Mizzou Links, 9-17-08

by Bill C. on Sep 17, 2008 5:58 AM CDT in News

How much scoring is too much? Gary Pinkel wants to know. And I do love the part about the 15 BCS teams who haven't scored 57 points in three games. Meanwhile, the KC Star and Post-Dispatch talk about the same thing--that Mizzou can't help but score.

PowerMizzou has a nice story on Mizzou's offensive line.

Perhaps the biggest shock to [Colin] Brown is that he's a part of such a group. Five years ago, unsure which direction to take his college career, he decided to walk on at Mizzou from tiny Braymer, MO. At 6-foot-8, Pinkel knew he had a big body, but he didn't know if he had anything beyond that.

"When he first came in, he looked good. He always looked good," Pinkel said. "I knew he would look good walking off the bus, maybe intimidate (our opponents). Whether he could play football or not, I didn't know that."

Neither, to be honest about it, did Brown.

"I remember I was talking to my dad about a week before I showed up I was talking to him about what I was going to do if I showed up and I was absolutely the worst player," Brown remembered. "It was something I thought might last a season, maybe two. I really thought this would be completely over my head and I'd never even be good enough to have a chance to even compete."

It's Cut to the Chase time!!! Meanwhile, Mr. Daniel has moved to #1 on SI.com's and ESPN's Heisman Watch lists...and by a decent margin. And he's not the only Big 12 QB getting recognition--a majority of Pat Forde's weekly Dash column is dedicated to the conference's right arms. In a world where few SEC teams seem to have competent offenses, the Big 12 is making a nice splash.

Buffalo Links! Okay, link...

Missourian: Buffalo coach Gill sees allure of playing Tigers

The Maneater has an ode to Chase Patton.

On the recruiting front, it appears that Mizzou has slowly but surely worked its way back onto 4-star safety Kevin Brent's radar screen--he hasn't mentioned Mizzou in a while, but now Columbia's a possible destination for an official visit. Meanwhile, 3-star Houston WR Ja-Mes Logan has Mizzou penciled in at #5 right now. And 3-star NC safety Willie "Jheranie Boyd's Friend" Kennedy visited Colorado last weekend--no word on whether he's going to visit Mizzou or not.

Finally, the Big 12 season begins for the 5-4 Mizzou Volleyball team tonight--here's the official release for tonight's game in Norman. I still think this "no home games for the first month of the season" thing is ridiculous...though I guess it can't hurt the RPI, huh?

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by RPT on Sep 17, 2008 7:38 AM CDT reply actions

oh nice...

…I still don’t totally understand the renovations—the Cotton Bowl isn’t even going to host the Cotton Bowl soon—but I like it. I always enjoy renovating old stadiums compared to building new ones. At least the new ones aren’t of the ‘cookie cutter’ variety anymore, but still…

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by Bill C. on Sep 17, 2008 7:53 AM CDT up reply actions

I think its like the city taxing itself...

… for not being able to lure the Cowboys back to Dallas when Jerry decided to put his playland in Arlington. They needed to do whatever they could to make sure that UT/OU didn’t get moved to a home-and-home (which both schools were threatening if they didn’t raise capacity).

The Cotton Bowl has so much history, but it can easily be overshadowed by how worn down it was. The concourses at the Cotton Bowl were awful and the field itself didn’t look much better last January.

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by RPT on Sep 17, 2008 7:57 AM CDT up reply actions

What? Just because it was painted green?

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by The Beef on Sep 17, 2008 8:32 AM CDT up reply actions

My roommate in Marching Mizzou...

… is still getting green paint off of his shoes.

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by RPT on Sep 17, 2008 9:15 AM CDT up reply actions

Raise your hand if you ever thought

we’d be talking about Mizzou running up the score on teams?

Now, if we can just do this on October 4.

by Andy--01 on Sep 17, 2008 7:45 AM CDT reply actions

This running up the score thing bothers me

Who cares. I know not all people feel the way I do, but if you can’t stop us we are gonna score points. Calling off the dogs against SEMO is one thing, but Nevada is a D-1 team. Same goes for Buffalo this week. If they can’t stop us, why should we stop scoring?

Im worried that Pinkel is gonna get scared and stop running the offense if we get a big lead in Big 12 play, which of course will allow the other team a chance to get into the game. Screw other teams feelings, keep scoring Pinkel.

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by nji232 on Sep 17, 2008 10:07 AM CDT reply actions

I agree

I was in Manhattan for the Rout 66. I wasn’t mad at K-State for dropping 66 on us. I was mad at Mizzou for being literally unable to stop it. I watched TAMU hammer us 73-0 on TV. Was I mad at the Aggies? Not really. I was mad at Mizzou for doing nothing about it.

Our offense is good. We, of all schools, shouldn’t be ashamed of that. And more importantly, we have to score more points because our offense scores so fast, there’s going to be ample opportunity for the other team to score.

The only point about this debate I’d like to have brought up is that I want to see more consistency out of our running game. I appreciate D-Wash’s 40- and 60-yard runs. I just want to be sure the four-yard run will be there if we need three late in a game. I know that’s picking nits, but it’s a little of a concern.

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by mitch cumstein on Sep 17, 2008 10:14 AM CDT up reply actions

I agree on the running game

After that run…we got away from it and when we went back to it, Nevada did a nice job with it. I would like to see a little more consistency this week out of D-Wash and maybe 15 carries for him before he visits the metal (we dont use pine I guess).

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by The Beef on Sep 17, 2008 10:16 AM CDT up reply actions

Mmmmmmm, Buffalo links*

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by Big Head on Sep 17, 2008 10:46 AM CDT reply actions

Griffin with a bit of greatness here:

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by RPT on Sep 17, 2008 12:35 PM CDT reply actions

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by Andy--01 on Sep 17, 2008 2:16 PM CDT up reply actions

Other than kneeling on the ball ...

You can’t really tell guys to go in there and half-ass it and not try. If they run plays and they happen to get into the end zone eventually, well, that’s how it is. I wasn’t a big fan of the fake field goal though. It’d be better to save that for KU or something. Oh well, maybe Pinkel’s got something else up his sleeve.

by Southside on Sep 19, 2008 2:30 AM CDT reply actions