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RE: A point of clarification (if you will allow) from an (long)
Posted on: July 17, 2022 at 14:58:05 CT
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I’m not a fan of another school so put that away. I had season tickets for 18 straight years and traveled quite a bit to watch the Tigers.
The reason MU is not a cultural fit is alums and people in the state don’t live and die with the program like the South does. You know the reasons why, pro sports, cities on borders with other states that pull away interest, etc. Mu also simply doesn’t have as good of a recruiting base as the South. If the top 5 to 10 players go elsewhere, which they mostly have in history, MU can’t really turn to nearby states with a ton of recruits.
MU can be competitive but it will take a confluence of a down period with other schools, an elite coaching staff that evaluates better than “recruits”, and some luck. MU is about to be stuck in a pod with 4 schools all with more going for them to be good at football. It just isn’t a great place to be for a slightly above .500 program in terms of history. MU roams in a neighborhood that just would provide for more winning with a similar grouping of schools. MU is just not that in the SEC and it’s history says so. So to have more hope is simply a matter of faith, because history tells us what MU is for the most part, .500 ( and that was in weaker leagues). MU is the Royals in the SEC hoping it can win 4 games and keep fans interested. Not easy.
So, resigned to this belief, I’m hoping that MU will be something like a poor man’s UK, where hoops is king and football is decent in spurts but never wins the league.
I like your posts fwiw.
Edited by slamduncan at 15:16:30 on 07/17/22
The reason MU is not a cultural fit is alums and people in the state don’t live and die with the program like the South does. You know the reasons why, pro sports, cities on borders with other states that pull away interest, etc. Mu also simply doesn’t have as good of a recruiting base as the South. If the top 5 to 10 players go elsewhere, which they mostly have in history, MU can’t really turn to nearby states with a ton of recruits.
MU can be competitive but it will take a confluence of a down period with other schools, an elite coaching staff that evaluates better than “recruits”, and some luck. MU is about to be stuck in a pod with 4 schools all with more going for them to be good at football. It just isn’t a great place to be for a slightly above .500 program in terms of history. MU roams in a neighborhood that just would provide for more winning with a similar grouping of schools. MU is just not that in the SEC and it’s history says so. So to have more hope is simply a matter of faith, because history tells us what MU is for the most part, .500 ( and that was in weaker leagues). MU is the Royals in the SEC hoping it can win 4 games and keep fans interested. Not easy.
So, resigned to this belief, I’m hoping that MU will be something like a poor man’s UK, where hoops is king and football is decent in spurts but never wins the league.
I like your posts fwiw.
Edited by slamduncan at 15:16:30 on 07/17/22
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