- Our Tennessee site caught up with Roderick Orr earlier this week. The most notable thing coming out of that story is that Orr will no longer announce a commitment on August 1st, which is Saturday. That date always seemed tentative based on previous interviews. Orr did mention that Baylor, Auburn, Penn State, and Miami are schools that haven't offered yet, but continue to show interest.
- Rivals.com analyst Sam Spiegelman caught up with offensive center target Ezra Oyetade earlier this week, who mentioned Virginia, Arizona State, Vanderbilt, Missouri, and UCF as schools he talks with most frequently.
Here is what the three-star prospect said about Missouri: "That's another awesome coaching staff, a new coaching staff that's all gonna be there for a while. They're changing the program around -- the new Zoo, the new hype, the new energy -- and they're getting people there and making noise for sure."
Oyetade recently visited Missouri and Vanderbilt on his own and is planning to visit Arizona State soon. Would expect him to make a decision sometime soon.
- Switching over to the defensive line, Telfair County (Ga.) product Patrick Tukes is now on commit watch after his Tuesday night tweet. Missouri is one of the schools very involved with the 6-foot-3, 260-pound prospect. Florida State, Ole Miss, Kentucky, South Carolina, and Virginia Tech appear to other schools that are in the conversation.
- With East St. Louis wide receiver Dominic Lovett set to announce his decision on September 11th. Missouri, Illinois, Arizona State, Kentucky, Louisville, and Penn State appear to be the strongest contenders for the four-star prospect. Lovett recently talked with our Illinois site and had this to say about Missouri quarterback commit and high school teammate Tyler Macon
“Tyler is like my brother so he is in my ear 24/7 about coming to Mizzou and how we can be that duo.”
- As noted last night, Mizzou signed junior college offensive lineman Zeke Powell. I'd look for an official announcement from the team some time today. That adds a body to the depth chart on the offensive line for two years as Powell has already used three years of eligibility between South Alabama and juco. It also puts Mizzou back at the limit of 81 scholarships for the season. There are seven spots left in this class by our estimation.
- Nothing new as far as the SEC football schedule goes, but for anyone that missed any of it, we wanted to post links to everything we covered yesterday:
SEC pivots to 10 game schedule
Plan B might be better than Plan A
Sterk talks SEC scheduling change
Podcast: Gabe and Mitchell react
Camp will start next Friday. That will give Missouri a full seven weeks prior to the season opener. That's 50 days, so if you figure they practice every other day, they get in 24 practices, which would be about the equivalent of the 15 they'd normally have in fall camp and what they missed of spring football. They might practice a little more than that obviously, but the point is, the lost time now has a chance to be made up.
We're not going to harp on the same old discussion. We have a plan in place. Over the next two months, we'll find out how much of that plan they can get to work.
- No basketball recruiting news before you ask because, well, there's nothing really new that we know of. We do get to talk to Cuonzo Martin later this morning and we'll have some notes and stories out of that over the next few days.
- Rivals.com analyst Sam Spiegelman caught up with offensive center target Ezra Oyetade earlier this week, who mentioned Virginia, Arizona State, Vanderbilt, Missouri, and UCF as schools he talks with most frequently.
Here is what the three-star prospect said about Missouri: "That's another awesome coaching staff, a new coaching staff that's all gonna be there for a while. They're changing the program around -- the new Zoo, the new hype, the new energy -- and they're getting people there and making noise for sure."
Oyetade recently visited Missouri and Vanderbilt on his own and is planning to visit Arizona State soon. Would expect him to make a decision sometime soon.
- Switching over to the defensive line, Telfair County (Ga.) product Patrick Tukes is now on commit watch after his Tuesday night tweet. Missouri is one of the schools very involved with the 6-foot-3, 260-pound prospect. Florida State, Ole Miss, Kentucky, South Carolina, and Virginia Tech appear to other schools that are in the conversation.
- With East St. Louis wide receiver Dominic Lovett set to announce his decision on September 11th. Missouri, Illinois, Arizona State, Kentucky, Louisville, and Penn State appear to be the strongest contenders for the four-star prospect. Lovett recently talked with our Illinois site and had this to say about Missouri quarterback commit and high school teammate Tyler Macon
“Tyler is like my brother so he is in my ear 24/7 about coming to Mizzou and how we can be that duo.”
- As noted last night, Mizzou signed junior college offensive lineman Zeke Powell. I'd look for an official announcement from the team some time today. That adds a body to the depth chart on the offensive line for two years as Powell has already used three years of eligibility between South Alabama and juco. It also puts Mizzou back at the limit of 81 scholarships for the season. There are seven spots left in this class by our estimation.
- Nothing new as far as the SEC football schedule goes, but for anyone that missed any of it, we wanted to post links to everything we covered yesterday:
SEC pivots to 10 game schedule
Plan B might be better than Plan A
Sterk talks SEC scheduling change
Podcast: Gabe and Mitchell react
Camp will start next Friday. That will give Missouri a full seven weeks prior to the season opener. That's 50 days, so if you figure they practice every other day, they get in 24 practices, which would be about the equivalent of the 15 they'd normally have in fall camp and what they missed of spring football. They might practice a little more than that obviously, but the point is, the lost time now has a chance to be made up.
We're not going to harp on the same old discussion. We have a plan in place. Over the next two months, we'll find out how much of that plan they can get to work.
- No basketball recruiting news before you ask because, well, there's nothing really new that we know of. We do get to talk to Cuonzo Martin later this morning and we'll have some notes and stories out of that over the next few days.
