This picture of quarterback Blaine Gabbert being sacked by a Baylor defensive man gives a nice summary of the state of the Mizzou football team. We are a bunch of underachievers. Probably not to the point of a Michigan (at least we beat the pillow fighting Illini), but we are still pretty bad.
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Our game day coaching is bad. Pinkel and his staff are good recruiters, they have a very well disciplined team and they usually come up with a good game plan. The problem lies in the area that they are not good game day coaches. Adjustments are not made properly. Cornerbacks are told to play 10 yards off receivers. In such a way that the Baylor receiving corp looks like the Jeremy Maclin and Percy Harvin show. Prior to Saturday, Baylor has been, and was traditionally the worst football team in the Big 12. I really don't think this was disputed.
So if the so called "worst" team in the Big 12 beats you, with 40 pts on the board, at your house, with a freshman backup QB and on a sunny day; what does that make your team?
A few of my friends will call me treasonous for saying this but I think I will halfway root for Kansas State next week. And why not? They are well coached and obvious over achievers. They have taken a season that no one thought they would do anything and turned it into a success, playing better and better as the weeks go on. They played Oklahoma to the wire last week in Norman. Oklahoma probably has a better player at every single position on the field. And they beat KU this week which is always a good thing.
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Oh well, at least the Mizzou basketball season is getting close to starting proper. The boys looked pretty good in the exhibition game. I think this group is going to beat out expectations in a big way. Rivals.com lists Mizzou as the 75th ranked team or something and they are picked to finish 7th or 8th in the Big 12.
Losing JYD was big, but we still have JT Tiller. Let's not forget he was Big 12 defensive player of the year last year. I also think if Kim English makes the freshman to sophomore improvement we will be a force to be reckoned with. Go Mizzou! (basketball anyway) Oh, I'll probably root for the football team too.
