Upon arriving in Columbia, Missouri, the first task at hand was retrieving my press and parking passes at the Hearnes Center, the former home of Mizzou men’s basketball. I didn’t expect anything miraculous from the arena, but I could not believe what I was seeing when my eyes gazed upon “The Zou.” If the picture above from @UKFootball looks sad, it’s because it is.
Farot Field at Memorial Stadium would be the worse SEC venue if not for Vanderbilt. Middle Tennessee was not intimidated last weekend because their stadium is similar. The only difference between WKU’s football stadium and Missouri’s is that Mizzou just finished a renovation two years ago to add more suites at the “Tiger Deck,” yet it’s still not dramatically more impressive than the team that just recently joined the C-USA.