First, what a beautiful campus! Great welcome. First class fans. Became a bit of a fan and will definitely root for them going forward.
”It’s really hard to win football games.” Coach Gary Pinkel
It is my hope that MIZZOU uses this experience as a springboard—that this is a turning point—-for the team, the coaches, the program and us.
We love MIZZOU. It’s literally why we invest so much of our time and our hearts into this-why we dream and hope and travel. And oh by the way—-the traveling fans for MIZZOU were significant in number, impressive, and loud. So loud in fact that the defensive players could hear us and were calling for us to be even louder on critical 3rd and 4th downs. ON THE ROAD. IN THE SEC!
You know——like you I’m pissed. This was a crushing loss—-especially with how it went down.
But I want to tell you what I saw yesterday.
All week long all we heard was how horrible MIZZOU plays on the road. And going into Jordan Hare, I promise you is a really difficult place to win—-probably one of the toughest in the SEC. And most of you had Mizzou getting rolled.
Then before you know it we were down 14-0. At that point, it sure felt like we were gonna get run off the field.
What happened next?
You saw a team fighting and clawing and scratching!
You saw a defense that held Auburn to 5 (FIVE) first downs during the 3rd, 4th, and OT periods.
Folks, we have a DEFENSE!!! Heat seeking safety missiles like Charleston and Manuel, and of course Daylan Carnell! Defensive line becoming a force! LBs like Hopper and Bailey really showed out! When was the last defensive performance like this on the road in the SEC??. Maybe 2015 @ Georgia 9-6. But I don’t remember even in that game the complete wall in the 2nd half, Our defense played their absolute ASSES off!!!
Did Brady Cook have a PlayStation game? Nope——but you know what—he made the plays to put his team in position to WIN!! How about the much maligned O line?? I saw a bit of a surge —-multiple times today!! By far the best performance of the year. They are growing folks —-right before your eyes! Dominic Lovett??? That on ball adjustment was absolutely remarkable!!! Big time players make big time plays!!!
I am firmly in the camp of believing we had total control of the game and should have kept the foot on the gas hard at the end of regulation (if you run the first play and gain a couple yards you force Auburn to burn their 2nd timeout, then another play and they call their last and are are out of timeouts. You are doing the same thing in taking it down to the last possession and forcing Auburn to choose to let you score in a desperate attempt to try and tie with a TD with less than 20 seconds left and no timeouts. But that said, I agree that Mevis has been complete MONEY for years. I bet Mevis cannot wait to get the next opportunity to redeem himself. He is a competitor!
Nate Peat??? Are you kidding me??? Some of the cutbacks he made were truly amazing!! He rushed for well over 100 yards against a very very good defensive front,,,,!!! Sometimes you make a very small error in hopes and dreams of making an unbelievable play to WIN THE GAME for your team —-your school and your town. He’s crushed. Absolutely crushed.
We fans certainly understand being crushed by this game. If you were actually privileged to be in the stadium yesterday you probably feel it even more acutely. The line between winning and losing can be so very small. Just imagine you were one of the fellas on that team or their families…you’re pissed beyond belief, and crushed beyond description. But you should also be crazy PROUD!!,
Your team grew up quite a bit yesterday. But we are in a very very very vulnerable spot. What happens next???
Where do we go from here???
Are we as a team gonna start the divisiveness of the endless blame game? Do we splinter into a million pieces and egos and individual goals elevated above the team?? It would be easy to do just that. What’s tougher and what requires so much more heart is to stand together brother to brother teammate to teammate and simply say “I got YOU.”
If we play with that effort, that HEART, that RESOLVE, that DETERMINATION, and that collective WILL that we showed in difficult circumstances yesterday——there isn’t a single game left on the schedule that we cannot win. Not one. Including Georgia.
But it’s gonna take more than you ever thought possible to stick together and fight when every inclination is to splinter.
Right here and right now MIZZOU is at a crossroads. Who are we??? How will we choose to respond???
That answer is a defining moment for our team, coaching staff, and frankly our fan base as well.
I LOVE MIZZOU and I’m gonna do absolutely everything I can to support our team, especially right now when it really counts.
What about you?
