Mizzou Links, 1-10-12
by Bill C. on Jan 10, 2012 6:00 AM CST
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PrintFirst things first: Mizzou's 2012 Hall of Fame class was announced yesterday.
Ben Askren (Wrestling 2004-07). A no-brainer if there ever were one.
Don Chadwick (Football 1956-58). An All-American in 1958, Chadwick managed to be coached by three Hall of Famers in three years: Don Faurot, then Frank Broyles, then Dan Devine.
Tom Heckman (Baseball 1978-81). Led Mizzou to a conference title in 1980.
Max Scherzer (Baseball 2004-06). Went from low-control reliever to dominant ace in a heartbeat. Incredibly dominant in 2005-06.
Russ Sloan (Football 1958-59). A two-way threat for Mizzou's 1960 Orange Bowl squad.
George Williams (Virtually Every Sport 1920-21). One of basketball's first dominant big men ... how in the hell was he not in already???
Congrats to all. More from The Trib and SimmonsField.com.
Mizzou Football Links
So it appears that Donald Hopkins did officially decommit yesterday after about two or three months of rumors suggesting he would. There is still one other "soft commit" on the board -- Waco's Will Hines; we'll see how things go with him. Meanwhile, things are looking pretty good with four-star OL Jake Meador, and Mizzou evidently continues to have at least a fighting chance for DGB. With football officially over, we move straight into Football Recruiting Season. Should be fun.
- Recruiting
PowerMizzou: Donald Hopkins' Decommitment Confirmed
PowerMizzou: Jake Meador planning final three visits
PowerMizzou: Final Four for Meador
Post-Dispatch: Top recruit Green-Beckham keeping options open
Other Football Links
You really do owe it to yourself to read Subway Domer's piece below. And if you are one to try to interact with Mizzou recruits on Facebook or Twitter, read it twice.
- No Split Title Here
The Trib (Dave Matter): Tide rolls to No. 1 on my final AP ballot - Playoff's A-Comin' (Maybe)
USA Today: BCS adjustment coming, but to what degree? - AMEN
Subway Domer: Hey College Football Fans... Leave Recruits Alone
Mizzou Basketball Links
They're all huge, but ... Mizzou's game at Ames tomorrow night is particularly huge. ISU appears to be improving quickly, and Mizzou must collect itself after hitting the canvas for the first time.
- ISU
MUtigers.com: No. 9 Tigers Look to Rebound at Iowa State Wednesday
The Trib (Steve Walentik): Haith talks about bouncing back vs. Iowa State
Other Basketball Links
- OSU > OU
Daily Oklahoman: Bedlam basketball: Oklahoma State beats Oklahoma despite poor shooting performances
Crimson And Cream Machine: Oklahoma basketball finds a way to embarrass themselves against a horrible OSU team - Enjoyable Reads
Searching For Billy Edelin: The Wacky Decline of Pac-12 Basketball
Rock Chalk Talk: Evaluating Kansas Basketball's Zone Offense
SEC
- Red Cup Rebellion: How to choose your SEC school: a primer for disinterested fans
- SimmonsField.com: SEC Dixie-nary: V is for Versus
- KC Star: BCS Buzz | Welcome, Mizzou
Other Mizzou Links
- Mizzou Wrestling
Big 12 Sports: Missouri's Haynes Rides Hot Streak To Wrestler of the Week Honor
MUtigers.com: Haynes Claims Big 12 Weekly Honor - Mizzou Women's Basketball
MUtigers.com: Mizzou Women's Basketball Announces 3-Point Pack - Mizzou Track & Field
MUtigers.com: Track & Field Opens 2012 Against Kansas Friday
Other
- ALL HAIL YOUR SBN OVERLORD
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Brent Mussberger said "Honey Badger"
At least 14 times last night.
I tend to enjoy his enthusiasm and passion, but it was the death of that meme.
You either die a Tiger, or you live long enough to see yourself become a Jayhawk.
by Fullback U on Jan 10, 2012 6:52 AM CST via mobile reply actions
My ears are still ringing from that.
The worst part was that Mathieu wasn’t even doing anything big to contribute.
by CapnCribbs on Jan 10, 2012 8:12 AM CST via iPhone app up reply actions
I kept hoping he would get a strip or an INT
just so I could hear them yell “Honey Badger takes what it wants!”
by Damnatio Memoriae on Jan 10, 2012 8:12 AM CST up reply actions
This statement does not belong in a football broadcast.
That's right Ice Man. I am dangerous
Pie Forever!
The video was definitely funny.
