re: Head Coach Gary Pinkel Love and Appreciation Thread.

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.