I’d be lying if I said that I understood Eli Drinkwitz, or his approach to managing a game. I’d also be lying if I said I watched his Missouri teams and didn’t feel like I spent three quarters of the game shaking my head. Before we go further, I also fully admit that I’m a football novice. I look at these columns as something of a ‘voice of a regular fan’ versus my more wonkier basketball posts.
But there I was shaking my head, frustrated as the team I root for kicked a field goal to go up 31-13 in the 3rd quarter of a road game in the SEC, after running nearly 9 minutes off the game clock in a methodical drive to shorten the game and leak gas out of the tank of the Mississippi State defense.