Bring us your 4-star recruits, Texas
You want to know what’s better than poaching highly-rated football recruits from the local schools in Texas? Doing it more than once.
Mizzou dipped into the Longhorn state this past weekend to grab the state’s number one running back in Tavorus Jones, and now Eli Drinkwitz has another opportunity to round himself up a future Tiger. On Monday, 4-star defensive tackle Jadon Scarlett announced his top three schools in the recruiting process.
(In no particular order) Almost time to bring things to a close on my recruitment. Thank you to all the other schools that have been recruiting me, but these are the schools I feel I can thrive at. @Coach_TPrice @CoachJFrank @CoachThibbs #GigEm #NewZOU #BoomerSooner pic.twitter.com/4C3xUoRksq
— Jadon Scarlett (@jadon_scarlett) July 5, 2021
Those are some choppy waters which Mizzou is swimming in, but now more than ever it feels like the Tigers have a chance. The tea leaves at the moment are reading Texas A&M, but Mizzou has been making inroads with Texas’ top talent. Does Drinkwitz have the juice to make another big commitment happen? He will if the fans have anything to say about it!
Where’s the move?
— Jadon Scarlett (@jadon_scarlett) July 5, 2021
At the time I’m writing this, Mizzou is narrowly in the lead. Will Jadon take this into consideration? Why else would he post it?!
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- Saturday Down South lists Drinkwitz as the 10th of 14th SEC coaches in a stock ranking the head bosses around the conference.
- Mizzou Baseball picked up a commitment from San Diego transfer Carter Rustad. Rustad, who was a 23rd-round pick in 2019, will have two years of eligibility left.
- Man, it’s only July and Cuonzo has his boys working.
- The Kansas City Star listed the 25 best games (ever) from Kansas City area teams, and Mizzou made the list twice. Before opening, which games would you pick and why?
- Andrew Kauffman at ABC 17 spoke with forthcoming Olympian Karissa Schweizer about her coming races in Tokyo and how she’s preparing.
- Speaking of which — oh, hey, another Olympian with ties to Mizzou! Volunteer assistant track and field coach Jillian Weir is headed to Tokyo to throw for her native Canada. Weir competed at Oregon, but has spent time training throwers at Mizzou recently.
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