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Biggest notes from Eli Drinkwitz's new contract:
Staff pool increases from $12 million to $16 million
Any year in which #Mizzou wins 8 regular season games or more will trigger an automatic one-year extension to the deal.
That last line is crazy. So basically if he goes 4-4 in conference and beats the 4 OOC games, he gets another year. A conference record of 0.500 is the definition of accepting mediocrity. They are just saying stay in the middle of the SEC and goes to the Music City or Gator bowl every year and you are golden. This is sad when other teams are demanding perfection and removing coaches for winning just 8 games.
The only thing I would care about would be the buyout if they choose to dump him.
The rest of it is Immaterial.
If he doesn't get a passing guru in here for the schedule coming up next season or when ever the SEC goes to 9 conference games there isnt going to be any 8 plus win seasons.
@PowerMizzoucom
Biggest notes from Eli Drinkwitz's new contract:
Staff pool increases from $12 million to $16 million
Any year in which #Mizzou wins 8 regular season games or more will trigger an automatic one-year extension to the deal.
That last line is crazy. So basically if he goes 4-4 in conference and beats the 4 OOC games, he gets another year. A conference record of 0.500 is the definition of accepting mediocrity. They are just saying stay in the middle of the SEC and goes to the Music City or Gator bowl every year and you are golden. This is sad when other teams are demanding perfection and removing coaches for winning just 8 games.
The only thing I would care about would be the buyout if they choose to dump him.
The rest of it is Immaterial.
If he doesn't get a passing guru in here for the schedule coming up next season or when ever the SEC goes to 9 conference games there isnt going to be any 8 plus win seasons.
Good point. I was not thinking about it under those lights.
@PowerMizzoucom
Biggest notes from Eli Drinkwitz's new contract:
Staff pool increases from $12 million to $16 million
Any year in which #Mizzou wins 8 regular season games or more will trigger an automatic one-year extension to the deal.
That last line is crazy. So basically if he goes 4-4 in conference and beats the 4 OOC games, he gets another year. A conference record of 0.500 is the definition of accepting mediocrity. They are just saying stay in the middle of the SEC and goes to the Music City or Gator bowl every year and you are golden. This is sad when other teams are demanding perfection and removing coaches for winning just 8 games.
The only thing I would care about would be the buyout if they choose to dump him.
The rest of it is Immaterial.
If he doesn't get a passing guru in here for the schedule coming up next season or when ever the SEC goes to 9 conference games there isnt going to be any 8 plus win seasons.
Yep, teams will just stack the box, stop the run and force 1-yard rollout passes to Norfleet. The bad SEC teams they can run on, not the good ones.
@PowerMizzoucom
Biggest notes from Eli Drinkwitz's new contract:
Staff pool increases from $12 million to $16 million
Any year in which #Mizzou wins 8 regular season games or more will trigger an automatic one-year extension to the deal.
That last line is crazy. So basically if he goes 4-4 in conference and beats the 4 OOC games, he gets another year. A conference record of 0.500 is the definition of accepting mediocrity. They are just saying stay in the middle of the SEC and goes to the Music City or Gator bowl every year and you are golden. This is sad when other teams are demanding perfection and removing coaches for winning just 8 games.
People had been poking fun at A&M for years on SECrant as 8&4. Now we have that written into the HC's contract as a great thing. Low standards.
acco40 wrote: ↑08 Dec 2025 19:37 pm
Mizzou had the 8th best rushing (yards per game) in college. They had the 15th best is yards per carry. 20th best in rushing touchdowns.
For passing, they ranked 102nd (yards per game). They ranked 45th in completion percentage.
So folks are haranguing the coaches for not going more with what was a weak part of the offense vs. what is a strength of the offense?
I find that unbelievable.
