C.J. Moore has written a deep dive on Gates and what makes him tick. Exhaustive reporting and detail. Great stuff. Yes, you need a sub.

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Yet some have the audacity to say St. Louis is not a football town...RUBBISH!

Take THAT, Stan Kronke!!! 😉

No video today, so I'll be giving updates here.

-Gates said he went to the gymnastics meet yesterday and loved it. He said he was impressed by how electric the Hearnes Center was.

-He's expecting another tough defensive battle against MSU this week. They do a good job of forcing teams to take tough shots. Said he believes Tolu Smith is one of the best post players in the country.

-More on Smith: Gates said his teammates do a good job of getting him the ball. He has a low time of possession but is very effective. He said they've got to keep him from being quick going over the shoulder.

-Looking back at the Texas A&M matchup, Gates called it "the weirdest" game because they did what they needed to do defensively but couldn't convert on offense. He thought they should've very easily been up by double digits based on how many turnovers they produced. He said they need to do a better job of closing out possessions.

-Gates liked that they cut the lead down to single digits. He said there were times it felt like they were down by 30. He wants to see them do a better job of carrying the momentum.

-Gates on the standings: Texas A&M and Alabama are playing for the regular season championship. Outside of that, "anything can happen."

-Gates said he's not focused on who they might potentially play in the first round of the tournament.

-Gates said Tre has been very helpful, even in recovery. He thinks Tre is one of four guys on the team who could get into coaching.

-Gates was asked about having dinner with Michael Jordan while in high school. He said you can't understate the impact of growing up in Chicago and meeting MJ. Gates said he used to watch Bulls games and take out a notebook and try to draw out the triangle offense. He worked at the Jordan Camp, where he made a lot of connections as he was trying to get into coaching. He's sent messages to MJ to thank him. Called him the GOAT.

-Kobe Brown said they've got to make things happen on offense. Said they good on defense on Texas A&M.

-Kobe said every win and loss is a learning point. He said they need to come out more aggressive and physical.

-Kobe said the team is aware that every game they play from here on out has postseason impacts.

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I can’t remember a team that has been this bad at rebounding then this team. It’s just upsetting seeing the lack of effort at this point! It seems like basic fundamentals are just missing. I get that this isn’t a big team but just Box out for crying out loud!

It's in this 18-minute vlog here. the official bench-captain, Ben Sternberg., makes these. He is hilarious and I can see why Gates recruited him from Cleveland State to follow him down here.

He's a great teammate and keeps the guys loose and entertained. A guy like him can have a very positive affect on a team...even though he seldom plays.

This guy is a great twitter follow @souljabenny

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Will you be less likely to attend basketball games now that Mr. Brightside isn’t being played?

If you decide to keep attending, do you think the environment will be less fun? Will the environment be more stale?

SEC Co-Player of the Week – Florida’s Skylar Wallace, a redshirt junior infielder from Woodstock, Ga., tallied a .625 batting average along with 10 hits, 11 runs scored and 12 RBI in a 7-0 week for the Gators. Wallace also slugged 1.438 as six of her 10 hits went for extra bases and notched a .720 on-base percentage, eight stolen bases and seven walks.


Missouri’s Alex Honnold, a junior centerfielder from West Des Moines, Iowa, batted .643 with nine hits, nine runs scored and 10 RBI in a 6-0 week for the Tigers. In the mid-week win over No. 20/20 UCF, Honnold went 2-for-2 with a double, a home run and four RBI. On the week, she posted a 1.357 slugging percentage, .762 on-base percentage, six walks and four stolen bases.

How does everyone feel about this bracket? Link below!
Obviously it’s way early but this would be an interesting one for sure. How would Mizzou match up against Duke? They would obviously be at a large size disadvantage with Duke offering two 7 footers. Would Duke be forced to go small to keep up like Tennessee had to do or would Mizzou just get bullied like they have against teams like A&M, Arkansas, MISS State, etc?

