Let's hope. This is going to maybe be the most important...
Posted on: December 2, 2019 at 23:03:43 CT
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... hire we've ever had.
Being in the SEC... I think its important that we establish early in our existence that we aren't going to be a bottom feeder.
One of the problems in the 80s/90s was that when you go 10-15 years living in the bottom of the conference, there are no 5-18 year olds alive that ever experienced success watching Mizzou. So they form no bond or desire to go to the home school.
Pinkel changed that, with an assist to Larry Smith. When Drew Lock committed in 2015, he had never experienced anything but Mizzou football being very good. He would have been only 6-7 y.o. their last losing season. 10 when they reached #1 and then more winning all through his teen years and HS.
We're getting to a point now, where a 17 year old Junior in HS today was too young to experience 2007 and was 11 and 12 the last time we competed for a conference title.
Traditions are built by passing on success generation to generation.
It's getting too long already to go another 5 years