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Recruiting Reset: The 2023 class presents a unique opportunity to upgrade Missouri’s offensive line
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You recognize the previous cliche suggesting soccer is a recreation received and misplaced within the trenches? It’s a cliche for a purpose. And it’s a cliche which has held true at Mizzou.
5 instances within the final 20 seasons the Tigers have completed the season ranked. The frequent theme amongst them is the power to win the road of scrimmage. Mizzou had a mixed 20 offensive or defensive linemen named to an All-Convention crew after the 2007, 2008, 2010, 2013 and 2014 seasons. These groups had various variations, however the by way of line was their means to dictate the sport by way of the road of scrimmage.
Mizzou Trenches All-Convention Gamers
Yr: | Offensive Linemen | Defensive Linemen |
---|---|---|
Yr: | Offensive Linemen | Defensive Linemen |
2007 | Adam Spieker (1st) | Lorenzo Williams (1st) |
2007 | Colin Brown (HM) | Stryker Sulak (2nd) |
2008 | Kurtis Gregory (2nd) | Ziggy Hood (1st) |
2008 | Tim Barnes (HM) | Stryker Sulak (2nd) |
2008 | Colin Brown (HM) | Jaron Baston (HM) |
2010 | Tim Barnes (1st) | Aldon Smith (1st) |
2010 | Elvis Fisher (HM) | Jacquies Smith (2nd) |
2010 | Brad Madison (HM) | |
2013 | Justin Smith (1st) | Michael Sam (1st) |
2013 | Kony Ealy (1st) | |
2014 | Mitch Morse (2nd) | Shane Ray (1st) |
2014 | Markus Golden (2nd) |
Eli Drinkwitz has made it recognized he’s attempting to get the defensive position again to its “D-Line Zou” roots. He’s added 4 blue chip recruits to the defensive position (Travion Ford, Kyran Montgomery, Marquis Gracial and DJ Wesolak) within the final two recruiting lessons. He’s nonetheless trying to find his first such addition alongside the offensive line.
This could be the yr to seek out it.
Missouri has supplied 36 offensive linemen within the 2023 class, in keeping with Rivals. It’s a transparent precedence for the workers, and that shouldn’t come as a shock. The crown jewels of the category may come within the type of Cayden Inexperienced (Lee’s Summit North), Logan Reichert (Raytown) and Miles McVay (East St. Louis). All three are ranked among the many high 10 offensive tackles within the nation for this yr’s recruiting class, in keeping with Rivals, and all three reside inside 150 minutes of Columbia.
Touchdown all of them could be a pipe dream. Touchdown two of three would make for a heck of a category. Touchdown at the very least one looks like a necessity.
These are the sorts of gamers who can alter the trajectory of a positional group. Missouri’s offensive line has outperformed its expertise stage in recent times.
Think about if the expertise takes a large step ahead.
So many elite offensive sort out recruits rising up inside driving distance from Missouri just isn’t the norm. Getting such gamers to signal with Missouri is much more uncommon.
Missouri has signed eight blue chip offensive line recruits within the Rivals period. Andy Bauer, Evan Boehm and Kyle Riggs are the one offensive line recruits who ranked among the many high 10 at their respective positions who made the choice to signal with Missouri within the final twenty years.
That’s the corporate Inexperienced, Reichert and/or Mcvay may maintain.
Drinkwitz has confirmed a capability to “get by” with strong offensive line play. This recruiting class presents a chance to enhance the expertise up entrance the way in which he has at huge receiver, defensive position and working again previously couple of lessons.
Recruiting could be fickle and it’s uncommon any particular person participant is deserving of the “can’t miss” label, however this group of three qualifies. It’s the yr of the offensive lineman, and the Tigers are on the prowl.
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Missouri State football vs. Montana today: Live updates, highlights from Week 1 game
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Missouri State football: Ryan Beard previews Montana
Missouri State head football coach Ryan Beard held his weekly press conference ahead of Saturday’s opener at Montana.
Missouri State football season has arrived and an offseason of looking to the 2025 season and its impending move to Conference USA will be set aside for the Bears’ final season in the Missouri Valley Football Conference and FCS.
Opening day will present quite a challenge.
Missouri State will open its 2024 season at FCS national runner-up Montana on Saturday in Missoula, Montana, at 8 p.m. This is the first time the two teams have met on the gridiron.
Ryan Beard is entering his second season as Missouri State’s head coach. His team will look to build off a 4-7 season while staying focused on this season despite being ineligible for the FCS Playoffs.
Montana finished last season as the FCS national runner-up. The Grizzlies hope to finish the job this season as they enter the season as the No. 3-ranked team in the country.
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Missouri father uses a funeral to wean daughter off pacifier
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The Bishop family of Festus, Missouri, can smile now, but a few months ago the mood was much more somber as Courtney, Jake and their 3-year-old daughter Hazel said goodbye to a very important member of the family: Hazel’s beloved pacifier.
“It’s not good for her teeth and her jaws and all of that, so we had been trying to wean her off of it for some time,” Jake, 35, said.
Hazel’s beloved pacifier, affectionately known as “Paci,” had been with her for years. Jake knew saying goodbye could come with tears and tantrums, so he searched for creative approaches to ease the transition. He considered options such as cutting off the end of the pacifier, soaking it in vinegar or planting it in a pot.
Instead, Jake chose to give Paci a funeral.
Of course, before the internet, parents used to just take the thing away and deal with the tantrum. But today, for better or worse, young parents like Jake would rather not go to war over a binky. They’re “pacy-fists,” if you will.
“You need them to go through some tough times to really grow as a person but you don’t need to make extra tough times for them,” Jake said. “They’ll have plenty of those coming up.”
Parents delight in making milestones, but those milestones are often bittersweet because each turning point is a point of no return.
“She’s transitioning to the next stage of her life,” Jake said of Hazel, their first child. “We just got to hold onto those moments and those memories, because it goes fast.”
Hazel hasn’t asked for Paci again since. Although, shortly after the ceremony, Jake dug it up and buried it again in a keepsake box, making dad the one who just can’t let go.
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Kansas man charged after child porn allegedly sent while in Missouri
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) – A Kansas man has been charged after he allegedly sent child pornography while in a Missouri county.
Court documents filed in the Platte County, Missouri, Circuit Court have revealed that on Wednesday, Aug. 28, Courtnie R. Purvis, 45, of Overland Park, Kansas, has been charged with a single count of promoting child pornography in the first degree.
A complaint filed by the prosecuting attorney reported that in June 2023, Purvis knowingly sent out child pornography while in Platte County. The content allegedly depicted two victims, with whom Purvis has been barred from any contact.
As a part of his $25,000 cash-only bond agreement, if bailed out, Purvis is not allowed contact with any minor whatsoever. As of Friday, he is not behind Platte County bars.
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