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TRANSFER SHOPPING
- There appears to be a lot of interest in new transfer portal entry, Keion White, a defensive end graduate transfer out of Old Dominion. White set an ODU single-season record a year ago with 19 tackles for loss while also collecting 62 tackles and 3.5 sacks. He originally started his ODU career at tight end before transitioning to the defensive line.
While will have his fair share of suitors with Virginia Tech, Nebraska, Southern Cal, Vanderbilt, Florida State, North Carolina, Texas Tech, NC State, and others already showing interest. He will have two years of eligibility remaining at his next school.
- Fagan is another player that recently entered the transfer portal back on October 7th that the staff is expressing interest in. The former four-star prospect appeared in 27 games throughout during his time at Florida State, making five starts last season. Last year, he tallied 41 tackles, one interception, one fumble recovery, and two pass breakups. However, he was buried on the depth chart in the Seminoles first three games of this season, recording a lone tackle in their win over Jacksonville State. Fagan is a guy that could come in and earn a starting role in the secondary, at the very least, he'll provide some depth and veteran leadership.
DB'S BEING EVALUATED
- Sewell is hearing constantly from Kansas, Texas Tech, and Western Kentucky. However, both Missouri and Vanderbilt are keeping close tabs on the 21st ranked player in the state of Alabama. Seems most schools are recruiting him as a cornerback.
- Yowe is another defensive back prospect that hails from the state of Alabama that Missouri is keeping an eye on. The former three-star prospect was once committed to Mississippi State and also had offers from Middle Tennessee, Central Michigan, Toledo, West Virginia, UAB, Troy, Florida Atlantic, Memphis, and others.
Yowe ended up going the JUCO route out of high school and is now at Hutchinson (Ks.) Community College, where he will be a December graduate. Obviously, all JUCO schools postponed their football seasons to the spring, so there isn't any game film to evaluate but he does have some fall practice film circulating around that has at least drawn interest from Missouri's staff. Yowe is listed at 6-foot-2, 188-pounds, so his size is going to be appealing to college coaches as well.
ON THE ROAD AGAIN
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- The PowerMizzou.com recruiting road tour continues tonight as Sean Williams will travel to Nashville to watch Tigers running back commit BJ Harris in action. We'll have updates, highlights, and interviews to follow over the weekend and into next week.
CRUNCHING THE NUMBERS
Missouri is currently at 77 scholarship players. We are going to assume for the time being that all seniors leave and all opt outs return. Neither of those things will likely happen, but at this point in time, it opens up far too many rabbit holes to approach it any other way. We are also assuming that the overall limit remains at 85. There are many questions to be answered about that as far as how returning players would count against it, whether the limit is raised, etc, but for now, all we can do is operate under the rules we know.
The Tigers are set to lose 18 seniors. That would knock the overall number down to 59 if every other player on the roster were to return. So Mizzou can sign a full class of 25 initial counters (first time LOI signatures) and still be one under the limit. Due to normal attrition and such, we are anticipating Missouri goes up to somewhere around 28 in this class, which would leave approximately nine open spots in the class.
We think Mizzou uses probably five of those spots on receivers and offensive linemen. We wouldn't be surprised by another tight end and another running back. Linebacker and safety are also spots where Mizzou could add another player, particularly if they know someone that could return is not going to. This is by no means a definitive plan, but it's at least a guideline. The focus of the rest of the class will clearly be receiver, offensive line and transfers/juco players.
SCHEDULING UPDATE
SEC teams test on Thursdays and get results back on Friday morning. That means Florida will know its situation later today. Today's numbers are the big ones for the Gators. If they are still in a spot where they have too many players impacted, we are only eight days from that game. Anyone who tests positive or is impacted by contact tracing today is going to be out for the Mizzou game. I don't know whether there will be any sort of announcement because I don't know what Florida's policy is with its COVID numbers but at least internally, the league should know whether the Gators can host Mizzou next Saturday night.
If they can't, the Vanderbilt numbers from today will become important as the Commodores have a scheduled bye next weekend. Missouri would be without an opponent and therefore if Vandy can play, it makes sense to move that game to next weekend, which frees up December 12 for both the Tigers and Commodores. Obviously LSU/Florida factors in here too. That's currently slated for December 12, so then you'd have to start looking at bye weeks. Florida's is on October 31 while Missouri and LSU both have theirs on Nov. 7. So it's not as simple as rescheduling Florida and Mizzou on the bye week because they aren't the same. This is where we would get into the jigsaw puzzle scheduling approach where you're having to move multiple games around. It can be done and likely will be done. The goal remains to play as many games as possible and get ten in for everyone if you can do it. The SEC approach works fine when a team has one game postponed. If you get into teams having multiple games postponeed (as Florida and Missouri could be by the end of the day), then everything gets a lot more complicated.
Another factor here could be Texas A&M. The Aggies played the Gators last weekend and according to the Florida AD there were players who were already showing symptoms at the time of that game who made the trip. If you see a spike at A&M this week, then things get really hairy.
Again, I don't know if we will know anything by the end of the day. I know the schools involved and the SEC should know something by the end of the day. If we are able to learn anything, we will certainly pass that on as soon as we know.
