COLUMBIA, Mo. — Nobody knows what the Missouri football team’s walking into this weekend better than the man with the most unique job title in the program.
These days Austyn Carta-Samuels is Mizzou’s director of character and cultural development, a role he defines as “helping shape the invisible forces within the building.”
In his former life, the 28-year-old was Wyoming’s starting quarterback for a team that snapped the program’s four-year bowl drought, which earned Carta-Samuels celebrity status at 18 in the town of Laramie, Wyo.
Carta-Samuels, Wyoming’s quarterback in 2009-10 and now in his fifth year on Barry Odom’s staff, has become Mizzou’s resident expert on all things Cowboys football as the Tigers prepare for Saturday’s season opener in Laramie at War Memorial Stadium.