Truman the Tiger and members of the University of Missouri’s Golden Girls and cheer team lined up to greet fans as they entered the Show-Me Club in the South End Zone facility at Memorial Stadium.
Current defensive coordinator Ryan Walters and defensive line coach Brick Haley, as well as a number of current Missouri football players, were spread throughout the room. Men’s basketball head coach Cuonzo Martin and former football coach Gary Pinkel were in attendance. Numerous tables and rows of seats were filled with the Missouri faithful.
A large, energetic contingent of the Mizzou community packed the Show-Me Club at 10:45 Tuesday morning to welcome the newest head coach of the Missouri football team, Eliah Drinkwitz, who just hours earlier received unanimous approval by the Board of Curators to take the job left open after the firing of Barry Odom on Nov.