For the last six years, I’ve written team-by-team offseason previews for SB Nation in the offseason. It is a labor of love, and it is a wonderful experiment in perspective. Instead of having Missouri as ‘my team,’ I try on other hats and get to know the ins and outs of other programs (and their fan bases). That, in turn, allows me to look at Mizzou through a rather wide-angled lens.
One of the concepts I return to a few times per year is the idea of Year Zero. I’m not sure where I pilfered that idea — strangely enough, it might have come from former Tennessee coach Derek Dooley, of all people?