When Eli Drinkwitz took over as the head honcho of Mizzou football, his first thought was the 2020 recruiting class — he said as much in his introductory press conference.
It’s not as if Mizzou fans don’t care about recruiting (or why would you be reading this?), but one of the last priorities upon Drinkwitz hiring was the urgency behind 2020’s crop of newcomers. At that point, early signing day was just over a week away and Drinkwitz would have received an, “atta boy!” from everyone had he just stopped the dam from bursting.
Drinkwitz, to his credit, did more than that — he practically kept the ship afloat.