Hambone.

Just can't get enough of Schrader's story, and the stories of others like him in the past...very inspiring. It's so odd that many have called him "slow". He's not...he's actually pretty fast. Is he *as* fast as some others around the country? No, but he has proven he doesn't need to be. What he lacks in top-end speed is made up in his vision, hard straight-forward running and quick decisions. I could watch that video above on a loop.

So a Mizzou team that went to bowl game in 2022 and returns 80% of those starters, had immediate-impact transfers in the offseason, will field a potentially elite defense, has playmakers all over the offense with a healthy QB and that hired an exciting OC to take over for Drinkwitz is NOT going to make a bowl game? I'm not saying the Tigers will win 10 games this year and the schedule is tough, but predicting a no-bowl season is just plain lazy analysis by McMurphy.

Agreed. But schools are often asked for date/location preferences, not who they do or do not want to play. I'm not naïve enough to think some back-room negotiations don't happen, but the larger point remains...the whole story makes absolutely no sense whatsoever to those of us who know the history.

Anyone willing to do even the slightest amount of homework would know that it was Mizzou, not Kansas, that for years tried hard to re-establish the rivalry. After the Jayhawk tantrums finally faded following Mizzou's departure for the SEC, that was achieved and the football series resumes in 2025 (and beyond that, the two meet on the basketball court next week and had met previously during some down years for the Tigers). So we're now supposed to believe an anonymous source saying Mizzou wants to dodge Kansas (not how the bowl selection process works, by the way) for purely speculative reasons? McMurphy was taken for a ride, and it amazes me how many people are willing to go along.

All great players, but how the SEC's leading rusher and Doak Walker finalist Tyler Badie can't muster more than an Honorable Mention vote is beyond me.

Not that it matters a whole lot given the competition, but the author left out that Bazelak's 346/3 came in the first half alone. He sat the entire second.