At some point on Feb. 6, 2013, scrambling to put together some last-minute biography information about an unheralded recruit on signing day, Missouri football strategic communications staffer Patrick Crawford did his job well.
“A multisport in-state athlete who excelled on the basketball court for Lincoln Prep High School in Kansas City brings his talents to the gridiron for Mizzou,” went the first line of Charles Harris’ signee bio, emphasis mine.
In the years after, as Harris fashioned himself into a fearsome pass rusher and first-round draft pick, the television analysts who would swoop in to do Missouri games on a weekly basis ended up repeatedly doing their jobs worse than Crawford did his on that cold February day.