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Preseason All Big 12 Teams Announced Posted by Nick - 7/18 1:18am | Eight Missouri Tigers were selected to the Preseason All Big 12 Teams announced on Thursday. With its eight selections, Missouri lead all Big 12 schools.
Chase Daniel nabbed Preseason Offensive Player of the Year honors along with the QB slot. Joining Daniel on the offensive side were TE Chase Coffman, OL Colin Brown, WR Jeremy Maclin, and PK Jeff Wolfert.
On the defensive side, the chosen Tigers include LB Sean Weatherspoon, DE William Moore, and in the PR role, Jeremy Maclin.
The individual honors come just a day after Missouri was picked unanimously to repeat as Big 12 North Champions by the media. |
Football Recruiting Receptions Posted by Nick - 2/12 5:44am | It's that time of the year again. Time for the annual recruiting receptions. Here are the details that I have.
St. Louis Reception
This is a great annual event - what a great year to come and celebrate last year's season as well as hear about our exciting recruiting class for this next year!
6:00pm Reception with Mizzou Coaches
7:00pm Program with Steve Savard as Master of Ceremonies
Location: Edward Jones Building (270 and Manchester) in the Edward Jones Lobby and Auditorium
Cost: $5 for adults, under 19 admitted free
Cash Bar with complementary snacks
Alumni Marching Mizzou will provide entertainment!
Kansas City Reception
The Tiger Club of Kansas City is proud to once again host a recruiting reception featuring Coach Pinkel and his staff introducing Tiger fans to this year's crop of exciting recruits.
This years event will be held at The Sheraton (formerly Adams Mark) by the Truman Sports Complex. The program will begin at 7:00 on Wednesday, February 13. Admission is free to paid members of the Tiger Club and just $5 for non-members. There will be cash bars open.
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Mizzou Signs 23 Recruits Posted by Nick - 2/7 1:39pm | Columbia, Mo. -- Twenty-three standout student-athletes have signed a National Letter of Intent (NLI) to attend the University of Missouri and play football for Head Coach Gary Pinkel, as announced today by Mizzou's head coach.
Momentum from Mizzou's historic 2007 season which saw the Tigers win a school-record 12 games and claim the Big 12 Conference North Division title, as well as the Cotton Bowl championship, undoubtedly carried over into recruiting efforts this year. Mizzou's coaching staff has assembled a recruiting class which was ranked today by Rivals.com as the nation's 24th-best recruiting class overall, based on their point system. The Tiger class stood as 5th-highest in the Big 12 according to Rivals, which is the best showing in Pinkel's time at Mizzou, beating the previous bests of 6th in 2003, 2004, and 2007.
The top-25 ranking for the class of 23 high school standouts marks the highest ranking under Pinkel. The previous six classes rated, according to Rivals: 29th in 2002, 28th in 2003, 29th in 2004, 39th in 2005, 47th in 2006 and 33rd in 2007.
Mizzou fared perhaps as well as it ever has in-state, as it signed seven of the state's top-10 players, according to Rivals, including five-star blue-chip quarterback Blaine Gabbert (Ballwin, Mo.), who was rated as the state's top-rated player, as well as the nation's top-ranked pro-style quarterback prospect. Nine in-state standouts in all signed with MU this year.
The Tiger coaching staff continued its outstanding work mining the pipelines of Texas, as it signed 12 Lone Star state student-athletes. Mizzou also signed one student-athlete each from the states of Iowa and Michigan.
According to the Rivals.com rankings, Mizzou's 2008 recruiting class rates ahead of 44 other schools that participated in bowl games during the 2007 season. Just a handful of the other bowl teams from last year that Missouri bettered include: Maryland (31st), Boston College (32nd), California (33rd), Tennessee (34th), Kansas (38th), Arkansas (39th), Penn State (40th), Wisconsin (41st), and West Virginia (42nd), among many others.
Five different position groups were ranked among Rivals' top-25 classes, including quarterback (1st in the nation), tight end (15th), defensive back (20th), offensive line (21st) and defensive end (25th).
"We are very pleased to have such a talented group join our program and our University," said MU Head Coach Gary Pinkel. "I feel that this is an outstanding class that will help the program continue to move forward. We've had a great season, and it is good to see the excitement about our program, in the state of Missouri, and around the country. I don't think there's any question that this season helped, and I'd like to commend the efforts of our entire staff who worked so hard to make this happen. As always, we continued to emphasize keeping the best Missouri kids home, and we feel very good about our success there, and of course, our hard work in the state of Texas has paid off again." he said.
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Former Coach Larry Smith Passes On Posted by Nick - 1/29 12:34am | Former Missouri Football Coach Larry Smith passed away on Monday following a lengthy battle with leukemia. Coach Smith led the Tigers to their first bowl game in nearly 15 years when his 1997 Tiger squad made an appearance in the Holiday Bowl.
Despite a down turn at the end of his career at Missouri, there is no denying Coach Smith laid the groundwork for the success that the Tigers enjoyed last season. He may not have gotten us to the top, but without his hard work and dedication, the heights the team achieved would not have been reachable.
Rest in peace Coach.
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Tigers Slice Through Razorbacks 38-7 Posted by Nick - 1/1 2:28pm | Call him Tony "Bowl Game". After an impressive performance in last year's Sun Bowl, Missouri running back Tony Temple had a record shattering day in the 2008 Cotton Bowl leading the Tigers to a 38-7 victory over the Arkansas Razorbacks. Temple rushed for a record 281 yards and scored a record 4 touchdowns in the victory.
While the running game of Arkansas with the explosive Darren McFadden and Felix Jones may have gotten all the hype leading up to the contest, it was Temple who shined. The Missouri defense completely bottled up the Arkansas running game and the Razorbacks were never able to generate sustained drives at any time.
Congratulations to Coach Pinkel and the team on an outstanding, unbelievable season. It will be remembered by Tiger fans for years to come. Thank you to all the seniors who gave their all this year. Good luck to you in the next level no matter if that is in the NFL or wherever life leads.
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