re: How bad are Mizzou fans going to melt when Odom

They didn't.

The average Mizzou fan did not understand 2015.

They didn't understand how bad the culture of their football program was, aside from the racial upheaval, which is a massive bag of issues.

They didn't understand the true nature of their recruiting issues, despite getting decently ranked classes. Many of these players that contributed to the ranking never made it to campus or left quickly.

When your starting QB is doing coke on game days and most of the campus knows about it, your program has deep rooted problems.

Barry wasn't the mob choice and therefore the mob never embraced him.

There was never the moment of something 'shiny and new', and after such a long Pinkel tenure the fanbase craved it and they finally got that 'new' feeling with Drink.

A literal book could be written on how uninformed and poorly aware the Mizzou fan base was at the time of the Pinkel-Barry transition.

I will be sure to add more as I contribute here.