The excitement of the offseason got to a lot of us. I read comments talking about being worried a bigger program would come calling for Mizzou’s head coach, semi-joking (I hope) comments about building statues, even glowing profiles in national publications. The offseason hype machine around Eli Drinkwitz was a real one for more than just Mizzou fans.
And mostly for a good reason. The recruiting was something we hadn’t really seen. He was landing more elite 4-star players than both Odom and Pinkel had, and he was landing some of those players from out of state.