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While Pinkel has a good thing going in Columbia, you have to wonder if this is as good as it will...

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While Pinkel has a good thing going in Columbia, you have to wonder if this is as good as it will get for him at Mizzou. If Pinkel can't get the program over the hump this year with the best quarterback, tight end and wide receiver in school history, it probably never is going to happen. The college football cognoscenti know Washington is a better job than the one he has.

Rivals' Tom Dienhart, on the now-open Washington job. Tom, apparently, is stuck in 1991. (And he also apparently has a different definition of "over the hump" than I do. I would figure being on pace for 21-23 wins in two seasons is what most people would call "over the hump" for a program who hadn't scored that many wins in three seasons since the '70s.)