Sincerely,
Guy V Furay (the sunburned no voice left middle aged man who is PISSED, CRUSHED, and crazy PROUD of MY TEAM)
Missouri 1990
”It’s really hard to win football games.” Coach Gary Pinkel
It is my hope that MIZZOU uses this experience as a springboard—that this is a turning point—-for the team, the coaches, the program and us.
We love MIZZOU. It’s literally why we invest so much of our time and our hearts into this-why we dream and hope and travel. And oh by the way—-the traveling fans for MIZZOU were significant in number, impressive, and loud. So loud in fact that the defensive players could hear us and were calling for us to be even louder on critical 3rd and 4th downs. ON THE ROAD. IN THE SEC!
You know——like you I’m pissed. This was a crushing loss—-especially with how it went down.
But I want to tell you what I saw yesterday.
All week long all we heard was how horrible MIZZOU plays on the road. And going into Jordan Hare, I promise you is a really difficult place to win—-probably one of the toughest in the SEC. And most of you had Mizzou getting rolled.
Then before you know it we were down 14-0. At that point, it sure felt like we were gonna get run off the field.
What happened next?
You saw a team fighting and clawing and scratching!
You saw a defense that held Auburn to 5 (FIVE) first downs during the 3rd, 4th, and OT periods.
Folks, we have a DEFENSE!!! Heat seeking safety missiles like Charleston and Manuel, and of course Daylan Carnell! Defensive line becoming a force! LBs like Hopper and Bailey really showed out! When was the last defensive performance like this on the road in the SEC??. Maybe 2015 @ Georgia 9-6. But I don’t remember even in that game the complete wall in the 2nd half, Our defense played their absolute ASSES off!!!
Did Brady Cook have a PlayStation game? Nope——but you know what—he made the plays to put his team in position to WIN!! How about the much maligned O line?? I saw a bit of a surge —-multiple times today!! By far the best performance of the year. They are growing folks —-right before your eyes! Dominic Lovett??? That on ball adjustment was absolutely remarkable!!! Big time players make big time plays!!!
I am firmly in the camp of believing we had total control of the game and should have kept the foot on the gas hard at the end of regulation (if you run the first play and gain a couple yards you force Auburn to burn their 2nd timeout, then another play and they call their last and are are out of timeouts. You are doing the same thing in taking it down to the last possession and forcing Auburn to choose to let you score in a desperate attempt to try and tie with a TD with less than 20 seconds left and no timeouts. But that said, I agree that Mevis has been complete MONEY for years. I bet Mevis cannot wait to get the next opportunity to redeem himself. He is a competitor!
Nate Peat??? Are you kidding me??? Some of the cutbacks he made were truly amazing!! He rushed for well over 100 yards against a very very good defensive front,,,,!!! Sometimes you make a very small error in hopes and dreams of making an unbelievable play to WIN THE GAME for your team —-your school and your town. He’s crushed. Absolutely crushed.
We fans certainly understand being crushed by this game. If you were actually privileged to be in the stadium yesterday you probably feel it even more acutely. The line between winning and losing can be so very small. Just imagine you were one of the fellas on that team or their families…you’re pissed beyond belief, and crushed beyond description. But you should also be crazy PROUD!!,
Your team grew up quite a bit yesterday. But we are in a very very very vulnerable spot. What happens next???
Where do we go from here???
Are we as a team gonna start the divisiveness of the endless blame game? Do we splinter into a million pieces and egos and individual goals elevated above the team?? It would be easy to do just that. What’s tougher and what requires so much more heart is to stand together brother to brother teammate to teammate and simply say “I got YOU.”
If we play with that effort, that HEART, that RESOLVE, that DETERMINATION, and that collective WILL that we showed in difficult circumstances yesterday——there isn’t a single game left on the schedule that we cannot win. Not one. Including Georgia.
But it’s gonna take more than you ever thought possible to stick together and fight when every inclination is to splinter.
Right here and right now MIZZOU is at a crossroads. Who are we??? How will we choose to respond???
That answer is a defining moment for our team, coaching staff, and frankly our fan base as well.
I LOVE MIZZOU and I’m gonna do absolutely everything I can to support our team, especially right now when it really counts.
What about you?
Sincerely,
Guy V Furay (the sunburned no voice left middle aged man who is PISSED, CRUSHED, and crazy PROUD of MY TEAM)
Missouri 1990
