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re: How bad are Mizzou fans going to melt when Odom
Posted on 11/10/20 at 6:48 pm to Mizz-SEC
Posted on 11/10/20 at 6:48 pm to Mizz-SEC
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As a Mizzou alum Odom was largely celebrated as a good hire under the circumstances.
Most fans wished he would have had previous head coaching experience and as it turned out that concern was correct. He was still making the same kind of in-game mistakes in Year Four as he was in Year One and allowed DLineZou to deteriorate (among other things).
It's a shame it didn't work out. Most fans really wanted to believe.
Odom was unironically fought against by your fanbase during your search process - FACT. I followed the process. Can't rewrite history.
Odom was not happily rejoiced and welcomed as the new coach - it was more of a drag than a hopeful and happy moment.
In fact it occurred at a time of unprecedented apathy across the entire state, which is worse than hatred.
Important contextual fact: After nearly 20 years of Pinkel you missed out on that 'new' moment with Barry because he was already a Mizzou guy AND it happened under such a negative and apathetic environment.
There was no splash and the entire state was sour at Mizzou.
Fans were vowing to be done forever - many of them have come around now that everyone has seen just how crazy the entire world has gotten - funny how 2015 at Mizzou now seems so long ago and not really that big of a deal.
Mizzou fans refuse to understand the scope of damage during 2015 AND the damage leading up to it that involved your HC getting a DUI and starting QB doing coke on game days. The paper recruiting classes that didn't materialize to those athletes being the team. There was MASSIVE trouble in Columbia for years and Barry was left with the mess and managed to build a strong foundation that Drink now gets to use as a launching point.
What we just established:
The Mizzou fan base did not want Odom to be the HC during the hiring process, and once named HC it was met mostly with disapproval or apathy.
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Posted on 11/10/20 at 7:11 pm to midnight special
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Mizzou fans refuse to understand the scope of damage during 2015 AND the damage leading up to it that involved your HC getting a DUI and starting QB doing coke on game days. The paper recruiting classes that didn't materialize to those athletes being the team.
Gee thanks for the news bulletin.
Your coach is fat. And the one before him was too. And two before him...
Posted on 11/11/20 at 12:12 am to midnight special
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They didn't.
The average Mizzou fan did not understand 2015.
They didn't understand how bad the culture of their football program was, aside from the racial upheaval, which is a massive bag of issues.
They didn't understand the true nature of their recruiting issues, despite getting decently ranked classes. Many of these players that contributed to the ranking never made it to campus or left quickly.
When your starting QB is doing coke on game days and most of the campus knows about it, your program has deep rooted problems.
Barry wasn't the mob choice and therefore the mob never embraced him.
There was never the moment of something 'shiny and new', and after such a long Pinkel tenure the fanbase craved it and they finally got that 'new' feeling with Drink.
A literal book could be written on how uninformed and poorly aware the Mizzou fan base was at the time of the Pinkel-Barry transition.
I will be sure to add more as I contribute here.
ESL high school and some other St. Louis high schools banded Missouri from any contact when Odom was the HC. After Odom firing ESL and St. Louis high schools opened up the contact with Drinkwitz! How can you explained that?
This post was edited on 11/11/20 at 12:13 am
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