If Mizzou got past Duke would Mizzou be motivated for revenge against KU or play scared and crap down their legs like the last time?

Either way, I think it could be very intriguing and a great opportunity to get some exposure for recruiting.

Been to a workout and a camp in the last two weeks in the Nashville, Tenn. area for national coverage. I've had three OL prospects tell me they plan to visit Missouri this spring.

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- One of Oliver's assistant coaches is former Missouri OL Paul Adams, who also prepped at CPA in Nashville

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- Doesn't hold a Missouri offer yet, but says he's been hearing a lot from OL coach Marcus Johnson. Tennessee just offered Perry, who also holds notable offers from Duke, North Carolina, Vandy, and Mississippi State.

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- Wake Forest, Georgia Tech, Duke, North Carolina, and Vanderbilt are the schools that seem to be standing out the most with Masterson, but he told me he's planning to visit Missouri in late April or early May

$60 for the pair sec. 111. Row 18 seats 12 & 13. 417-439-6006. must have Venmo.

This is all so dumb

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Did anyone else notice the conversation between the 2 of them at the very end of the game? It looked as though they were having some sort of disagreement.

Let's talk some hoops!

Section 216
Row 10
Seats 21-24

ARLINGTON, Texas – Oklahoma State scored five times in the second inning, then held off a valiant Missouri comeback bid to claim a 5-3 opening-day victory over the Tigers Friday at the College Baseball Showdown at Globe Life Field.

Roc Riggio delivered the game’s biggest blow with a two-out, two-run single that turned a two-run OSU lead into a 4-0 advantage for the No. 11 Cowboys. Freshman DH Carson Benge followed with an RBI single on the next pitch to cap the five-run second.

Mizzou battled back with three unanswered runs over the next two innings, but four OSU relievers combined to hold the Tigers hitless over the final five frames to preserve the narrow margin. Drew Blake (1-0) earned the mound victory with 2.0 hitless innings to headline the group’s efforts.

Tony Neubeck and Zach Franklin were equally as impressive out of the Mizzou bullpen, combining for 12 strikeouts and holding the Cowboy offense hitless for four innings. Neubeck fanned a career-high nine hitters, including a string of five in a row spanning the third and fourth innings. Franklin worked the Tigers out of a seventh-inning jam with back-to-back punchouts, ultimately striking out three of the five hitters he faced.

In all, Neubeck, Franklin and starting pitcher Chandler Murphy (0-1) registered 16 strikeouts on the day and limited OSU to one hit over the final 5 2/3 innings of the game, as five of the Cowboys’ six hits on the day came during the decisive second-inning rally.

Nolan McLean, who worked around a Ty Wilmsmeyer single in the ninth to close out the victory, sparked OSU’s offense with a leadoff walk to start the second. David Mendham added a single, and back-to-back hits by Marcus Brown and Nolan Schubart produced the first run of the contest.

Murphy issued a bases-loaded walk to Ian Daugherty before briefly recovering to strike out Zach Ehrhard for the second out of the inning.

But Riggio lined an 0-2 pitch past a diving Justin Colon at short to chase home both Brown and Schubart for a four-run OSU cushion. Benge lined the next pitch to left to bring in Daugherty and make it a 5-0 contest.

The Tigers responded immediately, as Ross Lovich recorded the first RBI of the new season for Mizzou, lacing a single to right after Luke Mann sparked the third-inning rally with a two-out double. Dalton Bargo added his first hit as a Tiger to keep the momentum going, before Trevor Austin was hit by a pitch and Hank Zeisler coaxed a bases-loaded walk to force home the second MU run of the inning.

In the fourth, Wilmsmeyer singled with one out, moved to second on a Juaron Watts-Brown wild pitch, then sprinted home on Colon’s line-drive single to center to trim the deficit to 5-3.

