re: Mizzou Has Been Referred to as a Sleeping Giant in Football

Tom Osborne famously called Mizzou "a sleeping giant" because of the talent within its own borders. Stated at this link: he done said it
Seen it uttered elsewhere. He said it in the 1980s or 90s and I don't know where the original quote is online but you people wanted a link so there's a link.

And in some ways Osborne had reason to say it, as part of what fueled his dominant Nebraska football teams of the mid-1990s - not all, but part of it mind you - was a pipeline he built into Missouri for recruiting. Grant Wistrom, Chris Brooks etc were starters and later NFL players on those national champion Husker teams who were recruited out of Missouri. The city of Webb City, Missouri, which had a streak of multiple state titles, was notoriously known in our parts for its "Webb City Huskers" booster groups or as "Red City" if you will, because of the pipeline it had of players going off to play for Osborne.