Missouri returns 10 starters on offense, but that means little to Derek Dooley. On Wednesday, after the Tigers’ fifth preseason practice, MU’s new offensive coordinator made clear that most of those players are not entrenched atop the depth chart.
Dooley’s brief diatribe could have just qualified as colorful coach-speak — if the idea that there was no competition among his offense didn’t seem to so genuinely irk him.
“If you haven’t made all-conference yet, then it’s open season,” Dooley said, excluding quarterback Drew Lock and tight end Albert Okwuegbunam from his plea for more competition. “… You might’ve started by default because we didn’t get anybody better.