Mizzou Links, 5-4-10
by Bill C. on May 4, 2010 5:35 AM CDT
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ROARS
- MUtigers.com: Mizzou's Stars Honored at Second-Annual ROARS Event
- The Trib (Dave Matter): MU players bring home awards
Two former and three current Missouri players picked up some hardware Monday night at Missouri's second annual ROARS Awards program, a two-hour ceremony honoring the year's best accomplishments of MU's student athletes. Winning awards at Mizzou Arena were former safety Del Howard (male academic achievement) and former wide receiver Danario Alexander (male athlete of the year) along with defensive end Aldon Smith (male rookie of the year), wide receiver L'Damian Washington (male courage award) and kicker Grant Ressel, who was honored for the male highlight play of the year, his game-winning field goal against Kansas. Cornerback Kevin Rutland accepted the top male athlete award on Alexander's behalf.
- KC Star: Mizzou athletes share the love at awards
Mizzou Football Links
- PowerMizzou: 2010 season preview: Opposing quarterbacks
- The Trib (Dave Matter): Spring snapshots: Miami (Ohio)
- ESPN.com: May 2010 Big 12 power rankings
- Post-Dispatch: Gary Pinkel recalls Kent State, 40 years later (just an AWESOME write-up by Vahe Gregorian ... I wasn't even sure which part to excerpt -- read it all)
Say "Kent State," and the likely word association of a generation or more is "Ohio," the Neil Young song with the refrain of "Four dead in Ohio" that became an anthem for those disillusioned by the Vietnam War and its aftermath.
The incident that also left nine wounded and sent seismic national ripples not only marked Pinkel's four years there but also shook a belief system infused by his father, George, who served in the U.S. Navy during World War II.
"I was always a G.I. Joe, Mr. USA guy," Gary Pinkel said, saluting as he sat in his office. "That was just how I was brought up. But I was a little less naive after the Vietnam War about trusting your government about everything.
"After that, I kind of felt like you analyze, rather than (trusting) somebody else to analyze."
Basketball Links
Other Mizzou Links
- Mizzou Softball
The Maneater: Hainey helps MU softball get its swing backThe Tigers were ranked third in the country, dreaming of a return appearance to the WCWS. A week [after Chelsea Thomas' injury], they found themselves near the bottom of the Big 12 standings, losing three of their first four conference games. Coach Ehren Earleywine needed someone to step up and stabilize the pitching staff.
Jana Hainey, one of only three seniors on the team, assumed the leadership role on the staff, earning a 7-1 record heading into Saturday's game against BU and 2-1 in Big 12 play with an earned run average hovering around 3.00.
- Mizzou Baseball
MUtigers.com: Mizzou Baseball Pitcher & Player of the Week - Mizzou Wrestling
MUtigers.com: Missouri Wrestling Awards End of the Year Honors - Mizzourah: Ranking the Top Athletics Schools of 2009-10
Other (i.e. Expansion)
- SimmonsField.com: Big 12 > Big 10 > Big Trouble
- Omaha World-Herald (Tom Shatel): Big Ten, NU would be good fit
Why would Nebraska want to join the Big Ten?
Two reasons. Revenue. Security. Big Ten members already are raking in $22 million each per year, thanks in large part to the Big Ten Network. Grow the network and grow the earning potential. That's about $15 million more than what NU gets from the Big 12. Think of what you can do with $15 more million per year.
Then there's long-term security. Does anyone really trust that the Big 12 will stay together or be something that NU would want to be part of? How does Nebraska vs. TCU/New Mexico/Colorado State grab you?
- Austin American-Statesman (Kirk Bohls): Nine things and one crazy prediction
Don't get overly worked up by rumors last week that it's a "done deal" that Missouri will leave the Big 12 and join the Big Ten. It's not a done deal, or even close.
Roll Bama Roll: "If the Big 12 were to lose only Missouri..."If the Big 12 were to lose only Missouri, I'm hearing the Big 12 would go hard after the SEC's Arkansas, which might be willing to listen. Texas will never leave for a destination without Texas A&M, and should more than two schools leave the Big 12 for other conferences, I'm convinced the Longhorns and Aggies would work toward joining the SEC or perhaps try a far-flung, Pac-10 arrangement of 16 teams, with the two schools from Texas and Arizona and maybe Texas Tech making up a South Division.
Dr. Saturday: Today's hypothetical Big 12 expansion scenario: Welcome home, HogsA westward move would reunite the Razorbacks with a handful of their old Southwest Conference rivals, namely Texas, Texas A&M and Baylor, with whom Arkansas helped found the SWC in 1919, and Texas Tech, which joined in 1956 and remained until the league folded in 1996. The Razorbacks won 13 SEC championships, seven outright, including five in nine years from 1960-68 and back-to-back titles in 1988-89 – at which point they decided to bolt for the greener pastures of the SEC, where their championship tally remains at zero 19 years later.
