The party is over for the Missouri Tigers for 2023. The 11-2, Cotton Bowl-winning season in 2023 is now only a memory. The road ahead has more curves in the road, steeper hills to cross but the destination they have in mind is much greater.
“Let me state this as clearly as I can state it,” Missouri head coach Eli Drinkwitz said Tuesday at the 2024 SEC Media Days. “That was last year, and last year has nothing to do with this year.”
The program has more momentum entering the 2024 season than it possibly ever has ahead of a season. But momentum doesn’t eliminate any steps of the process of reaching the ultimate goal. It is also more difficult to maintain than it is to earn.
“I understand that there’s a lot of outside expectations on what our football program should be,”Drinkwitz said. “I think for us the most important thing is to focus on running our race.”
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Instead of relying on the hype or outside noise to build confidence for the upcoming season, Missouri is relying on their own work and chemistry. Ahead of the 2023 season, they shut out any outside noise doubting the program. They’ll do the same this year, even with the headlines singing a different tune.
“With social media and phones and technology, it’s obviously difficult to be able to block anything out,” defensive tackle Kristian Williams said. “But for the most part, we just try to stay present and lock in on what we’ve got to do and lock in on the adversities as a team we’ve got to go through.”
The Tigers embraced the chip on their shoulder in 2023, constantly playing with an underdog mentality. The success that it resulted in yielded more respect for the program but there’s more on the table to prove in 2024.
“Last year our motto formed into something to prove,” quarterback Brady Cook said Tuesday at his SEC Media press conference. “I’m sure you guys have heard it. We lived by it, and we still do. Although we had a good year last year and accomplished a few things, we still have to go out and prove it this year.”
Missouri knows that the success in 2023 will not mean anything this fall. Their record is now 0-0. They’ll have to earn whatever to accomplish. They’re taking to heart the advice that Joe Dirt received: the past is the past, the future is the present.
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“2024 is all that matters,” Cook said. “That’s the record that’s going to be talked about. These are the games that’s going to be talked about. No one is going to talk about the CottonBowl versus Ohio State moving forward. It’s in the past. It’s in the history books. We do. We have to go out and prove it every single week.”
With the reset button pushed, it is up to the 2024 Missouri team to establish an identity, work ethic and culture of their own. There’s new pieces to the puzzle, new cooks in the kitchen with new opportunities. Like a chemical reaction, each combination of ingredients react differently.
“We have to go figure out what it means to be a tough, physical football team,” Drinkwitz said. “We gotta understand what kind of poise it’s going to take to play and execute under pressure. And we have a difficult task ahead of us. And so with that being said, in order for us to accomplish our goals this season, our football team has a lot of growth to make.”
Drinkwitz has his team in the right head space. You can’t reach the top of the mountain if you spend too much time reveling at each checkpoint. Each step up is a new, unique challenge. If you’re not careful, you can quickly tumble down to the bottom.
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Winning Mega Millions numbers from March 10 drawing
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Midday: 8-7-5
Midday Wild: 9
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Early Bird: 15
Morning: 04
Matinee: 10
Prime Time: 14
Night Owl: 01
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The Missouri Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday on whether the so-called “Missouri First” map is unconstitutional.
The map, passed by Republican lawmakers in September and signed by Gov. Mike Kehoe, stretches the boundaries of the 5th Congressional District, a Democratic stronghold, eastward into heavily Republican regions of the state. It also moves part of the current 5th District into the 4th and 6th districts, currently represented by Republican congressmen Mark Alford and Sam Graves. Incumbent Democrat Emanuel Cleaver is running for reelection in the 5th District.
Opponents of the Missouri First map’s main argument focused on the map being passed by lawmakers without any new data from the U.S. Census Bureau. The congressional boundaries tossed out by the Missouri First map were based on the 2020 U.S. Census.
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Attorney Chuck Hatfield represents those challenging the new map passed by Republican lawmakers last fall.
“The whole idea is tethered to the census data. You must do it at the census, and you only do it at the census,” Hatfield told the High Court. “The court’s precedents also support this.”
Solicitor General Louis Capozzi, representing the Missouri Sec. of State’s office, disagreed, saying the Missouri Constitution is silent on mid-decade redistricting.
“Mid-decade redistricting had happened in Missouri in the 1870s, and mid-decade redistricting was common around the country in the first half of the 20th century,” he argued. “Article III, Section 45 of the Missouri Constitution sets out only three requirements for the redistricting of seats in Missouri, ‘The district shall be composed of contiguous territory, as compact, and as nearly equal in population as may be.’ And as long as the General Assembly complies with those three rules, this court said that Missouri courts, ‘shall respect the political determinations of the General Assembly.’”
Meanwhile, roughly a hundred demonstrators held signs across the street from the Missouri Supreme Court building, condemning the Missouri First map and calling for the Missouri Supreme Court to strike it down.
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“Voters should choose our politicians,” said Missouri League of Women Voters Director Kay Park. “The League (of Women Voters) believes redistricting should keep communities of similar culture and race together to strengthen their vote and promote partisan fairness.”
The Missouri Supreme Court will rule on the congressional district map later.
Missouri senior forward Mark Mitchell was recognized Monday with a second-team selection to the All-Southeastern Conference teams.
Mitchell has led the Tigers all season long and tops the team in scoring (17.9 points per game), rebounding (5.2) and assists (3.6). He would be the just the second player in program to lead all the categories in one season, joining Albert White from the 1998-99 season.
Mitchell is also on pace to become the first player in program history to average at least 17 points, five rebounds and three assists since Anthony Peeler in 1992, the year he took home the Big 8 Conference Player of the Year award.
Mitchell was the only Missouri player to be recognized in SEC postseason awards.
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Five players were named to each of the three All-SEC teams.
Darius Acuff Jr. (Arkansas), Ja’Kobi Gillespie (Tennessee), Thomas Haugh (Florida), Labaron Philon Jr. (Alabama) and Tyler Tanner (Vanderbilt) made the first team.
Acuff was named the conference’s player of the year and freshman of the year.
Joining Mitchell on the second team were Nate Ament (Tennessee), Rueben Chinyelu (Florida), Otega Oweh (Kentucky) and Dailyn Swain (Texas), while Rashaun Agee (Texas A&M), Alex Condon (Florida), Keyshawn Hall (Auburn), Aden Holloway (Alabama) and Josh Hubbard (Mississippi State) were named to the third team.
The All-SEC defensive team consisted of Chinyelu, Somto Cyril (Georgia), Felix Okpara (Tennessee), Billy Richmond III (Arkansas) and Tanner. Chinyelu was selected as the defensive player of the year.
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Appearing on the all-freshman team were Acuff, Amari Allen (Alabama), Ament, Malachi Moreno (Kentucky) and Meleek Thomas (Arkansas).
Swain was selected as the newcomer of the year, while Urban Klavzar of Florida was named the sixth man of the year.
