re: Instate recruits

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I won't go hysterical over it, but Mizzou will never cross that hump until they start landing they key in state players. The idea isn't if you get someone else of equal or better talent. The idea is you get both. That is how you build depth. I'd much rather have the 4* in state player AND the 3* or 4* out of state player than the 3* or 4* out of state player and a 2* or 3* class filler.

Oh, and your list is missing some other names that again, are not program changers, but would have added much needed depth. Jehu Chesson would have been nice to have had last year and was a 4th round pick.

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Chesson was one of the players I thought of when I started this thread. However, I put him and the Pipken (sp.?) kid from KC in a different category. I don't know if I hold kids that grew up somewhere else and just move to MO for a year or 2 against the coaches.
Kids like that - MU coaches are working against their roots just like other out of state kids, even if their address is MO for their junior and senior year.

Depth? I think I would rather have a hungry high 3-star from a football factory state than an overhyped 4-star diva from one of MO's metro areas.

There have been a lot of 3- and 4-stars from MO that went out of state just to be a warm body on some team's sidelines for 4 years.