re: I think I'm done fellas. The hiring of BO may have made me quit.

Sure. That's what y'all told us after Kim's first year.

And after his second.

It's just college football people. Relax!

The reality is last years recruiting class was terrible. You guys can spin the rankings however you want them, but unless Mizzou can get a guy who can secure the borders and bring in 4 star talent we're going to continue to be mediocre in the SEC.

Yes because we have SEC money.

Money rules all, if you're willing to pay the money you can get whatever level coach you want.

Odom is the lowest paid SEC coach. Open the checkbook like we did for basketball.

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BO isn't enough the talent developer Pinkel was which was what kept us competitive with a ranking that probably averaged around 30 or so. And it's clear he's worse at the Xs and Os than Pinkel which is really bad.

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There's no way of knowing that BOs not the talent developer that GP was. He's been here 14 games. He also has 13 defensive players in the 2017 class that have played already.
From an X and Os standpoint this team seems to make some of the same type mistakes that the first couple of GP teams made.

And I have no desire to wait for difinitive proof on that.

He's had many of these players for awhile now. Whether they were the last of GP's or not, the same mental midget/fundamental football IQ issues pop up.

He couldn't even install his own D system. That tells me he can't or doesn't have any idea of how to get kids to buy into his spiel.

They like him because he honestly seems like a pushover. At least, he's J'Mon Moores pushover.

I get the feeling that most of this site would have had GP fired before he made his breakthrough in year 5.

I'm willing to let the season play out, and see how they play/develop throughout the season.

Comparing the team that Pinkel inherited isn't even in the same ballpark.

Odom last season had NFL draft picks on defense and couldn't coach them to tackle a naked girl.

That isn't the point.

GP raised this program to respectability. We suffered the first few years, then enjoyed probably the best run of football the program has ever seen. GP got us those stadium upgrades and into the SEC.

His work and struggle was so we wouldn't have to put up with hat bullshite again.

But here we are again, with some still perfectly content to ride out a mediocre HC with zero experience in the toughest conference in the land.

After the GP years, this program should hold itself to a higher standard than Barry Odom.

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To be fair, it took Pinkel 3 years to put a winning team on the field.

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Yes this is true. I'd be willing to give BO the time to do it, but you are assuming he can do it. I no longer am. He's not recruiting well, and you could come up with a number of reasons why that is and how it could improve, but the thing that really worries me is what he does with the talent he has, which is not terrible. They just play like they are poorly coached. The only games they have won is when they have a big talent advantage. If the talent is roughly equal (like yesterday) he tends to get beat badly. His high water mark as HC was the Georgia game last year, a game which he had won until he was outcoached. It's been downhill from there.

You could see progress with Pinkle, BO is going backward. I think it is likely we go 0-8 in the SEC this year. It's really starting to feel like KA 2.0. Nice guy, true son, lots of enthusiasm; but not up to the task