COLUMBIA, MO. • College football’s new December signing period has stripped some luster off the traditional February signing date, but with a few boxes unchecked, Barry Odom put the final touches on Missouri’s latest recruiting haul with six additions Wednesday, a class Odom and Mizzou fans surely hope becomes remembered for the out-of-state prospects the staff uncovered, not the in-state targets who got away.
The area’s final recruit on the market, Parkway North lineman Michael Thompson Jr., picked up a red Oklahoma cap over the black Mizzou option at Wednesday’s signing ceremony, clinching Odom’s second straight class that doesn’t include a St.