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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Dave, do you see Coach Martin and the staff being EXTREMELY active in the off-season....with regards to the transfer market? Going to be losing a lot of good, experienced players. (Assuming they don’t return) Good class coming in, but you can’t expect freshman to log most of your heavy minutes.
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As of right now, on paper, Mizzou has seven scholarship players set to return next year. That doesn't mean all seven will return. Mizzou has signed five players for next year. At the very least, Martin has one scholarship to give for next year's team. Obviously he could have more if there's more roster turnover. Yes, I would expect the team to keep tabs on the transfer market, as it has since Martin took the job four years ago.
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Predicting the NCAA Tournament for anyone but the few very elite teams - and I'd say there are only two this year - is essentially a crapshoot. It all depends on the seedings and matchups. Mizzou has the pieces to win some games in March. Veteran guards are always essential. They play solid defense home and away. Few teams have anyone like Tilmon. So, yes, this team is equipped to make a run. But eventually you need to hit shots from deep - and I'm not sure they can do that well enough to win a bunch of games in a row.
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Good afternoon Dave and hope all is well your way. Meant to write this weeks ago in chat, but some how never got around to it: if Drinkwitz does indeed over time go on to have a highly successful coaching career at Mizzou, I'm going to consider that win over Arkansas last season as the launching point for the program under Coach Drink. No, not in a "signature win" kind of way, but to this day I still can't believe that the Jamall Brooks-interception-that-wasn't that instead incredibly became a 2-point conversion for Ark. didn't somehow end up going down in program history lore as an all-time gut-puncher to Mizzou fans along the lines of the 5th Down & "flea-kicker "games, and instead ended up being a game that Mizzou didn't wilt and managed to come back to win.
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TCU has missed two games this week because of Jamie Dixon's positive case and the Big 12 pushed back TCU's Jan. 26 game against Kansas to Jan. 28. TCU is supposed to play Mizzou two days later on Jan. 30. Every game is tenuous this season, so stay tuned to see if that one sticks.
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That's been the trend for two years now. When he's a secondary or third scoring threat, this team wins. MU is 11-1 the last two years when Pickett scores 10 points or more. It's no longer a coincidence. This team basically has four consistent scorers and on most nights two are approaching 20 points apiece between Tilmon, Mark and Dru Smith and Pinson. Two are usually on and two not as involved or not as productive. Then some nights Pickett is more active and more productive. And when that happens, Mizzou is really hard to beat.
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Mizzou is in the market for a defensive line coach. Here are the last few who worked under Steve Wilks:Cleveland Browns, 2019: Tosh Lupoi ... was the Atlanta Falcon DL coach before recent coaching change ... previously Nick Saban's defensive coordinator at Alabama ... California nativeArizona Cardinals, 2018: Don Johnson ... out of coaching ... longtime NFL assistant in Arizona, San Diego, Chicago. ... New Jersey nativeChris Achuff (assistant DL): currently Syracuse's LB coach ... Pennsylvania native ... experience at Baylor, Penn StateCarolina Panthers, 2017: Eric Washington ... current Buffalo Bills DL coach, longtime NFL assistant in Chicago, Carolina, college expereincea t Texas A&M, Northwestern ... Louisiana native.Sam Mills III (assistant DL) ... current Washington Football Team DL coach, New Jersey native
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Make sure you read today's story about newly arrived wide receiver Mookie Cooper.
Former Buckeye Mookie Cooper could provide instant jolt to Mizzou offense
STLtoday.com: Former four-star St. Louis prep star Mookie Cooper hasn't played in a game since 2018 but has enrolled at Mizzou, should become eligible for 2021 season. -
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