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ESPN runs their top 25 portal clsases and naturally we're not on the list. Back in the 1997 season we built teams the old way, through high school kids who wanted to be Tigers. Now it's just who can buy the best roster and the sport lost its soul.

Wait so Colorado brought in 43 transfers this offseason and Oklahoma State took 50 and everyone is calling it genius roster building. Back in the 1997 Holiday Bowl season we had maybe two or three transfers total and the rest were kids who committed to Coach Smith and stayed through the dog days. You cannot tell me that 50 new faces walking into Stillwater is going to produce anything but chaos in the locker room. Coach Dooley always said chemistry is something you earn over years not something you buy in a single portal window. Oklahoma State is going to have guys who dont know the fight song let alone the snap count. And Colorado with 43 transfers? Deion Sanders is running a program like its a fantasy draft and I just dont see how that builds the kind of loyalty that made this game great. Remember when we had guys like Brock Olivo who bled black and gold for four years and then came back to coach? That is gone. The portal killed it. Now you have kids jumping ship the second a bigger NIL bag shows up and we are supposed to celebrate it as progress. I will take a team of homegrown kids who actually care about the M-I-Z chant over a roster full of mercenaries every single time.

Just saw ESPN's top 25 portal classes and naturally we're not on the list. Back in the 2007 Cotton Bowl season we built that team with high school kids who stuck around for four years and developed. Now every spring it's the same song and dance watching other programs buy their way to the top while we try to do it the right way. The portal killed what made college football special and I'll die on that hill.

Watching ESPN's way-too-early 2027 mock draft and I see we aren't mentioned in the first round. Reminds me of the 1997 team that had zero first-rounders but that defense could hit like nobody's business. This whole draft obsession tells you nothing about who actually wins game...

You want to know what I miss? The Border War. I don't care how many SEC records they set with 87 draft picks this week, nothing will ever match the feeilng of driving up I-70 to face Kansas in November when both teams had something on the line. That game meant everything. Now we're stuck in this bloated sixteen-team conference where you play somebody once every six years and call it a rivalry. The old Big Eight schedule was pure. You knew every team, every stadium, every fight song. This new ...

Watched the draft coverage and saw Daylen Everette and Oscar Delp both go in the third round. That's three Tigers in the NFL now and all I can think about is how we used to build rosters back in the 90s. You'd get a kid like Justin Smith who stayed four years, developed in the system, and became a cornerstone. Now every kid with a good sophomore season is staring at the portal or the draft. Everette got roasted as a sophomore at Georgia, came here, we fixed his technique, and now he's a pro. That used to be the normal path. You struggle, you learn, you earn your spot over time. The 1997 team taught me something that still holds true. That defense didn't have a single first-round pick but they played together for three or four years and could shut anybody down. They knew each other's tendencies, they trusted the system. You cannot buy that chemistry with a transfer class no matter how many five-stars you bring in. Colorado's got 43 new guys and they're still trying to figure out who gets the water bottles on game day. This new revenue sharing model with the 20 million dollar cap is just going to make it worse. The rich programs will find a way around it and the rest of us will keep losing kids we developed. I miss when a Missouri Tiger meant something more than a price tag.

Just saw that ESPN piece about replacing first-rounders and it got me thinking about how we used to build a team back in the 80s. You'd find a kid from some small Missouri town who grew up dreaming of playing for the Tigers, not the highest bidder. He'd show up in August, earn his stripes on scout team for two years, and by his junior season he was hitting people through the wall at Faurot Field. That's how you built depth, not by scrambling every spring to plug holes from the portal because half your roster bailed the second the season ended. Now we're sitting here watching the draft and counting up who left early while trying to figure out who's even on the roster for spring ball. I remember when we had the same core group for three or four years running. You knew the offensive line by name, you watched them grow together, you saw the chemistry build. That's gone. The portal killed it. NIL made everyone a mercenary. We're just trying to keep the ship afloat while Oregon and those programs buy entire new rosters every offseason. Coach Pinkel would be rolling in his grave watching this. We had walk-ons starting for us in the 2007 season who played with more heart than some of these transfers will ever show. They stayed because they loved Missouri, not because some collective promised them a truck. The whole system is backwards now. We lost all that production and now we're crossing our fingers that the next man up from the portal can learn the playbook before September.

Watching this draft coverage and all I can think about is the 1997 team. We didn't have a single first-rounder that year but that defense could hit you so hard your grandchildren felt it. Corby Jones running the option and those kids playing four years together. Now it's all about who jumps to the league fastest. This spring practice I just want to see some old-fashioned toughness in the trenches. None of this finesse stuff.

