COLUMBIA, Mo. — With snow and ice still on the ground, the Missouri football team will open spring practices on Friday, with less emphasis on the word spring and more on practice. It’s the first of 15 practices over the next month, including the March 19 spring scrimmage.
With nearly two dozen newcomers in the program plus a retooled coaching staff, Eli Drinkwitz’s Tigers only partially resembles the team that finished 6-7 last season. All the new pieces will be on display soon enough — just a few glimpses are open to the media — but the spring starts with these 10 story lines to track over the next month.