re: Why can’t Missou break through???

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I thought they're just above .500 all time.
My question is how do they play so well with so little talent? They've been having multiple 10 win seasons since joining the SEC. Every time I write them off as a bottom dweller, they come right back shattering my expectations.

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with pinkel, it was having great players at qb, de, and finding plenty of diamonds in the rough that weren't recruited much. aldon smith was a two star from kansas city that weighed like 200 pounds of high school. he went on to have like 11 sacks and 20 tfl his redshirt freshman season, got drafted in the first round, and had like 35 sacks his first two seasons before his love of partying and automatic weapons derailed his nfl career. we never had fantastic overall depth, so we'd still get exposed against elite teams with rosters full of blue chippers like oklahoma in 2007. we'd get bullied on the line in the second half against a lot of elite teams

with nil and the portal, eli's teams have a ton of talent, and he has done an excellent job at hitting on transfer players. i don't know if anybody has put together a rating for that, but drink has to be as good as anybody at getting production out of transfer players. we've been good the last three seasons with pretty much game managers at qb

if drink had pinkel's knack for finding superstar qbs, we probably would have won some of these close games against the better sec teams and gone to the playoffs the last two seasons

talking about how we're poor, i wouldn't say that exactly. however, we were finalists with indiana for mendoza this off season. if eli could have convinced some fatcat to cough up however much was needed to pull him, we'd be in a much better spot right now

Big 12 schools big 12.

NIL has allowed us to close the gap on talent. We are closing the gap on facilities.

Our QBs keep getting hurt because of our boarder line mentally challenged commitment to the read option. Bazelak, Cook, Horn, Pribula - all 4 starters sacrificed on called QB runs.

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St. Louis leans more towards Illinois

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This hasn’t been true for over a decade.

Priorities in Missouri are more towards pro sports. Who gives a Phuc? Cardinals are a legacy team in MLB and the Chiefs are one of the premier teams in all of sports

Well, let’s break this down….

- Mizzou was never one of the pay to play cheating arse programs so it’s hard to compete against the cheats ( AND we all know how the “blue bloods” grew their programs, frickn cheats!)
- Mizzou competes directly with successful pro sports teams unlike many poor arse States with nothing but college sports or bottom feeder pro teams.
- The university never invested in the program & now that they do, the results are getting better each year
- Due to lack of investment, 4 & 5 star in-state talent went to out of state universities. There is a ton of high end high school talent in St. Louis especially, as well as KC, that was being untapped.
- Just to name a few obvious answers

Pretty simple and not the answer you're looking for but...


The officiating. Both the Bama and Vandy games were jokes. Vandy game especially. That's just this year and it's been happening since the big 12 and before. Look up 5th down, kicked ball in endzone, etc. Games that were clearly rigged and the whole world just goes along with.


You'll say I'm a baby and to cry more but I'm way past that. College football like all sports is fixed/rigged however you want to put it.


People want to know why a blue blood job is still better these days? That is the reason.

The past 15 - 20 years technology continues to get better but somehow the officiating in every sport just keeps getting worse? hmmmm

Until officials/refs are held accountable after games with interviews nothing will change. Why shouldn't the press be allowed to question an official on their call?


You asked why Mizzou can't break through? B/c the powers that be aren't having it.

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From some reason, St. Louis leans more towards Illinois and KC is a KU town.

Not sure why and seems annoying.

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Moronic. Illinois has a very small presence in STL. Mizzou dominates.

KC is split between Mizzou kU and kSt.

It isn't easy to "break through."

Boise (State) has had a solid team with good fan support for decades now and hasn't really crossed the threshold into legit powerhouse. Missouri is like an upscale version of that, they have solid money, good fan support, and a not awful talent base to draw on. Which means they are just good enough to be really good and hope the stars align one day.

Despite shoveling the GDP of many small nations into their football program A&M hasn't even sniffed the CFP until this year. It happens.

It also depends on media coverage, lets be fair. It is a lot easier to turn your program into a powerhouse if you are in constant rotation for game of the week. Even if you have great NIL money kids want to be playing in the big game.

It is because their stadium is so small…..