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Players coming, players going
Okay, busy day in the Future Roster department.
1. Tyler Howell signed again. The towering JUCO lineman who signed in 2015 but couldn't quite qualify has taken care of his schoolwork and will (in theory) enroll in January as a ... redshirt junior, I think?
MUtigers.com: @MizzouFootball Signs OL Tyler Howell for 2016 Season
The Trib (David Morrison): Howell signs on for 2016 season
Post-Dispatch: Mizzou resigns junior college offensive lineman
Here's Howell's Hudl film, if you need a refresher.
2. Ca'Ron Baham decommitted. As mentioned yesterday. The Louisiana athlete appeared on the verge of doing so for a while and made it official on Wednesday.
The Trib (David Morrison): MU commit Ca'Ron Baham opens up recruitment
3. Mackenzie Nworah decommitted. I noted earlier this week that Nworah had already taken visits to other schools and planned more, so he kind of already had decommitted. But he still released this last night.
— Mac (@Mackenzie_71) December 17, 2015
We're never going to find out specifically why Barry Odom walked in the door and almost immediately offered East St. Louis' Trevour Simms when the previous staff had not. But the evidence was certainly there that Nworah would not end up as a Tiger (and that Trystan Castillo was going to re-weigh his options as well), so that might have played a role. Two linemen in, one lineman out.
At the beginning of the week, I was thinking that recruiting news would slow while assistant coach hire news would pick up. I ... was incorrect. I thought we'd at least get semi-confirmation about the offensive coordinator position, but at this point you have to wonder if we're going to hear anything before Utah State's bowl game. The Aggies play next Tuesday, and ... we might hear something about Josh Heupel after that? Hell if I know. I'm done guessing*.
* I'm not done guessing, and we both know it.
PowerMizzou: Commitment Analysis: Marvin Terry
PowerMizzou: Commitment Analysis: Trevour Simms
Award Season, all-sports edition
MUtigers.com: @MizzouFootball’s Beckner, Brady, Fatony Earn Freshman All-America Honors
The Trib (David Morrison): Ian Simon named 2015 Award for Media Tolerance winner
The National Mid-Missouri Missouri Beat Writers Association of America named Tigers senior safety Ian Simon the winner of its prestigious Award for Media Tolerance on Wednesday.
The AMT is given annually to the Missouri player who is consistently the most cordial, patient and informative with the team’s beat writers. An 11-member panel voted on the award. [...]
Off the field, Simon was one of the main proponents of the Tigers’ leadership training session with the Missouri Army National Guard at Camp Clark in Nevada in June, as well as taking a leading role in campus activism as one of the four main conduits to the Concerned Student 1950 protest group during the football team’s boycott in early November.
Volleyball, too
MUtigers.com: Mizzou's Larson and Munlyn Named AVCA Honorable Mention All-Americans
#TigerStyle
MUtigers.com: MAC Selects Synon as Wrestler of the Week
The Trib: MU wrestling moves up to No. 4 in coaches' poll
#FightinPingetons
Need a better hashtag there.
The Trib: MU's McDowell has surgery for broken nose, should return to practice soon
Hey, better than the opposite...
TMZ: NFL's Sheldon Richardson: I Know I Screwed Up ... But I've Changed
TMZ: NFL's Sheldon Richardson: Image Makeover Continues ... Puts On Clothing Drive In NYC
*wipes dust off hands* SO THAT'S THAT THEN
WE WILL NEVER TALK POLITICS ON THIS SITE AGAIN*
* Until some other politician does something very similar in the future.
The Missourian: Missouri state representative withdraws bill to revoke athletes' scholarships
By the way, SI's Doug Farrar, an old Football Outsiders colleague of mine, went into detail about how AFL players stood up for civil rights in 1965. It's a good enough read that it might be worth the pop-up ads and auto-play videos (and that SI thing where they basically combine about eight different posts into one enormous post ... the AFL part is about two-thirds of the way down the page).