Mizzou Links, 9-8-08

by The Boy on Sep 8, 2008 5:58 AM CDT in News

Here are some of the better SEMO wrap-up links from the weekend...

The Trib: No doubt about it
KC Star: Mizzou smacks SEMO
Mizzourah: Day after reflections
SE Missourian: Southeast fans soak up atmosphere in Columbia
SE Missourian: Check in hand, Redhawks turn attention to OVC

And some Blaine Gabbert links...

The Trib: A Missouri Compromise with an eye on future
Post-Dispatch: Gabbert meets goal of playing this year
Missourian: MU reserve QBs show promise

And on to Nevada we go...

Nevada Appeal: Starting RB Luke Lippincott out for season with a torn ACL
Reno Gazette-Journal: The Monday Review
Reno Gazette-Journal: Strange game indeed

Dave Matter empties the notebook...

• Gabbert wasn’t the only newcomer to see the field for the first time Saturday night. Freshman safety Kenji Jackson and left tackle Dan Hoch also made their MU debuts against SEMO. Jackson played on the kickoff unit and got significant reps at safety in the second half. Hoch replaced Elvis Fisher in the fourth quarter. Ten freshmen have already seen the field for MU this season, twice as many as Pinkel has played in one season in his previous seven years at MU.

The most impressive freshmen were undoubtedly receiver Jerrell Jackson, who caught a team-best six passes for 70 yards, and linebacker Will Ebner, who had 5 ½ tackles, including two behind the line of scrimmage. A couple nice recruiting finds for Pinkel’s staff.

• Speaking of Ebner, the linebacker corps of the future was on display for most of the second half. Ebner, Andrew Gachkar and Luke Lambert are going to make a lot of tackles over the next three to four years. The Men of Stec might be the most promising position group on the team.

Seriously...the LBs looked sooooo goooooood on Saturday.

The Missourian takes a nice look at the continued Aaron O'Neal tributes, as does the Post-Dispatch.

The Missourian also looks at one of the negatives from the weekend: parking. Early reviews on Lot X? Not great.

To basketball recruiting: Michael Snaer did not commit to Mizzou this weekend, but apparently Mizzou set the bar pretty high. The crowd at Mizzou Arena for the Saturday afternoon scrimmage was quite large, which is good to hear. The KC Star has a bit more about the scrimmage crowd.

Finally, to volleyball...Mizzou is getting quite battle-tested, quite quickly...after two four-setters and a five-setter last weekend, Mizzou moved to 4-2 by taking St. John's in five on Saturday in a match that included 59 ties. Strange. Next up is another trip out west...they begin play in the Nevada AT&T Invitational on Friday.

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Eh...will disagree a bit on Lot Brand X

First off…I needed the walk before the game :-)

Second…for our purposes, we had no problems at all. Bathroom real close, trash cans and recycling and we actually ended up with more tailgate space than we had in Lot M (where actually porta potties now exist in our old spot). And while you may have hated driving around when you got there…you (and Dan, who arrived much later) got to park right next to us anyway…and though we were pod-casting…it looked like traffic flowed pretty decent right out of it. Lot M will be ours next year, but Lot X was not so terrible for us (in my opinion)

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by The Beef on Sep 8, 2008 6:59 AM CDT 0 recs

actually, it had nothing to do with logistics...

…and more to do with the feeling of complete and total isolation. We walked through M on the way to the game, and there’s 100% more of a ‘gameday buzz’ in that lot than there was in Lot Brand X. Logistics-wise, it wasn’t bad at all, especially getting out…

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by The Boy on Sep 8, 2008 7:44 AM CDT up 0 recs

Eh...we create our own buzz...

or…well…get our own buzz on at least.

And besides…it was ALMOST worth the season out there to witness the demise of Frat Pit.

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by The Beef on Sep 8, 2008 8:04 AM CDT up 0 recs

there's no question...

…that that was freaking awesome.

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by The Boy on Sep 8, 2008 8:18 AM CDT up 0 recs

Frat Pit

Being on campus last year (and tailgating at University Hall, which is almost diametrically opposite Frat Pit in every way, shape and form), I was witness to the “uproar” after its closing. Worst thing to come out of it (apart from the Facebook group where they said “WE OWN THIS SCHOOL AND DO MORE THAN ANYTHING…THEREFORE GREEKS SHOULD TAILGATE ANYWHERE THEY WANT”) were the insanely stupid T-shirts proclaiming it a “more than a tailgate…A TRADITION”. Inflation at its finest.

It's a funny name.

by Turd Ferguson on Sep 8, 2008 11:08 AM CDT up 0 recs

Oh...don't get my wife started on that

I mean…seriously…given the time involved here, kansas football was more of a tradition than Frat Pit :-)

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by The Beef on Sep 8, 2008 12:37 PM CDT up 0 recs

I find it ironic

How much of a part hubris played in Greek tragedy.

It certainly made this weekend’s “Greek tragedy” that much funnier.

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by rptgwb on Sep 8, 2008 1:25 PM CDT up 0 recs

RIMSHOT!!

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by The Beef on Sep 8, 2008 1:42 PM CDT up 0 recs

As a (fairly recent) Greek Graduate of Mizzou

I have never heard of Frat Pit (except for some comments in Tigerboard last year and this thread). What little I do know about it makes me think that the vast majority of Greeks I knew from 96-01 would laugh at the idea.

To suggest that it’s a “Tradition” is ridiculous. I don’t have a problem with the idea of multiple houses setting up a tailgate, but do it under the rules, dip-wads.

by Andy--01 on Sep 8, 2008 1:44 PM CDT up 0 recs

And that's the thing...

they will complain and moan that this is somehow unfair, and while the Mizzou “dry” campus on Saturday is always laughed at, I will give them credit for sticking to one rule in that time….no wild parties. I have had kegs at my tailgate before…hell..we went all night with one once. We have probably 3-4 coolers of beer…and I am sure that is small peanuts as compared to others. But we are always under control and never draw attention. Frat Pit was just screaming, “LOOK!! WE ARE TRYING TO GET AS MANY 19 YEAR OLDS HAMMERED AS POSSIBLE!!” and they blew it in a big, bad way.

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by The Beef on Sep 8, 2008 2:11 PM CDT up 0 recs