Interesting, Just When You Thought It was All Over....

You can get a good rundown of whats going on if you can follow all the twitter messages.

Stacy feels his comments were taken out of context. I think it's his wife, (Dee?) seems to be really pissed about the article.

What's at issue is Stacy making a comment that it would have helped Mizzous recruitment of EE if the media would have covered EE's unofficial visits.

Not a fair comment if your in the media. It's hard to report on someone if you have no idea they are comming.

If I sounded a bit pissed, here's a part of the reason why. Remember, this is coming from a Mizzou alum. Not just an alum, but someone who was part of the athletics at Mizzou along with her husband.

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Miz Dee ?@itz_mizdee

@AriWassermanBSB @dave_matter i will be sure to share his bogus blog with parents i know who's children are being recruited by MU.
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fricked up move, but I dont think much will come of it. Whether in prospects caring or her even doing it.

Mr Stacy Elliott...I'm glad that our local sports writers don't have to write a special section every time EE touches the ball or takes a dump. Hell, you don't hear DGB's parents complaining about ANYTHING!...and he's the best recruit to come out of Missouri in years...possibly ever. Thanks for choosing Ohio State, we don't need ego's that big around the program.

I'll be tuning in to Cusamano on the radio to see if he has anything to say about it. Frankly, he's part of that local media and really, the Elliott's kind of played him to get their mugs on TV if you ask me.

What happened to Wingo when he thought he was too good for us? All I am going to say.

There is a subset of STL who thinks they're too big and too good for Mizzou. And it's not a small subset. Odd that you'd find alumni of Mizzou in that group. But that appears where the Elliotts are.

Frick em. May the ghost of Ronnie Wingo haunt his career.

OK, I'm going to post a slightly different point of view here that may be unpopular. That's OK, I haven't stirred anything up in a while. I read the comments. And I don't think he didn't say anything that was not true. The media coverage at Ohio State likely IS greater than at Missouri, especially as it relates to recruitment.

As I've said before, I have a good friend who played football at Alabama and is still pretty dialed into the program there. If a high-profile recruit visits their campus, officially or unofficially, the media there is all over it. It might not be a situation where they can talk to the recruit, but they know when he gets to campus, what he does there, and when he leaves. And it's covered. That's the level of interest in the program and the hype around recruiting there. Many SEC schools are the same.

In Missouri, the media just doesn't cover it recruiting the same way. If you notice, in his article Matter references how media can't formally cover many recruiting visits. OK, I accept that. But it can still be covered more informally - they just don't view it as important enough, and right now there is not enough demand for recruiting information to make that coverage a priority. The media covers what they think people are interested in - and the general media apparently doesn't believe it's a hot topic for enough Missouri fans to make it worth their while to chase down the stories.

This season? I got most of my recruiting info from URHatinIt because I don't pay for PM. Thank you, again! For most other SEC schools, there is a lot more info out there, in a lot more places.

Now, do I think the Elliotts sound like attention seekers? Yes, his quotes imply that. We don't like prima-donas at Mizzou, and I don't want to see that change, so if that's high on the priority list? He made the right choice for him. At least until he gets there and they see if he makes the depth chart. I don't want to see a highlight-chaser come to Mizzou.

But do I think Stacey Elliott has a point? Yeah, I do - as it relates to recruitment. It's up to fans to demand the info about recruitment activities if we want that to change.

Agreed on the post. I will say radio has been doing a bit better job. Still, when there's a weekly show devoted to golf and a weekly show devoted to golf, there is no reason not to have a show devoted to MU and the SEC instead of segments.