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Best thing my coach did was defend me when he didn't even know I was in the room. His example was louder than his words for the four years in the two sports I had him as coach.
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Drink's teams so far teach QBs how not to pass the ball over 5 yards. Last year, Alabama let Missouri back in the game because they started to play a defense that pretended Missouri had a passing attack.
re: NCAA suspends Tennessee football star Arion Carter two games for $427 flight
Posted by tpatten on 7/30/26 at 11:56 am to OleVaught14
The NCAA long ago lost any moral benchmark. They'll let some teams and their players get away with major infractions, where players benefited lucratively, and then they'll do things like this, suspending players over a small amount that the player already paid back. It's time to end the monopoly and stop the NCAA from profiting off the players.
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Does Mizzou even have a QB this year?
Does it matter? Drink has done a very good job of bringing in QBs who can pass and teaching them how not to pass.
re: Who's your Dark Horse SEC team this year?
Posted by tpatten on 6/29/26 at 3:16 pm to cajuntiger1010
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Missouri will be solid.
Especially if Hardy is healthy
Austin Simmons is an upgrade, Cayden Lee is good. The backup RB is also good.
I think they will be 8-4/9-3 and knock teams off
Missouri will have a good running back even if Hardy doesn't play. The biggest issue I see is that Drinkowitz QBs have consistently learned to play it so safe that they don't spread the field, hold onto the ball too long and make it very predictable for defenses resulting in long 3rd downs Until Missouri stops that, they'll do well outside of conference but then start losing in October.
Keeping with the spirit of the thread, depending on how we define "darkhorse", I'd pick A&M at this point.
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36yo men don't typically die of natural causes
No idea on Aldon, but I'm now old enough to have seen friends of mine die in waves. First were the ones from poor judgement that happened at a young age. Next were the people with defects that they were born with. In the 40-early 50's it was people who abused drugs or alcohol at some time in their life.
re: Aldon Smith passes at 36 - Mizzou,
Posted by tpatten on 6/14/26 at 11:52 pm to Diamondawg
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I don't know him but read some of his history and I understand he was facing some serious legal problems. Should I assume his death was not of natural causes?
No idea. A lot of Aldon's problems seemed to be alcohol related.
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Was Micheal Sam on that same team? If so, that was a good team Defensive Line
Yes. Michael Sam was a Freshman during Aldon's Sophomore season. Aldon left after Sophomore year for the NFL. Michael Sam was a backup to Aldon Smith and Jacquies Smith and played in 13 games his Freshman year.
Aldon Smith passes at 36 - Mizzou,
Posted by tpatten on 6/14/26 at 1:46 pm
Aldon Smith (CBS News)
Aldon was a good young man while at Mizzou and an amazing athlete. Didn't get in trouble until NFL then started down the wrong path. One thing Pinkel was good with was mentoring the young men. It was night and day that last year at Mizzou vs the first year in the NFL.
Aldon was a good young man while at Mizzou and an amazing athlete. Didn't get in trouble until NFL then started down the wrong path. One thing Pinkel was good with was mentoring the young men. It was night and day that last year at Mizzou vs the first year in the NFL.
re: SEC championships each team has won in the past 10 years
Posted by tpatten on 5/20/26 at 9:32 am to ibleedpurpleandgold.
Some of the best HS runners from Missouri I've known decided to go to Arkansas. But after living in Arkansas, I don't know where their athletes get good at running. Other than the parks, there's not a lot of good places to run. Most of the roads have little to no shoulder and have deep ditches.
re: SEC championships each team has won in the past 10 years
Posted by tpatten on 5/20/26 at 8:54 am to MizzouTrue
Yeah, I had to look it up. Mizzou only won in Volleyball and Cheerleading. Cheerleading is considered a sport at some places.
I experienced the dot.com bubble beneficiaries change the California real estate market into bidding wars and then form corporations to buy up houses. People in California can leave if they get priced out. When people from Tennessee, Missouri, Arkansas get priced out by the Californians, they don't have as many options where to go. In a way, the pay differential companies use to pay in California vs Tennessee can be a type of discrimination too if we really wanted to go there.
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Depends where he was shot, did it go through, what size round. For Missouri fans, your worse case scenario, he got his foot shot off, or took a large round in one of his legs, or his spine. Any of that and he's done running the ball.
