COLUMBIA, Mo. • The photo is displayed in Barry Odom’s office. Proudly would be an inaccurate adverb. More like painfully.
It shows Tigers linebacker Michael Scherer standing with the head coach’s young son following the Tigers’ 28-27 loss to 16th-ranked Georgia on September 17. Both are crying.
“People say you don’t take a loss very well, and I don’t,” Odom said Tuesday as the sun set behind Memorial Stadium.
“Fast forward to the end of the season. If that game turned out differently, and one other, then we are in a bowl game. Every game you only have so many opportunities.