From there, the OSU bullpen seized control, as Blake worked around a pair of walks in the fifth, joining forces with Brant Hogue and Evan O’ Toole to set down 10 straight Mizzou hitters from the fifth through the eighth innings.

Wilmsmeyer stopped that string with his leadoff hit in the ninth, but McLean retired the next three Tiger hitters to secure the save.

Lovich and Wilmsmeyer led the Mizzou offense with two-hit days at the plate, while Austin reached safely in each of his first three plate appearances.

ARLINGTON, Texas – Missouri clawed its way back from an early four-run deficit to pull out a 9-8 victory over No. 16 TCU in 10 innings Sunday evening at Globe Life Field, capping a 2-1 season-opening weekend at the College Baseball Showdown.



Ty Wilmsmeyer led Mizzou’s 16-hit attack with a 4-for-5 night at the plate. But it was his one-out walk and aggressive baserunning in the decisive 10th frame — along with more dominant pitching by the Mizzou bullpen — that proved to be the tipping point of a back-and-forth battle that saw the Tigers score six times in their final four turns at bat to pull out the victory over the Horned Frogs.



After Wilmsmeyer coaxed a walk from TCU’s Garrett Wright, Justin Colon’s grounder to second was misplayed for an error. The duo then pulled off a double steal, and Wilmsmeyer trotted home on an errant throw to second.

Zach Franklin (1-0) punctuated the victory with a scoreless bottom of the 10th that included two more strikeouts, finishing a critical three-inning effort over which he punched out seven hitters and allowed just one hit.



The victory came after TCU built a 6-2 lead early in the contest, as the preseason Big 12 Conference favorites struck for three runs in the first and fourth innings. Both clubs broke from the gate swinging hot bats, with Mizzou cashing in on Ross Lovich’s RBI single in the first, before TCU responded with three runs in the home half of the inning.



Austin Davis, who reached base safely in all four of his five trips to the plate, started the inning with a bunt single, before Brayden Taylor drove him home with a base hit. David Bishop delivered the biggest of the Horned Frogs’ three hits in the rally, driving a two-run double into the gap in right-center field to give TCU a 3-1 advantage.

Mizzou, which left 16 runners on base in the contest, threatened again in the second, loading the bases with one out on three singles. But TCU starting pitcher Sam Stoutenborough worked his way out of the jam by fanning back-to-back Tigers to keep it a two-run game.



Tre Morris came off the Missouri bench to drive in a third-inning run with a clutch two-out single, pulling the Tigers to within a run.

TCU rode a pair of walks, the lone Mizzou error of the game and an RBI double by Davis to another three-run rally, taking what appeared to be a commanding four-run cushion into the middle innings.

Tiger dual-sport standout Sam Horn provided a lift out of the Tiger bullpen, with the freshman right-hander touching 97 MPH and recording three strikeouts and allowing just one hit over 3.0 innings in his Mizzou Baseball debut.



The Tiger offense rode the momentum to a fifth-inning scoring rally, using another two-out hit by Morris to draw back to within three runs.



Then, in the seventh, two of TCU’s five errors spurred a two-run outburst that once again pulled MU to within a single run. Mann drove in his third run of the weekend with a two-out single through the shift on the right side, and a fielding miscue on Chick’s hot shot to third brought home Wilmsmeyer to make it a 6-5 game.



Mizzou completed the comeback in the eighth, as Trevor Austin’s leadoff triple and Matt Garcia’s fielder’s choice grounder produced the equalizing tally.

Franklin amplified the shift in momentum by fanning the side in the home half of the eighth, before two-out RBI singles by JuJu Stevens and Austin handed the Tigers an 8-6 lead.



A hit batsman and a pair of walks opened the door for the Frogs in the bottom of the ninth, and Bishop burned the Tigers for the second time with a two-run single after Franklin had worked to within one strike of finishing off TCU.



But Mizzou rebounded promptly after Wilmsmeyer reached base safely for the fifth time in the game.



