Barry Odom on whether early adversity helped Mizzou: ‘I wouldn’t recommend it’
By Adam Spencer
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The Missouri Tigers started the year 1-5 and looked to be heading toward one of their worst seasons in program history.
However, since then, the team has rattled off five-straight wins and now have assured themselves a bowl berth, which wouldn’t have been fathomable a couple of months ago.
Did the early adversity help the Tigers? Perhaps it did, but coach Barry Odom said on Monday that he wouldn’t recommend starting 1-5 as a good way to reach a team’s potential:
https://twitter.com/aaronjreiss/status/932665342010298373
Odom added that the team never lost confidence earlier this year, even as the losses were piling up. He said the Tigers knew they were doing the right things in practice, but it just wasn’t showing up in games yet:
ODOM: We were better in a lot of areas, but we just weren't getting it done (earlier in the season). The urgency was at an all-time high.
— Mizzou Football (@MizzouFootball) November 20, 2017
The Tigers can take down Arkansas on Friday to get to seven wins, which would likely mean a better bowl game for Odom’s squad.
At the beginning of the year, a bowl berth was the goal, and now the team has reached it with one more regular-season game left to play.
Adam is a daily fantasy sports (DFS) and sports betting expert. A 2012 graduate of the University of Missouri, Adam now covers all 16 SEC football teams. He is the director of DFS, evergreen and newsletter content across all Saturday Football brands.