Gets me every time I watch this draft coverage and see all these spread quarterbacks going early? It makes me miss the old option offense. I remember back in the early 80s when we ran the veer under Coach Warren Powers and you could just watch defenses completely lose their minds trying to figure out who had the football. There was nothing prettier than a perfectly executed triple option where the fullback takes the dive, the quarterback reads the end, and then either pulls it or pitches it to the trailing back. That was real football, not this seven-on-seven nonsense they run now where everybody throws it fifty times a game. We had some good years running that stuff at Missouri. The 1983 season when we went 7-4 and beat Oklahoma in Norman, that was a masterclass in option football. We controlled the clock, we kept their high-powered offense on the sideline, and we physically beat them down. You cannot do that with these air raid offenses where three incompletions in a row and your defense is back on the field gasping for air. The option offense was about toughness, about discipline, about knowing your assignment and executing it perfectly every single time. I look at what Oklahoma State is doing over there with fifty portal transfers and I just shake my head. They could learn something from the old days. You do not need fifty new faces to run the option. You need a quarterback who can read a defensive end, a fullback who is not afraid of contact, and two slotbacks who have enough speed to turn the corner. That is it. That is the whole system. And it worked for decades before NIL and the transfer portal turned everything into a free agency circus. The best part about the option was how it leveled the playing field. We did not need five-star recruits to make it work. We took kids who were tough and smart and taught them how to execute. Remember when Nebraska used to run that option and win national championships with guys who were not even on any recruiting board? Tom Osborne built a dynasty on that system. Now everybody wants to throw the ball sixty times a game and call it innovative. I will take a well-run option attack over any of these modern gimmick offenses any day of the week. It was football the way it was meant to be played. Tough, physical, and beautiful in its simplicity.

Chase Daniel on Finebaum talking about our recent success is fine and all, but he knows better than anyone that this program was built on walk-ons earning their stripes. Back in the Pinkel days, we had kids from small Missouri towns grinding on scout team for two years before ...

The best rivalry games were played before the playoff existed. Higher stakes, more passion

The entire concept of a "spring game" is a hollow shell of what bowl season used to represent. We used to earn a real trip, a real reward, with weeks of practice to build for next year and send the seniors off righht. Now we get a scrimmage in April and call it an event. I remember the pure joy of the old Tangerine Bowl or the Sun Bowl, when the whole town would travel and it felt like a celebration of a year's work, not a glorified practice. This Wednesday night thing against Arkansas-Pine Bluff? That's a paycheck game, not a tradition. They've replaced destination bowls with meaningless exhibitions and called it progress. The bowl system built character. You bonded as a team for a month in a new city. I think of our 1998 team in the Insight.com Bowl, or the 2008 Alamo Bowl squad. Those trips forged an identity for the next season. Now, with the portal and kids jumping at the first NIL offer, there's no continuity to even build toward a bowl. You're just assembling mercenaries for a scrimmage. The new coaches they're talking about on SEC Network, they don't know how to build toward December, they only know how to recruit for April. This modern year has killed the anticipation, the buildup, the shared experience. We play a "spring game" and then everybody hits the portal. Where's the reward? Where's the tradition? It's all been commoditized. The bowls had history, they had names you remembered. Now we have a "spring showcase" and a 16-team playoff that makes every game before December feel like a preseason audition. They traded soul for television inventory, and I want my sport back.

Sixteen teams in the SEC. It’s a bloated mess. I remember when a conference schedule meant something, not this travel circus where you play a team once every eight years.

All these draft profiles for kids who played two years and bounced reminds me of the old days when a player like Justin Smith gave us four full seasons. Now they're just building a personal brand for the NIL market and leaving the program to start over. It's a mercenary system that killed any sense of team building.

All these new coaches trying to build with fifty transfers reminds me of the difference between a salesman and a builder. We had a builder in Warren Powers. He took over a program that was nothing and built it with Missouri kids who bled black and gold, took us to bowl games and beat Notre Dame in the 1984 Liberty Bowl. That man knew how to develop a player over four years. Now you’ve got these guys acting like general managers, shopping the portal like it’s a grocery list. They’re salesmen. They sell a kid on NIL and a starting spot, but there’s no foundation. What happens when that kid has a bad game or gets a better offer next year? He’s gone. Coach Powers built men. These portal kings are just renting mercenaries. The proof is in the longevity. Look at the great ones, the ones we remember. Dan Devine built a dynasty here that lasted because it was built on rock. These flash-in-the-pan teams assembled in one offseason, like what Oklahoma State is doing, they’re built on sand. They’ll win a few games maybe, but they’ll never have the heart of a team that grew up together. That’s why the sport feels hollow now. It’s all transaction, no tradition.

This new ESPN list about the top 2026 recruits and where they fit is a perfect example of what’s wrong. They’ve got all these kids going to Alabama, Georgia, Texas, Ohio State, and not a single mention of us. It’s the same old song. They’re just chasing the brand names, the same factories that have been buying talent for a decade. It reminds me of the late 90s when we had to scratch and claw for every recruit against Nebraska and Oklahoma, and the national guys never gave us a look then either. They talk about “fit” like it’s some new analytics term. We knew about fit back when Gary Pinkel was building his classes. He found kids who wanted to be Tigers, who grew into the system over four years. That’s how you build a real program, not by swiping a credit card in the NIL marketplace or grabbing 50 guys from the portal like Oklahoma State is doing. That’s a fantasy football roster, not a team. What happened to developing your own? What happened to the pride of watching a three-star kid become an All-American by his senior year? They list all these schools, but they’re missing the point entirely. A real fit is about heart, about wanting to be part of something for the long haul. It’s about building rivalries that mean something, not these soulless conference realignment matchups we’re stuck with now. They can keep their lists. We’ll keep building our way, the right way, even if nobody outside of Columbia ever notices until we beat them on the field.

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