The 2012 Mizzou Football Thread

[lukethedrifter]

Looks like I was incorrect and either Sheldon got contrite or Pinkel sold out cuz apparently Richardson is playing this week.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

@Dave_Matter: Pinkel: If Missouri's 2007 team had the injuries this team has had, it would've won 7 or 8 games instead of 12

In early August, Mizzou had a pretty clear top 6 offensive linemen that would shake out positionally in some combination based on performance. Of the 66 potential games those 6 could have played in, they have received about half of that. Also, their returning starter at QB has either been out with injury or slightly hampered with injury for the majority of the season. Making Mizzou's season a referendum on their coaching or their place in the conference is silly. There isn't a team in the country that can withstand literally losing half their offensive line and then their QB for a huge chunk of the season and still expect to excel. It simply doesn't happen.

You simply can't expect undersized linemen that are going to be overmatched time and again to stay healthy for an entire season. Hell you can't expect linemen to stay healthy anyway.

Again, going back to the 2007 season, I wonder how many games that team would have won if it had to match up against bigger lines, like oklahoma's or nebraska's, every week. It's always been their achilles under Pinkel and now it's going to be exposed worse than ever.

I really like Pinkel; I think we'd get along great and he seems like a genuine person. He shouldn't be coaching Mizzou going forward though. And, if he is still the coach, I very much hope he makes adjustments and gets some depth for his linemen as well as get a few bigger ones.

Ruth and Chappell were lost for the season before a game was played, and Meiners missed the first two weeks(also more later in the year). So there's 24 games of play without an SEC lineman touching anyone. This isn't a "Mizzou's tiny line got ground into dust by the SEC" situation(which is a false premise to begin with), this is "one third of our Offensive line rotation is gone off the bat, and then we had a normal to slightly above average number of OL injuries during the season"

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

Okay, I mispoke or was wrong by making it sound like they got beat up by the SEC. That wasn't the correct way to put it. Mea Culpa.

And, I'm in a bit of a foul mood having to spend thanksgiving with aTm fans. I adamantly thought Mizzou would compete right off the bat and of the two would have the better year. BAsically, I thought Mizzou would have the season aTm is having, boldly predicting a Mizzou upset of Alabama. And, now I have to eat those words, which sucks but whatever.

I probably won't be talking as much [expletive] as I was in June b/c I don't see Mizzou as a team that was a couple injuries and/or breaks away from having a great/good season. And, that's sad, because talking [expletive] to friends/family is like half of what makes college football so much fun. Remember last year when Mizzou beat aTm? That was sweet.

[JL21]

Why not just say "Congratulations on beating Mizzou for the first time since 2005" and let that statement be your dig?

[lukethedrifter]

because A&M hasn't beaten Mizzou yet


#nevergiveup

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

Why not just say "Congratulations on beating Mizzou for the first time since 2005" and let that statement be your dig?

Ha.

[MrCrowesGarden]

Dave Yost is stepping down.

[JL21]

Without hearing the press conference or the logic, I'm going to pretend it's to go open a head shop in Boulder.

To tell the truth, I don't like that. Yost took a lot of [expletive] from fans but by and large, he was very successful in his run as the OC. He was responsible for the tremendous QB play Mizzou's had for 10 years (2012 notwithstanding).

[MrCrowesGarden]

Without hearing the press conference or the logic, I'm going to pretend it's to go open a head shop in Boulder.

To tell the truth, I don't like that. Yost took a lot of [expletive] from fans but by and large, he was very successful in his run as the OC. He was responsible for the tremendous QB play Mizzou's had for 10 years (2012 notwithstanding).

The press release cited personal reasons. While I don't know anything other than what's been reported, from what I've read it doesn't sound like he's in play for another job right now.

[JL21]

Without hearing the press conference or the logic, I'm going to pretend it's to go open a head shop in Boulder.

To tell the truth, I don't like that. Yost took a lot of [expletive] from fans but by and large, he was very successful in his run as the OC. He was responsible for the tremendous QB play Mizzou's had for 10 years (2012 notwithstanding).

The press release cited personal reasons. While I don't know anything other than what's been reported, from what I've read it doesn't sound like he's in play for another job right now.

I will miss the constant surfer references by color commentators.

Actually, didn't Yost play a big role in landing DGB and some of the other recent big name kids? Little stuff like that worries me as much as anything. But I guess I'm a little excited to see who they hire to replace him, too.