The fact that people have completely overused it has kinda killed the comedy of it for me. #hipsterproblems
by CapnCribbs on Jan 10, 2012 9:21 AM CST via iPhone app up reply actions
according to youtube about 2% of the voters didn't like it
so you’re not the only one. But you are in the minority.
Busting Bill C since September 19, 2011 10:19 CST, 8:19 PDT.
Business insider is an interesting read.
Makes me like SB Nation even more.
by McZou on Jan 10, 2012 8:15 AM CST via mobile reply actions 2 recs
I heard a lot of wrangling about the difficulties of a plus one model on the radio this AM
what’s so hard about it logistically? It seems simple…
1. Add the Cotton Bowl as a BCS bowl and keep the BCS at 10 teams.
2. On a rotating basis, use two of the BCS bowls as semifinals. The bowls that will be semifinals must be played before January 2nd, optimally on New Year’s Day. Each bowl will host a semifinal twice every five years.
3. Continue the BCS Championship game as a rotating entity, now split between five bowls instead of four, a week after the semifinals are played.
It literally took all of five minutes to think through that plan. Really tough.
but, but, but
BOWLS!
"I have CDO. It's like OCD, but the letters are in alphabetical order. Like they should be."
So Oklahoma is who we thought they were.
"You have to remember, basketball to the University of Miami is like football to the University of Kansas." - Kim English
as long as you thought they were some version of "not good"
That's right Ice Man. I am dangerous
Pie Forever!
Bobby Hebert. God love him!
He is entertaining. Throw in Les Miles and wow postgame press conference fun
That's right Ice Man. I am dangerous
Pie Forever!
I'm not sure Jarret Lee would have done any better than Jefferson
but after he threw that weird-ass sidearm interception and then yelled at his receiver, I would have pulled him. It seemed to me at least that he’d pretty much completely lost his composure at that point.
VOX / SB Nation
Am I the only one that finds “The Verge” an overly busy and unattractive website? I open the site and just about have a seizure.
/getoffmylawn
//engadgetftw
"I have CDO. It's like OCD, but the letters are in alphabetical order. Like they should be."
Yeah, I'm not a fan
But I don’t like the set-up of the SB Nation homepage either. I don’t understand why they can’t keep it simple like the individual team pages, but whatever. I’m sure they did some sort of statistical study with chimps.
by Damnatio Memoriae on Jan 10, 2012 10:38 AM CST up reply actions
He looks
a little tall.
You either die a Tiger, or you live long enough to see yourself become a Jayhawk.
All that's missing is the caption
“Haters gonna hate.”
by Damnatio Memoriae on Jan 10, 2012 10:39 AM CST up reply actions
Mizzou not ranked in final football poll :/
"You have to remember, basketball to the University of Miami is like football to the University of Kansas." - Kim English
29th
Being just outside would make more sense to me. Mizzou looked good in the Indy, I don’t care what anybody says. Apparently that strength of schedule hype was crap too. It will probably take a few years to shake that Big 12 stink out of our perceived hydes before being in the SEC shakes some reality into the media. Kick’n butt next year will help too.
by McZou on Jan 10, 2012 12:59 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
Well, I guess we'll have to beat Georgia. Yep.
"You have to remember, basketball to the University of Miami is like football to the University of Kansas." - Kim English
We are going to storm the SEC
This new fangled QB thing we do is going to rock their world.
On a serious note, I really enjoyed that game last night. All those talk show blowhards can do one.
by MizKC on Jan 10, 2012 11:07 AM CST reply actions 1 recs
Totally agree.
Everyone’s eyes are glazed over from these 500 point games. That annoys me worse than a defensive struggle.
by CapnCribbs on Jan 10, 2012 11:09 AM CST via iPhone app up reply actions
I had just read this yesterday
And I kept thinking about it during the game. I think ESPN and sportswriters know that casual fans want to see passing and touchdowns, because it’s easy to follow without putting in the effort to really understand it, so they cater to that. It’s much harder to convince casual fans how interesting run blocking schemes, grinding out drives 3 yards at a time and playing smothering defence can be, so they create stories to make the sport as much like a drama as possible.
by Damnatio Memoriae on Jan 10, 2012 11:23 AM CST up reply actions
I didn't like it
because I didn’t think it was a defensive struggle. Bama was moving the ball with ease. Then they would stall out around the 25 yard line and kick a field goal. It was a blowout that wasn’t a blowout. At no point in the 2nd half did I ever think that LSU was going to do something to allow it to win the game. Bama smothered LSU and took all the drama out early. It wasn’t the score (or lack thereof) it was that the game wasn’t really in doubt.
