Well, the national champion has finally been crowned and it’s about time to but a bow on the 2024-25 college football season. Before doing so, however, I want to take a last look at the season that was for Mizzou. Specifically, I want to grade out the performances of the Tigers’ coaches. The very first piece I wrote for Rock M (published exactly a year ago) was about Eli Drinkwitz’s search for a new defensive coordinator, so to celebrate my first anniversary at Rock M I’ll start off on the defensive side grading out Corey Batoon.
I had actually given Batoon a mid-season report card as well, since he was the new kid on the block and I wanted to explore how he was doing halfway through his first season.