Also, I'm passing along Posnanski's long post about Alex Gordon's demotion, just because of one specific line: "This isn’t just rearranging furniture on the Titanic. It’s rearranging furniture on the Titanic to make room for the wagon wheel coffee table." Epic.
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You're right about the Kent State article
Very well done, and captured the atmosphere of what I’m sure was a very tense and confusing time to be 18 years old in this country.
Rick Perlstein's "Nixonland" should be require reading in high schools/colleges nowadays
Really well-written book that does a great job at shattering whatever ideological lens one might view the social unrest of the 60s/early 70s with. It’s not an easy read; the mistakes made and political games played by the various sides in the book are depressing as hell to observe with hindsight. But it’s given me a lot of insight into why this country that I now find myself living in behaves the way it does.
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Loved the SPD article.
Elke ware zoon, zo blij van harte / Hemels boven ons zijn blauw / Er is een geest zo diep binnen ons / Oud Missouri dit is voor jou / Waneer de band het Tijger oorlogslied speelt / En wanneer de strijd over is / We zullen stampen, stampen, stampen, rond de kolommen / Met een kreet voor oud Mizzou!
by Dutch Missourian on May 4, 2010 9:31 AM CDT up reply actions
"It was the best of times . . .
. . . it was the worst of times."
Had my birthday been an “early draft choice” and I had been chosen to go to Nam like my favorite Latin teacher (who was a grad student at the time), I might feel differently about those days. My number was 357, so there was little chance I would be called up; leaving me the opportunity to put my years at Mizzou in the first category.
There truly was confusion in those days for an 18-year-old country boy attending a university that had more students than the population of his home county – but the confusion was not totally political, and was often caused by the same issues that young people have today. Politics did sizzled back-and-forth across the campus and through many classrooms but, to the best of my recollection, only regularly affected the students who were in ROTC or were close to graduating (any full-time student could get a II-S deferment until they completed their under-graduate work). Of course, there was the constant to-and-fro between the conservative Ag students and liberal anti-establishment groups, with the Aggies often patrolling the campus at night with long wooden paddles looking for Hippies who need a lesson in decorum and hygiene (in their words, more or less).
Those of us who were caught up in sports and less controversial social issues, however, fulfilled our desire to experience the political scene by going off campus to one of the many coffee houses available for a drink and discussion of the affairs of nations to a background of live folk music; while there were always keg parties on the weekends and occasional pany raids during the week for those looking for something other than studying, dating, playing cards in the lounge, or Strat-O-Matic baseball in the rooms with other members of your league. (For those not familiar with the game, it was an earlier version of fantasy baseball played with cards and dice, but just nerdy enough to be realistic if you loved the sport and had a great imagination.)
The athletes, who were housed in general dorms in those days (six on fourth floor Hatch Hall, where I lived), were never involved in any of the shenanigans; and I suspect Dan Devine and Norm Stewart had much to do with that! I do remember that John Matuszak smashed in the face of a frat guy at a party and got kicked off the team his freshman year, but I don’t think that was over politics. Devine didn’t play around; not even with a future hall of famer – our loss, University of Miami’s gain.
Eventually, the year I left Columbia and ventured out into the “real world,” the civil unrest that started in California and New England schools, moved inland to the midwest, and Kent State was the wake-up call for school administrators everywhere. That singular event had much more impact (IMO) on the administration of college affairs, however, than on the individual lives of most college students.
The article on Pinkel and Kent State surely gives a good perspective of those times but, just as Pinkel went on to play football at the school, we all still had a life beyond the war’s reach. The anti-war sentiment that swept across the nation was more like a cloud that sometimes darkened one’s perspective than a rainstorm that drenched everything and eveyone demanding immediate attention.
by countrycal on May 4, 2010 11:55 AM CDT up reply actions 4 recs
why hasnt this been rec'd yet?
I enjoyed that countrycal
Great Oden's Raven I love Mike "The Predator" Dixon!
Just an old man sitting on the porch remembrin' . . .
. . . with a large glass of sweet tea, the dog at my feet and my new computer in my lap. I sure like these newfangled gadgets you youngins’ come up with :-)
thanks for typing that cal
the piece on Pinkel, with your addition post here was great
thank you
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by MarioVanPeebles Republic of China on May 4, 2010 4:58 PM CDT up reply actions
The comments on that Roll Bama Roll post
…just serve to remind me why I despise Alabama, the Nebraska of the South.
Sheesh.
