Players cite poor practice habits as a factor

“It’s pure effort on my behalf,” said Harris, who finished with six tackles and two for a loss. “That’s my fault on my D-line and I’ll take the blame for it. We weren’t focused. I didn’t get them fired up, so I’ll carry the burden for this game. You didn’t see a pass rush for this game. You didn’t see any really backfield penetration. I guarantee you, that’s going to be fixed.”


Love this kid

It's not that uncommon. Mizzou has had great success the last 2 years. But there are really only 3 or 4 players on offense that were part of those success offensively. Boehm, McGovern, Hansbrough, & Mauk.

The new guys have to learn to work as hard as those players that departed did.

That is not on the coaches. That is the players and the upper classmen. When I was in college if you messed around in practice you would have senior's or GA's on your arse.

I hated being in the weight room at 6 am. No coaches just players.

Working hard his addictive and if seniors are working hard every play, so will the underclass men.

I like the way Mauk is with Lock. He seems like he is supportive and talking to him throughout the game. The defense is also that way. Someone needs to get in the WR's and OL's face.

WR turning the wrong way or turning to late is making plays look really bad.

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“Just showing up to practice every day and giving better effort and working on our fundamentals

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That's the basis of every answer every player has ever given for a loss. It also caveats the players giving it their all, not the coaches needing to do anything.

Sure the coaches can yell and cuss, but if the players aren't there to work and be the best then there's no speech that will change that

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That is not on the coaches.

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yea it actually is on the coaches, sorry you're just flat out wrong.

If you have senior/upperclassman players who CAN lead, that's all fine and well, but if it's not the case, for example Leftwich can't just coach the entire WR group after hardly playing for the last 3 years, it's really the coaches responsibility.

Since they have gone away from two a days and closed practice to the media/public it's kind of hard to know what's really going on, but one old football adage will never change, if you practice like slop during the week, you'll play like slop on gameday. The offense has continually looked like crap trying to figure out what they are going to do before the snap, when you look that bad trying to get the play off, expecting to execute sharply after the snap is problematic.

You don't pay coaches a half million to a million plus just to say "it's up to the players to get their heads right".

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I'll be honest -- and it's pure conjecture / worry / speculation on my part --

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I'd expect it's just much more a law of averages thing, we recruit a heeluva lot of Tx kids for a while so some are naturally gonna pan out.

We've gotten kids out of traditional "SEC" land before who have turned out for us. Spoon was originally from La, like LaDamien, CJ Mosley was originally from Kentucky, Pig Brown and Darius Outlaw from Ga.. Fisher from Fl.

I doubt that's really gonna be a problem, I think the problem is going to be putting up a team of mostly coached up 3stars against a team of mostly coached up 4 stars which is what we are going to be doing from here out.