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1) The only Mizzou news of the weekend coincided with the biggest sporting event nationally. Former Mizzou golfer Hayden Buckley hung around and finished 14th in the U.S. Open. Buckley entered the weekend a shot off the lead after back to back 68s in the first two rounds. A 5-over round Saturday mostly took him out of real contention to win and on Sunday, he just never really could make any sort of a move, but he still finished tied for 14th in his second ever US Open. He moved up from 112th to 95th in the FedEx Cup standings. The top 125 in the standings automatically get their PGA Tour card for next season. So this weekend was a major step in that direction for Buckley. Great open overall and Buckley's involvement gave us a nice little local angle to follow in addition to the usual drama.
2) Is college baseball showing teaching us a lesson? The College World Series is happening this week. Eight teams qualify. The way the brackets fell, the four unseeded teams faced the four national seeds in the first game in Omaha. The unseeded teams won all four. Arkansas, Notre Dame, Ole Miss and Oklahoma weren't even supposed to win their regionals. They all advanced to the winner's bracket in the College World Series. I understand baseball is the most random of sports. There's no such thing as an "upset" in baseball. Even the worst team in Major League Baseball is going to win 60 and even the best team is going to lose 50 or 60. So this isn't really replicable in college football or even college basketball. But it sure would be fun if it was. Seeing underdogs win and different teams win is fun. I wish we saw it more in college football.
3) We are less than a month from the unofficial kickoff of the season before the college football season. Four weeks from today, Eli Drinkwitz will be among the coaches speaking at SEC Media Days in Atlanta. Four weeks. It's stunning how the offseason seems to have been totally eliminated. College football has become a truly year round sport. The season ends in December, then you've got the coaching carousel and late recruiting and the transfer portal for six weeks. Then you've got spring football. Then you've got the transfer portal again. And by the time that settles down we're into June and we're a month away from media days and we're about to start the whole thing over again. Is it good? Probably for fans. I think it's a negative overall for coaches and probably for players, but when the game you play turns into a billion dollar industry, this is a part of it. You make that money because you're always in the news cycle. So here we go again, almost ready to start the season when it seems like the last season just ended.
4) The only major thing to happen around Mizzou football between now and then is this weekend's official visits. Mizzou is calling the weekend "The Summit." As of now, we have six visitors confirmed for the weekend, but we expect that list to grow this weekend. Honestly, other than maybe new offer Nicholas DeLoach, I wouldn't necessarily go into the weekend expecting any immediate decisions. But Missouri has its shot to lay the groundwork. A decent number of kids will probably make decisions over the next six weeks to get it done with prior to the start of their senior seasons, but I'm not sure any will do so in the immediate aftermath of the trip.
5) On the hoops side, Missouri has offered at least 56 players over the next three classes. This is such a marked change around Mizzou basketball recruiting. It's not that Cuonzo Martin and his staff didn't offer guys. They did. Not nearly this many. But it honestly seemed over the last few years that the kids Missouri was offering weren't advertisiting the fact that Missouri offered them. There were times I wondered if kids were being told "Don't tell anybody we're recruiting you." Now, Missouri has offered so many guys that it could turn the entire roster over three years in a row and it would still have to tell 17 guys it didn't have room for them. Obviously there are a lot of offers out there that aren't really offers. We'll try to figure out over the next few weeks which ones are real and which ones aren't. We'll be doing some of that in Kansas City from July 7-10. That's the final "regular season" session of the EYBL. We'll be there all weekend trying to talk to every Mizzou target we can.
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