Tiger97

The folks over on SEC Rant are obviously mystified about the low level of support or interest the MU fan base has for baseball. They just do not understand. They don't get that MU baseball competes with 2 pro teams, a popular minor league team, and a consistently good D1 program down south for fans and attention.

Most SEC baseball teams have no real instate competition for attention or $ or players, outside the other SEC schools.

A really good, interesting take on the Cantwell recruiting from Gabe

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How many teams can offer incoming freshmen big money to kids that probably won't be a starter? Especially when that kid may get mad when he does not play and heads to his next school.

The NE transfer LB is transferring as well. Sounds like the D coaches may be telling kids hard truths this week.

It's time we will find out about Burden. He will be removed from all the people telling him how great he is (which seems to be A LOT of people with those St. Louis kids) for the first time in his life. He might wilt, or he may get a giant chip on his shoulder and let it inspire him to work like he never has before. He has the talent to be a big producer.

That what Texass do. See SWC and Big 12.

Bernie's take

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Live down in SWMO. Hear a lot about Drake because they are in MO St's conference.

For the last several years they have been a good team that lives by the 3, plays smart and disciplined, and therefore are a dangerous opponent in any game.

Their current coach is in his first year there. They grabbed him from Northwest MO St, where he had lots of success at the lower level there.

I don't know if Evangel or Drury in Springfield played NWMS, but lots of people seemed to know McCollum when he got hired at Drake. Consensus was it was a really smart hire and there was a lot of confidence he would be successful at Drake.

I think if we can play solid defense against the 3 consistently through the game and be smart on offense, we will knock them off and on to the second round.

Never mind. Already lost 2 of those should win games. Oklahoma is not a gimme W. Wrong time of the year for this.

Good to see this effort. Arkansas game had trap written all over it. They were desperate to keep their tourney chances alive, they have talent, at their place, and they had a fired up home crowd thanks to the nostalgia hit of honoring the last champion Ark team.

Carolina was no guarantee W having just gotten over the hump finally with their first conference W. Had a bit of confidence for the first time all year. Good to see MU take care of business. Hope they keep doing that all the way through the end of the season. Won't be easy, but they should be able to.

Got the famed Nebraska football running scared and dumping your upcoming games. Wow, surprised a program with that "reputation" and "history" would do such a thing.

Needing home games for ticket sales - whatever you need to tell yourselves nubbers.