COLUMBIA, MO. • For an instant Saturday night, the disappointment of Missouri’s loss to Tennessee vanished from Damarea Crockett’s face. The running back lit up at the mention of Mizzou’s next opponent: Arkansas.
The Razorbacks never offered a scholarship to the Little Rock, Ark., native.
“Sheesh, let’s go,” Crockett said loudly in the bowels of Neyland Stadium, where he just ran for 225 yards and broke a couple MU records. “Let’s do it. Let’s get it on.”
He won’t get that chance.
Missouri coach Barry Odom suspended Crockett for Friday’s season finale, against the Razorbacks, after the freshman was arrested Sunday morning on suspicion of marijuana possession.