He was shot in the upper leg.
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Yeah I’m interested to know what concert and where in MS
My guess since it's only 1 hour from his hometown:
The Southern Crown: A Night of Hip-Hop Royalty
I don't like that the rankings rely so much on acceptance rate rather than results. Remember in 2010 when Kansas State accidentally misreported it's acceptance rate as 2% rather than 98% and it suddenly got ranked alongside the Ivy League schools?
re: Nobody can get into Texas or Vanderbilt, but what the next hardest school to get into?
Posted by tpatten on 5/6/26 at 12:40 pm to charliethehun
My son didn't get into Texas, but he got into Vanderbilt. He turned down Arkansas right away even though it was 100% paid for. He decided between Mizzou and Texas A&M. With quite a few venture capitalists setting up in the areas between Dallas, Austin, and Houston, I thought Texas A&M might be the best option of all the schools. It has room to grow whereas University of Texas does not and it already has the companies hiring from there that have come out of California as well as the traditional NASA and oil companies.
Don't know about defense, but for A&M's offense:
George D. Keathley '37
Horace S. Carswell, Jr. '38
Dr. Eli L. Whiteley '41
Turney W. Leonard '42
Lloyd H. Hughes '43
Thomas W. Fowler '43
William G. Harrell '43
Clarence E. Sasser '73
Matt Williams '25
George D. Keathley '37
Horace S. Carswell, Jr. '38
Dr. Eli L. Whiteley '41
Turney W. Leonard '42
Lloyd H. Hughes '43
Thomas W. Fowler '43
William G. Harrell '43
Clarence E. Sasser '73
Matt Williams '25
re: New video on Texas A&M bonfire tragedy
Posted by tpatten on 4/1/26 at 12:35 pm to ColoradoAg
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I'm a network architect now but went to school to be a veterinarian
Opposite way around here. Did the Engineering. Did the IT. Now am Dentist. Had fun in all that. Dental is by far the easiest. I heard that A&M did away with their exotic veterinarian medicine. That's where I took sugar gliders when I got them in the 90s. Too bad, it was a great clinic but I guess the guy heading it retired.
re: New video on Texas A&M bonfire tragedy
Posted by tpatten on 4/1/26 at 11:44 am to ColoradoAg
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I'd have loved to meet your roommate, since I live in the technical world.
I've been trying to get ahold of him, but haven't.been successful. My son currently is deciding between A&M and Mizzou and wants to start off in engineering. He asked me which engineering, and I'm partial to the biomedical engineering because that's what my roommate, Mark was doing. In addition to all he did at A&M, Mark was getting royalty checks from a heart valve he was a part of before coming to A&M. I met some very bright people at A&M.
Another odd bit of trivia, the first person to upload a nude photo on the internet was at the A&M campus. She was wise to make sure she hid her face.
re: New video on Texas A&M bonfire tragedy
Posted by tpatten on 4/1/26 at 9:00 am to ColoradoAg
On a side note, what if Google had been started at Texas A&M? It could have been. Before Google and Yahoo existed, my roommate who was getting his Masters then PhD at A&M would work on the side. He was Whataburger's first web hoster. He also did a few other companies. We stayed up waiting for GPS coordinates to become available in order to put up the first commercial map for Whataburger on the web. Same with credit cards for a wedding planner client. He had a server hosting free email addresses as soon as anyone else on the web. He had pretty much all the early stuff on the web as soon as it came out. I told him I'd quit school and be his sales man as well as help him with the programming, but he just wanted to get his PhD and teach. Other things he'd toy with for his thesis topics is AI and self-driving cars, but that wasn't anywhere close to coming to fruition.
When Google came out, we even talked about when IT companies would start trying to choose who became President and predicted 2020.
When Google came out, we even talked about when IT companies would start trying to choose who became President and predicted 2020.
re: New video on Texas A&M bonfire tragedy
Posted by tpatten on 3/31/26 at 8:52 pm to giveemhell
I remember watching the progress on it each day several different years and talking with other people about how dangerous it was just building it. I never set foot near the stack. And yeah, it was supervised, but much of that supervision was from people who didn't have any experience with the things that could have gone wrong. Shoot the engineering department wasn't that far from there which is another sad part because they saw it everyday too. I left in 98 so I didn't see the tragedy.
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