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re: Highly anticipated Gator Bowl tonight!
Posted by tpatten on 12/27/25 at 9:49 pm to Mizzoustance
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Hardy will have a huge game,
Unfortunately I was right. Same old game plan. On that last drive, I think we saw more influence from the High School coach and less from Drink. It's like they have to ignore everything they've been doing throughout the season on that last drive in a desperate attempt to move the ball downfield. I see very little QB development under Drink whether it's Cook, Pribula, or Zollers.
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re: Any Zou fans a little annoyed with Drinkwitz for flirting with Michigan?
Posted by tpatten on 12/27/25 at 3:42 pm to GoldenDawg
Drink has had moderate success at Mizzou. He's been able to win the games he's supposed to win but nothing more yet. Ohio State win not counting because of the number of players that were out.
Mizzou is paying him like he's going to be able to take Mizzou to the next level. However, he has been flirting a bit with other options despite the better than average job security and those options haven't been offered to him. It tells me that if he is actually able to take Mizzou to the next level he's likely to bolt to other options and Mizzou will start over developing a new coach.
Mizzou is paying him like he's going to be able to take Mizzou to the next level. However, he has been flirting a bit with other options despite the better than average job security and those options haven't been offered to him. It tells me that if he is actually able to take Mizzou to the next level he's likely to bolt to other options and Mizzou will start over developing a new coach.
re: Highly anticipated Gator Bowl tonight!
Posted by tpatten on 12/27/25 at 11:41 am to Faurot fodder
Mizzou hasn't shown they have much of an offense against top 20 teams for the past 5 years. No reason to think they're going to be offensive juggernauts today. If they win, expect the defense to show up and ball control on offense. Virginia is decent against the run and with Missouri not showing a good passing game, they can concentrate on that run defense.
I'd like to think I'm wrong, but I have to go on what Missouri has show us already.
I'd like to think I'm wrong, but I have to go on what Missouri has show us already.
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and you are a Missouri fan, so you will see it from that perspective. And that's ok
If you look at my history of posts, you'll see I'm one of the few fans that have held true to the "show me" motto where Mizzou is concerned. Not hyping them up when they win against teams they're supposed to win against and not being impressed by records fluffed with subpar teams. I'm taking the same approach with Wilson. I'd rather teams and players who abuse the system be held accountable. It can go either way depending on the details. As for right now, I can only go on what has been shown or said to be in the contract as well as Occam Razor. Both have said there was to be another contract signed. Both have stated there were actual damages were $30,000. Both have stated the other amounts of money were from liquidated damages which are really damages that are hard to calculate or prove.
Georgia has two things going for it. It wrote the contract and it's likely going to be played out in Georgia courts. Even if it's a "preliminary" contract, it's still a contract. Wilson would have to prove he was tricked into signing a document but writing trumps verbal. If the Missouri lawyer is correct in what Damon Wilson's copy of the document says, then there's a small chance Wilson could prove that.
Oh, and a big part of this is whether Wilson actually paid back the $30,000. If he didn't then the court won't take that lightly in the honesty of anything else.
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Ok, but the damages are the same regardless, right?
Yes and no. The collective isn't paying him to play. If they doled out money already for ads then that's damages in addition to the $30,000. Georgia is suing and not the collective. Georgia is suing mostly for liquidated damages which aren't realized damages. Why isn't the collective suing? Also, what he signed in the middle of practice, stated it would be "used to create a legally binding document.” and to "seek legal counsel" prior to signing a full agreement.
Personally, I just find this interesting and can't wait for more of the details in the contract. I also want to know why the kid bolted after only one week. A lot of people sign contracts not realizing they are contracts. A lot of people also take advantage of those people. Then there's people who think they can get away with taking the money and running.
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For example...say you have
You're dealing in hypothetical. I'm dealing in the details including what Georgia has already demonstrated their damages are. Except that it isn't Georgia but the Collective that has demonstrated damages of $30,000.
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Maybe, but the harm came to Georgia Athletics. And, I'm sure you believe that everything is working exactly as the rules dictate, because, after all, no football institution would break the rules, right?
