On Wednesday's SEC teleconference, Barry Odom discussed the genesis of the Josh Augusta short yardage package.
On the genesis of the short-yardage package with Augusta …
"Last January, when the staff got together and started going through winter conditioning and building ideas offensively and defensively, that’s one thing that Coach" Josh "Heupel looked at on having a chance. The last 12 to 15 years, there hasn’t really been a fullback-type body recruited to Missouri, and then the schematic changes offensively that we’re going through, we had a couple tight ends, bigger bodied, that were able to do it and wanting to do some different things offensively, and as we will moving forward, being able to get the roster to the way that you want it, to be able to recruit those guys that can play on the line of scrimmage, can play in the backfield, can do some different things.