 5-7 record this year will be the killshot. I'm thinking we lose to IU on the road and win the Tennessee and Kentucky games. This team probably has a 7 win ceiling if everything goes right, and in the case of a stumble, 3-9 is a definite possibility.

Mizzou will likely target a low BCS coach about to be shitcanned.

Thats why they might as well not even fire Pinkel, I mean seriously who are they going to get, no decent coach will go to Mizzou?

[Chiefspants]

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

The 5-7 record this year will be the killshot. I'm thinking we lose to IU on the road and win the Tennessee and Kentucky games. This team probably has a 7 win ceiling if everything goes right, and in the case of a stumble, 3-9 is a definite possibility.

Mizzou will likely target a low BCS coach about to be shitcanned.

Mangino's looking for work.

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Originally Posted by PackerinMo

Thats why they might as well not even fire Pinkel, I mean seriously who are they going to get, no decent coach will go to Mizzou?

Perhaps Missouri would be able to, just once, pick a young, up-and-comer who doesn't have a debilitating cocaine habit. Who was Hugh Freeze two years ago? Was Kevin Sumlin somehow an impossible get for Missouri? At one point Urban Meyer turned Bowling Green and Utah into winning programs before he left for Florida, and Utah largely stayed that way.

Those kinds of guys are out there, and they aren't as impossible to find as people seem to suggest.

[duncan_idaho]

Originally Posted by PackerinMo

Thats why they might as well not even fire Pinkel, I mean seriously who are they going to get, no decent coach will go to Mizzou?

I think you might be surprised.

SEC job (carries weight - look at Ole Miss, Kentucky, Miss. State, Vanderbilt)
Willingness to pay $2.5 million+
Willingness to spend equal amount on assistants
Large land-grant school with no in-state rivals
Decent in-state talent, not great
Ability to make recruiting inroads in Texas, Florida, and pitch elite talent in Iowa, Kansas, Illinois, Indiana on playing in the SEC and still being close to home

It's not a better job than Alabama, Auburn, Texas A&M, LSU, Florida, Georgia or Tennessee, but it is a better job now than it was in the Big 12.