SAN ANTONIO | When it was over, when the 12-point-favorite, former-national-title-contending Missouri Tigers finally subdued Northwestern in overtime, the Tigers danced across the Alamodome as if they’d beaten Kansas or won the Big 12 title.
When he was handed the microphone at the Alamo Bowl trophy ceremony, Gary Pinkel shrieked: “How ’bout dem Tigers?!?”
I wondered what game I’d just watched.
The one I watched was an embarrassment for the Tigers. An inferior opponent had outplayed them for most of the night, settled for a moral victory in the fourth quarter and gave up in overtime.
Congrats, Mizzou. Beating Northwestern 30-23 in overtime inside a half-empty stadium at the conclusion of a season that started with national-title hopes is now the signature moment at the end of the Chase Daniel-Dave Christensen-Spread Offense era.
I’m sorry to rain on the parade scheduled for Columbia today to celebrate the 10-4 Tigers. But I expected more. Coming off losses to Kansas and Oklahoma, I expected Daniel and Christensen to exit Missouri and the Alamodome amid fireworks they sparked.
Instead, while the Tigers were wildly celebrating their “big” victory, the Northwestern Wildcats were at the losers’ postgame news conference claiming a moral victory. Coach Pat Fitzgerald talked about how no one expected the Wildcats to be competitive in this game and how much they proved by taking Missouri into the fourth quarter.
Northwestern proved Missouri is a fraud. The Tigers’ over-the-top celebration let us know that they know they’ve been overrated and overhyped, benefactors of Bill Snyder, cupcake scheduling.
Yeah, they cooed about averaging 10 victories during the Daniel-Christensen era. Uh, 10 victories is like 1,000 yards in the NFL. It used to mean something when the NFL season was 12 and 14 games. Ten victories used to mean a lot before teams started scheduling four nonconference victories.
The Tigers have mastered the art of beating weak teams and sneaking past decent ones. We’ll call the Wildcats decent.
What should we call the Missouri Tigers?
I’m not sure. It’s all pretty much under review now — the Daniel-Christensen-Spread era.
Daniel seems more like a system quarterback now than a Heisman Trophy contender. He played miserably against Northwestern, tossing three interceptions and becoming progressively more inaccurate as the night wore on.
Christensen’s Spread seems flawed by forced diversity. On a night when the Tigers should’ve simply thrown the ball to Chase Coffman 20 times, Mizzou’s big tight end caught seven passes for 67 yards.
We might one day remember Coffman as the Michael Jordan of college football and Christensen as Dean Smith. Christensen might be the only man capable of holding Coffman to fewer than 10 receptions a game.
I spent all night begging Daniel to throw to Coffman. He caught everything in his area code and a couple of over-the-border balls. On a night when the Tigers just needed to move the chains, Christensen repeatedly got cute with reverses, fake reverses, the Wildcat formation and deep balls to receivers not named Jeremy Maclin.
It was very frustrating.
Pinkel and Christensen both need to write thank-you notes to Pat Fitzgerald.
Northwestern simply refused to score points in the fourth quarter. Fitzgerald stood on his sideline, dropped to his knees and prayed that the clock would expire during the final quarter. Rather than throw deep against Missouri’s vulnerable corners and safeties, Fitzgerald had his QB throw slants, screens and occasional dumps over the middle of the field.
With a chance to drive for the game-winning field goal at the end of regulation, Fitzgerald ran the ball once, threw sideways twice and punted. Herm Edwards must be his coaching role model.
Whatever, the Wildcats are always irrelevant when it comes to big-time football. Northwestern traveled to San Antonio to reveal things about the Tigers.
The questions that were raised about the Tigers in the losses to Kansas and Oklahoma were all answered on Monday.
The answers were unpleasant and unflattering. They put Missouri’s last two seasons in proper perspective. Gary Pinkel still has a lot of work to do. The Tigers have not arrived. They’re the kings of a pathetic Big 12 North.
Let’s save the ticker-tape parades and unseemly celebrations and shrie
The over under on showing butt chins parents during the game was 19.5...it went over...mommy and daddy celebrating like they won a title...mizzu's Trophy case is still and forever will be empty...lol
You're not shitting about ESPN showing "butt chins" = )family every freaking two minutes. For crying out loud. However, Chase's mom looks like she could suck the chrome off a trailer hitch. Not bad.
lol...great comeback Nebraska was predidcted to do nothing...Mizzu a national champion contender...Neb was ok..Mizzu was a Fraud and always will be...if beating Neb in a regular season game is the highlight of your program and the only thing you can hang your hat on...I feel sorry for you losers...no championships for Mizzu ever lol
you losers have not beat a top team on the road in TWELVE YEARS
you have a head coach who has down syndrome
and you have one of the worst recruiting classes in the big 12
but you losers will just continue to talk about the past cause it is all you have. And ever will for that matter, so enjoy your steroid fueled thug and raptist filled championship teams you sheep
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ah the blog is still going...long time no see my neb friends
MaxRB munches box
fyi, I just got done beating off to these pictures. You think I am joking, trust me though I am not.
Welcome back Max. You been pounding any girls with bush up there in Wisconsin?
Rough one for the Badgers. Not piling on, but that wasn't pretty.
MizzouRah has a two incher.
