****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 PackerinMo

I understand that, Daniel was a stud but when Patton would get playing time he looked flat out awful, I could tell by the way he played in garbage time that he never could have been the first string QB at Mizzou, not at all. Weak ass arm. Thats why I would always pray for Daniel to stay healthy because I knew we would be done if that kid had to take the reigns.

Did you see them practice?

I covered Patton a lot before work took me to St. Louis/SN. He had a rifle. Arm strength was very similar to Gabbert's. And much, much better than Daniel's. He had an NFL-caliber throwing arm.

He wasn't as good at reading defenses or playing at high pace as Chase. But his phyiscal talents were good enough to be a good starting QB in college.

The offense they ran under Chase was also designed to fit Daniel's talents - quick reads, distribution of the ball, exploiting tight and crowded areas of the field.

Under Patton, it would have looked a little different and more like what it did with Gabbert at QB (though without the David Yost fruit-loopiness.

[Pitt Gorilla]

Originally Posted by duncan_idaho

Did you see them practice?

I covered Patton a lot before work took me to St. Louis/SN. He had a rifle. Arm strength was very similar to Gabbert's. And much, much better than Daniel's. He had an NFL-caliber throwing arm.

He wasn't as good at reading defenses or playing at high pace as Chase. But his phyiscal talents were good enough to be a good starting QB in college.

The offense they ran under Chase was also designed to fit Daniel's talents - quick reads, distribution of the ball, exploiting tight and crowded areas of the field.

Under Patton, it would have looked a little different and more like what it did with Gabbert at QB (though without the David Yost fruit-loopiness.

Patton had an insane arm, which is why he was actually scouted by NFL teams (as a backup QB). Anyone claiming that he had a weak arm is flat-out lying.

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Originally Posted by PackerinMo

Gabbert was really good but my only knock on him was that he had trouble with the deep ball,if he ever threw a deep ball towards the sidelines you could bet your ass it would be fly 50 ft. into the stands. However you're right, he had and amazing 2010, one game away from a BCS bowl if it weren't for Yosts ****ed up play calling in the Texas tech game. He had one bad game that year, he was pretty damn good.

He had a concussion in that game. He got his bell rung on a H2H hit in the Nebraska game, played the rest of the game with it, then played next week. They should have had Franklin start that TTU game.

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Originally Posted by Pitt Gorilla

Patton had an insane arm, which is why he was actually scouted by NFL teams (as a backup QB). Anyone claiming that he had a weak arm is flat-out lying.

[Titty Meat]

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

He had a concussion in that game. He got his bell rung on a H2H hit in the Nebraska game, played the rest of the game with it, then played next week. They should have had Franklin start that TTU game.

Gabbert was ass cheeks before the concussion. He pretty much lost both Nebraska games and really folded when preasured. Chase Daniel was a better qb.

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Originally Posted by Bo's Pelini

Gabbert was ass cheeks before the concussion. He pretty much lost both Nebraska games and really folded when preasured. Chase Daniel was a better qb.

We were up 12-0 going into the 4th quarter of that Nebraska game. Two things kept you in that: 1) The weather. 2) Suh ripping his leg off.

Besides, our defenses folded like cheap whores in that second Nebraska game. Helu had 150 yards on his first five touches. He took the first one to the house untouched.

[O.city]

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

Chase P is a really cool dude. He just graduated from dental school Saturday, was a class ahead I me.

[Pepe Silvia]

Ok, I just saw clips of the Black and Gold game on you tube and that was a disaster. They still can't snap the ****ing football and Matty Mauk has worse butterfingers than Franklin. Terrible, awful. I'm cringing, just cringing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ5Li-KnzgI

[duncan_idaho]

Originally Posted by PackerinMo

Ok, I just saw clips of the Black and Gold game on you tube and that was a disaster. They still can't snap the ****ing football and Matty Mauk has worse butterfingers than Franklin. Terrible, awful. I'm cringing, just cringing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ5Li-KnzgI

If Evan Boehm gets hurt, snaps will be a problem again. He looked sharp snapping the ball, though (the first few series, where the snaps have zip on them and are at the chest? That was Boehm).

Expectations are low on this end, though, overall.

Recruiting is kind of a mess. They've got some decent commitments, but it's a lot of reaching and guessing. The 10 commitments break into four categories, IMO.

Category 1: Solid major kid, not a star
Michael Fairchild, Blue Valley West (Overland Park)
Paul Adams, Christ Presbyterian (Nashville)
Kevin Pendleton, Lee's Summit West (Lee's Summit)
Greg Taylor, East St. Louis (East St. Louis, IL)

Category 2: We're taking lotto tickets to get footholds in new areas
Rocel McWilliams, West Florida Tech (Pensacola, FL)
THomas Richard, Christ Presbyterian (Nashville)
Finis Stribling IV, Independence (Thompson's Station, TN) (This guy was viewed by at least one CUSA program as a December backup plan)

Category 3: Meh
Kendall Blanton, Blue Springs South (Blue Springs, MO)

Category 4: I have a pity offer because my family is involved with the program
Darnell Green-Beckham, Hillcrest (Springfield, MO)
Grant Jones, Rock Bridge (Columbia, MO)

['Hamas' Jenkins]

It just astounds me that Missouri as inept as it is in recruiting.

I wish they would just raze Faurot, but there just isn't space for the stadium. Only thing I could think of would be to bulldoze Hearnes, build most of the stadium in its footprint and parking lot, then turn Faurot into a lot, building a small multipurpose building elsewhere.

[Chiefspants]

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

I never understood why Daniel agreed to this photoshoot, I always thought the cover made him look like a short and chubby kid in line at a Jack in a Box.

[Saul Good]

Originally Posted by Chiefspants

I never understood why Daniel agreed to this photoshoot, I always thought the cover made him look like a short and chubby kid in the next Jack in a Box.

I don't think the cover is to blame for him looking short and chubby.

[Pepe Silvia]

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

It just astounds me that Missouri as inept as it is in recruiting.

I wish they would just raze Faurot, but there just isn't space for the stadium. Only thing I could think of would be to bulldoze Hearnes, build most of the stadium in its footprint and parking lot, then turn Faurot into a lot, building a small multipurpose building elsewhere.

Faurot has always annoyed me, its like your watching them play 10 ft. underground, its really hard to explain, anyone know what I'm talking about? Its like the field is lower than other stadiums.

[Titty Meat]

Patton looks like a guy you would see a lot at harpos in westport

[duncan_idaho]

Originally Posted by Bo's Pelini

Patton looks like a guy you would see a lot at harpos in westport

Unlikely. He's a very religious guy who has been married since at least the start of dental school to his HS girlfriend.

Great, great kid, though. He and his wife (who also was a stud track and basketball star at Rock Bridge) are one of the happiest couples I've come into contact with.