Monday, November 26, 2012
The Tigers' coach will look to return the team to bowl-caliber form next season.
The Columbia Daily Tribune is reporting that University of Missouri Head Football Coach Gary Pinkel will return to the Tiger sidelines in 2013. After an injury-riddled season that robbed the team of a consistent offensive line and quarterback play in Mizzou's 5-7 first season in the Southeastern Conference, Athletic Director Mike Alden told the paper Pinkel would return next fall. The Tigers will not play in a postseason bowl game for the first time since 2004. Pinkel is scheduled to review the 2012 season and look ahead to next season with reporters Tuesday morning, after a flurry of uninformed speculation had rumors flying he would resign Monday. Keeping the current Tiger coaching staff has implications for several St. Louis area Senior …
Friday, July 20, 2012
Mizzou football coach Gary Pinkel defended Joe Paterno and called him a great man during his SEC media day availability. What do you think of his remarks?
Remarks that University of Missouri head football coach Gary Pinkel made defending the now disgraced Penn State football coach Joe Paterno have at least one Missouri lawmaker at arms. Pinkel, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, called Paterno a "great man." That comment came just days after an investigative report concluded that top Penn State officials, including Paterno, had for more than a decade known of child sexual abuse allegations made against Jerry Sandusky and said nothing. According to the Post-Dispatch, Pinkel called Paterno a great friend and said the "greatness of this man" should not be erased. From the report: “You know, it's such a tragedy,” he began. “Joe Paterno was a friend I got to know professionally. You can'…
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Mizzou football hosted the program's St. Louis camp at De Smet.
The University of Missouri won't officially join the Southeastern Conference for a few more weeks, but the the new affiliation is already part of the football team's identity. Or at least the program is planting that seed with potential recruits. Hundreds of high school football players from around the midwest gathered in Creve Coeur Sunday at De Smet, hoping for a chance at a little instruction, and potentially a look-see for a scholarship offer from Gary Pinkel and company. As the athletes went through the drills, they were instructed to chant M-I-Z-S-E-C, among other things. Among the observations and tidbits we picked up, along with a sunburn: While Mizzou coaches led the workouts, coaches from smaller schools in the area, including …
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Gary Pinkel and staff meet with Tigers' faithful after national signing date.
The University of Missouri football coaching staff is much bigger than the nearly dozen or so coaches, assistant coaches, trainers and staff who draw a regular paycheck from the university. Rather, the staff is more family than payroll. Tigers, past, present and future have a hand in either the success or failing of the Tiger program.
Going into the vaunted SEC Conference, the black and gold will need all the help and support they can get. A legion of Tiger admirers, mostly from the booster St. Louis Quarterback club crammed the auditorium of the Edward Jones complex in Des Peres Tuesday night to hang on the words of Gary Pinkel, their 11 year coach, and other notables within the program and hear about their newest crop of incoming …
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Thursday, February 2, 2012
Tigers ink the top receiver prospect in America and the third best player in the land.
In full disclosure, I’m a graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia, and an over-the-top Mizzou Tiger Fan. I do bleed black and gold. So when Dorial Green-Beckham, wonder-kid from Hillcrest High School in Springfield doffed the Tiger ball cap and declared himself a future Tiger before his school mates and a national audience on ESPNU Wednesday morning, I was ecstatic to say the least. Mizzou’s coach Gary Pinkel has been building towards this day for more than a decade. Green-Beckham can rest comfortably, knowing that Pinkel and assistant coaches will be around just as long as he is as a student/athlete in Columbia. It would have been easy to pick the Razorback hat. Fayetteville, AR is closer by miles than his 170 mile jaunt to …
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Tigers can have enough fire power to keep pace with the rest of the SEC.
This article was written prior to Gary Pinkel being arrested for DWI in Columbia. The opinions are the same. Everyone in Missouri needs to think about rallying around the Tigers as they brace for entrance into the South East Conference in 2012. I have a bone or two to pick. I am officially on the record tired of hearing Missouri Tiger football bashing. Randy Karraker, sit down. You stood on the sidelines at MICDS and said the Tigers haven’t found a good enough replacement for Chase Daniel and Blaine Gabbert at quarterback. That is clearly stated incorrectly. Check it out. Mizzou’s sophomore QB James Franklin ran circles around the nationally-ranked much ballyhooed Texas defense. For heavens sake, Mizzou’s rapidly improved defense kept the …
Thursday, November 17, 2011
I say fire the coach and throw the book at all of this reprehensible behavior.
Update: I heartedly congratulate Mike Alden for taking a bold first step. Although Mizzou officials did not throw the kitchen sink at their coach, they handed him harsh penalties. He is suspended without pay for a week and will not be able to attend Senior Day at Faurot Field Saturday. He must donate to an alcohol awareness program; do 50 hours of community service and forfeit any bonus for taking his team to a bowl game. Further, his salary is frozen for a full year. Hats off to the university administration for not sweeping this under any black and gold rugs. Call me a moralist, a teetotaler. Call me what you want, but I've grown sick and tired of our so-called sports luminaries getting behind the wheel while drinking and driving. …
Mike Smith
7:09 pm on Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Oh yeah I forgot.....KU this year decided to use the same model as Bill Snyder does at K-State ( recruiting heavy at the junior college level ). This is what Pinkle should be doing to take this program to the next level. more ›