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Despite being busy with pre-draft activities leading up to the 2019 NFL Draft, Drew Lock was on hand this weekend in Columbia to take in Missouri’s spring game.
No doubt Lock came away impressed with Kelly Bryant as his replacement in Columbia looked the part during the team’s spring game and has already been named Missouri’s starting quarterback by Barry Odom. In addition to how the team looked on the field, Lock added his praise of his former teammates for sticking it out during a tough time after the NCAA announced the program has been given a one-year bowl ban.
While the school is appealing that ruling, in the meantime, seniors are permitted to leave the program without being forced to sit out a year. So far, not a single player has elected to do so despite some attempts from rival programs to recruit Missouri seniors. Most notably, Odom has called out Tennessee for their attempts to lure Missouri seniors to Knoxville.
Lock didn’t call out Tennessee specifically during his appearance at Missouri’s spring game but he made it very clear how he reads into that situation.
“I know there was opportunity for people to leave and people were definitely calling them, trying to get everybody to come to their school but I think that just shows what they think of the university. If you’re calling and trying to steal players, I think you’re probably pretty nervous about who you’re about to play this year,” Lock said to Andrew Kauffman of ABC 17. “That speaks a lot for this place and I’m excited to watch as kind of an outsider this year and pull for a team again.”
The former Missouri quarterback makes a good point as the Tigers whipped up on Tennessee 50-17 last season and return a good deal of production on both sides of the ball this offseason. If Tennessee is going to close the gap on Mizzou, it’s going to have to do so without the help of the seniors on the Tigers’ roster.
I don’t think Tennessee folks will bite on this story. I mean, as Lock is a guy just supporting his school by praising the loyalty of his former teammates. It’s not exactly salty.
But thanks for SOME KIND of story though.
I don’t get why it was ever a story. Tennessee wasn’t the only school that reached out to Mizzou players… The NCAA allowed it, so it’s not like Tennessee broke the rules, and wasn’t even the only one to do so. I don’t understand why Odom decided to try to make it into some big thing at all.
I don’t get it either. If I was the TN O-line coach I would attempt to snatch their entire line. Watching this team around Barry O, they love & respect him a great deal, very tight group, no surprise none left.
Seriously? You’re okay with our conference mates trying to take advantage of a wildly unfair punishment and pick apart our roster?
Personally I’m not, and I love that Drew Lock and Barry Odom have called them out. It comes across pretty desperate for UT. Although, if they got 1 of our players, I honestly think there’s a chance they could only lose 48-17 instead of 50-17 ever year, so I get why they try.
Mizzou has some good players. TN is in need of more good players during a rebuild. Mizzou is on probation and has no post season and players are allowed to transfer and other schools are allowed to contact. What is so hard to understand. if you don’t like the rule then why wait until you are on the sh!tty end of the stick to say something. Move on for crying out loud.
Who voted? Nobody got a vote. Complaining is relevant if you had no voice in the matter. And it isn’t even relevant anyway.
You can’t claim that the SEC — as a whole — states they’ll “…advise and assist in Missouri’s appeal process” as “consistent with our standard approach to support member universities,” as Sankey said — yet ignore another conference team trying to poach from said team while UNDER THAT BAN they are allegedly “ASSISTING” them with? GTFOH.
This isn’t a kid’s free will to move on to help himself either; this is active recruiting by kicking someone when they’re on the ground — while lying that your trying to help. It’s a zero-honor thing. The Vols keep cursing themselves with bad ju-ju, then wonder why things never turn around for them. While Mizzou does the right things and they get bad ju-ju by fate.
All teams do this. Even Missouri. Just good bulletin board material.
Exactly. He wanted to create an us against the world narrative. The penalties are total BS, and if you think the world is against you, mountains can be moved to prove them wrong.
This isn’t a kid transferring. This is in-conference recruiting off a sanction the conference is supposed to be ASSISTING with REVERSING. It’s like your sleazy trial lawyer saying, “Hey, I’m all in brother — right after I get back from sleeping with your wife.”
But this article is just SDS clickbait stuff anyway and — it worked, evidently.
I totally get what your saying. The sanctions are bogus. There some things that you are ignoring though. The rule was put into place to help the athletes. If your school gets a bowl ban this allows seniors to leave without reprisals. All schools are allowed to let the athlete know they are interested. The athlete gets to make an informed decision. It’s the transfer portal in reverse. Now, don’t you have a starting QB that used a rule to transfer without sitting out. Doesn’t seem fair to support one without supporting the other. Do you really expect for the SEC to overturn a standing rule just because one university is being railroaded by the NCAA.
“If your school gets a bowl ban”
which the ncaa will now hand out willy-nilly at it’s discretion, from now on no more mister nice guy, time for nothin but hard ball.
I didn’t say that a kid transfering to make his life better is any kind of problem whatsoever. That’s why they’re here in college, to make a life for themselves. That’s what Kelly Bryant did. That’s what Jon Nance did. So that’s not the point.
No one gives a $hit about a bowl. The only games that matter are the SECCG and CFP and beyond. And that’s what makes the ruling unfair — unless you’re another SEC team obviously.
So this is different. It’s an adult world thing. A grownup thing. You can’t claim to be “assisting,” then stab someone in the back while you’re feigning that “assistance,” especially if it benefits you. It isn’t about rules, it’s about honor and HONESTY.
All conference teams should count on the CLOUT of the SEC to make sure things are done right via a very sloppy NCAA. Not just lip-service. Otherwise it’s the Screw Everybody Conference. Nothing more.
50-17 brown dogs, 50-17, take that back to ole rocky tawp.
Mizzou wasn’t going to the SECCG or the CFP anyways so why care if bowl games don’t matter? Who cares if they were trying o snipe your recruits and lol honesty and honor? In college football. What world do you pretend to live in? In the adult world this is how most things work. Quit being so naive virtualkelly. Not worth the salt or anger man. No head coach or school in general is even remotely honest. I really hope you don’t believe Odum wouldn’t do the same thing.
50-17 brown dogs, 50-17