As you saw from Gabe’s note earlier, there will be some changes coming to the site. The next team that will lead Missouri coverage on Rivals will be here tomorrow and I will let them introduce themselves then, but right now I want to thank Gabe and the PowerMizzou staff for their contributions to Rivals over the years and answer a few questions I expect you will have.

First, I have worked alongside Gabe for over two decades and always counted him as a valued colleague and a personal friend. I have also worked very closely with Sean Williams throughout his tenure here at Rivals, on the road covering camps and events together and swapping intel on recruiting. They have been great partners, both when I was leading recruiting coverage in the Midwest and since I have taken over as Director of Operations for Rivals, and I wish nothing but the best for them and the rest of the PowerMizzou team.

While the name of the site will change tomorrow, what will not change is the commitment at Rivals to bring you the most dynamic coverage of Missouri athletics. So, what will happen in the next few days? There will be some changes, but many things will remain the same. This community remains the same. Your post counts remain the same. Your subscription, user names, the layout of the site and this message board - they all stay the same. The URL you see right now at the top of the page will not change and will bring you right back here tomorrow.

Our top priority at Rivals is delivering the information, content and community around Missouri football, athletics and recruiting that you deserve and expect. You will see a seamless transition and the content and information will continue to flow uninterrupted. We appreciate the PowerMizzou team and all they have done, and are excited about the next era of Missouri coverage here on Rivals!

Kind of torn but no gabe feels weird.

We're used to a thread started here when a new article goes up instead of going to home page and checking for articles. Also lets comments flow easily.

Can you indulge us?

I appreciate all the interaction I’ve had on this board. I have always felt that if all the posters here, met at a random bar and a Mizzou game happened to be on, we’d all be friends…

I will miss this. See you on the other side…

With that: what poster(s) will you miss the most?

@bgramfan1 for the pics! @LeftyWilbury @Centmotiger @hctjtiger @Brad Wilson @MizzouBob

And of course Raffle…

“Mizzou Today” seemingly run by Kyle McAreavy currently at the Jeff City News Tribune.

53 minutes to come up with a better name. No pressure, Kyle.

of how this place will look in a couple of months, check out Tennessee’s Rivals site after their version of Gabe left:

We've beaten the Brady Cook and coaching adjustments horses well to death, so I'm curious:

1) How long have you been on PowerMizzou? And have you long have you been a Mizzou fan?

2) What got you to sign up?

3) Favorite moment in the time you've been on here:

heard lots of suggestions and guesses on who is the next Dear Leader at Rivals Mizzou... who should it be?

How you answer this question will go a very long way to determining the success of site. Everyone wants to know but I’ll have the courage to ask:

Will there be a live call in show postgame?

Y'all deserve another post. My top ten things I've covered/board memories:

10) Raffle and his many iterations

9) The Curators meetings. All of it. I've probably spent a month of my life sitting in the hallway waiting for someone to come out and say "No comment"

8) The live shows. Connor Tollison calling in, cat facts, some dude asking about Mike Cox and me not believing he existed. Opened up a whole new avenue.

7) Taking my son to two things:

First, 2010 Game Day. Took him to the Quad at 530 in the morning. Never thought I'd see Mizzou like that. Had a ball. Think I went to bed about 230. Wasn't even tired.

Second, Alabama in 2018. It was his 21st birthday present. We bought him and a friend tickets and airfare and a hotel room. They had two rules: 1) Don't get arrested 2) Keep enough of a charge on your phone that I can reach you when I'm done working. They abided by both rules by the narrowest of margins. We finally told their mothers that story a year or two ago.

6) Meeting @eyeguy71 through a post he made about calling Cuonzo Martin and leaving a voicemail that Cuonzo had inspired his daughter Riley in her fight for cancer. I hooked them up with tickets to a game and they got to meet Cuonzo and thank him personally. I think they stayed in touch. Jeff and I did. He's one of my best friends now. We talk and text and play golf (him well, me poorly). We grew up five houses away from each other but it took this site to bring us together. BTW, Riley graduated from Mizzou and she's a badass.


5) Armageddon at Arrowhead. Truly a day work was a privilege. We took a pic with all the Mizzou J-School grads who were in the press box covering that game. I've got to ask my dad if he still has it. Epic day.

4) GadeD breaking the "news" that Barry Odom had been fired while Mitchell Forde and I were on a flight to Gainesville. Holy shit was my phone lit up when we landed.

3) Gary Pinkel's retirement. I've told this story before. I had it from six sources. I was scared to death to publish it. There are a few things you absolutely cannot be wrong on. I could not be wrong on it. I went back and forth for 20 minutes. Finally hit publish. Beat Dave Matter by about 30 seconds. I always tell students the best feeling in the world is breaking a story and the worst feeling in the world is waiting for someone else to confirm the story you broke.

2) Conference realignment. Epic. It lasted three years. It was really the event that launched this site from pretty good to a monster. I'll never forget the call

"Missouri has an offer on the table from the SEC."

"Can I write that?"

"I think they want you to write that."

I write it. 45 minutes later.

"I'm not sure we should have done that."

"Too late now"


1) Working side by side with my dad for nine years. Hardly anybody gets that. He's the reason I liked sports, he's the reason I went into this and I learned pretty much everything I know about it from him. If you thought this thing we've done for the last 21 years was any good at all, he's the reason. If you thought it sucked, he's still the reason.

Probably missing some things. Those are the ones that stood out.

