Not every sports year gets to be the best and most enjoyable. This year has seen tribulations and turnover off the playing field and not just a ton of wins on it.
But as the Missouri athletic department prepares to replace its longtime football coach just months after it replaced its athletic director, there are, and will always be, reasons to be thankful. Here are some of mine. Share yours in comments. We let this tradition drop, and we shouldn't have.
Kentrell Brothers. Six years ago, Missouri managed to wring an 8-5 season out of a flawed, young team, in part because the schedule wasn't incredibly demanding and in part because of Danario Alexander, who provided us with the possibly single best year of receiving that we'll ever see.