2 months ago
Welcome to nan Morning Commute
Today we’re bidding a fond farewell to our friend, Mark Mitchell. And he’s doing nan aforesaid for us.
Dear Mizzou,
Thank you for believing successful maine during a clip erstwhile galore other’s didn’t. When things felt uncertain and I didn’t person each nan answers, you gave maine a spot to grow, to rebuild, and to find my assurance again.
Wearing nan achromatic and golden crossed my thorax wasn’t conscionable an honor—it meant everything to me. It was a reminder of really acold I’ve travel and nan group who stood by maine erstwhile I needed it most. Every moment, each game, each representation present is thing I will transportation pinch maine forever.
Mizzou didn’t conscionable springiness maine an opportunity, it helped maine find myself again. And for that, I will ever beryllium grateful.
M-I-Z 🖤💛
Mitchell’s 2 years successful Columbia were exemplary, arsenic nan erstwhile Kansas City-area prima was everything Mizzou fans hoped he would be. Personally, he’s my favourite Mizzou subordinate that I’ve watched since… possibly Phil Pressey? I emotion erstwhile a subordinate tin do what he wants connected nan level and there’s not a damn point anyone tin do to extremity him. Unless you’re Miami successful nan first half. I don’t want to deliberation astir it.
It’ll beryllium weird to not spot him successful achromatic and golden adjacent year, arsenic he’s go that overmuch a portion of nan programme successful my mind. But he near nan programme a amended spot than he recovered it, and that’s each you tin ask.
Happy trails, Mark. Don’t beryllium a stranger. And champion of luck successful your ongoing pursuit to bully defenders.
Yesterday astatine Rock M and Rock M+
Friday nighttime went poorly. But this has been a flawed squad for much than nan past week aliases two. They’ve been a questionable squad for months. There was immoderate mojo-magic Gates and nan unit pulled to get to 10 wins successful nan SEC, and someway managed to get backmost into nan tourney picture. My sentiment connected this squad hasn’t changed since December erstwhile they were getting tally retired of nan gym by Kansas and Illinois. So that they made nan tourney was a insignificant occurrence to me.
A insignificant occurrence mightiness beryllium putting it mildly!
It was an unprecedented play for Tiger Style arsenic it mislaid aggregate high-level contributors to nan transportation portal and to graduation. Even though nan last placement was nan aforesaid arsenic a play ago, nan roadworthy was not. Head coach Brian Smith had to spot aggregate unproven wrestlers to transportation connected nan program’s legacy, and we should beryllium group to spot galore starters return much polished adjacent season.
Never uncertainty a locked and loaded Brian Smith squad!
The Tigers now autumn to 15-18 connected nan play and 1-5 successful SEC play. Four of those 5 losses person travel by a azygous run.
“They’re truthful close,” Anderson said. “When you person young squad … they person a inclination to conscionable suffer attraction each erstwhile successful a while, and it’s my occupation to reel them backmost successful and get them to enactment focused.”
The roadworthy doesn’t get immoderate easier from here, pinch trips to Illinois and Auburn successful nan offing.
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