Allow me to channel Ronald Reagan for just a moment.
During his campaign against Jimmy Carter for the 1980 presidency, he asked a simple question of the American voting populace: “Are you better off than you were four years ago?”
On the whole, they weren’t. So they booted Carter and elected Reagan president.
That little history lesson only tangentially relates to the point of this post: is the Missouri football program better off now, 30 games into Barry Odom’s tenure as head coach, than it was nearly three years ago, when the Gary Pinkel era was coming to a close?