Once the calendar turns to October, the home stretch of a recruiting cycle comes into view.
The past week has only reinforced that notion, too.
Missouri picked up its fifth pledge of the cycle when Trent Burns announced his commitment to the Tigers over the weekend. Meanwhile, the rest of the Tigers’ board has started to empty. Bishop Boswell and Ryan Jones are headed elsewhere, and Chase McCarty culled coach Dennis Gates’ program from his final group.
With a month left until signing day, it’s probably worth taking stock of how the Tigers might put a bow on what’s arguably shaping up to be the program’s best crop of talent since it arrived in the SEC a decade ago.