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So...How Did Recruiting Go? (Part One)
Back in June, I wrote a couple of pieces about how recruiting was going. (They were both follow-ups--follows-up?--to my Culture vs Caliber post from the month before.) My first recruiting post envisioned what a "best-case scenario" class would look like for this Mizzou staff. The second looked...
Morning Coffee Is Sounding Old
What to make of the partying? Five-star target Dre Kirkpatrick partied with a current Longhorn player while taking his official visit, going to a Kappa party ($) with Sergio Kindle on Friday before Kindle hosted another party on Saturday. Certainly, gaining an appreciation of the party scene around...
Morning Coffee Goes Macro, Returns To Micro
State of the nation. Or, state or the nation? SI's Andy Staples takes a look at the state of national recruiting in his excellent article, sparking a series of posts by Scipio Tex over at BC about the ramifications for Texas. Basically, Staples' idea is that the key to recruiting is luring players...
Morning Coffee Gets Loquacious
The Pittman Paradox. In the edition of Morning Coffee I wrote last week, one of the items included the statement that Dexter PIttman had slowly but surely become an integral part of the Texas offense. And some of the number certainly supported that assertion, as the Longhorns played well and won...
Mizzou Links, 1-12-09
Really, Wake Forest fans? You have the #4 team in the country, and you rushed the court for beating the #3 team? I realize rushing the court jumped the shark about eight years ago, but that's not going to stop me from posting this: We try not to linger on losses too much here, but here are a...




