One of the places new Mizzou commit Dakotah Terrell showed up this off-season was at the Rivals Camp in Dallas. Here are a few clips from the three-star from that event, which show his potential as a tight end.

Message me at (314) 324-8265 if selling.

Thx.

Let’s not bury the lede: Monday will be PowerMizzou’s final day on the Rivals network. The site was one of the first on board when Rivals was initially formed well before I even joined. For the last 21 years and a couple months I’ve had the privilege to be a part of this site on this network. What comes next will not be a secret and will be revealed in due time, but this post is about what is soon to be the past.

In 2003, I was going on six months of unemployment after having been fired from my job as a TV sports anchor in Rapid City, SD. I had two kids, a mortgage and no job. Fun times. While doing some freelancing for another outlet covering recruiting (Tony Severino was the first person I remember interviewing to talk about a young running back named Tony Temple), I got a call from Jon Kirby. He asked if I’d be interested in moving to Columbia to cover Mizzou because the website he ran was trying to expand its coverage. At that time I’d have moved anywhere to cover anything if someone was willing to pay me to do it. That it was my alma mater two hours from where I grew up was a bonus.

In more than two decades since then, I’ve gone from the No. 2 man at a fledgling website to running a small business with former staffers working across the country. I’ve had the chance to cover legendary players, historic seasons, conference realignment and more crazy stories than anyone should have to. I’ve watched people—including my dad—come and go on this beat, outlasted just about every person in the athletic department and seen the entire media and college sports industries change completely. If you’d told me in August of 2003 what this site would be in September of 2024, I’d have laughed at you—and the idea that I’d still be writing here.

The list of people to thank and friends I’ve made because of this job is long. I can’t list them all and you guys don’t want to read them all. But Kirby, Shannon Terry and Bobby Burton stand out for taking a chance on an out-of-work 26-year-old who didn’t know PowerMizzou existed and didn’t know people really cared about recruiting. Eric Winter, John Talman and Josh Helmholdt have led Rivals at times over the last 15 years and have offered me counsel and support. Some of my best friends are colleagues in this business, some who are still with Rivals and others who have moved on to different endeavors both in and out of media. A special shout out to Dave Matter, who made me have to work incredibly hard to keep up with him for nearly 20 years on this beat. Before he left for the dark side, Dave made me better at my job and this site better for all of you because of it. I’ll last a little longer in this business because I no longer have to try to keep up with him. Another to Neal McCready, who has become one of my closest friends and a sounding board for all the good and bad days doing this job.

Brian Freeman, Brian Austin, Pete Scantlebury, Mitchell Forde, Alex Schiffer, Colton Pouncy and Joel Lorenzi are among the many who have helped improve the coverage and grow the site over the 18 years since I took over as the publisher. I am grateful for everything they did while here and continue to follow their careers and keep in touch with many of them. I hope they remember their time here fondly and view it as a valuable step on their journeys. They paved the way for Sean Williams, Drew King and Jarod Hamilton, who have taken our coverage to new levels since joining me here.

But the most important thank you is the last one. This site is only what it is because of those of you reading this. You have chosen to spend some (probably way too much) of your time and money here over the last few months or years or decades. A few of you were here even before I was. Without you, PowerMizzou does not exist. I’ve laughed with you, cried with you, yelled at you and been yelled at by you. Because you’ve decided this little endeavor was worth some of your time and money, I’ve had a front row seat to some of the most incredible stories, had the chance to chronicle things we’ll all remember forever and most importantly, at least to me, raise two kids and provide a life for my family in my college town. As Jim Halpert once said, “everything I have, I owe to this job…this stupid, wonderful, boring, amazing job.”

It’s been a blessing and will continue to be. This is goodbye to this particular platform, but it is not goodbye. We’ll be easy to find. Until the next time.

Idc if that one dude put in a Futurecast. We never got the announcement.

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Athletic kid.

for those who have VIP access on the other site... a neat feature is checking out other boards... our hawg friends are contemplating their football existence right now.... and it is funny

Since it’s our last day…

What do you got?

—GadeD?
—The Hammer?
—First?
—Gave?
—-Gabe getting mad at posters posting “First”?
—The gay is in the barn?
—Raffle?

I wanted to stay up and see midnight and see where daddy Gabe officially lays his head down to sleep.... but I have an early morning and can't stand anymore of this fun.

Good night...

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I have logged a FUTURECAST for Missouri to land a commitment from 2025 Oklahoma ATH Dakotah Terrell.

Very intriguing prospect at 6-foot-8, 200 pounds. Being recruited as a TE.

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That’s the day I joined this site. I don’t quite know how to take this news today. I’m a little bit shocked maybe? I’m thinking it sucks . Damn Gabe , I been reading yours and everybody else’s stuff almost every day since then. Hope you land feet first. Wherever that is I’ll still be reading your stuff there so Saul good man. Forward never straight!!

Message me if selling. Thank you!

SIAP: Obviously he knew, right?

Been waiting all day

My wife of 38 years suffered a stroke yesterday. I would appreciate anyone who is a believer to pray for her recovery.

My wife has been discharged from ICU and is in stable condition. She will not require physical or occupational therapy. Just speech therapy. Praise the Lord!! Shout out to all of the health care providers working during the pandemic! Special thanks to the Memorial Herman Memorial City neurological ward! Hoping she gets to come home tonight or tomorrow.

Many thanks for all the prayers and best wishes! Your continued prayers would be greatly appreciated!