https://www.yardbarker.com/college_...ege_football_head_coaching_hires/s1__31403150

Not a whole lot going on today, in the Mizzou sports world, or personally for work, so stumbled across this, interesting enough, especially the Missouri v Arkansas ranking/analysis/comparison..

Look I am not happy Lovett is contemplating leaving but if you consider that in the Kentucky game he had no receptions and against NMSU he only had 1 catch you could almost see this coming. Earlier in the year he was the leading receiver in the conference. How does someone of his talent get ignored in two games like that? To me this can be viewed as an indictment of how he views the QB situation and maybe he feels for his talents to be utilized better he needs to move on.

Next player up.

Nm

People are saying they are done with CFB or whatever. Not that I care how they spend their time, but the reality is that Mizzou never had a chance to compete for a title prior to the new age of CFB. The two really good cotton bowl teams that they had recently were probably closer to a once in a generation thing, and even those teams were not good enough to win it all. Not that we can ever go back and I know most ppl probably hate that this is even brought up, but I am firmly in the camp that the fan experience is more enjoyable with them in the big 12. In theory, They should be power rated within a TD of every team in in the big 12, and resources all pretty similar. It's fun football to watch. Mizzou decided to take the check and accept the Ls. It is what it is. I will still enjoy CFB

What these two things does is crush average teams. Say your average team has a great year. Awesome. Next year that team will most likely lose their top players to the transfer for a bigger NIL opportunity that the average team can’t offer them. This will be a continuous cycle of beating down average teams when they have a good year and won’t ever let them build something great.

Can’t wait to see how these next couple of years shake out.

We do not have an NIL budget to compete. I know for a fact that Burden gave us a home School discount. For some kids that will be enough.

Fact of the matter is a lot of our best “prospects” will go on to the blue blood programs they didn’t get offers from out of high school.

However we will also be a destination for other “talent” not quite good enough to be blue blood recruits.

Of course there will always be exceptions to the rule but this is the new world we are in.

The is the new reality like it or not.

Portal and NIL are ruining college sports! Sad to see. Coach has zero leverage anymore....chew a kids ass....boom, he's transferring.....groming a bunch of candy asses.

Kid had potential. But I’d still rather have @Raffle back or listen to Bob Douglas hit on Mitchell Forde.

4 great seats row 6 115 deadcenter.
1/7 (2) 1/18 (4) 1/28 (4) 2/18 (4) 2/21 (4) 3/4 (4)

Dude is a flaming pussy. When is the last time he’s been a Mizzou advocate? I was his his fraternity brother. He’s actually a pretty massive pussy.

Gabe was right months back. Mizzou should zig while everyone is zagging in this conference. Mizzou needs to put what they have in NIL towards basketball. It’s way easier to build an instant winner there, you pay a kid one year and he’s gone to the pros instead of going to a blueblood (yes I know Brazile left to go to Arkansas) and it’s easier to compete with the money we have in this conference in basketball than football.

I’m ready to see how we can poach.

Enough of this woe is Mizzou BS.

For those that don't read the ten thoughts on college football:

The LSU loss is the one that impacts Missouri. If the Tigers lose to Georgia next weekend (which I'd say is likely), they're going to be 9-4 including a blowout at Texas A&M which hadn't beaten a real team in a month-and-a-half. I think that means the Tigers played themselves out of the New Year's Six bowls. So here's the situation:

Playoff: Georgia
NY6: Bama and Tennessee
Citrus: LSU
Pool of Six (one of these teams isn't in): South Carolina, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, Florida

One of those seven is going to end up in Birmingham. It's almost certainly Mizzou, Arkansas or Florida. Those are the three 6-6 teams. Which one is left out? I have no idea.

The options are

Liberty: Probably vs Kansas, possibly Oklahoma
Las Vegas: Probably one of Oregon, Oregon State or UCLA
Birmingham Someone from the AAC and I don't really care who

Perhaps if gabe and and other people who

Not that this will be fixed before it’s too late, but what if destination schools lose a scholarship and that is traded to the original school.

Kids can still transfer and if they’re good enough, at least you can rebuild your team more easily and it still dings the destination school.

Thoughts?

I’ll admit I thought Mizzou had a chance to compete but it’s looking like I was wrong.

It doesn’t matter how well Drink recruits (and let’s be real, that’s looking like it’s in question now). It doesn’t matter how many jump in on the NIL because other schools have more. Fans don’t matter. None of it really matters. Same 8 or so teams will ever have a shot to win a title.

Are you going to keep paying attention? I’m strongly considering giving up my season tickets going forward.

SLU up with 5 to play.

when do colleges make that a thing..i guess “personel guy” is kind of that, but with recruiting kids, recruiting your own players, recruiting other college players..who is coming, going, staying, playing…seems like a full time key job…you literally are assembling a new team every year

Losing Lovett sucks, no way around it (assuming it will happen).

The offense has some hope for next year tho if we don’t lose any of these guys…

WR: Burden, Miller, Cooper, Luper, Manning
RB: Schrader, Jones, Young
OLine: White, Foster, Tollison, Polger, Membou, Ndoma-Ogar

QB: Cook, Horn, Johnson. I like what Cook has done the last few weeks but still think Horn is the guy

TE: Hoerstkamp and hopefully a transfer

Upgrades in the portal are expected, as well. This is my optimistic post since it’s hard not to be negative right now.

We’re fretting losing the receivers, but arguably our best young guys on the team are on the defensive side of the ball. I’m hoping we hang onto Carnell and Rakestraw. Any rumors about the defense?

Is when some asshole post how SLU is up at the under 4 at Auburn

As a program, the Mizzou tier schools will need to recruit the 4/5 stars that don’t perform well or are relegated to the bench at the top tier and grab guys that may be moving up from FCS/G5 but aren’t good enough to go right to the top tier. That will be the only way to survive. We need to expect 5-10 contributors leaving every year.

Doesn’t sound too appealing from a fan stand point.

NCAA needs to put rules in place like NFL and this will even out. Other teams contacting current players before they enter the portal shouldn’t be allowed. Once they declare they are a free agent and should be contacted by any and all suitors.

They should focus on breakout freshmen and sophomores. Treat it like a farm system. Let them develop and then buy them once proven. I’m about as diehard as they come, but the portal is going to make me question where I put my money.