E-mailed 8/30/11
Lots of movement going on around our great country and on our college campuses. Many new students moving in here on the Hilltop, so sorry some of this news is old. On to the links:
(1) Irene moved in (and out) of the east coast leaving destruction in her wake (pics). Meanwhile, douche bag Eric Cantor and the Tea Party are trying to continue the destruction by holding disaster relief dollars hostage unless they are balanced by spending cuts.
(2) The Cardinals have solidly moved out of the playoff chase with sixth massive August/September collapse in a row. Some are shocked. I am not: it was a flawed team to begin with. Teams with poor defense and no relief pitching don't play in October and we aren't, several years running.
(3) Moving into the Tiger Broadcast booth: Howard Richard. Who, you say? He's a former Tiger player recruited by the coach he is replacing. I say: give him a chance. If he succeeds it will be quite the story for Mizzou's Communication Department.
(4) Moving out of the Tiger's starting line-up on Saturday: three starters. The result is Lebanon, Missouri native Justin Britt moving into the starting offensive line. Justin loves Jesus on his twitter feed and on the football field is "one of our more versatile linemen" says GP.
(5) The defense has solidly moved into the forefront of the Mizzou football program. The reason? Defensive Coordinator Dave Steckel. And with three starters gone and a new QB we'll need every bit of our defense of Saturday to stop a balanced Miami team who is thinking upset. I think our team speed and home crowd will be too much for a team who plays at home in a stadium with no assigned seats for alumni or students. I say Mizzou wins in a squeaker: 21-17. Mizzou fans will be nervous until Miami-OH goes out and wins the MAC. Something Tiger fans need to accept: our team will get better as the season moves along, so don't judge based on some bad first looks against the Red Hawks.
(6) Moving out of the Big 12: Texas A&M. The University has moved past trying to prove a point and into all out aggression. When your coach says of this season, "We have a bunch of seniors on this team that will never play in that conference" you know the bags are packed. Says Mizzou Chancellor and Big 12 Board President Brady Deaton: "If Texas A&M does send that letter, we are poised to move aggressively to assure a strong Big 12." While that certainly is brave talk, I don't see it happening. In a wildly incoherent article by CBS Sportsline Dennis Dodd, one point he makes is BYU makes good sense for the Big 12-3 and for BYU. Let's just say I'm not confident in conference leadership but if we replace A&M with BYU we are at wash I feel in terms of quality. I just don't see BYU backing down from the opportunity to form national rivalries on each coast and then being able to recruit nationally, just like Notre Dame. Word is we'll move to Air Force if BYU says no. From there its anyone's guess with Louisville and Pitt being most discussed options. SMU is begging to be let in. They also have evidently designed their new locker room to look like a strip club. If we replace A&M with SMU, we might as well just move things along and fold the conference because it just makes us look like a national embarrassment.
(7) Moving out of the Big 12: Missouri? Nope. Big 10 says its staying put with its current teams. What about moving into the SEC? Well, its all kinds of crazy with teams being bantered about from Missouri to TCU and Louisville to Virginia Tech. Florida State rumors won't die and now North Carolina has been added to the mix. North Carolina? And their football program? Really? That's when know sure things are not necessarily sure things...such as...
(8) ...when A&M's moving trucks pump the breaks. No official letter has been sent informing the Big 12-3 of their release from the the conference, which will cost them $16-18 million. Why not? The SEC is getting cold feet tweets incoherent CBS Sportsline Dennis Dodd. They don't want to be "that guy" that breaks up another conference fearing their expansion will completely unravel the Big 12-3. So to recap: A&M is in a conference that no longer wants them and wants into a conference that might not take them. Sounds like if we fire Dan "Mr. Longhorn" Beebe we should look no further than the A&M President, who appears to be doing a bang up job running his athletics program.
(9) Moving into snuggle position with Mizzou: our good friends from kU. A compelling article from the KC Star. Conference realignment makes strange bedfellows.
(10) In other news a liar denies lying. I don't know how much longer this whole Haith thing can go on, but when NPR announces like it did this morning that a scandal at the U of Miami involves a donor "heaping cash and strippers on members of the football AND BASKETBALL teams" I can't imagine its a good idea to let it go on much longer. Mizzou athletics implored us to "Have Faith in Haith" but I'm now imploring Alden to have to courage to do what is right and start an internal investigation against the wishes of the NCAA. Its clear this isn't a clean man. We need to find the evidence, remove him, and move on. Here's hoping we have the courage to move him out.
And here's hoping we get to make a mark in the win column on Saturday,
Doug
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