re: Talent Deficient and Coaching Deficient

notsince98 you have been consistent on how you feel about Drink and you could be right. I hope you are wrong. I’m not convinced either way

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Odom left Drink a team that went .500 in the SEC. Drink hasn't shown any improvement on that Odom team to this point.

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Every college team loses players every year. That is only an excuse for teams who were really good and had a slight drop. That isn't Mizzou.

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Losing 80% of your offense that includes your starting QB on a .500 team is worse. Then you are left with a offense with 2 returning starters and 2 terrible QB’s. That is a easy analysis

The analysis of Drink is much harder. He is a offensive minded coach that was left with no offense and has had to rely on defense.

The way Odom left the offense makes it hard to find out what kind of coach Drink can be. 20 years ago Brad Smith turned the program around with GP and maybe Horn or Gabarri can do that with Drink.

We need talented players to be competitive in the SEC. To get these players we need to have a consistent program led by a loyal head coach and a athletic department that can find money to pay players.

We need a coach that will stick around and build are program like GP did but better. To be compete with Blue Bloods every year we need to build a program like Wisconsin.

Since 1993, the Badgers have appeared in 27 bowl games in 29 seasons and won at least a share of the conference championship six times. Previous 29 years they had 22 losing seasons. Barry Alvarez turned a losing program into a team that competes with Blue Bloods every year. Alvarez had losing seasons his first 3 years with a 1-10 first year.