re: Barry Odom

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1. Nobody really has any clue at this point. We haven’t been seriously linked with anyone yet.

2. Odom is a very good DC. Any program would benefit from having him in that role. I still think he will eventually be a good HC too. There was a turd in the punch bowl this year. We should have been pounding our chest going into year 5 with him, but instead we are licking our wounds. He has some responsibility for that, I can’t say all.

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where. He's a talented DC and we'll respected among college coaches.Not sure if he wants to work but I imagine he could have his pick of DC jobs. BTW,I was looking at the Ohio State roster and noticed multiple kids from St Louis .Whats the deal? How do they get those kids? I'm assuming the next HC is gonnA try to keep those kids at home

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The inability to recruit the best in state talent has always been a disappointment for Mizzou fans....we need that shite fixed ASAP!

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BTW,I was looking at the Ohio State roster and noticed multiple kids from St Louis .Whats the deal?

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They are Ohio St

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BTW,I was looking at the Ohio State roster and noticed multiple kids from St Louis .Whats the deal? How do they get those kids?

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I don’t even slightly mean this as a knock on Mizzou, but is this a serious question?

Our enrollment went up 16% while the national average for all colleges was down 2%.

Your frickhole is leaking

Freshmen enrollment dumbass. That’s a few hundred kids due to the plummet of 2016. When you start with shitty numbers a few hundred makes the percentages sound pretty good.

LINK

This is your hometown paper.

Freshman enrollment is up about 800 year over year. You’re googling stuff that we already know.

You do realize you don’t enroll seniors, right?

You enroll freshmen.

It’s called normalization. I don’t understand why this is such a hard thing to grasp for you. We are seeing increases while freshman enrollment nationally is decreasing. It may be difficult to believe, but middle aged white men who blow up their 300 dollar coolers aren’t the demographic here.

Odom WASNT putting butts in the seats and that’s precisely why he was fired, dolt. The attendance dropped every year he was the coach.

You have no idea what you are talking about. I do. I’ve had season tickets for about 10 years and sit around a bunch of other folks who have had them longer. Walking out of the Tennessee game I knew it was over. He had lost the portion of the fanbase you just can’t lose. I thought they may try to hold out one more year, but the writing was on the wall.

To act like we shouldn’t have fired him is completely stupid. I think he is a good coach, but it’s not going to be that difficult to find somebody to go .500 over four years and sell 3/4 of the seats in our stadium. We certainly “should” try to improve upon that performance and frick anybody who says differently. Odom May have eventually turned the corner, but his team this year shite the bed when they really couldn’t afford to and it cost him his job.

I looked at Alabama’s enrollment for the past 20 years. Steady increases in total enrollment.

They might not be seeing 16% increases in freshmen numbers, but they didn’t lose 20% of their total enrollment in 3 years. I would bet no SEC school has lost students over the past 5 years. You are only seeing a rebound from rock bottom, which had to happen.

Now, Odom might have not made them what your fans wanted, but give me a break. Losing students, losing booster money, sanctions....who could he recruit?

I don’t know what boomers have to do with this? Gen X offspring are the ones going to college now. This didn’t just piss off the boomers. And Gen Z are probably as conservative as the boomers. Frick all social justice and PC BS. The faster Mizzou realizes this the better.