Yasir Durant

Oh good Lord. Sir. To be honest, this really isn't the best place to get a good picture of Missouri football fans. We're all a bunch of crazy assholes here, and it's heavily weighted towards a small number of people that post a ton.

Most of the the news surrounding the program is posted here relatively quickly though, so there's that.

That said I'm sure everyone will be super nice to you and I know everyone will be super interested if you have any insight into the recruiting process. Also of interest is why you all and your son chose Mizzou, being all the way out there in Pennsylvania(right?)

To get news about Mizzou I read the websites of the St. Louis Post Dispatch, The Kansas City Star and the Columbia Tribune. I also read rockmnation.com.

Thanks TJ. I'm looking forward to reading some articles on the sites that you suggested. With that being said we are a bunch of a$$holes about our Eagles so I totally understand. I want everyone to be who they are. Imma a big boy. I've seen and heard it all. It was a long process so feel free to ask any specific questions you guys want to know. Good news is that he's on campus as of Wednesday 1-18-17. Looking forward to chatting with you guys. #Showme17

Hey Jesus. Well he ended up at juco because he was a late qualifier for SDSU. His score jumped over 100 points and SDSU decided they wanted to flag his score before the NCAA did. Well when they wind up clearing his score it was to late to report to SDSU. So he had 2 options, 1- was to stay home and do nothing or 2- go to juco and play some ball and stay in shape, so he decided to go to Arizona Western. He had about 9-10 offers. ASU, Temple, N.C, Rutgers, Umass, SDSU, Texas Tech, and a couple smaller schools. Rutgers was pushing real hard and I think he wanted to go there because he had a nice relationship with their coach but he end up being fired so he changed his mind. His mother went out to ASU with him on his first visit. I went to SDSU with him on his second visit. He had a visit with Texas Tech 2 weeks later but he canceled it and committed to SDSU. When he was at juco a few more schools started offering and Missouri was one of them. One of the coaches knows his HS coach and that's how that connection came about. Unfortunately I didn't make the trip to Columbia with him, his mother did. It was her turn. He call called me and said he loved the atmosphere and the coaches and he thinks he is going to decommit from SDSU and the rest is history.

welcome. Glad we have a few games that are closer for you in the next few seasons(UCONN, BC). As far as fans on this board goes, you'll be pleased that criticism is passed along more so with wrong doing. Most mizzou fans dont care if players play well or not, just staying out of trouble. We've had some trouble with that as of late, and really starting to get out of control and annoy us.

The 17 class really seems to be a close family already. More so then I've seen before.

Welcome to the Zou family. We are very glad that your son is going to Mizzou and playing for the Tigers.

I believe your son has a great position coach. I would want that for my son.

PowerMizzou.com has super timely info, scoops and very good articles. But you have to pay...$. I believe it is worth it. Gabe & Co. work hard for good info. He somewhat controls the Tiger Liar plog. The other pages are the wild west.

All Mizzou sites are on the ol' interweb. It gets crazy out here. Thick skin is required. I'm not sure I would cruse the websites if I had a son playing.

It's really cool you came on the site and introduced yourself. I love the recruiting insight. Looking forward to Yasir as a member of the Zou. Shout out to the 215!

Hey cougar. Thanks for the info. I will have to check the other sites out when we get closer to the season. Thanks again

Hey Stlox. I'm well educated with these chat boards. We have them here for our sports teams. I'm on a NFC east board where things get real deep so I'm ok with all of that. I had a long conversation on the phone with coach Elarbee and he seems to be ok. My son seems to really like the atmosphere up there in Columbia. Thanks for the feed back.

Thanks Mule. I've heard nothing but good things about coach Elarbee. So that's a plus. I will cruise through the sites from time to time. I don't have the time to just sit in front of the computer all day so I won't have time to scan all the sites. But I will cruise through lol. I definitely have thick skin. No problems here. If he is playing like sh&t I will be the first to tell him. I'm not one of those parents. Thanks again