Eli Drinkwitz sends message to team after big win at Kentucky
Eli Drinkwitz may want his team off social media more than ever after a 38-21 win over Kentucky because he doesn’t believe the scoreboard showed how his team really played.
“I really challenged to refrain from searching out the praise on social media and becoming numb to improvement,” Drinkwitz told the media on Tuesday. “We really have to improve, and I think what happens is you go looking for pats on the back instead of being critical or hard on yourself and saying, ‘I need to be uncomfortable to continue to grow’ and that’s really what our team needs to do to have success this week.”
The message for #Mizzou football this week: "refrain from searching out the praise on social media and becoming numb to improvement."
Coach Drinkwitz doesn't think his team played particularly well last week, but they got the win. Says there's a lot of areas to improve ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/pqO5crBP0F
— Nathalie Jones (@NathalieABC17) October 17, 2023
“If you look back at the game, we didn’t play particularly well in a lot of areas. I don’t think we actually played that well, but we won, but we have to go back and be critical,” Drinkwitz said. “We didn’t have our best stuff schematically or didn’t necessarily put our players in position or we didn’t finish blocks the [right] way or didn’t create the right angles, so we got to go back and take a look at it.”
Missouri faces South Carolina on Saturday but a gauntlet follows with No. 1 Georgia, No. 17 Tennessee, and Florida.