Busting Bill C since September 19, 2011 10:19 CST, 8:19 PDT.
by mizzou2396 on Jan 10, 2012 11:45 AM CST up reply actions 1 recs
LSU was so incompetent offensively
It was like watching the fight scene in “Cool Hand Luke”.
by Sheriff Blalock on Jan 10, 2012 12:28 PM CST up reply actions 2 recs
I got to see two great defences
And one offence that is very good at what it does. The lack of drama doesn’t really bother me. I still can’t figure out why Miles didn’t at least give Lee a series though.
by Damnatio Memoriae on Jan 10, 2012 12:33 PM CST up reply actions
Here's praying that every Alabama player declares for the NFL draft
"You have to remember, basketball to the University of Miami is like football to the University of Kansas." - Kim English
A bit OT...
but the recent rash of kids named “T-Bob” (as in T-Bob Hebert – the real cause of Bobby ripping into Miles, perhaps – not to mention a guy on Swamp People last year also named T-Bob) makes me wonder if the kids are named after the M*A*S*K robot of the same name.
"When among evil companions, try to fit in." - Wild Bill Donovan
Rocky Balboa once told me, "Nothing is real if you don't believe in who you are."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD8EMVurbrM
"When among evil companions, try to fit in." - Wild Bill Donovan
Rocky Balboa once told me, "Nothing is real if you don't believe in who you are."
@MizzouSoftball is now on Twitter
"You have to remember, basketball to the University of Miami is like football to the University of Kansas." - Kim English
KSU looks real good so far.
I’ll take the Cats, just think an already iffy Baylor offense will struggle against this energetic defense.
by CapnCribbs on Jan 10, 2012 7:27 PM CST via iPhone app up reply actions
they could conceivably go undefeated at home this season if they could beat the bears tonight.
especially with ku a bit down this year and of course, already beating us. come to think of it, if they win tonight, i’d be surprised if they didn’t go undefeated in the geometric shape.
What do you have against the ring-tailed lemur?
by threadkiller on Jan 10, 2012 7:35 PM CST up reply actions
The Polygon of Peril
Is living up to its reputation
by CapnCribbs on Jan 10, 2012 7:36 PM CST via iPhone app up reply actions
indeed. as is the trapezoid of terror.
the heptagon of horror. the nonagon of ne’er do well. the triangle of trepidation. the colossus of clout. the colossus of clout.
What do you have against the ring-tailed lemur?
by threadkiller on Jan 10, 2012 7:54 PM CST up reply actions
It would be nice to see Baylor lose and validate oue loss a wee bit
But I agree, not sure if KSU needs this boost any more.
by McZou on Jan 10, 2012 8:15 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
10 minutes ago i looked and ksu was up 7.
i come back and baylor is up 4. good game indeed. i thought maybe baylor would be mourning the loss of rg3.
What do you have against the ring-tailed lemur?
by threadkiller on Jan 10, 2012 8:38 PM CST up reply actions
I really hate KSU's gray unis.
Just such a bland, ugly gray to combine with purple.
by CapnCribbs on Jan 10, 2012 8:43 PM CST via iPhone app reply actions
ksu down 2 with :14 left.
announcer says “you don’t have to go for a 3 here.” no kidding.
What do you have against the ring-tailed lemur?
aj walton saves baylor's bacon,
poking the ball out of bounds on a certain ksu layup. baylor holds on for the win. bears are for real. doesn’t look good for us winning either matchup with them right now.
What do you have against the ring-tailed lemur?
by threadkiller on Jan 10, 2012 9:21 PM CST up reply actions
No, the rules state when you're down by two with under 15 seconds to go...
You HAVE to shoot a three, as long as the game is being played in the state of Kansas on a Tuesday night at least one night after a full moon. Bet you he feels stupid now. /rulebook’d
by CapnCribbs on Jan 10, 2012 9:22 PM CST via iPhone app up reply actions
re: the subway domer piece
i am not on any of the social media outlets, so maybe i just don’t get the fascination, but everyone knows there will be losers trying to influence kids. nobody is forcing these recruits to be ont he facebooks, twtters, etc.maybe the thing to do would be for the kids to drop the social media during their recruitment. i mean, no, they shouldn’t have to, but if these friends or followers or whatever are such a problem, that sure seems like the easiest fix. something about that column just rubbed me slightly the wrong way.
What do you have against the ring-tailed lemur?
by threadkiller on Jan 10, 2012 10:00 PM CST via mobile reply actions
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