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Head Coach Gary Pinkel Love and Appreciation Thread.
Posted on 11/14/15 at 10:34 pm
Posted on 11/14/15 at 10:34 pm
Thank you Gary.
You dont have to say a thing because your current players and former players have said it all.
You dont have to say a thing because your current players and former players have said it all.
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Posted on 11/14/15 at 10:36 pm to kilo
If you don't appreciate what he has meant to our program, then you don't deserve to be a Mizzou fan.
Thanks coach.
Thanks coach.
Posted on 11/14/15 at 10:39 pm to kilo
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You dont have to say a thing because your current players and former players have said it all.
That was a great moment on TV. Big props to the few Mizzou fans that supported that team in KC, mad respect.
Posted on 11/14/15 at 10:53 pm to kilo
That was amazing.
I am going to miss that guy. I was a senior at Mizzou when he took the job. I have had several opportunities over the years to just chat with him, including when he would drop by my silly college job at a breaktime. He would come in and ask how my classes were going/etc. Truly a guy who cares about others.
He also laughed pretty hard when he signed a piece of the goalposts from the 2010 Oklahoma game for me.
I am going to miss that guy. I was a senior at Mizzou when he took the job. I have had several opportunities over the years to just chat with him, including when he would drop by my silly college job at a breaktime. He would come in and ask how my classes were going/etc. Truly a guy who cares about others.
He also laughed pretty hard when he signed a piece of the goalposts from the 2010 Oklahoma game for me.
This post was edited on 11/14/15 at 10:55 pm
Posted on 11/14/15 at 10:59 pm to kilo
Gary's the man. I love that guy. 
Posted on 11/14/15 at 11:03 pm to kilo
GP 
Posted on 11/14/15 at 11:09 pm to kilo
Shout out to GP.
He's been great for our University and our football program.
Thanks, Coach.
He's been great for our University and our football program.
Thanks, Coach.
Posted on 11/14/15 at 11:29 pm to kilo
I wrote it in another thread, but I loved his cockiness and the arrogance of WDWWD - especially when he was rolling. His self-confidence in himself and his system was almost Mike Martzian.
And I love how players weren't just pieces of meat to him. He wanted them to succeed and change the course of their life (and the lives of their children) through their association with him and a University of Missouri degree.
His word was his bond for a full four years - to the point of hamstringing his roster at times - all while his coaching contemporaries were running sausage factories. You honestly felt sorry for kids who chose places like Tennessee because you know a third of them will get processed or never graduate.
Yes, he never won the big one.
Yes, he was sometimes loyal to a fault.
But dammit, he was loyal!!
He earned the love and respect of players and fans alike and I'm going to miss him.
It almost feels like a death in the family. Like when Whitey Herzog left too soon. I got the sads.
Posted on 11/14/15 at 11:57 pm to kilo
This is what I think of when I think of Pinkel and what he has done at Mizzou:
2007 Season my Mother was in the final stages of her years long battle with Cancer. She had less then a week left before she passed. Growing up in NWMO we got all Omaha stations growing up and got pounded by Nebraska forever. My mother was a huge sports fan, loved Mizzou and hated the Huskers. I remember visiting with my mother in her hospital room which she would die in just 4 days later. She kept asking me if I had watched Mizzou beat down the Huskers the night before. In her final days on this Earth, Mizzou had made her so happy beating the hated Huskers. I have always remembered this and truly thank Coach Pinkel for giving my mother something to cherish in that tough time.
2007 Season my Mother was in the final stages of her years long battle with Cancer. She had less then a week left before she passed. Growing up in NWMO we got all Omaha stations growing up and got pounded by Nebraska forever. My mother was a huge sports fan, loved Mizzou and hated the Huskers. I remember visiting with my mother in her hospital room which she would die in just 4 days later. She kept asking me if I had watched Mizzou beat down the Huskers the night before. In her final days on this Earth, Mizzou had made her so happy beating the hated Huskers. I have always remembered this and truly thank Coach Pinkel for giving my mother something to cherish in that tough time.
Posted on 11/15/15 at 6:08 am to kilo
Nice gesture with the thread Kilo.
There was some emotion before the game last night as they did a public announcement of HCGP's stepping down. The ones in attendance showed a lot of love for GP throughout the game and after. The players, the fans all showed support of HCGP as well. Thanks GP for finally making this school relevant again in some way shape or form. You may have had me scratching my head at times and pulling my hair out other times, but in the end you put together a respectable program and you can't do much better than that. One of only a few coaches that have been winners in three different conferences. Get well.
There was some emotion before the game last night as they did a public announcement of HCGP's stepping down. The ones in attendance showed a lot of love for GP throughout the game and after. The players, the fans all showed support of HCGP as well. Thanks GP for finally making this school relevant again in some way shape or form. You may have had me scratching my head at times and pulling my hair out other times, but in the end you put together a respectable program and you can't do much better than that. One of only a few coaches that have been winners in three different conferences. Get well.
Posted on 11/16/15 at 2:38 am to kilo
He's a class act. I don't think anyone could have done better pulling us out of woods that the program was in.
I don't like the timing of the announcement. He had a lot of treatments in may and june, recently went back for a checkup, and then announced his retirement. He has a serious disease
I don't like the timing of the announcement. He had a lot of treatments in may and june, recently went back for a checkup, and then announced his retirement. He has a serious disease
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