Chat Mizzou sports with Dave Matter at 11 a.m. Thursday
Bring your Tigers football, basketball and recruiting questions, and talk to Mizzou beat writer Dave Matter in a live chat at 11 a.m. Thursday.
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Yeah, there was some confusion there with the rule interpretation, but I thought he addressed the topic reasonably well. Coaches don't want anarchy when it comes to the transfer portal. They don't want players to have the ability to hop from roster to roster year after the year the first time they face some adversity. Drinkwitz is savvy enough to also know that players have more of a voice in 2020 when it comes to their rights and their interests. -
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One of the great things about the Pinkel era was the clear succession plan at QB that allowed for sustained success. Coach Drink seems to be off to a good start in that realm. It will be interesting to see how the competition plays out over the next couple of years and what interest that generates in recruits. -
Having too many quarterbacks is much better than not having enough. The last thing you want is to have to rely on the transfer market, like Odom/Dooley had to do after Lock was done playing. These things work themselves out. Coaches sign quarterbacks knowing there's a good chance they'll eventually transfer. You sign enough so that you're never left without a good option.
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I hate to look forward already to next year's basketball roster, but I can't help but see the drop off that will happen with graduates and potential NBA draft prospects. Do you think Cuonzo is preparing for a major drop off in order to build up roster talent and experience, or do you think he will hit the transfer road hard in the offseason to supplement and keep things moving forward?
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I'm sure he understands that he's going to be losing some major pieces. But he's not the type of coach who's not going to agonize about next year this year. Does Pinson come back next year? Hard to say. Every offseason is an adventure with him. If he comes back, he returns with Pickett, with Kobe Brown, with Parker Braun, with Torrence Watson, with Wilmore and with all the newcomers coming next year. With our without Pinson, you're losing a lot next year. That's why this year is so pivotal. Build up more credibility with a 20-plus win team that makes a postseason run and next year's growing pains are easier to stomach.
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I was wondering why Drinkwitz is so highly rated when we have had no Defense all year and can’t come within miles of competing against anyone with a winning record seems much ado about very little to me.I think he seems like a great guy I just don’t see him competing in the SEC especially if he doesn’t find a new defensive coordinator
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Happy Holidays to you and your family. I think I saw Coach Drink help one of our injured players all the way off of the field late in the game Saturday. What a way to show you care. It looked like Bolton did not have a good game on Saturday. Am I correct? Just one of those days or lack of help up front?
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Buford is behind a two-year starter and team captain in Case Cook. It's had to crack the starting lineup as a redshirt freshman on the offensive line.As for Sparks, I'm not sure why he decided to opt out. He would be playing now for sure. But once you're in a program for four or five years, sometimes you're just ready for a change.
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Mizzou's scheme is unique in how they play the front, but I don't know that it has to be overhauled. Maybe tweaked. Or maybe they just need better players. I've got three MU players on my ballot for first and second-team All-SEC: Bolton, Jeffcoat and Manuel. Gillespie and Bledsoe have been good but just not productive enough in terms of game-changing plays.
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It's just his way of saying Mizzou will do certain things a certain way as long as he's the head coach. It's like me telling my kids, "You're going to empty the litter box every day as long as you live under my roof." That doesn't mean I'm implying they might leave soon.
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what is it with Mizzou fans like Stephen K who's *itchin about wondering why the coach being "highly rated". We were suppose to win 2 freakin games this year and now will win 6 with an ALL SEC schedule. i'm a proud grad of Mizzou - People like Stephen should go kick sand!
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Good afternoon Dave. A few weeks ago in chat, you mentioned that growing up as a kid in STL in the 80s & 90s that Mizzou football was pretty much off your radar, understandably so since they were rarely on TV during that era combined with the fact that the Mizzou football program was an absolute dreadful embarrassing mess for the most part during that time. But I did just see and was pleased to see you mention that you were aware of the existence of Victor Bailey from those days, who was a rare bright spot in that otherwise dismal era for the program. He was a star WR in the early 90's, had over 1000 yards receiving for the Tigers in 1992 and got drafted into the NFL by the Philadelphia Eagles the following year. Played at least a few years in the NFL from what I can recall for both the Eagles & the Chiefs.
The reason I bring him up? As you mentioned, his son Victor Bailey Jr is playing for Tennessee after transferring from Oregon and that likely means he should be playing at Mizzou when the two teams play each other at the end of the month(Covid -19 permitting with scheduling of course!). Would love to see a feature story from you on or around the day of that game interviewing the kid's father, the aforementioned unheralded former Mizzou great Victor Bailey Sr. Interested to know things like if he's still been keeping up at all with the MU football program and has he ever made it back to CoMO to see a game or anything like that. Oh, and also how close if at all was his son to choosing MU over Oregon a few years back, as I recall hearing at the time that Mizzou recruited him hard and offered him a scholarship?
Thanks Dave--and my sincere apologies if you found it intrusive or annoying of me to suggest a story for you to do! -
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Dave: In your reporting on the Braggin' Rights game, you noted correctly that Mizzou was more successful with Tilmon on the bench than when he was in the game. I do not think we are better off without him, but I have watched each game and believe that the offense spends a lot of time trying to feed him the ball when he's in the game, and that tends to makes them stagnant. I know Cuonzo wants the ball to go through Tilmon, but he has to notice this trend as well. Do you see him adjusting how the team plays with Tilmon on the court as the season progresses? I think Tilmon can be effective on pick and roll, on the feeds from penetration, and the occasional post-up when he is open right away, but they are just so much better when the guards are doing their thing rather than looking for Tilmon.
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With the significant FB head coach firings recently and the millions of $$$ that go with them (especially Auburn) it makes it hard for the average person to understand AD's crying poor.
Please correct me but wasn't there something with the Knight Commission that said FBS should be split from NCAA. I don't really understand how that could happen and how it would affect college sports as a whole. -
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Outback against Iowa, Northwestern or Wisconsin would be fine.In the Gator, you maybe get NC State or Miami.I like Pat Fitzgerald a lot as a coach and a person. Maybe not the most intriguing game. Mizzou played Northwestern 12 years ago. Miami or Wisconsin would be interesting just because they haven't played Missouri in a long time.
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