Really Rickie? What has Missouri ever done to you for you to be so present on the board constantly taking shots at Missouri?

5 first round draft picks in the last 5 NFL drafts.
40 wins over the last 4 years prior to this year.
finished in the top 20 3 out of the last 4 years and once in the top 5.

Bad teams don't do those things no matter what you think. I know this as an MU fan because the truth is from not long after Dan Devine left in 1970 until Gary Pinkel was hired Missouri made all the mistakes possible in hiring coaches and basically sucked. Missouri's football program under Gary Pinkel has been pretty good. Is Missouri an Elite program? No but they aren't and haven't been a bad program.

This year has been a tough year with a young inexperienced QB and several of our loses go back to mistakes Franklin made that experienced QB's don't make.

As for the move to the SEC. Anyone knows that Missouri is going to have to adjust and improve on the defensive side of the game. We know it's going to be harder to win in the SEC but at least give us some credit as we're going to try and step up and compete on a larger scale than before. Why not show the class that your Football coach showed when he said He's going to miss MU and that it just didn't seem right to think of them leaving but he wished them well.

We all know it's going to be harder to recruit Texas but Gary Pinkel has proven he can recruit and he will just have to recruit from other areas as well as Texas. I'm sure he will try and schedule some Texas schools on their OOC schedule. One thing he can also do when he's sitting there talking to a kid is say look at my record and you can see my program puts players in the NFL. That is as big a draw to a kid who wants to move to the next level as anything.

Rickie you're school is having a great year and has a chance of playing in the BCS championship game if they win out so enjoy it. I know how that feels as we Missouri fans went through that in 2007 and was 1 win away until Oklahoma beat us in the Big 12 championship game. Why spew venom about Missouri all the time just wish us luck and leave it be.

This post was edited on 11/6/11 at 12:13 pm