who the hell said that? It's an upper tier P5 job, but not a top 5 blue chip job.

rank these programs.
Indiana
Purdue
Notre Dame
Michigan
Arizona
Washington
Cal
Ucla
Iowa
Villinova
Syracuse
Louisville
Virginia
Missouri

you could argue all day bout who is the 'bigger' program, but if I were to use the metrics you guys are using Mizzou would finish in the bottom fourth of that list. Imagine if someone described Missouri as a lateral move on a Virginia or Arizona or Michigan board. They would lose their shite. Cause fans are gonna fan. Sports boards are not where intellects go to expand. And yet all of those would basically be lateral moves, as would most major state schools in most of the P5 plus big east. So throw in tOSU, Oklahoma, Tejas, Tenner, SC, and about 30 more and they are all in roughly the same position, all trying to win. The only thing separating them being how good their coach is, and how good their last coach was.

And BTW the top blue chip programs are only one mediocre coaching hire away from being just like the rest of us. See Indiana and UCLA for examples

You may now return to losing what's left of your collective minds over the word 'lateral'

and anonymous downvotes are for gaping vag's

This post was edited on 1/26/17 at 6:31 pm