As Mizzou wins and continues to stay in the polls, Tiger fans will need to deal with the increasing possibility of head coach Eliah Drinkwitz getting poached. There will be a near-constant discussion if another school with a much larger athletics budget, perhaps one in Mizzou’s own conference, will swoop in and bring his Missouri tenure to an abrupt end. Whether or not it happens will be up to him.
Yes, I realize this is an odd time for this column, as Mizzou is coming off a disjointed offensive performance. There are certainly chicken Littles in the fanbase that read that opening paragraph and said, “humph!