SAN ANTONIO | When it was over, when the 12-point-favorite, former-national-title-contending Missouri Tigers finally subdued Northwestern in overtime, the Tigers danced across the Alamodome as if they’d beaten Kansas or won the Big 12 title.
When he was handed the microphone at the Alamo Bowl trophy ceremony, Gary Pinkel shrieked: “How ’bout dem Tigers?!?”
I wondered what game I’d just watched.
The one I watched was an embarrassment for the Tigers. An inferior opponent had outplayed them for most of the night, settled for a moral victory in the fourth quarter and gave up in overtime.
Congrats, Mizzou. Beating Northwestern 30-23 in overtime inside a half-empty stadium at the conclusion of a season that started with national-title hopes is now the signature moment at the end of the Chase Daniel-Dave Christensen-Spread Offense era.
I’m sorry to rain on the parade scheduled for Columbia today to celebrate the 10-4 Tigers. But I expected more. Coming off losses to Kansas and Oklahoma, I expected Daniel and Christensen to exit Missouri and the Alamodome amid fireworks they sparked.
Instead, while the Tigers were wildly celebrating their “big” victory, the Northwestern Wildcats were at the losers’ postgame news conference claiming a moral victory. Coach Pat Fitzgerald talked about how no one expected the Wildcats to be competitive in this game and how much they proved by taking Missouri into the fourth quarter.
Northwestern proved Missouri is a fraud. The Tigers’ over-the-top celebration let us know that they know they’ve been overrated and overhyped, benefactors of Bill Snyder, cupcake scheduling.
Yeah, they cooed about averaging 10 victories during the Daniel-Christensen era. Uh, 10 victories is like 1,000 yards in the NFL. It used to mean something when the NFL season was 12 and 14 games. Ten victories used to mean a lot before teams started scheduling four nonconference victories.
The Tigers have mastered the art of beating weak teams and sneaking past decent ones. We’ll call the Wildcats decent.
What should we call the Missouri Tigers?
I’m not sure. It’s all pretty much under review now — the Daniel-Christensen-Spread era.
Daniel seems more like a system quarterback now than a Heisman Trophy contender. He played miserably against Northwestern, tossing three interceptions and becoming progressively more inaccurate as the night wore on.
Christensen’s Spread seems flawed by forced diversity. On a night when the Tigers should’ve simply thrown the ball to Chase Coffman 20 times, Mizzou’s big tight end caught seven passes for 67 yards.
We might one day remember Coffman as the Michael Jordan of college football and Christensen as Dean Smith. Christensen might be the only man capable of holding Coffman to fewer than 10 receptions a game.
I spent all night begging Daniel to throw to Coffman. He caught everything in his area code and a couple of over-the-border balls. On a night when the Tigers just needed to move the chains, Christensen repeatedly got cute with reverses, fake reverses, the Wildcat formation and deep balls to receivers not named Jeremy Maclin.
It was very frustrating.
Pinkel and Christensen both need to write thank-you notes to Pat Fitzgerald.
Northwestern simply refused to score points in the fourth quarter. Fitzgerald stood on his sideline, dropped to his knees and prayed that the clock would expire during the final quarter. Rather than throw deep against Missouri’s vulnerable corners and safeties, Fitzgerald had his QB throw slants, screens and occasional dumps over the middle of the field.
With a chance to drive for the game-winning field goal at the end of regulation, Fitzgerald ran the ball once, threw sideways twice and punted. Herm Edwards must be his coaching role model.
Whatever, the Wildcats are always irrelevant when it comes to big-time football. Northwestern traveled to San Antonio to reveal things about the Tigers.
The questions that were raised about the Tigers in the losses to Kansas and Oklahoma were all answered on Monday.
The answers were unpleasant and unflattering. They put Missouri’s last two seasons in proper perspective. Gary Pinkel still has a lot of work to do. The Tigers have not arrived. They’re the kings of a pathetic Big 12 North.
Let’s save the ticker-tape parades and unseemly celebrations and shrie
The over under on showing butt chins parents during the game was 19.5...it went over...mommy and daddy celebrating like they won a title...mizzu's Trophy case is still and forever will be empty...lol
You're not shitting about ESPN showing "butt chins" = )family every freaking two minutes. For crying out loud. However, Chase's mom looks like she could suck the chrome off a trailer hitch. Not bad.
frederick how did the NU-Mizzou game go this year?
lol...great comeback
Nebraska was predidcted to do nothing...Mizzu a national champion contender...Neb was ok..Mizzu was a Fraud and always will be...if beating Neb in a regular season game is the highlight of your program and the only thing you can hang your hat on...I feel sorry for you losers...no championships for Mizzu ever lol
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you losers have not beat a top 20 team in 8 years
you losers have not beat a top team on the road in TWELVE YEARS
you have a head coach who has down syndrome
and you have one of the worst recruiting classes in the big 12
but you losers will just continue to talk about the past cause it is all you have. And ever will for that matter, so enjoy your steroid fueled thug and raptist filled championship teams you sheep
AJ has a 12 incher
HUGE win...LOL
nothing like watching 2 retards fucking. Actually I take that back as that is insulting to retards.
Welp on to college basketball now for you guys...oh wait the "greatest fans in college" don't even know they have a team.
Who's your team AJ...I mean Palik??
JOSH MAI AND RABEL 69 TOGETHER AND SWALLOW
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