re: Mizzou doesn't get the respect they deserve.

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In the 15 years before Gary Pinkel became the head coach they had 2 winning seasons, and several 2 or 3 win seasons

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yea it wouldn't have mattered who was coaching then, the Administration was in the process of sinking the athletic dept. Things had no place to go but up, and it took Pinkel 3-5 years to get things off the ground. And still the b12 north was never a world beating div in college ball, Jones at Tenn has as big a hurdle to overcome.

We didn't leave the 12 in great shape either, if not for squeaking a win out over the bigmouth bevos, the final season was generally a wreck. Outside of the win over #1 OU, 5 years ago, Mizzou hadn't done much to talk about. So yea this is a good place for Mizzou to be in, but it hasn't been a constant ramp up to achievement, there has been plenty of setback too.

As I pointed out in the other thread, Pinkels, "we do what we do/we have a system" has yet to get him over the final hurdle of reaching the "next level", and it's still only an outside chance that it ever will.