In a combined 7.0 innings, the Mizzou relief corps of Carter Rustad, Horn and Franklin combined to strike out 11 TCU hitters while yielding just four hits to keep the Tigers within striking distance. For the weekend, Tiger relievers accounted for 29 of the staff’s 39 strikeouts in 17.2 innings, over which they allowed just eight hits.



In addition to Wilmsmeyer’s big night, Austin finished with three hits and Morris went 2-for-5 after entering the game in the third inning.

UP NEXT

Mizzou travels to Miami for a four-game set against FIU next weekend. The Tigers and Panthers will open their series with a pair of 5:30 p.m. (CT) contests, Thursday (Feb. 23) and Friday (Feb. 24), before concluding the weekend with a 4 p.m. game Saturday (Feb. 25) and an 11 a.m. tilt Sunday (Feb. 26).

https://www.stltoday.com/sports/col...cle_6c8f710e-51f3-5a44-8be3-90503350a824.html

Dave Matter has lost his objectivity—quite a misleading article, IMO. I know DRF leaks stuff to him, but he isn't trying to veil it at this point. I love that the pictures in his puff pieces are only with Dennis & Desiree. Never with Eli.

1. "Dramatic uptick in ticket sales." Really? :
   • The article shows a significant jump in ticket revenue to $13.9 million, up from $3.5 million
     • The fiscal year 2021 was the covid year, so that increase is less dramatic and organic than it seems. Ticket sales are still lagging behind the pre-pandemic total of $16.1 million.
       • Mizzou Football Attendance: increased by 16%. While it's nice that they had more fans in seats for the atmosphere, many games had $10 & $20 tickets to bring fans in. This helps attendance but hurts revenue, including screwing the TSF donors who donate for the privilege of purchasing their tickets at full price. The revenue associated with these flash sales is minuscule.
       • Mizzou Basketball Attendance: increased by 69%. Again, while nice to have the arena rocking, it has come at the expense of subsidizing the product. There have been so many $5, $10, $15 flash sales for tickets to the conference and non-conference games alike. At some point, they need to start making an actual profit on the tickets, and it's not a good way to do it when they train fans that tickets will be given away very cheaply. What's the incentive to buy season tickets when you can buy most of the games for well under cost and not have to donate?
2. Outrageous Spending:
   • Spent more than $125 millionin the 2022 fiscal year.
     • Coaching Salaries: $22 million, up from $20 million
     • Support Staff & Admin Pay: $24 million, up from $18 million
     • Travel Expenses: $8.5 million, up from $5.1 million
   • It is nice to know that department resources are going to pay for:
     • Private flights for the AD & staff, even from as close as Columbia to St. Louis.
     • Office space renovations multiple times in the AD's office.
3. Institutional Support:
   • $27 million in support from Mizzou Campus to the Athletic Department in 2022.
     • Direct support of $12 million, up from $1 million ($3.5 million in out-of-state fee waiver support & $7.5 million loan to balance budget for 2022)
     • The total revenue reported includes an additional $15 million of campus support to eliminate the previous year's debt.
   • Could you tell me again how the department is operating at a surplus? Maybe on paper.
4. Huron Consulting:
   • The finances need to be looked into. I hope they can dig in and figure out how the AD can more effectively spend money.
   • Is the AD giving the same resources and attention to football as basketball?
     • Basketball is a hot topic, even though football makes up 80% of departmental revenue.
   • How can the AD balance filling the stadium/arena to create a great atmosphere while not giving tickets away?
   • They need to incentivize people to buy season tickets. Not having flash sales that dilute the value of the product.

With practice starting Feb 28th has media availabilty been discussed? How will i get my football fix? Lol @GabeD @JHamilton23

Some solid in-state options for Missouri at WR in this year's class

with Marcus Denmon's AAU program

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Flipping through channels and found this on SEC Network.

Crowd at Mizzou looks amazing.

Any gymnastics fans that have some insight into what attendance typically is at Mizzou?

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