Nuanced. Fragile. Like a house of cards that must be careful

Posted on: October 26, 2017 at 16:34:07 CT

ly curated.

That was the entire run in 2013 and 2014.

D Line Zou was born, had become a thing onto itself.

Was creating it's own momentum.

And then we selected a coach that 100% could not continue it.

That guaranteed it's destruction.

You can blame Kul all you want, but if some other coach had been hired, maybe Kul stays.

What we do know is that Odom had a relationship with Kul insufficient to keep him, and further, that Odom wanted to do something Linebacker-centric with the defense anyway.

Cross tried to do what Odom wanted. And the ears pinned back culture of D Line Zou played no role in that.

It was time to 'read and react' 'shuffle at the line' and so on.

Now, all of the player departures that occurred AS D-LINE ZOU crashed have to be viewed with that as a backdrop.

Do that and you can understand it.

When players see the NFL pipeline closing, or starting time ending, some of them collapse completely. At which point it's easy to say 'Look MISCONDUCT!'

The reality is that there is another timeline where D-Line Zou is alive and well, the Tigers have won a ton more games, and many of the players that 'self-destructed' are big contributors.

The whole is incredibly fragile. One dark timeline (like this one) is not necessarily miles away from a bright timeline like 2014 (for example).

But it takes a lot of things to make it happen. One of those things is the coach.

This one has neither the time nor the resources to get Mizzou where we all want to go, using the strategy he has employed.

It's not Odom's fault. We had a bad AD who hired the wrong coach. The fans will soldier through regardless. How long they have to do that is directly related to the stones on Sterk...