I may not be a lawyer but I've won all the court cases I've been a part of including against lawyers because I pay attention to the details and don't get greedy by suing for more than I'm entitled to. I pointed out one of the details. Take it or leave it. We will see. I'm sure Georgia has a strong case since they wrote the contract, but there's a potential weak point. In those cases, if Georgia loses, the Collective sues instead. As far as "damages", the only thing Georgia has shown so far is that the collective lost $30,000.
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The players lost that protection when they demanded pay.
Actually, they are paid from the collective for their likeness and representation. Then that was transferred to Georgia athletics. So he really wasn't an employee of Georgia athletics. It probably should be the collective that is suing in the first place.
re: Mizzou hires Michigan OC, Chip Lindsey.
Posted by tpatten on 12/22/25 at 6:53 pm to Mizzou Mule
It'd make it more interesting now if Michigan goes after Drinkowitz to be head coach. I don't think they will but they could.
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Were they demanding a lot of tax payer money?
Yes. They wanted taxpayers to pay for upgrades that they'll make millions off of and not have to pay the taxpayers back.
They've had a French 75 howitzer cannon when some students found it while cutting trees for Bonfire though it hasn't always been allowed inside the stadium. It was named he Spirit of ’02 because it was a 1902 cannon. Then it was replaced by a more modern howitzer sometime around 2014 and they thought of just having a video of it on the jumbotron and it being outside the stadium.
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He was a bust. It happens
I'm not convinced it isn't more about the system and less about the player. The biggest issue he had, Bazelak, Cook and Zollers also had.
If you look at the video I posted, at the 4:51 mark is where he moved the ball over the goal line and right after that the ref called a touchdown. It was during the timeout and after the last spike that we told the sideline ref he had the downs wrong but none of that interaction was in the video.
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How aware were the fans in the stadium that it was fifth down.
I was the first fan down on the field and to the goal line. I was there the whole series. We knew. We told the sideline ref when it was 3rd down and when it was 4th down and he told us to shut up. But I don't think it really registered with him. And no, his attention wasn't on a guy having a medical emergency as was stated in this video. Ironically it may have been because he was rattled by having the fans so close to the field though we were completely peaceful and pretty well behaved.
The player (Johnson) was actually down before he made it into the end zone on 5th down. It was a pretty clear call that was also missed. The ref who called that play was obscured by the players on the line. I was a little to the right of him and what happened is the player was stopped but as soon as he hit the ground, Mizzou players stopped playing and the guy moved over the line. The ref called the touchdown really late. You can see me in the background pumping my fists in the air and many other kids in that view area celebrating before it was called a touchdown. While the ones near the ref weren't sure what happened.
You can see me in the video here standing behind the ref at the goal line at 1:30:
5th down game.
re: Missouri- was Woody Widenhofer considered the worst coach in school history? I see
Posted by tpatten on 12/16/25 at 12:10 pm to AmishSamurai
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You obviously have never heard of Bob Stull ...
True. At least Andy Reid is in his coaching tree though.
re: Missouri- was Woody Widenhofer considered the worst coach in school history? I see
Posted by tpatten on 12/16/25 at 12:07 pm to Slums_Alum
Woody was known for getting drunk.
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OU isn't even Texas' biggest rival.
The OU Texas Rivalry is pretty tame compared to other rivalries. It shouldn't even be considered a rivalry until a coach gets fired for losing to their rival despite a better than average finish to the season.
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Glover and Walker were stopped by a Walmart staff member when they were leaving
If they weren't out of the store yet, I wouldn't even say it's theft yet even if they intended to steal anything.
re: Shoplifting charges dropped against UGA players
Posted by tpatten on 12/15/25 at 4:01 pm to tylerdurden24
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I’m sure they were looking to score some big ticket black market items:
I loved the part where a lot of what was listed as stolen was Walmart brand items. If they really were intent on stealing, they would have gotten the good stuff. Walmart brand paper towels, plates, sugar, bread?
I'm not sure why "Walmart tried to refund some of the recovered merchandise to an EBT card that was used to pay for some of the items, but was unable to do so." Does that mean Walmart stole from them?
Walmart really doesn't have a good reputation in terms of policing self checkout. Even way back when I was 22, I remember them scrutinizing me briefly for trying on a belt and putting it back on the rack.
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I thought he is already at a northern school.
Yes, but not the furthermost north in the SEC. :usa:
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Losing the SEC championship game means more than not even reaching it.
BCS takes into account your other losses.
Just take care of business on the field and it won't matter.
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