COLUMBIA, Mo. — Preseason scrimmages display a little bit of everything to a head coach like Eli Drinkwitz. He doesn’t call plays anymore and instead observes those early intrasquad tests from a floating role.
And when a key play, like a touchdown or a turnover, means something good for one part of his program and something bad for the other side, he finds himself reaching for a little bit of nuance in summarizing the scrimmage viewing experience.
“Some good, some bad, some hard to tell until you really watch the tape,” Drinkwitz surmised after Mizzou’s Saturday scrimmage held at Memorial Stadium.