UR JUST JELOUS!!!!!1
LOL 13 NATIONAL CHAMPIUNSHIPS WOOOOO BEAR IS GOD AND SABAN IS JEZUS ROLL TIDE
by RPT on May 4, 2010 9:57 AM CDT up reply actions 2 recs
The perfect "RTR" response right there
RPT for the win.
When encountering one of these types in a bar in Mobile, a lawyer friend of mine from the south side of Chicago said:
“Bear Bryant never beat Notre Dame, and he never will because he’s DEAD!”
Haha...
Just because I’m a part-time closet Bama fan (I’m catching the Bama/Florida game in T-Town next year) doesn’t mean I don’t understand the insanity within that fan base.
Why in the world...
…would Arkansas abandon the SEC for the Big XII? Less money, but a better geographical fit? haha, yeah, right. If the SEC expands like it’s threatening to, Arkansas might get it’s rivals Texas and A&M along with more money. No big name school is going to join the Big XII right now and this continued insistence that Mizzou can be replaced by TCU with no negative consequences for the conference is hilarious. You don’t build your brand by contracting your market.
I do find it interesting how excited Nub fans have suddenly become about expansion. A few months ago, their attitude was “Don’t let the door hit you on the way out Mizzou.” Now, they’re the “natural” pick (even though Nub has never been mentioned in any official expansion documents that I’m aware of, unlike Mizzou) and they would be doing us a favor by “letting” us join them. Amazing what a few months and a spineless commissioner will do for your attitude.
by Gaknar on May 4, 2010 10:11 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
I think for Nub fans
It actually hit home, along the lines of, “oh shit, everyone is bailing, the Big XII is basically just Texas, WTF mate”. That or the whole time they were just jealous that they weren’t being remotely considered for the Big 10.
by TheHamburglar on May 4, 2010 12:32 PM CDT up reply actions
To me, the conversation ends with money.
It’s not “Yeah, the money might be worse, but they’d be back with their SWC rivals and in a more competitive environment for them.” It’s “Yeah, the money might be worse, the end.”
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I didn't realize Pinkel played college ball with Nick Saban.
Interesting. Think I’d take Pinkel in that choice, honestly.
Making fun of the "Mizzou Needs a Fullback" Club since...well, for a while, anyway.
Good to know.
As far as that Nebraska to the Big 10 article goes, I’m a little baffled by some of the comments. The Big 10 has inferior athletic programs in revenue sports? I hate Ohio State as much as anyone, but they’re a big deal. So are Penn State, Michigan, Iowa.
Furthermore, I’ll be pretty damn surprised if Nebraska is as good this year as they were last year. I think everyone underestimates what happens when you lose a player like Suh, and I’m about 90% certain Jared Crick isn’t going to get 5 sacks a game when he’s not lining up next to Suh.
It’s funny, as all this conference realignment stuff started, my first reaction was negative. The idea of moving to the Big 10 gave me some heartburn. Then I realized that we could very easily still maintain the KU rivalry, and the more I think about it, the more I can say this to Nebraska:
Good riddance.
Making fun of the "Mizzou Needs a Fullback" Club since...well, for a while, anyway.
I agree on nubs
I think NU fans are getting waaay ahead of themselves in declaring NU as NC contenders (ha!) again. Their defense went from god awful (see our slaughter of them in LINCOLN a whole of two seasons back) to very good- I find it hard to believe some of that wasn’t luck and/or the impact of one super dominant player.
To me, they are building their expectations on a house of cards- beating a Clemson team two years ago that ended up in the Gator bowl after thinking they would be in the NC hunt, beating a Arizona team last year that would probably have been firing their coach if last year hadn’t gone well, and the near win over TX. And hey, we haven’t been able to play TX that close, but to me that whole game screamed pucker factor for TX- had so, so much to lose, and little to gain, as a huge favorite playing an effective home game with a NC berth on the line.
I think there is a good chance their defense looks a lot more like two seasons ago than last seasion, and I seriously doubt the offense will be more than a bit better, which will still be pretty god awful by Big 12 standards.
The amount of bloodletting that will occur among their fanbase between the ‘Bo is God’ and the ‘NU should win the NC every year, if not, somebody should be canned!’ factions will be delicious….
The appropriate response is...
Bo Pelini is Simple Jack. Beloved in Cambodia.
by mizzousundevil on May 4, 2010 2:53 PM CDT up reply actions
Never go full Bo
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by MarioVanPeebles Republic of China on May 4, 2010 4:57 PM CDT up reply actions
Does anything know if there is anything going on in Columbia this weekend?
I could go over there on Saturday. I checked if there was a baseball game, but no (and I’m not going to Lawrence).
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