re: Please anybody out there "steal" Drinkwitz from Missouri

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So please, Arkansas take your home boy home!

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My, my how things have changed.

Wait until Drink is playing 9 game SEC schedules.

And we definitely don’t want him.

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Lots of bad coaches out there and Drink isn’t one of them. Lots of big name programs looking for coaches this year, the expectations change when your kicker and 2 quarterbacks get hurt.

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So far Drink has proven himself to be...

1) an outstanding recruiter
2) an above average to outstanding identifier of assistant coaching talent
3) a below average developer of offensive talent, including quarterback
4) a below average developer of offensive schemes, including playcallers

It's the age old question: Would you rather have an A recruiter and C coach or a C recruiter and A coach?

Drink's ability to recruit players and coaches gives hope he'll show Kirby Moore the door and bring in someone with fresh offensive concepts. The only question is if he sees Moore as part of the problem. He did identify himself as part of the problem when he hired Moore. Maybe he'll do a deep down look at offenses around the country and his and make the needed moves.

If he blames his offensive woes on injuries the AD needs to hone his short list for two years from now.

If Penn State fired Franklin and hires a less successful version fo Franklin, good luck to them.

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Drinkwitz hasn't lost the team. I like where things are heading for next year. I know the schedule will be much harder next season. Next year we shall know if he will make any adjustments. OL is part of the problem. I will wait another year and see how it goes before complaining about poor offense and lack of OL upgrades.

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You don't have a clue.

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you don't have a clue if you think someone is going to buy him out (which I think is 5M plus what ever they have to pay him). Neither is anyone going to pay him more than we are, we are substantially over paying him as it is. He is not going anywhere unless we can him which is 29M

but the biggest way you don't have a clue is if you think we can just trot right out and get a cignetti or kiffin. Have you paid no attention to how many SEC teams have been trying that and how much time and money they have spent? and they have tried some pretty big expensive names And, like others have already asked, who is this person we can just trot right out and get, and afford, and have guaranteed success with? I;m looking for a name.

Much easier for the AD to try and fix him. He was forced to get an OC before maybe he can be forced to get a better one. That would go a long way towards elevating him to the next level.

I don't know if you remember but Pinkel had a lot of issues with both OCs and DCs and he would remain loyal to underperforming ones.

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Know who always had starters on special teams?

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Bob Stoops, Meyer, pretty much any coach that wins. Yes sometimes they get hurt, but you want your best 11 out there.

This would be believable if we didn’t have eyeballs and see all of his 0-6 streak games. In almost all of them he has had the horses and has mismanaged the game into oblivion.

The second a call goes against us he pouts like a toddler and the team does the same. He is irrationally aggressive at the wrong times and irrationally conservative at others in almost every big game.

There’s no consistency. Saturday Hardy begins the game ripping A&M and then they run another jet sweep. It’s classic Drink era.

Good post. I’ve been saying this for weeks. Drinkwitz is a good coach but he has benefited mightily from a relatively soft schedule compared to the rest of the league, and against ranked opponents, his record is really bad.

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You're the crazy one. You're the one who wants to keep doing the same thing over and over and over again and expecting a different result. That is the definition of insanity. He has never scored a signature win in the SEC. And I'm not saying to fire him. I'm only hoping he moves on. And as for all these other schools looking for the next coach, many of the top names are not looking for diamonds in the rough like Cignetti and Elko.

The bar needs to be raised to the next level at Missouri. I give him credit for raising the program to this level. I do not think he's the guy to take it to the next level. You're happy with just beating the teams Missouri is supposed to beat? I'm not. He is being paid at an elite level. It's time to get an elite coach for that kind of money.

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How can we as Mizzou fans argue that Drink is doing "the same thing over and over and over again? Outside of Pinkel, nobody has been able to make Mizzou a 10-win program. Mizzou's closest comparator in the SEC is Arkansas - look at how mightily they have struggled since Petrino and his hog went down. While they would never admit it, they would kill to have had Drink and his run of success over the past few seasons.

Let's put a brighter perspective on this: Drink is a few plays and an injured QB away from having Mizzou as a solid playoff team this season. Sometimes the ball doesn't bounce our way. Our best bet is to let Drink reload the roster in the off-season and (hopefully) find a good QB who can stay healthy.

And if you want to be cynical, look at how many programs are now scrambling to find a new coach. Just in the SEC, we'd be fighting a losing battle against Florida, LSU, and probably Auburn. Not to mention going toe-to-toe with Arkansas, and probably Kentucky and South Carolina before too long. It's a pretty awful time to be considering a coaching change.

Get in line buddy. I was first!

Compared to the bamas, lsu, texas, atm, florida, tenn, georgia auburn, and the others doing good. Missouri just isnt going to get the same talent pool, he has done great with what he has had. Could go either way at a school that draws higher talent.