It probably doesn’t need to be said that the 2024 season has been a bit of a slog.
Slogs aren’t always bad. The tortoise beat the rabbit, after all, by slogging through the dirt and mud. But that doesn’t mean they’re ever fun. And even if you dispute the choice of “slog” as a descriptor, you certainly can’t argue the season has been anything close to “fun.” Mizzou’s wins have alternately been heart-palpitation-inducing or mindless blowouts. And the losses? No, actually we don’t have to talk about those anymore.
It’s hard to reckon with how dire things have felt over a Missouri team that was 6-2 coming into a classic rivalry game with an old Big 8 opponent.