I don’t think the frustration is so much that we didn’t pass a lot more. I think the frustration is the line couldn’t block well enough, the receivers didn’t run good enough routes to be open consistently, and our QB’s when they weren’t dodging defensive linemen within 2 seconds of a snap weren’t accurate throwing. Based on that reasoning, we should all be most frustrated with the pass blocking, then with the OC and staff on how they design plays, and lastly be frustrated with your QB’s.
I think Pribula is taking a lot of abuse and he wasn’t very good throwing, but I’m not sure Tom Brady would have lit the world on fire in this situation.
acco40 wrote: ↑08 Dec 2025 19:37 pm
Mizzou had the 8th best rushing (yards per game) in college. They had the 15th best is yards per carry. 20th best in rushing touchdowns.
For passing, they ranked 102nd (yards per game). They ranked 45th in completion percentage.
So folks are haranguing the coaches for not going more with what was a weak part of the offense vs. what is a strength of the offense?
I find that unbelievable.
I don’t think the frustration is so much that we didn’t pass a lot more. I think the frustration is the line couldn’t block well enough, the receivers didn’t run good enough routes to be open consistently, and our QB’s when they weren’t dodging defensive linemen within 2 seconds of a snap weren’t accurate throwing. Based on that reasoning, we should all be most frustrated with the pass blocking, then with the OC and staff on how they design plays, and lastly be frustrated with your QB’s.
I think Pribula is taking a lot of abuse and he wasn’t very good throwing, but I’m not sure Tom Brady would have lit the world on fire in this situation.
Plus a lot of that rushing yardage was against the blood donors and the worst SEC teams. Not much doing against Auburn, A&M, Vandy, Okie and Bama.
So when you cannot run the ball, you have to be able to pass. It's call balance, and this guy above doesn't seem to get that.
@PowerMizzoucom
Biggest notes from Eli Drinkwitz's new contract:
Staff pool increases from $12 million to $16 million
Any year in which #Mizzou wins 8 regular season games or more will trigger an automatic one-year extension to the deal.
That last line is crazy. So basically if he goes 4-4 in conference and beats the 4 OOC games, he gets another year. A conference record of 0.500 is the definition of accepting mediocrity. They are just saying stay in the middle of the SEC and goes to the Music City or Gator bowl every year and you are golden. This is sad when other teams are demanding perfection and removing coaches for winning just 8 games.
Starting next year, we play nine conference games, so only three OOC games. A conference W/L record of 0.500 would require a tie somewhere along the line.
acco40 wrote: ↑08 Dec 2025 19:37 pm
Mizzou had the 8th best rushing (yards per game) in college. They had the 15th best is yards per carry. 20th best in rushing touchdowns.
For passing, they ranked 102nd (yards per game). They ranked 45th in completion percentage.
So folks are haranguing the coaches for not going more with what was a weak part of the offense vs. what is a strength of the offense?
I find that unbelievable.
You really should do some research on the game of football in the modern day.
Balance in your offense and explosive plays is what moves the needle.
15 play 80 yard drives are the exception no longer the norm.
acco40 wrote: ↑08 Dec 2025 19:37 pm
Mizzou had the 8th best rushing (yards per game) in college. They had the 15th best is yards per carry. 20th best in rushing touchdowns.
For passing, they ranked 102nd (yards per game). They ranked 45th in completion percentage.
So folks are haranguing the coaches for not going more with what was a weak part of the offense vs. what is a strength of the offense?
I find that unbelievable.
You really should do some research on the game of football in the modern day.
Balance in your offense and explosive plays is what moves the needle.
15 play 80 yard drives are the exception no longer the norm.
Please reread what I posted. Many of the complaints (other threads) was Drinkwitz didn’t call for more passing plays. I wasn’t disputing that improvements are needed in the passing game. Heck, we had a cast off QB or a raw freshman at QB all season (except for one play) plus some injuries to the OL.
Pribula has good wheels and a decent short game but for longer passing plays his accuracy needs to get better and occasionally he gets “happy feet” (he starts to run prematurely).
I’m hoping there is tue battle for the QB position next year.
The bad SEC teams they can run on, not the good ones.